Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

I think my husband is having an affair

85 replies

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 30/03/2018 10:16

I’m not even going to bother to make change.

He’s been different for months, Moody and not like himself. We’ve been fighting a lot. He’s generally being an asshole, nothing is ever his fault.

We had a big fight and I told him to just not come home if he wasn’t going to change his attitude. He said he was going to his mums... I felt really ill following a surgery I’ve had three weeks ago and didn’t want to be on my own with my DD’s. I felt really shaky, I threw up and was in pain. I text him repeatedly with no answer.

I called... He wasn’t at his mums.

I asked him where he was, he said he was out with a specific friend. He must not realise that I have that friends wife as a Facebook friend from years ago and could see that they are on holiday.

He continued to alternate between ignoring me and saying he was with this person.

I told him I knew he wasn’t, and who was he with.

I threw up again and was feeling really ill, I messaged him and asked him to come home because I was so ill, I couldn’t work DD’s TV (she has Sen) and I was literally on the floor in the hallway.

He text back no. He was going to spend the night at his mums.

I asked about ten more times and tried to call him.

He ignored most of it and occasionally text ‘sorry no’

Early hours he came in. He was pretty drunk. I asked who he’d been with and he said a name.

He fell asleep on the sofa and i slept in the bed with daughter who was upset.

This morning I woke up and DD was playing a game on his phone next to me.

I looked at it and said girls name had a message from her unread that said ‘thank you’

Nothing else which leads me to think he’s deleted it all.

I’m in pain and I’m upset and he keeps telling me I’m not thinking straight, he’s hot nothing to apologise for...

What do you think?

OP posts:
Unforgiven2018 · 02/04/2018 17:44

I can't believe how many people on this thread are blaming OP. She has come on here looking for support yet incredibly seems to have received criticism.

So there are people on here who think it is perfectly ok for a husband to go out drinking with another woman leaving his sick wife at home to care for dc's, lie to her and then refuse to come home???? Weird!!!

PNGirl · 02/04/2018 17:49

Hmm. I wonder if he was wondering how he will explain a romantic trip away with the wife, when he has told the OW she is estranged/doesn't understand him/doesn't sleep with him any more.

Rednailsandnaeknickers · 02/04/2018 18:11

Bingo PNGirl, just read the thread and was exactly what I was going to say - sorry OP his bizarre reaction (if there are no financial worries he may have) makes me think he feels guilty and doesn't want to go on a "romantic" trip with you when he's possibly thinking of romance with someone else. You being so nice with the gift undermines his narrative of "my wife is a pita so I deserve to go have fun with colleague".

DairyisClosed · 02/04/2018 18:21

I don't think it really matters you have bigger problems than infidelity by the sounds of it.

Pannacott · 03/04/2018 00:52

Is he setting you up to be the one who ends it, so he doesn't have to be labelled as abandoning you?

It sounds like he's checked out of the marriage, sorry.

M0RVEN · 03/04/2018 01:02

How odd to be angry about being bought a trip away.

Unless you had other plans for that weekend , that you didn’t want to share . For some mysterious reason.

And you hoped that if you picked a fight about it, your wife wish just say “ fine I’ll go with my friend / sister instead “ .

So it wouldn’t be YOUR fault for not going, it would be your hot headed wife’s fault.

Dunno, just a thought. Is that the kind of thing you would say, OP? if you had gone away with a mate, would he have watched the kids all weekend himself or have taken them to his mothers so he could go out?

ChickenMom · 03/04/2018 08:17

He’s angry about the trip because he’s feeling guilty. It is a nice thing that you got hima trip but he wants you to be a horrible person so he has an excuse to leave you and court this other lady. Buying him a trip doesn’t feed into “my wife is a cow” line he’s feeding her. He is engineering excuses to do the “woe is me” line on her. You should make him leave. Don’t give him a comfy place to stay. I’d say he’s either been mucking around with her or is planning to. Don’t be fooled. His behaviour is classic. Also, the thank you message from her. Where’s the rest of the messages? If it’s innocent he wouldn’t have deleted them

SandraGreen · 03/04/2018 08:44

You say you bought him a trip away. Was it for him, him and a mate (activity type thing) or romantic getaway for the two of you?

I agree with PP, this doesn't look good at all OP and it must be especially hard to deal with when you are so ill. Flowers

MiddleClassProblem · 03/04/2018 09:20

I’m guessing he wouldn’t be up for trying couples councilling? Just so you can get some proper form of communication, even if it’s just to end it.

It does sound a bit like he doesn’t want to deal with it, wants it to be over but wants you to do it and be the “bad guy”.

Mustang27 · 03/04/2018 09:32

I don't think you did anything wrong Mary it sounds bloody frustrating. I have no real advice just that I'm sorry he isn't stepping up and helping with the girls whilst you get a bit better.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page