What is going on everyone and welcome back to the channel. I hope you're all doing well.

Now today I've got for you a couple of crazy stories from R slash Best of

editor updates. The first one was originally posted in R slash Am I the Jerk and this guy is wondering if he should use the

hall pass that his cheating wife gave him five years ago when her affair got outed because he

likes a new woman. Crazy story, let's get into it.

Am I the jerk for wanting to use the hall pass my wife gave me five years ago when she

cheated on me? This was originally posted just last week at the time of recording

August 21st, 2024. My wife, who was 35 and I, a 35-year-old man, have been married for 10 years.

We have two children, an 1-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son.

Five years ago, I found out that my wife had an affair.

I felt crushed and numb, because I loved my wife a lot. Her affair partner told me about it when my wife called it off. The affair lasted one month and my wife called it off because she felt really guilty about it.

When I confronted her, she was very remorseful and didn't deny anything.

She said she'd do anything.

Follow any reconciliation steps I asked and just begged to not break up our family.

I asked her why she cheated and she gave no excuses.

She just said it was for the thrill.

My first reaction was to divorce, but after sitting on it for a week, I decided to just

stick it out for our family and because I still loved my wife. My wife was very thankful, and she even

told me that I had a hall pass that I could use whenever I wanted.

Over the next year or so, my wife followed the reconciliation steps, which included therapy,

getting sober, quitting her job, and a bunch of other things. I've forgiven my wife but I could never forget it.

I would occasionally just replay it in my mind my wife cheating on me and that always hurt a lot.

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