My sister got married 2 years ago. It was an arranged setup, but it was only finalized because she said yes. She is 26 while he is 28. My Jija is a good guy maybe not very handsome or charming, but I have never seen or even got a hint of a bad feeling related to him. He earns well, and that was mainly the reason my sister married him. But she is also quite beautiful, so it was a fair trade as it goes in arranged marriages. If I’m being honest, I always had the doubt that she was just with him for the sake of our families and wasn’t really in love with him but he is.
Last December, I was hanging out with a group of my friends. We were drinking and partying. Out of the blue, an argument started between me and another friend, and it got to such a point where we started fighting. During that fight, he told me about my sister having an affair with a mutual friend. What he exactly said was, “Khud ke ghar mein dekh, didi kahin aur muh maar rahi hai, aur mujhse baat kar raha hai. Tere jaise aate jaate hain.” I remember it by heart because at first, I thought it was just said to insult me and get me more worked up.
But after the fight, another friend who was helping me calm down since the guy was abusing my family and talking crap about my sister told me it was true. I got angry at him too and tried to fight with him, but then he showed me a picture of my sister with the guy she was having an affair with. It felt like my world just shattered. Turns out she had been having an affair with him for almost a year, and many of my other friends knew because he was flaunting it to them. He used to show them pictures of them kissing, meeting in hotels, and stuff.
He used to brag about how he’s in a relationship with my sister and it’s just physical, and he’s enjoying it. As if it wasn’t enough that she was cheating on her husband on top of that, many of my friends knew, and I never got a single hint. It felt so embarrassing, and I literally feel ashamed to face any of my friends now. I thought about telling my Jija or confronting her multiple times but always backed out. She has always been the mean type, so I don’t think it would be a pleasant talk with her, so I am avoiding that.
And I’m sure my Jija will take it very badly because he is genuinely a good guy at heart.