Breaking Apart When Do You Know Adultery Is Sin?

By Micheli Zappala

Based on actual events as to be told with everyone who has interest like never before; allow me to share a rollercoaster ride that is full of emotion you are sure to feel. Hold on tight as it takes you through multiple situations including where they take your freedom away meeting the most colourful characters then back out having to prepare for the criminal trial where at the same time daring to explain the most ruthless of law; family law! As it also shows the effects on our children.

This is about a family breaking apart & the only thing that can stop it is the truth!
This is my story..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Micheli Zappala
• Release date: Apr 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463198544

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1 YEAR PRIOR TO THE STORY

Rachel was at her sister’s hens’ night at a place on Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley. I was at the grooms bucks do on a party bus when I received a call from her saying she was feeling sick, so I said to man driving the bus to pullover & stop so I could get off then i thumbed it till I was able to hail a cab who then drove me to the party in Mt Lawley where I had the cab driver wait while I went in a got her. I virtually carried Rachel out to the cab who then drove us home.

I phoned her sister, Louise who the hens night was for to see if she had been given any drugs because I wasn’t sure if Rachel was very drunk or if she had been drugged. Her sister didn’t respect what I was saying that her sister was the most precious thing in my whole world & I just needed to know what I was dealing with rather resented me implying that she would give her sister drugs.

I bathed Rachel and then held her close till the morning, whilst I had my sister look after our children for the day so Rachel could rest till she started feeling better again.

SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER

It’s the seventh day and what feels like every day the arguing have started! Today’s topic is my mum who was recently diagnosed with a Parkinson’s type disease who I wish to spend all the time I can with and today I’m going again to see her. Still the senseless loud arguing continues, finally stopping when I get in my car and leave.

Later when i got home Rachel and our four children were not there and there was no indication where they had gone or when they would return. "The home is silent. I can’t honestly say what’s worse, the screaming and yelling, or standing here all alone in a silent empty home.

I tried phoning Rachel with no answer, so I messaged her asking what time she would be home and that I loved her.

Rachel messaged back

Don’t be a liar! You want your mother more than your family. You would do anything for your mum. I guess we are not worth as much as her and I will get my things out and don’t bother calling or messaging me. I have no intention of phoning or texting you again. Try to take care of yourself. Goodbye!

It wasn’t until Tuesday that I managed to make contact with Rachel through my eldest daughter Rachel’s mobile phone (yes they both share the same name. Still so as to save confusion ill change Rachel the leading lady name to SHELL). We sent sms text messages to each other on and off all day then around 3.00pm i received a message which compared to all the others seemed strange. It said basically that she was hot for some sex to which I replied, Who with!. Her reply was that there were no men around whatever that meant and then said she was coming over. Shell rang me sometime later that afternoon, saying that her sister had a premature baby and had to be flown from Alice Springs to King Edward Hospital and she would not be able to come over until much later. Around 10.00pm shell came over alone. I asked where the children were & where she was staying. She wouldn’t say. Nevertheless, she seemed happy enough and made me feel like everything would be alright. We talked until we kissed as we then made love. No I’m not saying we made love like I’m Pepi la Pew, I’m saying it cause we didn’t have a root we didn’t fuck which is all good depending on the mood. We made love! So where was I, After we had made love Shell said that she had taken $3,000.00 out of the business cheque account. STOP! Quickly all that shit about making love I need to change to Expensive Fuck. Back to the story, to which I replied that I didn’t care. Shell then told me that she was staying far away but again couldn’t tell me where, still she said that she would support me with my mum and then left.

The following day Shell rang me while I was at work and now was saying things weren’t going to work out between us and helping me with my Mum was pointless. She also said that I had no idea about how other people lived and had no coping skills and that she wanted a six month separation. I got off the phone & went straight home to make sure she had not taken the cheque books. With eight men working for us, I do care how much money is in our account. When I got home I was extremely emotional, So everything aside I wrote a message on the back of four of my business cards for each of my children which I put on their beds with a personal gift for each of them, The back of the card said that I would always be there for them and if they ever needed me, they just had to call me.

Shell arrived soon after with the kids and we were all very emotional. Jessica, my eight year old daughter was hugging me and crying. Shell then stressed it was all her fault and tried to leave without the kids it was crazy.

It was all too much so rather her leaving i decided to get out of her way & went out the back up to the workshop to get away from her and to have a stiff drink. Minutes later Shell came in yelling at me. I have an enormous amount of patience still couldn’t believe it. I was emotionally distraught with her decision to leave and she still wasn’t happy! I don’t know what she was angry about, it seemed as if she just wanted to start another argument. I told her to TO FUCK OFF! & followed her to the back door then turned around went back to the shed where two-three minutes later I heard a bang. I ran out the front to see shell had been through my work ute and had thrown my job files all over the lawn and had then driven into the back of my car. I ran up to her car as she was leaving, feeling stressed. I asked her about what she was doing, but there was no reply just a look on her face like go on hit me. I just stood there as she left only then noticing the keys to the ute were gone. I picked my stuff up off the lawn in disbelief. Fortunately, I still had the keys to mum’s 1971 RX2 Mazda Capella which she had given me.

Later, when I arrived home at around 9.00 pm, after having tea at angels house my mum’s career it was something she said made me check the mail. To my surprise angel was right i found a letter from the bank in Shell’s name only which totally shocked me, considering she could access all our bank, credit and petrol accounts etc, the two houses and the business and with me having had that level of trust in her to now find this was a real game changer so with my eyes wide open I immediately went inside and started looking around and the more I looked the more I found. All important documents had been moved and I found a ton of clothing receipts. I also found that Shell had received a cheque for $3,898.76 in August from her 2005 Tax Return and in the same month she had received another cheque for $3,869.62 from the Family Assistance Office which now makes sense When I asked Shell in June 2004 to put her name on the business to help us save money which would benefit the entire family including her it seemed to really frustrate her, even when I said I would give her the money she would lose from the family allowance on top of the $500 plus a week budget for the groceries and clothing etc she would get.

The boxes of junk jewellery and box of clothing receipts and even the 20 handbags & endless pairs of shoes weren’t out of character for Shell but in the wash I found a skimpy yellow dress and other personal items I had never seen before as well as a blue bath robe that if it was mine i had never worn it. I also found a pregnancy test sheet in one of the draws. Ordinarily these things could be dismissed for lack of relevance considering we had been married for thirteen years, but I’d had vasectomy about five years ago!

For the following week i was to turn the house inside out upside down looking through everything where I also found quality jewellery that I had not given her and used stamps from Melbourne, Victoria and the Cocos Island.

It was just after midnight I received a text message from Shell asking if she could come home because my daughter Jessica was sick. I instantly texted back yes, I did not mention that I wanted to discuss anything with her, I simply said come home. She never replied. I tried to ring and continued sending text messages until the morning but I never received any reply. In the morning I phoned Rose, Shell’s mother were all I got from her was how much of a bastard I was not letting Shell come home with a sick child. I replied that I had been trying to get hold of Shell since that message i received but had no reply. Pissed off I also told her I had found things that didn’t make sense and even more confusing i told her that two nights ago we together had sex. She dismissed it all by saying that not only was I a cold hearted bastard I was also a bare faced liar.

I finally got hold of Shell around 9.00am. I said to her things are not what they seem! i could hear it in her voice i had hit a nerve. We agreed to all meet back at our house in Bickley around 2.00 pm where she had an answer for everything but none that made any sense, such as her having used the bathrobe to dry her hair – something I’ve never seen her do in 13 years of marriage. Still not telling me know where she was staying she instead explained the pregnancy test sheet by initially saying it belonged to her sister then later saying it was from years ago and so on. Again she had answer for everything leaving me totally exhausted to know what to believe.

Despite having stayed the night shell was still keen to have a six month trial separation including her name off the business which didn’t make a lot of sense unless she was concerned her business was going to go broke.

Still it was what she wanted so in separate cars all six of us went to Perth City to the Ministry of Fair Trading to remove Shell’s (Rachel) name from Too Smooth Ceilings which created a snowball effect of problems such as having to apply for a new ABN Number, close our existing joint business cheque account and open a new one in the same name.

While filling out the forms at the Ministry of Fair Trading office Shell started to say that I only wanted her name on the business for my own personal benefit and then said maybe it might be better to leave her name on there. I don’t know what a nervous breakdown feels like still I wasn’t feeling good at all. Shell offered me one of her antidepressant tablets witch I took & flicked it away on to the floor she then sat down Thank God. From there We met at the Cunningham Branch of Bank Trust at around 1.00 pm to take shells name off the cheque account where clearly you could see she was not happy now saying that she now wanted to stay back at the family home till she found a place to stay. At this point, with everything that was going on and though I still love the mother of my children I had to say no because the trust I’d had in her prior to finding the bank statement was gone & besides from not wanting to have a total nervous breakdown I needed to consider the eight men I employ who depend on me being able to continue to operate my business so that they can be paid so as to care for their families.

When I told her that the answer was no because I found it hard to trust her anymore, she replied that she had no money and would have to stay at the Salvation Army with the kids if they could not come home. I didn’t