We recently ran a story about one unintended consequence of cheating – having twins, each with a different father. We now learn that there is apparently no statute of limitations on the rage of the spouse being cheated on. The Everett Herald reports that a 78-year old woman took a lead pipe to her husband over affairs that she believed he had had more than thirty years ago:

The prosecutor charged the woman on Thursday with second-degree assault. The defendant was arrested late last month and remains in jail on $70,000 bail.

Apparently this assault was not a one-time freakout, but rather the result of a decades-long simmering hatred:

Investigators recovered the woman’s diary in which she allegedly wrote, “I beat him again.” The diary described how she hit her husband with a carpet sweeper and went after him with a knife. The diary entry also stated that “I told him it would be worth going to jail just to watch him bleed to death,” [Prosecutor Valerie] Shapiro wrote.

A witness told police the woman admitted that she had kicked her husband three times in the groin over the last six months because she believed he’d had an affair 35 years ago, according to court documents.

Divorce is a sad thing, but sadder still are marriages that are gradually reduced to mutual loathing and hatred. Given her rage, it’s too bad this lady didn’t just throw the bum out years before (assuming her suspicions were correct).

The best revenge, after all, is simply to live well – live a happy life apart from your ex. Nothing else makes it so clear what a mistake he or she made.

Source: http://www.heraldnet.com