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I have no idea what to do? DH or OM?

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CheshireCat · 20/01/2011 22:45

I really am in a mess.. I've been married 10 years, to a very good man. But have been having an affair for a year and a half.. He is single and wants to take on my 2 children, etc.. My husband wants to try and make a go of things.. but I just don't know what to do. He has a very high profile job, always, busy working away..and in the zone, I felt so so lonely..I have no family around..I feel I spent my 10 years being at home etc.

Am currently going to relate to sort my head out.. DH is waiting for me to sort myself out, and the OM is also waiting as well. :(

OP posts:
FreeBards · 22/01/2011 00:03

Ches, I really do hope it works out for you.

But if you no longer love or fancy him then you need to sort it out.

Glad you had a nice dinner and he's there now. Hope you have a nice w/e together.

Go easy on yourself, eh?

Baby steps.

xxx

eden263 · 22/01/2011 00:03

CC, I think, from reading your posts, that what you really seem to want, is your H but with the excitement that the OM provides. Do you actually want the OM himself, or just what he gives you (physically and/or emotionally)? You say yourself that you would still have chosen H over OM 10 years ago...Could you explain this to your H and see if there's a way to work that spark back into your marriage instead of you needing to go elsewhere? (And I don't mean give him a BJ, that's not the answer!) You may have to be brutally honest with him, which will hurt him and upset you both, but at the moment you're not really going anywhere and, judgements about morals and right and wrongs aside, it sounds like all 3 of you are in some kind of painful limbo. And don't underestimate your children: they pick up on a lot, I'm sure they will know something is going on, which won't be doing them a lot of good either.

I'm not condoning what you've done, but I'm not against you either: shit happens, we all make the wrong decisions about something at one time or another and you've done what you've done, and that can't be undone. Some of us are stronger emotionally than others, and we would all react differently to given situations, so I think the harsh comments of others might have been a little uncalled for, as nobody else is in your exact same circumstances and nobody else is inside your head. What you need to do now is try to find a way out of this mess. That might mean you end up on your own with the children, it might mean you make a fresh start with your H. It might mean you end up running to the OM, which we can all see isn't a good idea, but it's easy for us to say that; we're not you, we're not there...

I do share mathanxiety's view though, that you might be moving closer to home, but unless the children lived there at some fairly recent point, recent enough to feel that where you live now is 'away', then yes, their home and roots are where you and they are now. But that said, I did have to move my children when my marriage ended and they adapted, but they were much younger (1 & 4). My parents also moved when I was 7 (as do many others, I'm not saying moving is wrong, just that they won't see it as going 'back', as you do, unless they already lived there), and it was odd, but I made friends. You need to be 100% honest with them and keep them in the loop at all times.

Xenia · 22/01/2011 11:58

I don't moving the children is usually wise but it will depend on their age. If they are 13+ they may choose to stay where they are and with their father. If they are under 5 they will not mind being moved but their father might get a prohibited steps order prevening your moving them (not likely but possbile and he might afford better lawyers than you will if he cuts off financial support to you at any point unless you have a lot of inheritance or savings of your own).

It isnt' likely tyou would lose your chidlren but it's possible. If they are 5 - 12 they may well hate you for it as the people above suggest whose mothers went off with other men and destroyed their lives for the sake of brief lust.

But you could choose to separate, share the children 50/50 or whatever the chidlren and their father want, between two houses quite near each other.

twinmummystarz · 22/01/2011 18:26

Your marriage is over. You are just feeling guilty.

You know what you want to do; you are looking for encouragement from mumsnetters' to do it (and not really getting any!) Shock.

Your poor husband needs a break from this as much as you do. Children can deal with a divorce. It's not that terrible. Hard but not impossible.

I'd say jump and take the risk.[If OM is for real which only you know; none of us have met him].

You will cope if it works and cope if it doesn't; but at least you won't spend any more time deceiving your h, or living in an unhappy state of limbo, or simply wondering 'what if' every day.

Such a waste of a life. Good luck. Take care.

walesblackbird · 22/01/2011 19:20

Still wondering why your husband hasn't been told the full truth?

GeoCaching · 27/01/2011 16:28

Any news OP?

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