Posted on 12/29/2011 9:29:46 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas.
Notwithstanding the time that had elapsed since the betrayal, he was so upset that he immediately confronted his wife of 77 years, named as Rosa C, and demanded a divorce.
Guilt-stricken, she reportedly confessed everything but was unable to persuade her husband to reconsider his decision.
She wrote the letters to her lover during a secret affair in the 1940s, according to court papers released in Rome this week.
The couple are now preparing to split, despite the ties they forged over nearly eight decades – they have five children, a dozen grandchildren and one great-grand child.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
LOL!
I’m with him. He’s just finishing what she started years ago.
Sure it was a long time ago, but she’s never confessed it to him. I can imagine his anger - decades of marriage built on lies and deception.
I agree. If the guy can still rifle though a chest of drawers, read age-old hand-written notes, and have the presence of mind to be upset and seek a divorce (never mind that I think it’s a mistake), then he gives me hope that I can still take care of myself at his age!
Like murder there are no statue of limitations on crimes of the heart.
lolz
good for him.
That is sad but betrayal is still betrayal.It must’ve meant something to her for her to have kept the letters all of these years....?
No fool like an old fool...
And 99 years makes for a pretty OLD fool!
Deny, deny, deny, even if you’re caught with your pants around your ankles.
If a DNA laden Blue Dress shows up, you’re toast.
Isn't every marriage? (/humor)
The kids should get DNA tests to find out if they are really who they think they are.
The kids should get DNA tests to find out if they are really who they think they are.
I don’t understand the posts about this guy not being rational or reasonable in this decision. It may have happened 60 years ago but the wife has been lying to him for 60 years. I don’t know what I’d do personally.
Come on, man! What about the great-grandchildren?
Such a long life, lived together. Such an old transgression, too. I hope he finds it in his heart to forgive her. But, it must be a shock to find out you’ve been lied to for sixty, seventy years by the one person closest to you.
"Picture this. Sicily, 1944..."
That woman was threefold stupid, once to have an affair, twice to keep incriminating evidence of her infidelity and thrice to confess everything when confronted.
I would say he’s better off without her, but odds are good both will be dead withing a handful of years and with their last years filled with anger that could have been avoided at least 3 times..
Better had she discarded the mementos, taken her shameful secret to the grave and saved everyone the pain.
They stayed together for the kids
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