Husband Dumps Wife on Valentine’s Day After Revealing a Shocking Secret

This is the heartbreaking story of a woman who supported and groomed a man she fell in love with only to be devastated by a killer secret on Valentine’s day.

As the rest of Britain celebrates the most romantic day of the year, Lucy Manley will be counting down the hours until today is over.

For it’s the first anniversary of the moment the husband she’d lavished with love, money and the chance to live in Britain repaid her by dumping her on Valentine’s Day.

And Egyptian barman Abdy Aly didn’t even let her down gently.

He revealed he’d been having sex with another woman and announced Lucy had to go because “it was too stressful to juggle two women”.

Then she found out he’d also been sleeping with her neighbour.

Now she realises the undying love pledged by Abdy, 28, seemed to run out right about the time he was granted leave to remain in the UK.

Distraught Lucy, 32, who spent £10,000 on Abdy, said: “I loved Abdy so much but now I’m not sure if what we had was ever real.

“I worked so hard to get him the papers to live in the UK because I wanted to grow old with him. I’d ­excitedly planned our future together.

 

“But he repaid me by betraying me in the most awful way on what was supposed to be the most romantic day of the year.

 

“He didn’t even apologise when he told me he’d been cheating.

 

“I was crying so hard I could hardly breathe but he simply moaned that he found it all too stressful.”

 

Trainee teacher Lucy met Abdy in June 2009 while on holiday at the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh.

 

“He wasn’t my usual type,” Lucy admitted. “At first, I thought he was a bit rude. But there was something about him which attracted me.

 

“He teased me quite a lot, but I liked it. We didn’t kiss but we exchanged email addresses when I left.”

The pair emailed constantly for three months and in one message Abdy asked her to marry him. Lucy visited again in the October.

“We talked about marriage quite early on,” Lucy said.

“Abdy brought it up and I got swept along. I counted down the minutes until I had enough money to fly back to Egypt. When we shared our first kiss, it felt so special.

 

“He spent the rest of the holiday begging me to marry him and telling me we were destined to be together.

 

“At first, I told him I couldn’t marry but I got caught up in the fairytale .”

Lucy’s friends begged her to think carefully but she was determined to wed Abdy and did so on December 1, her next visit.

“It was nuts but I was convinced he was the one for me,” she said. She admitted being surprised the ceremony was at a register office and not a mosque.

There was no romantic proposal, no ring and instead of a white gown Lucy wore a casual blue dress.

She said: “Our wedding day wasn’t at all romantic. There were problems with our paperwork, so we got there just as the office was closing.

“All the lights were off but Abdy was ­determined we marry there and then. We had to sign the marriage certificate by the light of his brother’s phone.

 

“When we got home to his parents’ house, it was a real anti-climax. I ended up going to bed early. It wasn’t how I imagined my wedding day.”

Lucy devoted the next two years to the fight to get Abdy permission to join her in Cardiff.