Affairs happen all the time. Just this week, we had a confession from Bill Gates. Yes, Bill Gates the billionaire. Welcome to this week's True Romance.
He reportedly admitted during what had to be an entertaining Gates Foundation town hall to having two of them during his 27-year marriage.
"I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player … and one with a Russian nuclear physicist," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
One of the women might have been helped financially by Jeffrey Epstein, but that didn’t have anything to do with Gates. He only had these two affairs.
There's nothing else to see here. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
Old Billy boy has a thing for Russian women is all. Case closed. We're moving on to a more interesting affair between the woman a man loves and his own father.
Melinda thought she had it bad, suffering through almost three decades of marriage to a filthy rich tech dork. She doesn’t know this kind of betrayal, at least not that we know of.
How could a man's father have an affair with his son's fiancée? Don’t worry, the groom gets his revenge on the couple's wedding day.
We've got that and a lot more to get through this week. Let's get started, first by going and following True Romance on Twitter and Facebook.
None of that boring billionaire affair with Russians. This one has passion, it has betrayal, and it has revenge.
A man had found the one. Her name was Emily and an almost two-year engagement was about to end in marriage. That was the plan.
It all changed, according to an account of the story on Medium, when the groom started noticing subtle signs.
Emily would drop her phone, give knowing smiles, and started spending late nights at the office. She'd swipe text messages from her screen when he walked into the room.
He gave her the benefit of the doubt. He didn’t want to believe that there was anything going on.
"I tried to ignore it. What kind of fiancée spies on his own bride-to-be?" he said. "I thought love was trust, I told myself. But I’d sometimes catch her stealing glances at her phone, fingers quaking slightly, eyes darting away as I entered a room."
Then one night he found something on a bookshelf while clearing out their study. The withdrawing and lack of intimacy all of a sudden made sense.
"I came across a small envelope behind the bookshelf. Not my place, but curiosity murdered what little sense I had," he said of the discovery.
He found printed screenshots of messages exchanged between his fiancée and someone named "R." They were graphic exchanges that were detailed and very personal.
That's when he noticed the number of the sender of the messages. It was his father's. The R stood for Richard.
He confronted Emily the next day. She didn’t deny the affair. She didn’t even apologize for it. When asked if she had slept with his father she replied, "Yes… I wasn’t trying to hurt you, it just happened."
He didn’t call off the engagement or the wedding. He turned it into an opportunity to expose these two in front of everyone. When it was time to exchange vows, he instead made an announcement.
Emily and Richard had a bad feeling about what was to follow.
"I know my fiancée has been sleeping with my dad. I am aware of their betrayal, their deception and their treachery. And before I continue let me tell every person in this room," he said.
"I came here to marry someone I love, have a party with my family and friends. But no, what I get is betrayal from the two people I loved and trusted as much as anyone. You don’t do this to me in my life, Emily … Richard. You are embarrassed now, and all the people know the truth now."
Now that’s a much better ending than a measly admission of a couple of affairs with Russian women.
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Now we shift gears to a story of obvious jealousy. A married couple in their twenties is trying and, thank god, failing to ruin their neighbor's romantic encounters.
The neighbors are making the most of the month of love that is February and have been passionately enjoying their romantic encounters at all hours of the day. To state plainly, they're having loud sex.
The wife of the married couple being forced to listen to this at all hours is the more annoyed one by the situation. Again, obviously jealous.
"This is getting out of hand. THEY are so loud. She moans, he moans. You can hear their bed banging as well. My phone can easily record the sounds. I'm so done," she said, according to the Daily Star.
"I have huge anxiety now in my own house. Every time they do it, I get really shaky and angry. I don't have anger issues, but now I do apparently."
If you can believe it, she's actually attempted to shut down the romance like an absolutely insane person. She wrote a sternly-worded message and went to their door during one of these sessions.
"I have tried a note, doesn't work. I hit the ceiling with a broom, doesn't work. I scream loudly that they should stop, and they keep f*cking going. I banged on their door and hit the doorbell a few times, and ran away as well. They KEPT GOING!!"
Now she wants her husband to confront them should they put on another one of their performances. She's failing to see that there's only one way to end this and that's with some competition.
Apartment living calls for it. You have to beat them at their own game. They know it's bothering you, which is why they keep doing it.
It's time for this lady and her husband to throw down with a performance of their own. I wish there was a better way, but this is the most civilized.
Let's wrap this one up back at weddings and stories from those who have seen things at the parties that follow.
There's everything from the bride and groom going at it in a side room to the newlywed husband getting caught with his boss' wife.
Heartwarming tales that make these weekly romantic journeys that much better, from Reddit:
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That's it for this week and the month of February. March, if you can believe it, is just a couple of days away.
Warmer weather is around the corner and that should make for some interesting True Romance as spring arrives.
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