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f.book -reunited with 1st love but we both married what to do?

83 replies

redhead24 · 07/01/2012 21:01

Help help help.
I'm going through a seperation (another story for many many reasons), but during this process, my first ever boyfriend and first love and I got back in contact about this time last year.
He's also married with dc.
We've only chatted on line Skype and mobile (live other ends of the country) but we've both realised that we made some huge errors letting one another go, (we never argued or anything, was just a time of life thing, being young etc).
I'm in the middle of seperating from my husband, while he's living in the same house with his wife but in seperate bedrooms, and wondering if their latest kid is even his!
We half talked about the possibilities of getting together as neither would want to be unfaithful to our partners. i.e. if we were to take it further we'd both need to be single and available.
But as we have 5 kids between us, who are all young, even if we were both available tomorrow, we couldn't be together as his job, I can't unsettle my kids as have moved way too many times. So it's like a no go.
We're both hankering after each other big time, not because of 'just' reminising over the good old days but we totally click which has made us realise even more how wrong our marriages have been.
So don't know what to do on this one.
Write it off, it'll never be. Run after my true love, and make it happen!
Just continue to sit in turmoil (we daren't meet up as we fear for the repocusions) and crave each other from afar, staying unhappy and for what?
It's like someone has just given me the golden ticket and then I realise there's a glass screen in between!

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yellowraincoat · 07/01/2012 21:02

Before you even think about getting together with this guy, you both need to be single. That is the first step.

cheesesarnie · 07/01/2012 21:05

its far too easy to think of your first love through rose tinted glasses.
you need to both sort your lives out first

Earlybird · 07/01/2012 21:10

How long has it been since you've seen your ex?

Does he have anything to do with the breakdown of your marriage?

OlympicEater · 07/01/2012 21:13

YY both single first for a while then meet up.

However, remember he is you ex for a reason

Punkatheart · 07/01/2012 21:14

I can understand but please, realise that looking back and seeing a fantasy is never the reality. Time has passed and you have five children between you; you cannot destroy lives for a fantasy. Step back and let him sort out his marriage, while you sort out yours.

Legobuildingpro · 07/01/2012 21:15

The "facts" you have on his marriage, are all he has told you.

I hate to tell you this, but it's the classic line. I'm sure this would be news to her. You are becoming the ow. Walk away.

Hattytown · 07/01/2012 21:16

while he's living in the same house with his wife but in seperate bedrooms, and wondering if their latest kid is even his!

Gosh what an amazing coincidence that you are separating and er...his situation is like this!!

RambleOn · 07/01/2012 21:17

What Lego said.

redhead24 · 07/01/2012 21:19

no he has nothing to do with breakdown of my marriage at all.
we haven't seen one another for 10 years!
We chat most days, often on Skype, we can talk about anything and everything - which is oh so different to my husband where I'm lucky if I get a hello out of him.
I agree, we do need to both be single, and I've said this to him and he agrees, but I think he's a little scared of confronting his wife as if/when he does he has to approach the subject of their new born, i.e. is it his. He has brown eyes, she has green the child has blue and is coming up for a year old!
I'm trying to be sensible and thankfully the distance and general life commitments helps to keep things inperspective.
I'm at that junction where I go forward for myself as my marriage is over, yet my husband is pulling me back saying we can work at it, as long as I move me and the kids again country, stay at home in middle of nowhere isolated and just get on by myself - er no.
And then there's my first true love, who's brainy, handsome, kind hearted, trustworthy, really emotional, thoughtful, caring, really involved with his kids, open etc etc... yet I struggle to come up with three good things about my husband in a row!
Life is so confusing.
Do I continue contact, cool it, meet to discuss what?

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AnyFucker · 07/01/2012 21:21

perhaps you should ask his wife about their domestic arrangements

I can guess they will be very different to what he has told you

I am sorry you are having a tough time at the moment, but wittingly entering someone else's marriage is beyond the pale

get a grip, and sort yourself out

Hattytown · 07/01/2012 21:21

He really isn't trustworthy or open love, what ever gave you that idea?

AnyFucker · 07/01/2012 21:22

how do you now all those things about him ?

you haven't seen him for 10 years, right ?

AnyFucker · 07/01/2012 21:23

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yellowraincoat · 07/01/2012 21:23

Well, he's not really trustworthy is he? Or he'd have told his wife he's basically seeing someone else behind her back.

AnyFucker · 07/01/2012 21:23

some women

OctonautsOnRepeat · 07/01/2012 21:25

Walk away.

Sort out your marriage or end your marriage.

Don't involve someone else.

Legobuildingpro · 07/01/2012 21:25

Oh you silly woman.

I have brown eyes. My husband blue. 1 dc brown, 1 dc green, 2 dc blue.

All his. Study genetics. He will have a recessive blue gene hth.

redhead24 · 07/01/2012 21:25

mmm when you say it like that if feel rather foolish.
true I only have his word, but then he only has mine.
But I guess what a man wants and looks for and what a woman does are often two different things.
And yes he is often reminising about the whole sex life bit. ooooooo
Feel such an idiot now.
But don't regret our contact as it's brightened up my day during a very difficult time in my life at the moment.
with regards to the child.....
he was very detailed about a joint friend of theirs, that she can accept calls from him while at work or while driving but can't take them from her husband - as she's at work, she's driving.
That while out at a meal 3 couples, he caught her with her shoes off resting her foot in the crotch of this joint friend of theirs and said she didnt' realise!
Plus she was very chatty about him on fb (since when do you talk about your husband or to your hubby on facebook? - surely you talk to him at home) but in a negative way before the baby was born and now doesnt' even mention him.
oh I don't know.

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 07/01/2012 21:26

of your list - how is he trustworthy, thoughtful and caring given the way he is treating his wife?

And brainy? I hope the eye colour isn't the only reason he doubts the paternity

You really need to step back and leave him to sort out his marriage while you sort out yours. I think you are seeing this as a 'happy ending' given your current predicament and it's just not realistic

ClownStatue · 07/01/2012 21:26

When a man replaces his wife with his mistress he creates a vacancy.

You'd well remember that.

OctonautsOnRepeat · 07/01/2012 21:28

All the advice you've been given is consistent.

Are you going to keep posting til someone says 'go for it'?

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redhead24 · 07/01/2012 21:32

and the advice your giving is the advice I'd give to another....
yes rose tinted glasses it may well be.
he is a lovely guy genuinely but your right I do think he's being ruled by his member rather than an honest heart.
And anyfucker I've always known to be nieve, not usually with men though. hell I'll add it to my repotoire!
Some one find me a positive in all of this, before I go and jump off a cliff! God damn it the one thing that has made me smile in a long while, and .....

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AnyFucker · 07/01/2012 21:32

I feel very sorry for all these children Sad

redhead24 · 07/01/2012 21:33

Er no Octonauts, sorry if my thread is taking up your time...
and
owch AnyFucker don't mince your words why don't you!!!
Bloomin heck.

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