Sex And Money

That Was My Downfall

Liam Ireland
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readSep 10, 2024

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Just to be clear, the sex and money that played a role in my double marriage and divorce downfall, all came down to what was going on in the toxic twisted thinking of my two ex-wives. Of course, there was more to it than that, but sex and money were what lay behind the Modus Operandi that was in play. However,…

…before I go any further, allow me to say that yes I know full well that countless innocent women get screwed over by men as well. I am not here to wage war on women or to paint them as any worse than men, we all get screwed by the same types of toxic narcissists. Not one gender or the other has a monopoly on marital nastiness. Back to the story of my dalliance with the bad guys.

During the internecine war that was raging at the time of my first divorce (chronicled in an earlier post, linked below) to get to the bottom of what was going on behind my back, I turned detective. I took to listening in to telephone calls. A word of warning about that, you have to be strong to listen in to your other half selling you down the river to anybody who will listen.

One seemingly innocent call to her best friend (another toxic piece of work by anybody’s standards) I heard her friend ask the love of my life (yes, that’s me being sarcastic) “What about the money? The fool still doesn’t know about that, does he?” Ha…

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Liam Ireland
ILLUMINATION

Author, writer, Illumination Editor, Top Writer in short stories and poetry.https://www.amazon.com/author/ryanobryan