The time frame is important here. We have been married for 3 years. We were together as a couple for 2 years before that. So we've been together for about 5 years.
Two weekends ago her sister got married and of course my wife was in the wedding party. So as you would expect she spent the two weeks prior to the wedding helping her sister get everything ready. No big deal at all. She kept me informed and I knew this was going to happen.
She took that Wednesday - Friday off of work to help her and in fact stayed with her three days. I certainly know her sister, but I barely know the guy who is now my brother in law. In fact I've only met him a few times, but he seems nice enough.
I show up Saturday morning a few hours before the ceremony in hopes of stealing just a few minutes to see her, not wanting to intrude on the day since I know she is busy, but I hadn't seen her since Tuesday. She see's me outside of her parents house and sends her brother out to tell me that she will come out and see me at the car. Which I thought was odd but whatever.
She finally comes out and sits in the seat next to me and gives me a kiss, but instead of acting happy to see me or whatever she tells me that she has to talk to me and she doesn't want it to ruin her sisters day. She informs me that at the reception (if I still want to go) I might hear some things about the best man and her, and she didn't want it to be awkward or weird. I just kind of sat there stunned.
She said that about 4 years ago she had a fling with him and that it didn't mean anything, but she was aware that by nature I'm somewhat jealous and she wanted me to know in advance so that if I heard something that I wouldn't be surprised. Again I just kind of sat there, this was not how I thought my morning would go but I told her I appreciated knowing it and that it certainly wasn't a big deal now.
She went back in the house and I went to eat lunch and decided to meet her at the church. As I'm eating and reading my phone it dawns on me, she said she had a fling with him 4 years ago and we've been together 5.
My first reaction was to blow it off and think that she just told me the wrong time but the more I thought about it the more I started to remember about a year and a half of us being together she had a phase where she was really sketchy about her behavior, wasn't available when she normally was and went on two weekend camping trips that were with friends from work.
Of course I'm a little knotted up over this, but I know I have a long day ahead of me. I go to the wedding and sit there watching everything. After the wedding they have a line that you walk by and congratulate the bride and groom and the wedding party is standing in line as well.
My wife is standing with some other guy (I don't know him at all), but the best man was there and I just went down the line and acted like no big deal.
Get to the reception and it takes forever for them to come because of the photos. She finally gets there and sits with me. I decided not to say anything as I didn't want to distract from the day.
But instead of just letting it go she then tells me that each of the groomsmen and bridesmaids are going to dance and that she is going to be dancing with him. I ask why when she was not his partner for the party and she said that the maid of honor and her partner were actually married and wanted to dance with each other.
At this point I'm a little more than perturbed, but I try and not let it show. Thankfully I was smart enough to not drink because I freely admit I'm an angry drunk so I know when not to even partake.
She talks to everyone around her and then the dance comes and he comes over and extends his arm and she gets up. I try not to watch, and in fact I make it a point not to. She comes back with him in tow and they are joking like the best of friends. She decides that it would be a good idea to introduce us and while I didn't say to f$%k off my greeting to him was probably than cordial.
But it did not deter him from sitting and talking with her for a few minutes. The more they sat and talked and reminisced about old times and places the madder I got. Eventually I got up and went to the bathroom and when I came back he was gone.
She decided to tell me that she thought I was rude, which was not what I was all about hearing at the moment. I told her that this wasn't the time or place to talk about it, but rest assured we would talk later.
She sat there and then said that she was going to change clothes and as soon as she got back she was telling her sister that we were leaving because I had ruined her day, but she didn't want me to ruin her sisters day as well. I told her that I was perfectly capable of not being a bother to her or her sister the rest of the day, and that I did not want to be the cause of any drama so I would prefer to just stay.
Now understand I have not said a word to her. I even shook the other guy's hand. I guess I just looked miserable so that is what she was basing this off of.
She was adamant about not staying and so I said that if she really wanted to go we could go, but if she would rather stay I would be happy to stay or if she would like since I came in my own car I would leave so she could stay.
She at first said that we should stay, but then said if I couldn't act any better I should leave. I asked how I was acting and she said it was obvious I was trying to be like a silverback gorilla wanting to fight. I didn't know whether to laugh in her face or be offended.
I went back in and sat down while she mingled with the other guests. I talked with her brother for awhile but then ultimately ended up back at our table talking with her grandma. We leave at the same time and I arrived home just before she did. I was sitting in the living room waiting on her when she came in, and did not beat around the bush.
I simply asked her to retell me the story about this other guy and she said it word for word like before. After sitting and looking at her for a time I just said are you sure about the time frame and she said she was. I then reminded her that we had been together for 5 years so this 'fling' was well over a year into our being together.
What happened next I can't really put into words. Instead of being flustered or denying or anything she simply said 'I know'.
So I asked her to explain and she tells me that they worked together and that it was just a physical thing and she felt like we weren't in a great place at the time and that she never had any feelings for him and never had any real intentions of leaving me, she just was having some fun for a few weekends. She said that it was probably a mistake on her part to tell me now, but she didn't want me to get blindsided.
I did not take this the way she thought I would I guess. We had a very large argument and ended when she told me I was being a child about all of this. That we were married and this happened way before that and our life together now has nothing to do with him or that time.
Well two things. One I adamantly disagree about this has no bearing on us. She f&#%ing cheated on me and doesn't even have the god damn decency to feel guilty about it. Two I hate being told I am childish when I get upset over something. It pisses me off to no end because that is her way of acting superior to me.
I told her I needed time to think and she told me there was nothing to think about–we loved each other and this didn't change anything. That was two weeks ago and I still am not over it. She has been trying the past few days to get me to talk to her but I admit that for whatever reason I'm not viewing her the same as I did before this.
Part of me is like, that this is stupid, it happened a few years ago and we are married now and there hasn't been any problems at all. But then part of me is like I just found out she cheated on me and it hurts like a mother f$&*er and what makes it worse is that instead of trying to understand how I feel she is trying to guilt me into just not even thinking about it.
I don't know what to do. I'm sorry for the length I probably should have cut out some of the wedding stuff but it all came out at once.
the_moog_hunter said:
If she can justify it now, who's to say she won't do it again when things get rough between them...say like now.
Roastage writes:
Dude, her mental gymnastics are at least as disturbing as the cheating. The lack of remorse alone is pretty sick. Three years of marriage is a long time but throwing a betrayal out off the cuff like that, acting like its no big deal is some serious red flag s*&t. What else is it easier for you just not to know? What else are you gonna make 'scene' about?
Your missus needs help. If she can't figure out why you'd be pissed after that seriously consider getting out of there man.
radin11 says:
Her nonchalant attitude is completely unacceptable. You say that she cheated on you ~1 year into your relationship, and you were married after year 2. Did you ask her to marry you around the time she was cheating on you? Nice of her to leave out the fact she was b&^ing another guy while you were proposing.
hypoxia32 OP responded:
Ouch....G*d Damn I never even considered that. I do not know the actual dates for her 'fling' or even how long it went on, but one of those damn camping trips happened after we were engaged. I honest to God just threw up thinking about that.
F&^k me if that is the case I don't think I can make it past that. I mean my proposal was filled with all of the emotion I could possibly put into it with a speech about how special she was and how I wanted to be with her forever. If she could do that after that then all of this means nothing.
SugarSugarBee writes:
I normally don't agree with people when they hop on the 'leave her now' bandwagon but I think this woman has shown her true colors.
First I want to clarify something from my first post that I really did not spell out very well. It doesn't have any real baring on anything, but for some reason it bugs me that I made this part sort of murky.
The maid of honor (not my wife) was married to the groomsman who my wife walked down the aisle with. There were some people who felt my wife was trying to arrange the dance, but I do know for fact that this part was legit, however it doesn't mean she didn't try and offer to let them dance or any other form of manipulation, but I just wanted to try and clear that part up a little.
I'm here because I have gotten honest to G*d over 40 requests for an up date since last week. Thank you for your guys concern on this and I wish I had some really ballsy statement to make about how I stood tall and kicked her to the curb but sadly that is just not what happened.
To be blunt I'm in limbo. There have been developments but all they have done is make it harder for me to decide. Last week I was mostly angry then as the weekend progressed I became mostly sad. I want to be able to hate her and flip that switch that tells me I'm being walked on and am a sucker but it's just very hard for me to do that because I still love her and this is ripping me apart.
Here is what has happened of any consequence. She finally came to the realization that I was not going to just get over this. This then brought her to the realization that I might want out of the marriage. This then brought on a near nervous breakdown from her.
Someone (hell of a lot) from the first post stated that she would try and manipulate me like that and believe me I was taking those words to heart when I thought she was having crocodile tears. But it soon became apparent to me that she wasn't acting or faking, she was having a legitimate panic attack.
This led to an E.R. visit and that led to an overnight stay in the Hospital and then to new medications and a scheduled follow up with her doctor for later next week. This brought her family into it and that in turn led to long conversations all the way around.
When we got home (with her family in tow) I asked what she wanted to do since there was a house full of people and she said she wanted to be with her Mom for awhile. That was fine with me as I had no desire to hang around all day with her Dad or Sister so I said I was going to go finish up something at work and would be home later.
Two hours after I get there I get a text from her begging me to please come home and that she really needs me to talk with her.
So I finish up what I was doing and head home. I am greeted on my own front porch by her Dad who asks if he can talk to me for a minute. My anger level was already somewhat high, but I was ready to go to war if she had dumped a s&$t sack of lies on me with her Dad.
I mean its not like he and I are best friends and s#^t but I've never had a bad moment with him so I really wasn't going to be happy about being the b^%tard who broke his baby's heart. We set on our deck chairs and he f@#$ing floored me with his opening salvo. I was expecting to hear anything but what he said.
He said that she told them what had happened and that he wanted to apologize to me because he said that he felt like he did a really s^&%ty job as a parent and that this mindset that she had was really a creation of her mother's.
And that while he loved both of them he said they were wrong and he had told his wife years ago that telling the girls that whatever happens before marriage doesn't count was a horrible idea and value system to install in them.
He then said that he wasn't there to stand up for what his daughter did, but he just wanted me to be aware that what she was saying and how she was acting was simply because she honestly believed that being married was an entirely different life and that they (Mom & Dad) had romanticized marriage to the point that she wasn't understanding real life.
Basically he was kind of throwing his wife under the bus but again this is not what I was expecting at all. We shook hands and he said that no matter what I decided he still thought very highly of me, which honestly made me feel really good for that moment.
I then went inside and my wife is curled up in a ball on her Mom's lap and you can tell she has been crying the entire time I've been gone. Mom gets up and comes and hugs me and tells me she is sorry and that she loves me and she is praying that we can work this out. My wife is laid out on the couch at this point. Her Mom and Dad leave and she sits there looking at me and crying.
Ok, this is where I'm going to piss off everybody and just tell you that I couldn't take it. I went to her and we hugged for a long time with her telling me over and over how sorry she was.
Hey I know it was the weak thing to do but again I have to say in my defense that just before this incident occurred I loved her with all of my heart and would have done anything to not see her in pain, whatever she had done I still didn't want to see her like that. Look it's very possible that she was putting on an Oscar worthy acting job, but I don't honestly think so. She really seemed broken at that point in time.
After awhile when she calmed down I asked her what she wanted me to come home and talk about and she said she wanted to get everything out in the open so I didn't feel like I was being lied to or manipulated. So she wanted me to ask her questions and I wish I had written down a list but I came up with a few off the top of my head.
She was brutally honest with me and some of the questions I asked I probably shouldn't have because now the mental image is stuck in there but honestly it was there anyway I just now have confirmation.
First I asked for dates or at the very least approximate dates (I didn't tell her about the engagement concern I had because I didn't want her to change storyies) and she remembered exactly when they occurred.
Fortunately this happened a little earlier in our relationship than she told me initially and so we were not engaged when this happened. I can't tell you what a relief that was because I became physically ill when I thought about that when someone said it in my last post.
Second I asked how many times. She went overboard with this because instead of just telling me how many different dates she decided to tell me how many times there was pen%$&#tion (she wasn't doing it to be mean she honestly thought that is what I wanted to know).
This part of the conversation did not help me any at all and in fact almost broke me down. In truth it wasn't that often and in fact there were really only 3 different days it happened on, but there were several times during those three days.
Then came the hard part. Why did she do it? Okay again I'm not the most manly of men and I am ashamed to admit this, but I couldn't get this out without starting to cry. I asked why wasn't I good enough, why him, why did she not just leave me.
It was her turn to hold me because at this point everything came rushing at me. Her telling me, me having to watch them laugh with each other, her now telling me how many times they did it and where they did it. She talked during this but to this moment I have no idea what she said. I was to upset and honestly nothing she was going to say was going to make a bit of difference anyway.
But after I composed myself I simply told her that the betrayal was horrible, but honestly her response to me when I found out was just as bad if not worse. She agreed with me and she apologized for calling me immature. She said that she honestly believed that it wouldn't matter to me now because we were married (when she said this my blood started to boil again).
I started to say something about it but she jumped in and said that after talking with her parents she now sees that this was very wrong of her and that cheating is cheating, but she still feels like that our happiness that we have shared since being married should count for something. I then replied that I kind of felt like that happiness was built on a lie.
This led to another break down on her part and almost another E.R. visit. But between Ativan and having her breath into a paper sack we got her calmed down. I let her sleep the rest of the night feeling like emotionally we were both tired but come Sunday we were talking again.
By this time I wasn't as sympathetic as I had been when we got home from the E.R. I told her that I thought her introducing him to me was sh^%ty, me having to watch her dance with him was extra sh&$ty and the fact that she only told me because she was going to get caught was an elite level of sh@*ty.
Which then I demanded to know why did she think I would find out and how many of the fu%$#ng people at the wedding knew besides me. Well obviously the guy knew, but then his best friend in the world also knew (did I mention that f*&$er is now my brother in law) which then led to her sister finding out and she was afraid her sister was going to be the one to tell me.
I asked how often she see's seen this guy and she said that the wedding is the first time she has seen him in 3 years.
Then I lost my s*&t and asked her if she f@#$ed him during any of the lead up to the wedding. She got all pi$sy about it acting like she wouldn't fu@#k anyone because she was married and I just lost my s#$t and had to leave for awhile because once again I felt like she was living on 'Married Planet' or some such s@#t and the world there is a different place than for the rest of us.
I finally got cooled off enough to come home and try and be civil about things. She finally asked me what she could do to help me get past all of this, which may not sound like much but it was the first time she offered to help me really so it was at least a nice gesture. I told her I wasn't sure what she could do or if there was anything either of us could do and that I may never get over this.
She said that she wanted to help because she didn't want to see me in pain and that over the years she hopes I'll be able to judge her based on who she is now. She would do anything I wanted to work this out.
She also wanted to be sure that I knew that she has been 100% faithful since we've been married and would never cheat on her vows. I sarcastically thanked her (which I admit wasn't the most mature thing to do).
I then asked for a moratorium from further talks till at least Wednesday. I have two projects I have to get done and honestly I'm just exhausted and no I have no f@*%ing clue what I want to do. I shift between periods of red hot anger where I want to kick her out and then periods of deep emotional turmoil where I want to just forget this and move forward with her.
Yes I know this is not what anyone wanted to hear and no I'm not proud to type it but it is what it is at the moment.
Bented writes:
Wow, so glad the vows are more important than the man she made them to. /s She is probably truely remorseful, but it sounds like she still doesn't get it. Good luck OP. No matter what you decide, you have a hard road ahead.
wombatzilla writes:
So she's blaming her cheating on her parents? Lol. She's horrible.
I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the responses I have received over this. I have gotten over 400 private messages and I just can not respond to all of them or any of them anymore as it would take me a week to do that.
I want to thank all of you who have written to me and those of you who this struck a chord with all I can say is that I'm sorry you had to go through this as well. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Okay for the hundreds of you that have been clamoring for an update here it is.
As you know I asked to just drop it till last night so I could focus on a job related item I had to get done. She kept her word about it but I could tell she was very emotional and honestly nervous. She is taking some strong benzodiazepines for her anxiety but even as strong as it is I can still see how anxious she had been.
I wasn't intentionally trying to punish her, in fact quite the opposite I really was trying to give her a break as much as me, but she told me last night that not holding her or showing any real affection towards her was almost torture to her.
Well last night finally arrived and we had what my Dad always called a 'come to Jesus meeting'. I got home from work and I brought dinner so there would be no distractions of clean up or anything.
We started talking around 6 and finally ended around 2ish. In that time frame we laid out a lot of issues that have been present and what or if we are both willing to do to move forward.
Long story short starting today I am living with my brother for the next few (not sure). She is understandably upset by all of this and I am making an effort to communicate openly with her so she does not feel abandoned or neglected. If your wondering how we got from talking to me living with my brother here it is in a nutshell.
I want to save my marriage, but I can't do it living what I feel was somewhat a lie. I know she never intended to lie once we were married but when I sat down and thought about this one question 'would I have stayed with her if I had known at the time she did this'? Each and every time I answered 'no.'
So to me she took away my ability to choose whether or not I wanted to continue and we built the next few years based on the foundation of something that wasn't quite true. However the truth is, we still built something. Sometimes foundations can be repaired and sometimes you have to tear them down to build new on.
This is what I'm hoping to do. I'm hoping to shake things up enough for both of us so that we can start over. Like I said in the very first post, our marriage until this point had been what I would consider to be perfect or as perfect as any one thing can be. But there were some very troubling things that occurred due to this and here is a brief synopsis of our talk.
I laid out the fact that while I absolutely was upset about the cheating and yes I still consider it cheating (which she has now come to realize that this is the way it is and is going to be considered), and that I was equally upset by her lack of consideration for my feelings on this. I told her that I resented being told I was immature and a child for something that objectively speaking I had every right to be upset about.
Her response was to apologize and tell me she was in the wrong and that while she admits fault and see's what I'm saying that at the time she had convinced herself that because we were married that I was wrong to be upset about something that happened before hand but she now see's where this is wrong.
I then told her that I felt very disrespected by her associating with this guy right in front of me and that I felt humiliated having to shake his hand.
Her response was to once again apologize and she said that in her mind at the time she felt like she was trying to show me that there was nothing there. She said she felt like if she avoided him or acted shady around him that I would be more upset (I told her she was wrong).
She said that out of all of the things this is the one that has hit her the most in the face because even her sister has told her how poor this was for her to do to me and she was deeply hurt by this because it had hurt me which she never wanted to do.
I then talked about her lack of remorse over being with someone else while we were together. Her only response was to say that she was very sorry, how that at the time she just used very poor judgment and if she could go back and change the past she would.
Then came the talk that got the most discussion. How I felt like she really wasn't sorry for anything but that she was just sorry that I didn't just shrug my shoulders and say that everything was going to be okay. That there were going to be repercussions for what I considered to be an act of betrayal and then an act of not caring about me.
I'll give her full credit here, she was brutally honest about this and at least she was so we didn't have to spend hours trying to work our way around it. She admitted that when we got home after the event she started to realize that I wasn't going to let this go and then as time went on she knew that this was an issue.
Her first instinct was to be mad at me for being mad at her. But then realized even from her own point of view how stupid that was. But again she had it beat into her head that she was my wife and that I should easily forgive and forget something that happened way before we were married.
She also admitted that when it became real she frankly outright panicked thinking about losing her marriage. Nobody on either side of her family is divorced so she could be the first and she admitted to that being a big factor in her panic attack.
But as the week has progressed and she has spoken more to her family she is seeing that what she has put in her mind about marriage isn't the end all be all she thought it was.
She also did really feel bad about bringing the guy around to me. However you will notice which I did too that she never said she felt guilty about being with him.
Now I want everyone to know this as well. What I have given you from above is a brief synopsis of events. She sounds like a robot in this version and believe me she was not. There were lots of tears, real honest tears (I've seen her 'oh woe as me' tears before so I know the difference).
There were a few curse words and there were even moments of pleading and begging. As I said this went on for 8ish hours so by the time we were done she was physically exhausted. I have set out the following steps if we are to reconcile and it is totally up to her if she wants to stay together. She is very very adamant about staying together btw.
• I don't care how illogical it seems she is to never have contact with him again. This is an absolute for me and a deal breaker and I was absolutely clear on this.
• We have to have couples therapy
• While I am living with my brother we are still legally married and this is not an invitation or excuse for either of us to see anyone else. Again deal breaker in a second if either of us uses this as an excuse (believe me I will not and I don't believe she will either)
• We start over, to a point. I have to view her differently now, even if I didn't want to I can't just forget that she chose to cheat.
So that's where we are now. I know that is not what some of you wanted but ultimately I have to go with what I believe will make me happiest in the long run. My head say's be aware and I am going to guard my heart for a long time but my heart is still in love with her.
We are going out on a date Friday night, which she is really looking forward to. I have no idea how long I will be with my brother, hell I may not make it past Friday, but if nothing else I feel like I have some control here which I felt prior to the talk I had almost none.
In the end I held her for a long time and we slept together. I do not want a broken woman (right now that is kind of what she is) I want her to be my partner for life but I do want her to know that to be a partner she has to equally care about my feelings as I do hers.
P.S. I had to do some real hard thinking about my new brother in law. Again I've only met him a few times and he seems like a nice enough guy, but at the end of it all he certainly was aware of the issue.
But just to keep peace in the family I'm going to not make a stink about him because that will certainly make every holiday tough going forward. As long as he never mentions the incident or the guy ever again to or around me I can live with it.
Clarification from OP: She damn well knew it was wrong and that it would have ended us if I ever found out about it. However she thought that repercussion ended when we got Married, she genuinely was shocked that I still was counting it as cheating because it did not happen in the confines of holy matrimony.
Yes believe it or not, even though she did this and has some other issues that would make you scratch your head she is devoutly Christian, as you can tell I am not. So while I think it's a crock of s$#t there is a very certain religious aspect into what she see's as marriage.
Thank you all who keep sending me messages of encouragement and wondering what has happened. For those of you who have asked me to give you an update, here is a brief one.
I've been staying with my brother for a little over a month. I can not say enough nice words about him, he has bent over backwards to help me and I've come to appreciate him in a whole new way. Growing up we were close but never really close if you know what I mean. This has shown me that our bond is much stronger than I ever imagined it was.
The big news is that I have delivered her with divorce papers. Now before those of you who wanted me to dump her jump for joy let me explain something.
I went to a divorce lawyer and explained everything including the fact that I did not want to go through with the divorce but wanted everything in place just in case. He drew up a divorce decree and made three copies. One he kept on file, one for her and one for me.
I decided to take the paperwork to her myself because I knew she would be upset and I wanted to explain to her what was happening.
I gave her the paperwork in a manila envelope and explained what it was before she opened it. I also made very clear to her that I was not going to do anything with it unless we both failed to meet the conditions we both agreed upon.
I explained that I was committed to us but I really needed to see that we were headed in the right direction and that this was only there as a standby in case she didn't think I was serious.
Well this did not go over as well as I had hoped and in retrospect this was a mistake on my part. She had been doing everything in her power prior to that to live up to the agreement, we had been out on several dates prior to this that were great for both of us. In other words my timing sucked.
My intention was good but it did make it look like I was not acknowledging the steps she was taking to make this work. This led to another giant anxiety attack that we could not get under control with her meds so off to the E.R. we went again.
This time they gave her a shot and sent her home and we both agreed that we would keep her family out of it this time. I stayed with her for two day just to make sure she was ok. This of course came up in our counseling session and well let's just say that I came across looking like a manipulative asshole (which again in retrospect I was).
I ended up taking my copy and her copy and tearing it up in front of her. She doesn't know there is a third copy but I plan on having him discard that as well.
So now I pretty much feel like a monster because the look on her face when she got the divorce papers was something I never want to see again. She was so happy to see me that day and then I gave her that and then instant combination of sadness and terror.
Other than that bump in the road things have actually been going very well. Well enough in fact that I am moving back home this weekend. My brother has been great but I am cramping his style no matter what he say's. It's been fun playing X-Box every night though I won't deny it.
But mostly I am going home because she has done everything I have asked of her and I have put her through hell. I think she's paid a steep enough price and I know she knows how serious this was.
Also in case I didn't mention this before, I do love her. She made a very stupid selfish mistake but it was years ago and she had been almost the perfect wife up until that discovery. So I'm sorry to disappoint many of you and I'm sure I will once again get many pm's telling me that I am a cuckhold and an embarrassment to all men but I don't live your lives and you don't live mine.
So this should be it, there hopefully will be nothing to update going forward. We are not cured or healed by any sense of the imagination but we are on our way and it's just going to take time, patience and understanding.
JustF$#kingUgh said:
Wtf man, you didn't put her through hell. She put you through hell.
LittleDolly said:
Your wife is exceptionally good at manipulating you.
goldt33f said:
Good luck bowing down to every one of your wife's hysterical emotional tantrums for the rest of your life. Anxiety attacks are serious, but she needs to get a grip on her life and face road bumps with some level of control.
hypoxia32 OP responded:
I did not actually mention her taking responsibility and I probably should have. In our couple's therapy sessions she absolutely has taken responsibility for that. She has been very honest with our counselor and with me about the entire event.
I realize that I did not make it look that way in my posting and I apologize for that. There have been a lot of things that have come up in our sessions and I feel a lot better overall about her and us after going through with it.
Inkmonkey1 writes:
You have my deepest sympathy. I think your decision-making is terrible. I also think your wife is deeply manipulative and that you fall for it every time. I suspect you'll play this pantomime out again with some other guy.