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Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Girl suspects boy of cheating, pretends to be a blond teenager named "Laura", and seduces him on Facebook. It's like Closer, but more mundane because no one involved looks like Clive Owen.

Go her? I guess if you're going to find out that your husband is cheating on you (turns out he already had another girlfriend, so that's classy), you may as well get to play the Creepy Internet Detective game:

'My way in was through this girl called, coincidentally, Laura, who worked at the bar.

'She managed the bar's Facebook site. I asked if she wanted to be my online "friend" and she said yes. When I messaged her, I said I'd been in a few times and liked the place. She didn't question it, or say "Well, I don't remember you".

'That's the thing about Facebook. No one questions anything.'

Oooookay. I'm on your side, lady, but it borders on weird when you start making friends with people who have the same name as your fake name and work with your husband and if this were a movie there would be subtly homoerotic notes in your correspondence and one of you would be played by Jennifer Tilly.

Anyway, eventually the woman - whose name is Steph - confront her husband when he arranges a meeting with her internet bait and they have a bitter divorce. Which is all well and good, I guess, but I feel like you could have done so much more. Next time, make sure you get some pictures of the guy in women's underwear or dressed in a diaper that you can send to various friends and family members. That way, your victory will be truly complete, and you'll have something to show for the fact that you now employ acronyms like SXH and BFL.

Commentarium (7 Comments)

Jan 15 10 - 3:44pm
EL

That smiling infant pushes this story from tawdry to sad and heartbreaking.

Jan 15 10 - 5:11pm
Winnie

Well... that's one way to use new technology.

Jan 17 10 - 10:43pm
Simon

As EL said... any time a child is involved it goes from 'a bit shit' to outright horrible. I feel terrible for that child and its loss of a stable family life.

Jan 19 10 - 3:59pm
DT

Why is the cheater's face pixled out? He's the perpetrator here. Why protect his filthy mug?

Mar 07 10 - 12:14am

Well, since men have penises, these kind of things happen

Mar 07 10 - 12:15am

And as long as penises rule the world, well,

Mar 07 10 - 12:16am

women cheat less than men
because we have better self control
that's why we should be in charge of the universe