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to want to know more about OH's infidelity?

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MelBrookesMyHero · 28/06/2025 23:43

I'm posting cos I just have to get this all off my chest somewhere, I don't have anyone else I can share it with, it's brewing up inside and I just need to vent. It's been 6 weeks since my OH of nearly 16 years confessed to having 3 (at least) ONS's in the past 5 years. She's sorry, so she says, but going about her life pretty much as normal, while I am just utterly dysfunctional, literally struggling to do the mundane but essential daily stuff. Beyond saying who and when I can't get any detail, I'm told it doesn't matter or she can't remember bullshit. It's driving me mad, quite literally circulating through my mind 24/7, is this what happens? Or is it just me? Is it unusual to want to know more?

AIBU to think she should share the details?

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MuckFusk · 28/06/2025 23:56

Yes, that is what happens. She should share details, but you already know she doesn't do as she should. She'll probably lie, so it isn't worth it. Instead of the who and whens and all that, your focus should be on getting her out of your life. She's a serial offender and she isn't going to change. You don't even know if the stuff she confessed to was the extent of it.
You obviously need some support with this and validation that your reaction is normal, which it is. Go to chumplady.com.

Everylittlehelper · 28/06/2025 23:55

LTB.

Devianinc · 28/06/2025 23:53

It sounds a little insane to push off as something that doesn’t matter. That’s a big matter in a marriage. I think I’d leave and never speak to her again, ever.

MelBrookesMyHero · 28/06/2025 23:52

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 28/06/2025 23:48

Why are you still with her? Do you have children together?

Yes 2 kids, and we're still together, just cannot get my head straight. Do people ever get over this feeling? Gutted, feel so incredibly incapable right now.

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Moveoverdarlin · 28/06/2025 23:50

I just wouldn’t accept this behaviour. Why would you put up with such betrayal?

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 28/06/2025 23:48

Why are you still with her? Do you have children together?