After a family event last Saturday I left early with our 4yr old & 9 week old baby, husband promised he'd come home at midnight so to help me during the night, at 2 am I get a text saying he'd gone on for a few more drinks. I was livid and called him and told him to come home so he was in a good enough state to help me the next morning with the children. Anyway big argument when he came home.
The next morning i checked his phone and found one to a member of his family saying "you looked hot today" she'd been at the event we'd all been too. I've always been suspicious of their relationship and not happy about how often she texted him etc. I went ballistic on reading the text and my husband lied to my face and said someone else sent it as a joke, it was only later I knew he was lying as his phone is password protected, he then confessed he had sent it, but he was trying to make her feel better as she's having a rubbish time and the family business has gone bust and she's lost her home.
Anyway I have since found some emails in which she emailed him and he's given her advise about what to do about the business and losing her home etc, and then some more personal ones, in one she asks if he's seen her new Facebook picture to which he replies " yes at first I thought you were naked, then I looked at it properly and realised you weren't" followed by a sad face. Later they talk about how he's spending the night in a hotel and he says he's lonely on his own, and she says something along lines of it would be fun if I came and joined you and had cocktails and he replies "I don't think I could trust myself with you after a few drinks!"
I am beyond devestated, I don't know what to do. We've had a long chat, Ive cried a lot, my husband has admitted it was flirting and says that he would never do anything with her, he admits he's crossed the line, is devestated himself, and said he will do anything to make things better, even go to Relate. I just don't know what to do for the best. I feel a fool, being at the family event with her, and her knowing my husband has said these things to her just weeks after I've had a baby (somehow this makes it feel worse) My husband has sworn on our children's lives that nothing physical has happened.
Where do I go from here? I don't know whether to believe him? How to trust him? I don't want my children losing their stable home over some stupid comments but should I trust him? Do you think going to Relate would help?
Thanks for any advise
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