Reddit Stories - BETRAYED at the Altar_ UNMASKING My Ex's SHOCKING Secret Five Years Later_

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

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I hope you enjoy this story. Deceitful former partner abandoned me on our wedding day for his previous lover. Half a decade later, I unveiled his infidelity to his expectant spouse, who is currently divorcing him and claiming ownership of the residence. And kids. So I, 30F, was supposed to get married to my ex-fiance Scott, 32M, 5 years ago, but that didn't happen. He dumped me on the day of our wedding for his ex-girlfriend Ruby, 32F. Scott and I had been together for about two years before he proposed and I said yes.

Then there were six months of planning and finally, our wedding day. So we were together for two years and a half, but he still decided to change his mind about the wedding at the very last moment when Ruby arrived at the wedding. And no, I didn't invite her and neither was she on the approved guest list but was an addition that my dearest mother-in-law Alice had made. Ruby and Scott had dated for seven years but had been broken up for two years at the time we started dating. He didn't speak of her much and I'd found out the reason why they'd broken up from his friends. They'd started dating when they were 18 and were in their senior year and had stayed together

through college, even though Ruby went to college out of state. After she graduated and returned, they moved and together and lived in an apartment, and after almost seven years, Scott asked her to marry him. but unfortunately, Ruby wasn't ready yet and turned him down. They tried to make the relationship work after that, but it just didn't and eventually, they parted ways and Ruby even took a job in Canada to move out of the city. That was that and they didn't keep in touch after their breakup either. I used to go to the same college as Scott, but I was his junior back then and didn't speak to him much. I met Scott again at a co-worker's Christmas dinner and actually felt a connection there.

So we ended up ditching the party after a while and went out by ourselves. We had a really nice time together and decided to stay in touch, went out on a couple of dates, and within three months, we were in a proper relationship. We dated for two years, then decided to get married but it was all wasted when after almost three years of their breakup, Ruby finally decided to show up on our supposed wedding day. I still remember everything clear as day. I'd walked down the aisle already and we were up there. on the podium when he confessed that since we were in a chapel, he couldn't bring himself to lie and

said that he needed to talk to me about something really important. So we stopped the ceremony and he took me aside to inform me that his mother had invited Ruby to the wedding and even pointed them out to me. Alice and Ruby were sitting in the front row, Alice looking smug as hell in her off white dress, I mean, of course, she'd worn something close to white to my wedding, and Ruby looking down at her I wasn't surprised that Alice had invited Scott's ex to disrupt the wedding because she'd made it very clear right from the beginning of our relationship that she didn't like me one bit. It was definitely because I'm not the kind of daughter-in-law she wanted. I'm not soft-spoken, I'm not what you'd call sweet or timid so I'm just not the idea of what

an ideal daughter-in-law should be like according to Alice. Not that these are bad traits, but I just didn't possess any of them. I was always too loud or too brash or too expressive for her taste, so of course she brought along someone she believed was a more appropriate fit for their family than I was. So she went ahead and brought that better daughter-in-law to the wedding so it'd be easier to control and manipulate her son in the long run. And not only did she bring her along, but she also arranged a conversation between Ruby and Scott before I walked down the aisle, which is what he told me about later, using that conversation

as a reason to dump me at the altar. He told me that he and Ruby had a chat before this and she apologized for turning him down all those years ago and explained that she just felt too young and inexperienced to actually make such a huge commitment. But now, after almost three years, she'd realized that she'd messed up because she knew she'd never find someone better than him and had come back to ask for one last chance to make their relationship work. That was all it took to undo two years of our relationship and he was back to square one

once more. Obviously, back at the time, I tried to argue with him and make him stay, but he told me that it'd be a mistake for us to get married now that he'd realized that he'd never actually fallen out of love with Ruby and I'd just been a placeholder for the woman that he actually loved. His word stung, but I was so desperate that I tried to convince him to stay nevertheless. It didn't work and I knew that it was all futile when he asked me to return the engagement ring. I lost my cool and ended up flinging it to the ground before I walked out and decided to drive myself away from the wedding, all the guests, and just everything to do with Scott. I kept driving until I reached a B&B a little out of town and stayed there for the next couple of

days. Scott paid off all the dues of the wedding organizers and vendors and thankfully, I didn't have to spend any of my hard-earned money except on my dress. The only time we met after that was when I went back home to collect my things after almost two weeks of the wedding. He and Ruby were at home at the time and didn't even bother to stop cuddling when I walked in with a friend of mine to pack my stuff up and leave. That's how awful they were and at the end of the day, I was kind of glad that Scott decided to dump me before we even got married because then we'd have to get divorced eventually whenever Ruby decided that she wanted him back. So they actually saved me a lot of money and heartache. I've tried to move on and I guess I've done a decent job of it,

but I have crazy trust issues now, had a nicotine addiction a couple of years ago that came along with crippling depression and have to go to therapy twice a week now to be a normal, human being. My mental health has suffered a lot because of those three, but they'd been doing just fine, as far as I know. They got married a couple of months after I was dumped and they even have two kids now, aged two and four. They're expecting a third as well, from what I know. The reason I know all of this is because about six months ago, I befriended Ella, 28F, the new receptionist at my company. We discovered that we had a lot in common at a work party and ended up becoming really good friends. One day at lunch, she told me that one of the guys she hooked up with a couple of years

ago and still followed on social media was now having a third kid with his wife. I thought it was just harmless gossip, but then she showed me the profile and it was Scott. I was dumbfounded for a few moments, but Ella went on talking and explained that she'd matched with this guy on a dating app two years ago and apparently he'd told her that he was in an open marriage so she'd agreed to go out with him but now, she wasn't so sure if he'd told her the truth anymore. So I clarified and informed her that in all probability, he wasn't in an open marriage at all and had been cheating on his wife because she was pregnant since the timing lined up with Ruby's second pregnancy.

I explained my history with Scott to her and together. We went through his and her social media which was easy since both of them had public accounts and confirmed that they'd indeed been together when Ruby was heavily pregnant. I could hardly believe that this guy had first ditched me at the altar for Ruby, and now, he couldn't even find it in himself to stay loyal to the woman he left me for. I was disgusted and felt like it was about time that I got back at him for what he did to me and thankfully, by then, Ella was a good friend of mine and agreed to be a part of my plan because of how messed up she'd found Scott's actions to be.

She herself felt infuriated that he'd lied to her about being in an open marriage just to get her to sleep with him. And they didn't just hook up a couple of times, it went on for a couple of weeks. After their first few dates, she'd followed him on Instagram and found that his wife was heavily pregnant and had confronted him about it, but he'd told her that Ruby didn't really care since she'd been with a fair few guys in the initial months of her pregnancy, too. So Ella continued to hook up with him, but eventually, she decided that she didn't want to fool around with Scott anymore since she'd begun to develop feelings for him in spite

of the fact that she'd only intended for it to be a meaningless fling with him. They'd text regularly and he'd flirt with her all the time, but she'd try her best to ignore it since she knew this wouldn't lead anywhere. Because he was already married and even if it was an open marriage, he wouldn't leave his wife or some woman he'd met on a dating app. So eventually they grew apart but continued to follow each other on social media. When I found out about how Ella and Scott were connected, Ruby was already four months pregnant and Scott had announced it on social media with a post. That's the one that Ella had shown me. After we found out about the connection, Ella and I started putting together all the proof that we had of Scott's

infidelity. It took us a couple of days, but we finally had an assortment of screenshots of texts that Scott had sent to Ella over the course of their short-lived fling. He used to flirt with her like nobody's business, would make promises to her and all that jazz. There were also screenshots of him making plans to meet Ella and several times, he'd even suggested that she come over to his house while Ruby was asleep since she's a heavy sleeper and wouldn't wake up for hours. I was disgusted and repulsed that he was doing this behind her back while she was carrying his second child but that's Scott for you. After that, Ella had the idea to take it up a notch higher and I think this is where we messed up.

The two of us got way too caught up in the revenge and I think we went a little crazy. When Ruby hits six months, Ella and I decided that it was time to test Scott again. So Ella reached out to him yet again. We didn't know what to expect because they hadn't exactly been friends after they stopped talking two years back, but Scott still replied and guess what. He was still flirting with Ella and was even reminiscing about their past because Ruby was pregnant again and she was even moodyer than her previous pregnancies and was bigger, too. He told Ella that she'd picked the perfect time to get back in touch with him, indicating that he was willing to cheat on Ruby

yet again. We texted him for a few days and gathered a couple more screenshots but then left him hanging after a while. Finally, two weeks ago, Scott posted that Ruby had finally given birth to a daughter and within three days of that, Ella and I posted all the evidence we had on Facebook and tagged everyone who knew the two of them. And that started a total social media crap fist but I turned the notifications off for that post and waited for either Scott or Ruby to reach out to me or Ella. It finally happened two days after we posted and Scott was the one who contacted me. I blocked him everywhere after we broke up five years back but I'd unblocked him just so that I'd be able to see what he had to say about me finally exposing him for the jerk that he really is.

He sent me a long rant about how I'd ruined his life and that now, Ruby was threatening to leave him just because of what Ella and I had posted. He accused me of being a psychotic stalker and said that he'd take me to court if Ruby divorced him, which is not even possible because he doesn't have a case against me or Ella. He's the one who cheated first and then tried to cheat yet again quite shamelessly. There were a lot of other things that he said, but it was mostly name calling and accusing me of ruining his life. I was really satisfied with what I'd done because from what I understood, he would soon be facing a divorce and quite possibly a custody battle as well. And he deserved every bit of it, in my opinion. Unfortunately, my friends don't

share the same sentiment. They think I went too far, especially because Ruby was pregnant and they believe that because it had been five whole years since our breakup, I should have just let sleeping dogs lie instead of pulling some crazy stunt on social media just for revenge like we were still in high school. I don't think that's fair because Scott literally ruined any future relationship that I could have had with what he did. He ditched me at the altar for his ex-girlfriend after we dated for two years and I don't think any of my friends understand how awful that felt. I spent years trying to move on and I think I was totally normal for a while, too. Until I met Ella because she's the one who told me that Scott had been cheating and that's what pushed me over.

the edge. He'd abandoned me for Ruby and now, he wasn't even loyal to her but for whatever reason. My friends believe that I was the one who messed up here and thought that I owed them both an apology for trying to ruin their marriage after five years. I don't understand how I ruined their marriage because all I did was put the truth out in public. The cheating was all on Scott, not me. Ella doesn't think we did anything wrong but of course, she'd say that because she was a part of this as well. I don't understand how I'm in the wrong here. here so I'd have for exposing my ex-fiance for cheating on his pregnant wife twice in a row after he left me at the altar five years ago? Update 1, hi. So I decided not to apologize because after

reading through most of the comments on my original post, I realized that I was doubting myself over something pretty ridiculous. Scott abandoned me at the altar five years ago to be with Ruby. And then he lied to Ella about being in an open marriage while Ruby was heavily pregnant just to hook up with her. I just exposed him for what he was doing. Yeah, I chose to do it at a time that would be the most hurtful for both Ruby and Scott, but that's because they chose to hurt me five years back, too. So why shouldn't I try to get back at them? I tried being the bigger person and I'd let it all go, but the universe brought me back into his life some way or the other, just not for a good reason. I don't think I did anything wrong and if anything, my friends should be talking about Scott being the

bad guy instead of putting me down. But I don't think that's ever going to happen because my friends continue to remain friends with him even after he broke up with me on the day of our wedding. So that should have been enough for me to realize that these people never were my friends in the first place, but I guess I was too delusional to believe it at the time. I get it now, though, and have decided to cut them all off. I don't need them and I'm quite sure I'm better off without such negative people in my life anyway. As for Ella, there was an unprecedented amount of hate for her because of the things she'd done and I'd just like to take a moment to explain that she didn't have any idea that Scott wasn't in an open marriage back when she'd been going out

with him. He'd convinced her that he was in an open marriage and at that point, he had very few pictures of Ruby on his profile so it wasn't that hard for her to believe him. Trust me when I say this, she's really not the kind of woman who would hook up with a married man unless she knew that their partner had agreed to it. She's adventurous but that doesn't make her a moral or whatever. The one thing that I'll concede she did wrong was that she didn't tell Ruby when she started suspecting that maybe Scott wasn't telling the truth about being in an open marriage, but she was too skeptical to talk about it to a woman she barely even knew and a pregnant woman at that. So she decided to remove herself from the situation entirely and stopped talking to Scott.

She's been a good friend to me and I think even if she had messed up back then, I don't think I'm going to judge her by that because she's genuinely been there for me so maybe I'm a little biased in her favor. Nobody's perfect but we're all trying and Ella is actually a nice person so please, don't just judge her based on the original post. There's a lot more to her as a person, I can promise you that. Now, coming to Scott and Ruby, from what I've heard, they're still fighting and Ruby has actually been living with her parents for a few days. I still have two friends who are actually on my side and they're keeping me in the loop since they have some friends in common with Ruby. It's been a week since my original post and they still haven't managed to resolve the

situation, as far as I know. If Ruby has even an ounce of dignity left, she'll walk out of that marriage just like I walked out of my wedding but you never know. These are pretty messed up people that we're talking about here so there's no telling what they might or might not do. But I know what I'm going to do, I'm just going to sit back, relax, and enjoy the drama with popcorn now. Update 2, super quick update. Okay, so you guys remember Alice, right? Alice, my almost mother-in-law, actually arranged the conversation between Scott and Ruby which ended up destroying my relationship. Yeah, her. Today, Alice contacted me and she was nice to me today, which made sense because she wanted me to help her out by deleting the post I'd made. She'd got a hold of my number from Scott

and called me to ask me in her most tearful voice to delete the post and talk to Ruby so that she'd come back to him because she couldn't afford to lose her three grandchildren. Ruby's furious and has been threatening to file for divorce and full custody of the kids with no visitation rights and the only way to avoid that is if Scott agrees to transfer the ownership of their house to her. I don't understand why Scott isn't willing to do something so easy and I'm not even going to try and understand why Ruby is still willing to stay, no matter what conditions she puts forth. It's just crazy but I'm not interested in being part of this craziness, so I told Alice that while I'd love to help the people who ruin my life and mental

health, I just don't think there's any point in deleting the post because everyone knows the truth now. And I'd never speak to Ruby, not even if I was offered $10,000. Because that's the woman who had no shame meddling in a relationship but is now mad that someone else did the same thing to her. She should have known better and she should have known that if Scott could be shallow enough to dump me in a single day just because she was back, he wouldn't hesitate before dumping her for someone else either. Anyway, I told Alice that I wasn't going to lift even a finger to help them out and they could figure this one out on their own, which is what they'd left me to do after I got dumped on what was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. It was so incredibly satisfying to disconnect

the call in the middle of her sentence and then block her to make sure she couldn't contact me anymore. I don't care what people say, honestly. A lot of folks here and even in the real world have said that I'm living in the past, but this feels like I'm finally getting closure and I can actually start to move on from Scott, Ruby, and Alice now. Update 3, Hey, Everyone. So, it's been almost a month since I last posted an update. I've been busy with work because I just started working on a new project and it's been kind of stressful so I forgot about this post, if I'm being honest.

There's not much to say, honestly because after I told Alice that I wasn't taking that post down, they didn't contact me any further. What I do know, however, is that now Scott's and Ruby are getting divorced and are fighting over who gets to keep the house and the settlement. They're also in a custody battle because apparently, Ruby had demanded full custody of her kids with child support and only supervised visits once a month. Ella and I have had a good laugh over this because the guy really has nobody else to blame at this point apart from himself, obviously.

He had every chance to wake up and become a decent guy after he left me and fully committed to Ruby which shouldn't have been hard because they dated for seven years already. I'm guessing he cheated on her then as well, so this is probably nothing new for him. Come to think of it, he must have cheated on too, but I never found out about it. This just proves that life always does come full circle because they're the one suffering now and I'm the one doing way better than I was in every aspect, mentally, physically, and definitely financially. I did what I had to do when I got my closure.

I'm going to wish them nothing but good luck for the future now because I think that they're going to need it.