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Affair baby trap, or am I paranoid?

96 replies

MumOfJamie · 29/06/2018 09:05

Please someone tell me I’m not crazy. My husband had a 3 month affair with a 40yo woman who has a child with her husband, who’s had the snip. Things are messy, to say the least, but DH has cut all ties with the other woman and is now confused over what he wants. She begged him to be with her, he stayed with me but says he needs to think.

Anyway, it occurred to me that she may be pregnant, so I asked him. He said no, she couldn’t be pregnant but I probed about what kind of contraception they used and it turned out they didn’t use any. She told him fertility ‘dips at 40’. So for two months in a row, they had pregnancy scares, her period came twice. He said he broached the subject a few times, she shrugged it off. I know this woman, her husband and child, we moved in the same circle. She is a planner, super organised with everything. I don’t believe she’d leave contraception to chance, especially when her husband has been snipped. In my mind, she was looking for a way out of her marriage and trying to trap my husband into leaving me. He says I’m being paranoid and refuses to believe she’d do such a thing.

I’d be quite prepared to move on from this affair business as we’ve been together for 14 years and happy most of that time. But it’s like DH is still stuck in his affair fantasy land and refusing to see what I see.

Honest opinions please, I can take it. Thanks!

OP posts:
MumOfJamie · 29/06/2018 14:16

You’ve actually helped me a great deal, every single one of you. Thank you. I’ve not been thinking straight since this all came out 2 weeks ago and desperately trying to cling on to happier times which are over, thanks to his actions. Yep, I’m scared of what the future holds but I need to get out of this marriage and I will. He’s shown his true colours and with the best will in the world, I can’t forgive him or make myself available to be chosen at his leisure. Thanks again.

OP posts:
ravenmum · 29/06/2018 14:26

The mind games will do that to you :(

Good luck, take care of yourself.

Whatthefoxgoingon · 29/06/2018 14:28

Well done. Your self esteem will increase hugely once you lose this loser. You deserve more love and respect than he can muster.

Get all your ducks in a row. Make sure you have all the financial information, build up a get-out fund and go. Many many women have gone onto wonderful relationships later in life, if you want to, you can too. Flowers

Zaphodsotherhead · 29/06/2018 14:30

Good lass.

BatShitBuns · 29/06/2018 14:36

Well done OP. Best of luck to you.

ACatsNoHelpWithThat · 29/06/2018 14:42

You need a plan B regardless in case he makes up his mind to leave/stop financially supporting you before the 10 months is up.

Could you afford to get a house share for a year if you apply for a full student finance maintenance loan? Because if you're separated they won't be taking his income into account any more when assessing what you're entitled to.

Footballmumofthefuture · 29/06/2018 14:57

I'm going to be really blunt and trigger warning to other posters. Because this doesn't seem to be sinking in for you!

He dipped his dick in her and then in you, rinse repeat. Without wearing anything. How does that not make you feel phyiscally sick.

He really does not give a shit about you! HE needs time to think! Really?

I'm sorry. He is nothing but a C*.

He can't have been trapped. He knew what he was doing. Stop going in circles with that. Pick up your self respect and tell him to jog on!

AnyFucker · 29/06/2018 15:26

That's right. Focus on the true issues.

His callous betrayal of you. Your own worth. All your future actions should be based on those two things.

I am sorry for the last sentence of my 1st reply. It was a bit mean, so it was.

But please value yourself more.

GreenItWas · 29/06/2018 16:57

What AF said. Each time. Please see this situation for what it actually is OP.

LIZS · 29/06/2018 17:05

Who says there is currently no contact HmmBear in mind they have they have each lied multiple times and will have no scruples in doing so again. He is enjoying having his cake and eating it, she may or may not have deliberately used him to get pg. That was evidently a risk he was willing to take. Leave them to wallow in each other's selfishness and deceit.

magoria · 29/06/2018 17:37

I would 'give' him 10 months to decide what he wants.

Then dump his sorry arse and start your own life when you have finished your degree.

You deserve so much better.

Juells · 29/06/2018 17:42

@magoria

I would 'give' him 10 months to decide what he wants.

That was my advice too. If he's going to be a shit, withdraw emotionally and do what suits you. Easy to give that advice, of course, much harder to live it. I know I wouldn't be able to, there'd be crockery bouncing off walls. :( But the OP seems to be a very calm person who has her emotions well under control, she might be able to do it.

MumOfJamie · 29/06/2018 17:46

So, here’s an update. He got home and I told him I’m done with his mind games and that we should just try to get through the next 10 months as amicably as possible, but I’m out. He says he’ll support me through my final year. So we’ll see. I can’t up sticks at the moment but I have friends I can go and stay with if I need time out. It’s not the radical break that would probably be appropriate, but it’s the best I can do just now. I told him if he wants to be with his OW, good luck to them but she ain’t setting foot in my house again.

OP posts:
AnneLovesGilbert · 29/06/2018 17:47

Oh OP Flowers Sending you strength. You’ve taken an awful lot on the chin in this thread on top of your life exploding.

MumOfJamie · 29/06/2018 18:06

Oh I’m not always calm. I threw water on him, shouted and screamed and when he kept texting OW I threw his iPhone in the toilet and pissed on it. But I can’t be at war indefinitely. Then I moved on to making excuses for him and over analysing things. This is the shittiest rollercoaster ride ever, wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

OP posts:
81Byerley · 29/06/2018 18:11

OP I salute you! You've given me a laugh....With my IBS I might have done more than piss on his iPhone....

AnyFucker · 29/06/2018 18:12

He is the architect of that

Remember this when you feel yourself softening. Unfortunately still remaining in a "relationship" of sorts makes it more likely that will happen

Juells · 29/06/2018 18:27

I threw his iPhone in the toilet and pissed on it.

Oh God how I enjoyed reading that.

limallama · 29/06/2018 18:51

Just be aware OP that you cannot give adultery as a reason for divorce if you lived together as a couple for 6 months after you found out about it.

Ophelialovescats · 29/06/2018 19:07

So he has two women on the go ?
Is he trying to make up his mind?
The poor, confused, randy goat !!

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 29/06/2018 20:17

Do make sure the OW knows you've binned him so he can't claim he "chose" her. Soiled goods Wink

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