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AIBU?

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41 replies

Devastated13 · 26/07/2019 22:42

Long time lurker but need your help tonight. My husband has had a two year online affair (skyping sex the lot) after we have been together for 17 years, 3 kids etc. Trying to get through this as we have a disabled child who needs lots of care and we both work full time. He thinks he wasn't unreasonable to send a photo of me on my wedding day to his OW with my face scribbled out/blanked out. Apparently this might be the sort of thing any normal person having an affair might do. I might not understand this because I don't know that many people who have had affairs. So he has asked me to ask the internet. AIBU to think this was a particularly unkind thing to do? Or is this normal affair stuff I'm not getting because I have morals?!

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RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 27/07/2019 00:01

So, he told you to ask the internet and doesn't like what the internet said and is now blaming you?

He sounds like a peach!

He'll like this more than the other responses (although he still won't like it): Unlike everyone else, I KIND-OF get why he sent a picture of you on your wedding day with your face scrubbed out...
If he was intimate with someone and sharing stuff, and a conversation about his wedding day happened, I can understand why he shared a picture of it. And he scrapped out your face to keep you private from her. So, I kind-of get that.

However, the affair in the first place makes him a shit.

His justifications/blaming you make him worse.

He's a toad.

Sorry that you're married to him, OP, Flowers

IdblowJonSnow · 27/07/2019 00:02

Please take steps to leave him asap. The fact that you're even asking these questions suggests he's done a number on you and your self-esteem. Your situation is obviously difficult, do you have any family that can help?
He sounds like an awful role model for your kids to have around.
Hope you're ok.

rosegoldwatcher · 27/07/2019 00:13

It would seem that he has no boundaries. And no shame.

AquaPris · 27/07/2019 00:17

You sure it's not because she wanted to compare your bodies? Don't see another reason why you'd send a faceless wedding pic Envy

AquaPris · 27/07/2019 00:18

He's a cunt though. A disgusting, cowardly, self-centred idiot with no pride and no heart.

Sadiesnakes · 27/07/2019 04:33

Tell him 4 months is nothing for an affair and if you were to stick it out with the complete and utter POS, 5 years is the usual time it takes to move on from an affair.

The way he's acting now shows he's no remorse whatsoever and I really wouldn't waste anymore time on him. Ducks in a row and plan your exit ASAP.Thanks

hammeringinmyhead · 27/07/2019 06:46

Lovely. He sent it to satisfy her curiosity about the woman he was shagging around on, so she could do a comparison. Get rid of the bastard.

bodgeitandscarper · 27/07/2019 06:57

God, get rid now! I wouldn't want to share the same house under any circumstances after that.

He'd be finding his belongings on the street if it were me.

VictoriaBun · 27/07/2019 07:11

What was the point of sending the photo ?
If he obliterated your face , was he sharing your body shape ?
Had he made a comment on your dress and was showing her ?
I would be going ape shit over this, and there would be no going back. He is a grade A **nt!

HalfGreekBitch · 27/07/2019 07:13

What an horrific excuse for a human being, let alone husband and father. My first ever LTB. Sending Flowers

DeathyMcDeathStarFace · 27/07/2019 07:17

He says you're abusing him for talking about the affair for four months, four months is nothing.

In my experience he'd be lucky if it wasn't still being talked about in four years. (Personal experience, dh had a couple of EAs about five years ago, 'relapsed' about three years ago. I am not a violent person but I could have ripped him limb from limb at the very least, then put him through worse physical and emotional pain again and again. Affairs are one of the most hurtful things to go through.)

He is not a good husband for putting up with you talking about it. If he was anything like a good husband he would, apart from not having done it in the first place, own up to his mistakes and grovel at your feet for even thinking about thinking about having an EA.

I thought about thinking about getting revenge on my dh for what he did in the past and just the thought of thinking about the possibility of having an affair, emotional or physical, repulsed me, never mind properly entertaining the possibility of doing it.

He's going to try putting a lot of blame on you. Imho he is utter scum. To even consider getting through this kind of thing with a marriage intact takes months and actually working through it takes years. But just from what little you have said it doesn't sound like your husband will face up to it and take responsibility for his actions. Please be very careful in what you believe that comes from his lips.

Pearlington27 · 27/07/2019 07:18

Agree! Mr Devastated13 you are an absolutely disgraceful grade A c**t. LTbloodyB

Beebeezed · 27/07/2019 07:36

I really really don’t understand why he would have sent a picture of you? And how he can think this is ok.

Leave him.

FrancesHolmes · 27/07/2019 07:53

The more you tell us, the worse he sounds. Just extra layers of nastiness and cruelty which are not "necessary" to having an affair. They just take it all down a few further levels.
Sorry you're having to deal with all this.

Shoxfordian · 27/07/2019 08:25

He's a knobhead
Hope you can divorce him asap

TrailGrazer · 27/07/2019 13:50

Wow what an awful real thing to happen. You almost couldn't make it up!

Us 'Ladies' are totally with you.

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