My brother got married 20 years ago to a girl five years older than him. I was living with my parents at the time. We met the guests well, we had a nice evening, she liked it, and we liked her. My brother went to live in her house. I was their daughter’s nanny, I was more friends with my wife Rosa than with my brother. Their relationship was smooth and good, they hardly ever fought. Then she told me that he cheated (their child was 5 years old). I helped to recover, as we were no longer only relatives, but also friends.
And now, as they celebrated their 20th anniversary of living together, she noticed something wasn’t right. He’s 51 years old, stays late from work, goes to work early. He bathes often, changes his closet, style, haircut, povyshat much, bought fancy things, his eyes sparkle, he is mysterious, does not sleep, no intimacy, says he is tired after work. He is constantly on the phone, put a password, comes out when I call, puts the cell phone screen down, hides it under himself at night. He doesn’t go out with his wife, he avoids our relatives, saying he is busy, he has a lot of work to do. He brings expensive gifts, so my daughter-in-law thinks that he has a mistress. She consults me, and I also tell her about my guesses, leading her to believe that he has another woman.
My brother is very good friends with my husband. I asked my spouse what was wrong with him. He answers: “Your brother has gone crazy,” and then he says nothing more. My daughter-in-law said, “If I find out that he is cheating, let him go, I will not forgive cheating, I forgave him once, I’ve had enough. Their daughter, my niece, is clinging to her father, asking him to come earlier, asking, “Daddy, you’re not leaving us, are you? That’s what I think is silly, you should never ask that.
I was upset for them myself. But I am a self-respecting person who can’t live with that, and I am very worried about her. Her heart hurts, and she says he should have come up and confessed, but she would not understand, these lies and deceit are killing her morally and physically.
I myself decided to investigate, I will tell you right away for myself, I did not plan to tell her anything. I wore wide clothes (my mother took, unnoticed), put on a wig (was his), a mask, glasses, in general, I am not me, it does not even seem. I sat in a cab, waiting for him to come out to work, followed him, waiting where he would go in. My brother rang the bell, a woman even older than my brother by 5-7 years came out, they hugged and kissed. I was shocked at what I saw, I realized it was her. I waited for him to come out of there, but he did not come out for two hours.
I asked Rosa if she knew where he worked. She said she knew, in about the same area that the woman who owns the mansion had, that when he came in, she drove off in her jeep to work. That’s how I knew it was her, but she didn’t go anywhere. And my brother works there – does renovation of the mansion and initially worked with two assistants, and now he works alone.
But even this information was not enough for me. Sometimes my husband and brother would meet for a beer, of course, sometimes at our place, sometimes at theirs, and sometimes in my husband’s car. I knew this time would be in the car, my husband said, leaving with my brother to get a beer. Since he drove me in the car the other day I told him to give me the keys, I forgot my hairpin in the car. He gave me the keys, I did take my chocolate and left my phone with the recorder on. That was it.
I had to get my keys after 1:00 a.m. and take the recorder and then listen to a 4 hour conversation from which I realized that my husband knew everything and told him that it was stupid to trade family for a woman. Said my brother’s wife would be prettier. Talked a lot, trying to talk some sense into him. My brother whined that he was tired of living like this. He said that he did not love Rosa, that his daughter was holding him back, that he was lying, that the love of his life, this Rose (her name), that only her, that only with her, crazy as love and love and passion all with her, and his wife does not know how to tell her that it is disgusting to be with her (his wife). He said he would leave, but there is nowhere to live, she wants only to meet, and his wife’s house and he will not take anything, and tears in his eyes from the hopelessness of it.
My brother ended up alone, living in a rented apartment, my daughter turned away, it all came out (and I did not tell it). Rosa moved away in two months, happy, there is a man who loves her, appreciates and respects her, they go out together, there is intimacy . Evenings out or alone, going on vacation, and everything is fine with her.
