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It's only an FB friend request

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winkywinkola · 03/08/2015 16:34

H and I have had a crap time.

Our marriage was under a lot of stress and was essential miserable for at least 18 months.

Last December I found some very flirty emailsr between him and some woman.

They'd met five times for coffee. They were getting on very well. Too well. H claims they were two miserable people trying to boost each other about their partners' lack of interest in them. No sex apparently although had I not found out when I did, I think it might have progressed.

H stopped all contact as soon as I found out. He said to this woman he wanted his marriage to work.

So we've muddled through for the last seven months. He's doing all the right things, is very regretful, apologetic and trust is beginning to grow a bit.

Until this woman, after months of silence, sends him an FB friend request. I had predicted she would pop up again. He pooh poohed it.

H deleted it and blocked her. He said he did not know why she would think it appropriate to contact him as he says he was very clear to her what he wanted in their last conversation. He says he is always going to ignore any further attempts at contact on her part.

It makes me irritated that this woman thinks it's okay to come back into our lives again. What should I do about it? Just trust him that he will ignore any further contact attempts or should I give her a ring? I would risk looking like the hysterical wife as she's only trying to be friends, right? Except the emails I saw certainly weren't between friends!

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JohnFarleysRuskin · 06/08/2015 20:28

You assume that the ow will tell the truth. I don't.

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DiscoDiva70 · 06/08/2015 20:44

Xici
What evidence to the contrary do you mean?
He's gone behind his wife's back to meet up in secret with another woman!
He's SHOWN that he's not to be trusted!

He may well be trying to save his marriage now but he clearly wasn't concerned about it all those months ago.
Just because I've advised the Op to contact the Ow to try and get her version doesn't make me naive, for all the Op knows the Ow may decide to give her chapter and verse.

Whatever, the Op originally asked whether she should contact this woman and I've tried to offer my advice, as anyone else is on this thread, I'm only expressing my opinion.

At the end of the day, it really makes no difference to me whether op contacts her or not. I just know that if he was my H I would want to find out everything I could, and if that meant confronting the Ow I would do it.

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DiscoDiva70 · 06/08/2015 21:11

JFR
I didn't say the Ow WILL tell the truth and reveal all, I said she MAY tell the truth if she feels she has nothing to lose!

Looks for bang head here sign

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Melonfool · 06/08/2015 21:18

The OW doesn't need to tell the truth, she just needs to go r a different story which will make the OP question her husband's story.
But I wouldn't question the OW myself, I'd avoid the drama.

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JohnFarleysRuskin · 06/08/2015 21:26

She may tell the truth. Right. So she may not. And how will the op know?

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JonesTheSteam · 06/08/2015 21:36

Ignore her.

Don't give her oxygen.

Make her irrelevant to what is going on in your marriage now. Concentrate on that.

It sounds like your DH wouldn't respond anyway.

You'll never know if what she tells you is the truth or not. She has as much reason to lie, or even exaggerate and thus make you doubt your DH even more.

If she was 'outraged' at the time he ended things she may well be out for some sort of 'revenge'.

You said you wanted them both to suffer for what they did.

She may well feel the same about your DH. He hurt her, she may be looking for a way to hurt him.

She would know that, if he has told the truth about working on the marriage, you would find out about the fbook request, it would get back to you, thus causing upset and arguments.

Or maybe she is so stupid she sees nothing wrong in requesting him as a friend.

Or maybe she thinks she can start things up as time has passed.

None of us know what is going on in her head. None of us know her.

So best leave her alone. And let her stew in the fact that she's made this request and it has been ignored, so therefore she no longer matters enough to your DH to accept, or to you (both) to be angered by it.

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DiscoDiva70 · 06/08/2015 21:53

JFR, as melonfool suggests, their stories could differ. His story doesn't seem at all plausible.
There's other different ways she could prove to the Op that her version is the truth (that's if it is the truth) by for example, if the affair became physical, describing a birthmark or whatever on the H's arse body, I don't know! but do you see what I mean?

Why are you so hell bent on point scoring?

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Glitteryarse · 06/08/2015 22:05

disco why are you so hell bent on op phoning OW? Birth marks? Jeeez you need to chill out Wine

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XiCi · 06/08/2015 22:27

OMFG this thread us just plain weird now

Yes, OP, just disregard all the sane replies and phone coffee woman instantly to see if she can name any distinguishing marks on your DH arse Confused

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JonesTheSteam · 06/08/2015 22:30

Think maybe some posters have read too many trashy novels / watched too many trashy TV programmes... Wink

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DiscoDiva70 · 06/08/2015 22:49

I'm not hell bent on the Op phoning the Ow, I was trying to give her advice as to what to do because if you read her original post then you will see that she actually asked us all 'should I ring her?'

This 'birthmark' thing was hypothetically speaking, there's many different ways the Ow could prove they had an affair to the Op, if that's what it was.
The only comment, in my opinion, which was sensible throughout the whole thread towards me was where you said let's agree to disagree, so let's just leave it at that.

Thanks for the Wine, I may need a whole bloody bottle it after trying to no avail to explain things to yourself and JFR, I give up!

I'm off now, this thread is pointless and Glittery, It seems that you and one or two others have nothing better to do than try and put me down, you're not really worth responding to anymore as you won't listen.

Op, I've tried my best to advise you, it's up to you what you do, good luck though you're going to need it

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winkywinkola · 06/08/2015 23:20

That's an unpleasant final remark, Disco.

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JonesTheSteam · 06/08/2015 23:44

Agreed, winky.

Totally unwarranted and nasty...

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winkywinkola · 07/08/2015 00:00

Ah well. You have to wonder where people are coming from if they are trying to "advise" you and if you query them, they turn nasty.

I'm sure I do need some luck. We all do.

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Christinayanglah · 07/08/2015 10:28

Totally uncalled for Disco

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