Hi,
Sorry, as a man, I feel a bit of an interloper on a site called Mumsnet, but I would really appreciate some advice on my situation. I’ll try to keep it brief…
Bit of background: in 2012 I accidentally found out my wife was planning on walking out on me and taking our (then) 6 year old son with her. I persuaded her to go for sessions at Relate. and after a few months everything seemed ok again. Then in 2014, out of the blue, no indication anything was wrong, I came home from work to discover a note; she’d done just what she’d been planning to do two years previously. I was in pieces, but after about 4 months I’d come to the conclusion that if she could do something like that with no warning once, she could do it again, and that I should just seek a divorce.
Then she said she wanted to come home.
I melted, and accepted her back. She’d taken up running a few years previously, doing the London Marathon for charity, and for various reasons (none of them sufficiently good) I’d not been as supportive of her as I should have been, so I just took this as my punishment.
Move forward to November 2016… again, I accidentally (genuinely, I’ll give details if you want, but trying to keep this as short as possible!) discover that something is wrong, she’s either seeing someone else, or is planning another “moonlight flit”. Three days later, via another note left for me when I get home, I discover it’s actually both. This is two days before my father’s funeral, and a week before our son’s 10th birthday.
This time… I actually felt liberated. She’d been very distant from me for months, almost recoiling from me when I made any attempt at intimacy, and now I knew why. She’d been seeing someone else for 9 months.
Our son, understandably, was, and is, heartbroken. We’d had no rows, no shouting matches, as far as he was concerned, everything was great.
So, here we are in January 2017, and… she tells me they’ve split up. He’s a “selfish ”, apparently. He was paying for the flat they shared, he’s moved out, and she can’t afford the rent, so she’ll have to move in with her mother. She’s currently in a really bad state, mentally. NHS crisis teams, diazepam, the works.
Although a large part of me hates her for how she’s treated me (not to mention our son), I’d be lying if I said I don’t still feel some affection for her, and I don’t like seeing her suffer. Our son, obviously, just wants mummy back. :(
She’s not said so outright, but I fear she’d like to give it another go. And it goes without saying, our son is already assuming we’ll get back together. But… I don’t want to, and feel massively guilty for feeling that way. :(
Anyway… please.. be gentle with me. ;-)