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marahippo · 15/03/2023 19:39

Anyone else been the OW?

Fifteen years ago I was young and foolish. Swept away by a man 10 years my senior and "very important" at work. Told me the usual rubbish that his marriage was over and sexless.
I don't know that it was, but it certainly was when she found out about me.
I still have that awful guilt when I think about it.
As I get older with my own family, it doesn't really go away, in fact gets worse as I realise the impact it would have had on his kids and wife. His poor wife was probably just knackered from childcare, holding down a job, and middle aged- like me now!
Anyone else out there feel the same and rue their young and foolish days and would love to somehow turn back time?

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CherryBlossomPants · 15/03/2023 19:42

Yes I have be the OW too. Young and foolish but I would genuinely say hand on heart I have never loved a man like I loved him and it ruined me. I have not found anyone since that can make me feel how he did but it ended as he couldn’t commit obviously.

AllOfThemWitches · 15/03/2023 19:44

I'm going back to my teens here but I got with a guy who had a girlfriend, people who knew her said she was horrible etc. so that's how I justified it but obviously she wasn't the horrible one.

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