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6 months down the line...

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Luckystar1 · 09/05/2018 14:13

Mostly this will just be verbal diarrhoea but I’m 6 months post finding out about my husband’s affair.

I had thought I was feeling a little better and not constantly obsessing over it, but the realisation that 6 months in and my life has been completely overhauled and the OW swans around daily without a care in the world (seemingly) is overwhelming.

She and my husband work together. I too used to work there. I have a lot of friends there as does he, but for some reason she seems to be being protected by one of the (male) managers.

She is leaving work early unauthorised (going for runs), walking around work dressed inappropriately (relayed back to me by people in shock). Lots of very senior people know, and she continues unaffected.

She is also married with children so it’s not like sh was young, free and single.

My own husband and I are really trying to move forward and he has made huge changes and sacrifices including at work.

I know she should be insignificant to me, but it’s all very close geographically and socially that it’s very, very hard.

OP posts:
Popchyk · 10/05/2018 20:16

OP, the only thing you can do is tell your friends and ex-colleagues not to mention her name to you. They sound like they love a good gossip if they are telling you about what she is wearing and leaving work early. So shut down that avenue.

And I wouldn't go to the event that she will be at. She won't be contrite and it will just dredge up all the negative feeling.

You're leaving the area soon so focus on that. Look forward. Start packing up a few boxes to try to switch your mind into "moving on" mode. Start looking for a new house even though you won't be moving for a while.

Take what control you can.

Whatiwishfor · 10/05/2018 21:26

I think finding bits and peaces out from colleagues is actually detrimental.
Very different situation but my father was killed in a car crash by a lad i went to school with, it was in a small town so most people know me and know him. I would walk through the town and be drip fed things about him and things about the actual advent. It was bloody torcher. Some people told me things because they felt i "needed to know" like misplaced loyalty and some were just shit string. Tbh none of it was helpful and i soon learnt that it was best for me not to listen to any of the tittle tattle. The thing is you carnt really rely on what your being told either as a lot of people have their own slant on what or how this lady should be behaving or a slant on what they want to tell you for your benefit.
I hate to say this but the people feeding you this gossip also probably enjoy the hype and gossip of it all to some degree.

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