Every couple who says “I do” hopes for a happy marriage, but sometimes those hopes are dashed in devastating ways.
When she married the love of her life at 21 years old, Taiwanese actress Jiang Ping thought she had found her happily ever after. On a Taiwanese talk show twenty years later, Jiang Ping told the story of how she met, married, and divorced a scriptwriter who was 14 years her senior.
The couple wed after a brief courtship and remained married for seven years before their marital bliss turned into a nightmare. Jiang Ping’s family–her father, in particular–had been against the marriage from the start, and not because of the age gap. Her father thought her husband “wasn’t a good [person],” and it turns out her father was right.
When Jiang Ping’s husband stopped having any sexual interest in her, she consulted a fortune teller, who told Jiang Ping that her husband was having an affair. As if that news wasn’t shocking enough, she found out that her husband was cheating on her with her own mother.
After trying to confront her mother, who slammed a door in her face, Jiang Ping demanded answers from her husband. To her shock, he said, “If I didn’t do it, your mother would have had an affair with someone else.”
“At that time, my mother was suffering from pain and had gone for massages,” Jiang Ping told the show’s host. “My husband said he also knew how to do it and began to help out, and they ended up having sex.” To add insult to injury, Jiang Ping was only a room away during one of these “massages,” feeding her son.
Despite this betrayal, Jiang Ping tried to salvage her marriage by moving their family to a new home. In the end, though, the couple divorced, and Jiang Ping is still haunted by her ex-husband’s affair. It destroyed her marriage, ruined her relationship with her mother, and deeply hurt her father.
Though it’s difficult to discuss her personal life so publicly, Jiang Ping tearfully told the host, “I have nothing to hide, and it was not my fault.”
Source: 8days and Strait Times
