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‘I did participate in an affair, your honor,’ she said. ‘It is true. Yes.’

Wallace did not learn of the affair until years later — after the couple had a son together.

‘He found out a couple years later, actually, after our son had been born,’ Gar testified. She said she was not having the affair at the time the baby was born.

Wallace was initially thrilled about the pregnancy.

‘I was very happy to have a baby in the beginning,’ he said.

But the joy was short-lived. Gar claimed Wallace grew resentful of the child’s demands on her time.

‘He started to resent our child for taking me away from him,’ she said. ‘That’s what he said. That’s what he would come home after construction and he would want me to have dinner on the table. He would want me to go out with him, but I had to take care of our child. And he would just get angry and snap at me.’

Wallace admitted he struggled with sharing his wife’s attention.

‘I understand that a baby takes up a lot of your time. I understand I might lean towards being aggravated easily,’ he said. ‘But she didn’t make it very easy on me. I would work all day, long hours, and come home and not knowing what she’s doing with her free time.’

When pressed by the judge about his involvement in childcare, Wallace conceded he had changed only ‘a couple’ of diapers during his son’s infancy — a detail Gar seized upon.

‘When have you ever changed a diaper?’ she asked. ‘Not one.’

The affair remained a secret until a coworker with a grudge against Gar revealed it years later.

‘A coworker of mine, we got in an argument because she wanted to take shifts and she didn’t like me very much,’ Gar explained. ‘So she decided to tell him years later.’

Wallace received a text message from the coworker and confronted his wife.

‘When I confronted her about it, she didn’t deny it,’ he said. ‘I was disgusted.’

He filed for divorce and began paying $1,500 a month in child support — a sum that ultimately reached $18,000.