I Thought My Father Was Betraying My Mother—Until the Truth Shattered Me

My father is 65 years old, and he had an affair behind my mother’s back. Furious, I decided to follow him to a motel. When the door opened, the sight before me left me frozen…

For decades, my father worked tirelessly to support five people, never once complaining. To me, he was always “the family hero.” But after our financial situation improved, I began to notice troubling changes: he dressed more carefully, set a password on his phone, and went out every night, saying he was “playing chess with a friend.”

Something didn’t feel right, so one night, I secretly followed him.

I stopped in my tracks when I saw him walk straight into a roadside inn.

Rage and humiliation for my mother surged inside me. Could the man I had admired all my life really be betraying her?