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Actor out of hand? Is he cheating? And is it my fault if he is?

43 replies

magpie247 · 23/03/2016 21:11

I'm a NP to MN. Previous lurker. I need some advice. Me and my DP have been together six years. We have three children between us, one together. He's a good dad to them all. We met under unusual conditions, it's along story but to sum it up we had an affair, left our partners and stayed together since. Our relationship history is complicated but since committing to each other we've had a faithful, wonderfully honest relationship. Now the hard part. We are both part-time actors and end up at a lot of (fairly wild sometimes) parties, at one these parties a year ago I caught him in bed with another actress, (fully clothed but kissing,grabbing each other) I interrupted them, I don't on know what would have happened if I hadn't. The OW is also married to another actor on the circuit. We had a massive fight, they begged my forgiveness (eventually) and I put it down to drink, drugs and the fact that I'd laughed at them having a kiss in front of me earlier in the evening (like I said, wild party). We moved on, we've all worked together since, it's not been awkward..I honestly was ok about it,laughed it off. A year later, another party and they disappear,her husband tells me he thinks they will be "Together" so why don't we get "together" too? I'm not up for it, I love my partner. Lovely as this man is. Later my DP, the OW and the OWH ask me to go to bed with them all.I say no, the OW takes my hand and tells the men to leave us alone. We laugh it off. Later that night my OH joins us, they both fall asleep. I got to find her husband and see if he's ok being left on his own. I fall asleep in an upstairs bedroom alone leaving the OW and my DP alone downstairs. 2 hours later my DP wakes me up and drags me put the house, I don't even get to grab a coat, he's angry,sulky and won't tell me why.... He swears nothing happened between them he just wants to go. Am I an idiot to believe him? He's admitted since that they kissed again earlier in the evening but says that's all... Is it my fault because I let it go the once? I don't feel I can trust him... What do I do? We keep talking about it but he says he's learnt his lesson and only wants me, but I'm sad inside. We've got another show together and he's different with me to the other cast members...colder. Is that normal?

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Potatoface2 · 24/03/2016 08:46

i think both of you are playing a part in one of your 'amateur' dramatics.....i feel for the children in this mess...you both sound horrendous and not a bit faithful, truthful and honest about anything.....from the minute you met!

StillDrSethHazlittMD · 24/03/2016 08:47

Definitely role play of some kind, Summer...

FiveSixPickUpSticks · 24/03/2016 08:49

We've always agreed to be faithful and I'd never do that to him

Yet you did it to your previous partner.

Potatoface2 · 24/03/2016 08:51

i have an unusual job....lol.....i party more than 3 times a year......i dont take drugs and cheat on my partner or even go off into rooms with other peoples husbands who make lewd suggestions (and pretend this is normal or ok).....i act like a responsible adult who has children.....i dont pretend im in some 1960s soft porn film!

Trills · 24/03/2016 08:55

Take away the "we are actors, we are special", and what do you have?

You got together as the result of an affair.

You caught him kissing another woman at a party.

He suggests foursomes that he knows you will not be interested in.

He admits to kissing the same other woman again - you don't know if he's done more.

It doesn't sound good, does it?

AnyFucker · 24/03/2016 08:59

I don't actually understand your first post

Did you get it on with OW, or am I getting a bit carried away with my suburban dirty mind ?

MadameCholetsDirtySecret · 24/03/2016 09:03

I'm not sure why you think your opinion is more valid that anyone else's OP and getting snotty and calling people suburban because they don't think like you, screams of immaturity at best.

TBH I'm not sure that the opinion of strangers on a forum is your best way of getting over this problem. You need to reflect on what is important to you a act on it with or with out your DP.

RoobyTuesday · 24/03/2016 12:38

Being an 'actor' is not an unusual job at all and most people (not just actors) still like to party once in a while. However the kind of parties I go to these days do not involve jumping into bed with other people and their partners. That doesn't make me a boring suburban mother, it just means I have more respect for myself and my partner than that. Quite frankly if I caught my husband in bed with someone else, clothes on or not, he wouldn't be coming home again. Agree with others that you need to grow up. No one said you were a bad mother, however this post feels a bit desperate and immature.

CheersMedea · 24/03/2016 15:09

Summerlovinf

This really made me chuckle:

I think OP and her DH might be involved in 'amateur dramatics'...Wink

+1 for the acting not being an unusual job. An unusual job is Swan Marker to the Queen. The parties he has with those birds...

seasideview · 24/03/2016 15:32

Of course he is cheating. Don't you trust your own EYES?

Atenco · 24/03/2016 20:53

Sorry OP, you are the one who sounds like suburban mother-ville. I have never lived in the suburbs, but have had several suburbs pointed out to me as being places where they are big into wife-swapping.

Gobbolino6 · 24/03/2016 21:03

Did you sleep with the OW?

Hissy · 25/03/2016 08:17

PROMPT!

Grin
Greypuddle · 25/03/2016 08:44

Well, I am an actor and resent the implication that being a 'part-time' one (?) helps explain why the DP is behaving like this. OP, please have a serious, sober talk about this. It's very unfair to you and shouldn't be minimised.

I live in the suburbs, by the wayWink

hefzi · 25/03/2016 11:40

Is it your DP who has the injunction to stop the newspapers reporting his having sex with an OW? The one with a wife in the same industry, with whom he has an open marriage (that's his story and he's sticking to it) and with whom he also parents three children?

Even if not - yes, he's had sex with her at least once.

PacificDogwod · 25/03/2016 11:57

Oooh, hefzi is in the know

If you are, OP, then it must be hideous to be under threat of public exposure of your private pain.

If you are not, I still think you need to think long and hard whether your DP and you still want the same thing from your relationship. You cannot change his behaviour, only your response to it.

Sn0tnose · 25/03/2016 13:25

It goes without saying that it is never the fault of a person if their partner or spouse is unfaithful to them.

I fail to see what your occupations or your partying has to do with it though. It's all about boundaries and trust. Your partner cheated on his partner with you. He kissed a colleague at a party in front of you. You found him in bed with this woman in what sounds like the prelude to full blown sex. At another party, he disappears with this woman and later admits that they kissed again. He then gets into bed with you and this woman. He clearly has no boundaries when it comes to your relationship and I'd suggest that you'd be very wise not to trust him.

hefzi · 25/03/2016 21:53

Pacific - no Grin I was just reading in the Mail about the injunction!

But I never know who anyone in these types of scandals are anyway: I do agree with you that it would be extra horrible, though, to be cheated on, and to have it all played out in public.

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