I met my friend for a catch up the other day. She’s 32, single, successful in career, meets a lot of people through work.
In the past 6 months she’s been in the first stages of “going out” with three men (one after the other) and all of them over the course of the first few weeks have confessed to being married but excused their duplicitous behaviour for exactly the same following reasons:
Their wife has not had sex with them since the birth of the last child
One of the children has a problem / either SEN or autism or a physical disability, so they can’t get a divorce. Or that as a result of that problem their wife is anxious about it and pays no attention to them.
That their kids love them but their wife is unaffectionate.
That they sleep in a separate bed to their wives
That their wife will take all their money if they leave so they have to stay
She showed me the social media account of one of them which she found after the confession. All family pictures, kids, couple’s pictures, “my family is everything” memes, just like my DH’s social media.
My friend said these men didn’t blink in the process of being physically or emotionally unfaithful. There was not even a hesitation in holding hands on the street, kissing publicly, going out for dinner.
It just makes me feel like it could be anyone.
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Over the last six months my friend has discovered that three.. THREE of the men she’s been dating are married
Bittercynic · 12/01/2019 00:09
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