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Help me remove the rose tinted specs

260 replies

shameshame · 29/05/2013 11:10

I've been a fool. I'm in love with a married man. He's got a young child. I know i'm stupid but I can't change my feelings no matter how hard I try - and i HAVE tried (No contact etc - it just never works). I would never expect him to walk out on his family for me. He says he loves me but can't leave his child. It is beyond sex - there are really strong feelings involved. I need out of this situation. Please please help.

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shameshame · 26/06/2013 21:04

*HAD not has

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AnyFucker · 26/06/2013 21:06

Glad you are doing better with your health. You thought your illness would make him realise how much he loves you and dump his wife for good ?

Not

Gonna

Happen

shameshame · 26/06/2013 21:10

I know AF. How did I become so deluded? It's like i've been on that Brain Training game but on removal mode. Honestly, if you met me i'm really not this think. Hope I can get a bit of the old me back at the end of all this shit.

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AnyFucker · 26/06/2013 21:15

Did I ask you my stock question at the beginning of this thread ?

Have you had a lobotomy or summat ?

This is the end of "all this shit" now. So, from here on in, it can only get better. And perhaps some of that grey matter will start regenerating, eh

JaceyBee · 26/06/2013 21:33

Well it hasn't worked the last two times they've tried it but to give it the best chance this time I have to get out of the picture altogether. If he does end up leaving his wife he knows where I am. Won't hold my breath though!

Sorry you've been so ill, hope you're feeling better now. Are you going no contact too now then?

shameshame · 26/06/2013 22:14

You did AF Grin. Here's hoping it's reversible!

Thanks JaceyBee Smile. I have done one measly day of no contact though he has attempted 'friendly' contact on work email which I cannot block. I haven't responded.

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JaceyBee · 26/06/2013 22:22

Ok well that's the 12 step ethos, one day at a time! Well done for not responding, must have been really hard. Maybe one day you can be friends with him again but not yet, not until the feelings subside. And then you may find you don't actually want to be. Stay strong, I'm rooting for you! X

Wellwobbly · 27/06/2013 11:03

Shame, what did the counsellor say?

I tell you what. Tell him your love together is SO SPECIAL, that you are going to ring his wife. She will understand, because it is true love.

See what he does. He can do the rapid reverse for you!

CharlotteCollinsismovingon · 04/07/2013 21:28

How are you doing with the NC, OP?

crazyhead · 04/07/2013 22:50

Hello shameshame, just to say that I got myself into a stupid and shameful situation like this years ago, similar age to you, work thing. Won't go into details, it was a very bad time in my life - I daresay it often is when people do something so hurtful and unpleasant to themselves and others.

At the time, nothing had ever felt so emotionally intense. It did for a while afterwards - I cried every day for a year during it and after I'd ended it, from guilt and from feeling so intense and I am just not like that normally.

But when I look back, little now feels so unreal and insubstantial and has for years. I feel less of substance about it than other real past relationships, it is more like a bizarre dream.

What feels real is how guilty I feel about his wife, particularly when I had my own children and felt for myself how vulnerable that makes you. Looking back, I don't think he was a bad person but I think he was weak and hadn't grown up. I hadn't either, at that point, it got me at a dreadful point.

There is something deeply unreal about these dynamics, please remember that. So trust your judgement, not your intense feelings I'd say. A happy relationship will not make you feel this awful - it doesn't work like that.

Go and do something wholesome - seriously, I took up an outdoor sport of all random things - that has nothing to do with men, because you need to rediscover the fact that you are you quite outside of any relationship and that you'd be a damn sight happier single. Then just leave it.

I found counselling brilliant.

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