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Affair

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FishChipsanMushyPeas · 07/12/2019 03:27

I know I am going to get abuse for this but hoping for advice.

I started seeing a married woman 6 months ago. We both liked each other and it was just supposed to be a bit of fun.
In the time we have been seeing each other she left her husband a few times and took her children with her. Each time she went back to him more out of guilt because her 3 children were upset that their mum and dad had seperated.
In the times that she has gone back to him we agreed to stop seeing each other on a physical level but maintained a friendship and chatted most days on the phone. The chats would always turn from friendly chats to becoming more emotional after a few days, until eventually we would start meeting up and connecting physically again.
The last time she left him we shortly embarked on a physical and emotional connection and both admitted that we loved each other and began talking of s future together.
A family matter resulted in her moving back home out of guilt and a realisation that she felt she had been selfish putting her own needs and happiness before her children's. As a result she ended the affair again but continues to want to remain friends and contact me. I of course am happy with this arrangement as I still get to maintain some level of contact with her as I could not just turn my feelings off.
What is going to happen now? She wants to try and make amends with her husband for the sake of her children. She admits her feelings for me have not changed. Are we going to end up having a physical relationship again and is this how it is always going to be? 1 month of being together followed by a period of friendship before she decides she is leaving him again and re-embarking in a relationship with me? Should I hang in there patiently in case there is a chance of us being together or should I cut all contact?

OP posts:
TellItLikeItReallyIs · 10/12/2019 17:04

Sorry i should have mentioned, not that it matters, I am also a woman. The woman I am having the on off affair with has told me she is trapoed an feels like she is living a lie

I suspect that because you are a woman and she is married to a man that to you this feels different from an ordinary affair. It feels more as if she is trying to break out of social shackles to be her true self.

It really isn't.

An affair is an affair.

The bottom line is that just as married men rarely leave their wives for a marriage that is working with a side show affair, married women will rarely leave a marriage that can work with a side show affair for exactly the same reasons. They have a marriage and a family that basically works and children they don't want to leave.

It hurts when you are in love and can't be with that person but you should move on.

user764329056 · 10/12/2019 17:09

Her poor kids

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