For some odd reason, Laura’s husband simply told her that he was about to leave her. Laura, however, was not expecting for this to happen. Simply hearing from her husband that he would be leaving her was enough to devastate her beyond belief. What made the whole situation even worse is the fact she was about to share news that would surely make her husband as excited as she is, but sadly, she was left by him before she was even able to tell him about it. But do not worry! Even though her husband left her at a time when she was ecstatic, she certainly got her revenge.
Happily Married
Laura never thought anything wrong about her marriage; she was happy, and she felt her husband was too. That all came crashing down on her one day when she came home to find a hand-written note from her husband, Jack. He wrote to her saying that he was leaving her for her sister, and the best thing he could think to do here wrote her a letter and leave.
Happily Married
A Massive Curveball
Little did he know, if he hadn’t written that letter and decided to leave Laura, something enormous was about to happen to him. She threw a massive curveball his way — something he would never have expected of her in a million years. What would she have said to him?
A Massive Curveball
The Heartbreaking Letter
Her heart was breaking, and she didn’t know how to react when she sat down to read the note her husband wrote for her. All the lies he must have hidden during their seven-year marriage were the only thing that went through her head. It was expected the way she felt; anyone in this terrible position would probably be thinking the same thoughts.
The Heartbreaking Letter
Goodbye Forever
She was having a hard time digesting all the data she was trying to read through her teary eyes, as expected. The strangest part of the letter was that the message was addressed to ‘Dear Wife,’ by Jack, but then he told her that he would leave her for her sister. Did he not think that this was something that he was supposed to say to her in person?
Goodbye Forever
Drastic Ending
While writing this letter, he appeared to have such a bold and stern tone in his voice, and Laura could feel the lump forming in her throat. She had no idea that Jack was distancing himself or that he had these feelings, and she realized all the issues the two had at that moment that she hadn’t even seen until now.
Drastic Ending
Cloud Nine
Amazing, life-changing news had just come to Laura, and she couldn’t wait to get home to tell her husband about it. After she got the best news ever, she was genuinely floating on a cloud and felt like she was in heaven. Sadly, after she walked inside her house, this feeling would not last.
Cloud Nine
A Hard Confession To Hear
Laura couldn’t wait to tell her husband about her exciting day, but she quickly realized that she had bigger things to deal with n when she got home. In addition to ruining her great mood, this unexpected turn of events made her feel anything but excited about what she had just discovered. She wanted her husband and the whole world to share this news, but she didn’t want to tell anybody now.
A Hard Confession To Hear
Her Own Sister
It was bad enough that Jack left Laura, but he was leaving her for hen sister made things much worse. Jack tried to say that he was a good man and that he had always been Laura’s faithful and loyal husband, but that was not the case. He was trying to blame Laura, even if she knew it wasn’t her fault.
Her Own Sister
The Last Straw
In the letter, Jack confessed that he had been miserable for the last two weeks of his life, and when Laura’s boss told him that she had just left her job out of nowhere, it seemed to him like the straw that broke the camel’s back. He no longer wanted to deal with her, and he decided that he was done.
The Last Straw
The Moment Has Passed
The letter just kept going when you think that’s all he had to say. Jack said he was also hurt because she didn’t notice that he was wearing a new haircut and a new pair of silk boxers the week before Laura came home from work. Laura wasn’t able to believe what she was reading.
The Moment Has Passed
No Connection
He told her all the things in his mind that he had never had a chance to say to her. He said that when she rushed to eat dinner, he hated her, so she could sit alone in front of the TV before going straight to bed. He said she didn’t even tell him she loved him anymore, and now he didn’t want anything to tie them together as a married couple.
No Connection
Signed, Your Ex
In the letter, Jack wrote that he was sure that Laura had either cheated on him or that she simply no longer loved him, at least not the way she used to. He went on to say that whatever was going on with her no longer mattered because he was now long gone from her life. By signing it as, ‘your EX husband,’ he ended the letter.
Signed, Your Ex
Don’t Come Looking
Jack added a note at the bottom of the letter that warned Laura that she shouldn’t even bother trying to find him or her sister, as they were moving out to West Virginia together and didn’t want to be seen, as if Laura didn’t feel bad enough about herself after reading her husband’s heart-wrenching letter. How were they able to do this to her?
Don’t Come Looking
Bold Statements
Laura felt like she had been in such an unbelievable dream all day long, but now her world was shattering at her fingertips. It wasn’t just that her seven-year-old husband decided to leave her — and to do it by writing her a note instead of speaking face-to-face to her — but he left her for her sister!
Bold Statements
The Perfect Time
The letter that Jack left her saddened Laura, but she also realized that it had happened at the perfect time for her. Had Jack waited just one more day to tell Laura about his intentions and feelings, she would never have known he was cheating on her and planning to leave her with her sister.
The Perfect Time
Lots Of Cash
Laura had just received the best news of her life, and she wanted to share it with her husband first. Maybe you’re curious about what her news was, and we’ll tell you! Her news had to do with some money, and a lot of it! Can you guess what the big news she wanted to say to Jack was about her?
Lots Of Cash
An Upside
Laura had just received some great news about her winning the lottery! This was something that rarely happens to anyone, especially at such a strange time that Laura had just had it. So, even though her husband was leaving her for her sister made her heartbroken, she had just won millions of dollars and had to celebrate that.
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An Upside
Meeting In College
During college, Laura and Jack first met each other, but they didn’t immediately develop romantic feelings for each other. They spent a lot of time studying for examinations and doing homework together, but they were just friends for quite some time. Jack eventually dropped out of college to be a bartender to pursue a career.
Meeting In College
The Downfall
Neither of them predicted that their love story would one day come to a screeching halt when Jack and Laura finally got together to start a romantic relationship. The two came from two different backgrounds and had opposite upbringings, which might have been the root of some of their issues.
The Downfall
Polar Opposites
Laura had a luxurious upbringing and was raised with parents who provided everything for her in a wealthy family; she studied hard at college to be just as successful one day. Jack worked as a part-time bartender and didn’t care about his educational achievements very much. He didn’t have many career-wise dreams or aspirations. Laura’s parents weren’t the biggest fans of the pair.
Polar Opposites
Romeo And Juliet
From the moment they met him, Laura’s parents had negative opinions about Jack. In a significant other, they felt like he couldn’t provide Laura with what she needed and thought she could find someone more appropriate for her despite their views, Laura kept dating Jack and ignored her parents’ opinions.
Romeo And Juliet
A Love Story
Jack thought their love was enough to keep them together forever; Laura was a stubborn girl after all, and because of her parents’ opinions, she would never let Jack go. Since Laura’s parents disapproved of her romantic relationship with Jack, it forced her to push back against them, bringing her and Jack closer together in turn.
A Love Story
Regrets
Laura and Jack eventually decided it was time for them to take their relationship to the next level and move in together. Seven years later, though, Laura realized that maybe her parents were right all maybe her parents were right along. She began to think about it and to regret the choice she had made.
Regrets
The Recent Grad
She packed up all of her belongings shortly after Laura graduated from college and moved into Jack’s small one-bedroom apartment with him. For a while, things were perfect, but then they started heading for a downward spiral. For her, things were so new; she had just graduated from college and was trying to get her life began.
The Recent Grad
Full Of Hope
For a while, Jack had lived in this apartment, so he had gotten used to all of its quirks, but it was small and gross for Laura. Little by little, the paint on the walls chipped off, it was always cold and heat-less in the winter, and there was no one to help keep up with the maintenance. Even so, Laura held onto the hope of getting them through this with their love.
Full Of Hope
New Experiences
Before this, Laura had never lived with a significant other, so everything in her mind appeared so new and exciting. She wanted it to work so badly; she thought she had just found the love of her life and the man with whom she would spend forever, but she didn’t realize that something else was in store for her in her future.
New Experiences
Unexpected Ending
Laura felt like the least she deserved was for Jack to talk about this with her in person after being married for seven years instead of writing to her in a letter. However, Laura still felt the urge to share her good news with Jack. That ship had sailed. All she could think of now, though, was the letter that he left her with.
Unexpected Ending
Sweet Revenge
Most of that time was spent trying to deal with financial struggles and making ends meet throughout their seven years of marriage. Laura always held out some hope that one day playing the lottery would work in her favor, and that day could not have come for her at a perfect time. She knew she wanted Jack back, and she knew the ideal way to take revenge on her.
Sweet Revenge
Everyday Life
Had Laura told Jack about her big win before he had the opportunity to tell her his news, things would probably have ended very differently for the two. This story could have taken a much different route than it did. They might have stayed together to figure out their issues, but it didn’t happen.
Everyday Life
Coming To An End
It was chipping away at the value of their marriage together with every fight and every disagreement that Jack and Laura faced. For many years, they had a beautiful relationship, but as many things have to come to an end, this was one of those things. It’s not just one big thing that causes a relationship to crumble sometimes, but many small things collide with each other.
Coming To An End
The Life She Knew
He was her whole world until the moment Laura read the letter that Jack left for her. More than anything, she loved him and wanted to be with him forever, even if they were financially struggling, and even if he could not provide her with the kind of life she grew up having.
The Life She Knew
It Didn’t Feel Right.
The pair had to be aware of how much money they were spending since starting their relationship together. Laura decided to get a waitressing job at a restaurant close to where they lived together to help out. Something happened after a few years, though, to make Laura suspicious of what was happening to their hard-earned money.
It Didn’t Feel Right
Gut Feeling
Laura loved spending time with Jack, and she wanted to spend all her time with him. She went to his bar all the time to visit him because she just wanted to spend time next to him. She began to get a strange feeling in her gut after a while of seeing him frequently, that Jack might not give her the faithfulness and honesty she was giving him. She figured he might be cheating on her.
Gut Feeling
Feeling Uncertain
Regular bar clients began to give Laura a strange look and she didn’t know why, so she chose to ignore them. She started to become self-conscious, like some piece of information was missing, but she shrugged it all off. Her feelings of uncertainty ended up being suspicious, but at first, she did not want to believe that was the case.
Feeling Uncertain
Lucky Strike
Although she had never won the lottery before, Laura kept buying tickets over and over; she thought maybe one day she’d get lucky and it would be worth the money she spent on all the tickets. She felt overwhelmed with confidence when she handed the cashier money for her lottery ticket this time; she had a strong feeling for some reason that this could be her lucky ticket.
Lucky Strike
Beforehand
Laura’s persistence and faith in her chances eventually paid off, and she had just won an enormous chunk of money! She was fortunate that her husband had decided to leave her before she had the opportunity to tell him that she had won. Who knows what would try to do if he knew she had all this money now!
Beforehand
Hawaii Trip
After finding out that she won the lottery, the first thing Laura did was book two Hawaii roundtrip tickets for her and Jack to celebrate together. She had no desire or intention now, of course, to take a vacation with him. She didn’t even want to look at his face, let alone bring him with her on a romantic getaway!
Hawaii Trip
Not A Cent
Laura wanted to make it as clear as crystal, quite understandably, that Jack would ner see a single penny of the money she had just won. He broke her heart in half, leaving her to be with her sister, so why is he going to get some money? We bet that after he found out her news, Jack wanted to cry and regret his decision to leave her!
Not A Cent
The Big Win
Even though Laura was devastated by the news she had just received from her husband, the joy she felt was such an overwhelming sense of happiness because she had just won the lottery. She began to think of all the things she could do for herself with all this money instead of dwelling on how sad she was. Would she travel the world, buy a fancy car for herself, or do something else with cash just for her?
The Big Win
Laura’s Letter
The first instigation for Laura was to begin answering Jack’s letter with her own. She addressed the message as, “Dear Ex-Husband,” and poured out on this sheet of notebook paper all her feelings. She told him exactly what the punch-in-the-gut feeling of reading his note gave her and how he wasn’t a good man or a good husband, even though they had been married for seven years.
Laura’s Letter
Wrong Sister
She continued by telling him that she had a feeling he was cheating on her for a while. He cooked something for dinner that he called her “favorite meal,” but it was the main pork dish. Since Laura hadn’t eaten pork for a long time before she met Jack, but her sister loved to eat pork, she knew that her sister must have had that special meal!
Wrong Sister
The Real Jack
Actually, Laura had a reason that day to ignore Jack’s new boxers, too. She saw that they were hanging from the waistline with a $49.99 price tag, and she tried to brush it off and tell herself that it was a strange coincidence that her sister had just borrowed $50 from her that morning. She knew again that she should have trusted her intestinal feelings.
The Real Jack
Tried To Deny It
She loved him more than anything and was willing to ignore these red flags to try and work on their relationship, even though there were clues all over the place indicating to Laura that Jack was not loyal to her. She was trying to deny that anything was wrong and pretend that it would all work out in the end in the end.
Tried To Deny It
The Lottery Win
As an extra kick to sharing her news with Jack, she made it very clear to him that the only reason she decided to quit her job when she did, was because she had just won $15 million in the lottery. Because they had so much money now, she felt like spending quality time with him was more important than working a full-time job. We bet he felt terrible when he read that!
The Lottery Win
The Real Reason
Of course, all of those feelings changed after she read the horrible letter he left her. However, she did not regret quitting her job because she could spend her spare time doing stuff for herself. She told him she truly hopes that he’ll get the happiness he’s always been looking for in his new life.
The Real Reason
Mixed Feelings
She still couldn’t help but feel heartbroken by the news that Jack had just thrown in her face, although Laura felt over the moon and overwhelmed with joy for the fact that she had just won the lottery. She had very mixed feelings, and before she decided what to do with her new money, she knew she had to deal with her inner thoughts.
Mixed Feelings
Quite Overwhelming
For almost anyone in the working class, $15 million is a lot of money, but this money meant a lot to Laura, specifically now that she would have to deal with a divorce. Before making such a big decision on where and how to spend her cash, she knew she needed to be in a good and healthy mindset. Everything that happened was so overwhelming in her life; believe it or not, winning the lottery comes with its own set of battles!
Quite Overwhelming
A Pro
Laura knew that since Jack was still technically her husband, he would probably be entitled to get some of her cash. She hired a lawyer named Jason Kurland to see how she could protect as much of her earnings as possible this particular lawyer’s specialty was to help people who had won the lottery. She told him the whole story, including the letter he left her, from beginning to end.
A Pro
Stumped
The expertise of Jason Kurland was to help people in the position of Laura. These ordinary people had just won the lottery and made a considerable amount of money for themselves. Still, her side of the story with her now ex-husband was something he had never had to deal with during his career. He was unable to believe that he had just been stumped as such an experienced lawyer!
Stumped
A Deep Dark Secret
After Laura told her attorney every detail of what had just happened to Jack, he told her there was no way to get any of her cash. He said he wanted to leave her, after all, before she could even tell him about the money! At significant risk, Laura decided to add something to the end of her letter; it was something she had never told anyone outside her family, and she wasn’t even sure if Jack was aware of it.
A Deep Dark Secret