My wife cheated on me, and instead of acting publicly emotional, I got the most satisfying

soul-crushing revenge imaginable.

I calculated everything in engineered a scenario so that she would have to give me the house,

the kids, pay me child support, and subsidize the cost of my living for the rest of her life.

And my plan ends with my kids seeing me as a saint and her as the evil one.

Here's what I did. Subscribe to Am I the jerk on YouTube and hit the bell to turn on notifications.

This all happened to me a few years ago. I told a friend the story of my divorce and I was told

to share. We started a few years ago. I thought we were happy. We were your usual suburban,

professional couple, financially secure, healthy, good adult life, two kids, a 14-year-old daughter

and a nine-year-old boy at the time. I thought we had a healthy social life. We were going through

one of your typical married couple rough patches. Both of us were working long hours not spending

enough time with each other. We were going through some developmental problems with my son and

tensions in the house were running a little high. I noticed that she was spending a lot more time

on her phone texting with her girlfriends. I did a thing much of it. I started making a much more

concerted effort to get out of work when I could, help her on the house, and be more emotionally

available. But over the course of a few weeks, the gulf just kept getting wider. I ended up accidentally

finding some messages when I charged an old iPad for my son to use. Her Facebook messenger was

still logged in and there were a lot of highly questionable messages with the guy from her hometown

who all called Jim Bob Cooter or JBC for short. The messages weren't completely inappropriate but

I could tell there were quite a few missing based on the times and the context of the messages.

I made a mental note to keep an eye on this and went about trying to fix things up. The next day

I took the day off to knock out some projects that I thought would make her happy and left her

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