Do husbands end up marrying the OW? Does it last?

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Just that really. There's been a fair bit on here about affairs and I wonder if husbands who leave their wives for the OW end up staying with her/marrying her and if it lasts.

Mine married the ow because he went to work in Dubai and if find out to be cohabiting he could have been in serious trouble.
He told my son he didn’t love her.
The marriage lasted till his death of an aggressive cancer about 6 years later when he was probably quite grateful to her for looking after him.
She’d been a nurse previously.

Me and my second husband are much more suited, so it’s a blessing really and almost 10 years in are still having a blast
Long may it last!

I'm lucky enough not to know many people who've cheated on their spouses - not to my knowledge anyway.

In the one case I can think of - yes - he left his wife, married the OW, they're still together and have kids.

Just a quick comment on this old thread.

The answer is really 'how long is a piece of string?"

From my own experience talking to women who's husbands left them - those who left within 2/3 months of staring the affair were the ones who married the OW.

Yes they can but they often aren't any happier or more faithful. I think sometimes the are just trying to prove it was worth it.

Of course there are all sorts of outcomes. One couple I know who have been together many years and appear genuinely very happy even had a two year relationship before he left his wife. He wasn't found out and thrown out, as far as I know the now XW never knew.

I know two men who did. One remained with her (faithfully, so far as I know) until the day he died. The other is still married but nobody who knows him puts money on it lasting.

Statistics say that a relationship with the OW is unlikely to last. It might...but probably won’t.