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Please help just discovered husbands 2nd affair

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longhaulstress · 02/03/2020 00:29

I knew something was off. I'm now sitting a few roads away with his phone and have found a massive messaging spree with someone he used to work with who knows us both. Bought us presents when our dc was born.
Sounds like they've met up a few times and kissed/ lots of can't wait to sleep together stuff.

He had an affair 5 years ago we split for 18 months and he spent every week begging for another chance and saying sorry we tried again we have 3 young dc and I wanted to believe he'd changed and now he's done it again.

Please help me.
what do I do now?

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SignGrudgeBluebook · 21/04/2020 21:10

Get and STD check and then plan your new life to the finest detail. doesn't matter is some of it is fantasy, it will occupy you and help you heal.

RoxanneMonke · 21/04/2020 22:21

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Bouledeneige · 21/04/2020 22:46

OP I'm so sorry to read your story. Its awful to be betrayed. By someone who is supposed to be on your side, your confidant and protector. Its going to bloody well heart. A lot. I know, I've been there. You deserve so much better and you are a much bigger and better person than him. Your children are lucky to have him.

You do need to cry, feel desperate and terrible. You are going to be all over the place, hurt, angry, heartbroken, devastatingly sad. Its like grief and its plunges you into despair. Most people who haven't been through it don't know how bad it is. But this grieving, because it is a bereavement, and a huge loss of your future life, as a family, as a couple, and of all your visions of your future life, is healthy and strong. Its what will get you better in the end. So hard as it is, with that aching hot pain in the back of your throat from crying so much, it is the thing that will get you well and help you survive. It needs to come out but it will pave the way for you to be strong and happy again. Because there is no way to avoid the pain and hurt - accept and embrace it but know that it is a process that will pass. One day you will wake up and it won't be the first thing that hits you in the gut and you will be able to just be in the moment, enjoying the sunshine, the breeze, the children's jokes, random laughs and simple pleasures. It will get better I promise you.

And at some point you will realise that this pain and loss has also given you space. The space is frightening at first, its lonely and scary but soon enough you will see that it means that you have choices about how you spend your time, what you eat for dinner, what you watch on
TV. If you can't sleep and some nights it will be impossible, you can get up make a cup of tea and a biscuit and put the radio or music on or watch a TV programme. Your bed will be your bed and it will be yours to use as you wish.

It will get better I promise you. You will start to feel stronger and now and again enjoy a few simple pleasures, a glass of wine, zoom call with friends, walks with the kids, board games. Whatever it is. You are strong and as you escape the pain you will also know how bloomin brave and courageous you have been. You will survive this. And you will be better without him. He is slight and weak, an empty lying, cheat. He's not a patch on you.

Mary1935 · 22/04/2020 08:02

Great posts on here.
Can he not take any of the children out for an hour or so and then when he come back you go out to continue the break.
He’s testing your boundaries all the time. It’s very hard I’m sure and very very sad. Yes your grieving. It’s a difficult time to do this as you have no space.
Take care 🌺

longhaulstress · 22/04/2020 21:07

Thankyou all that keep posting your supportive messages it is genuinely helping me keep going.
He came round yesterday and we had a fight (a whispered angry one out of the earshot of the children). He just approaches things so wrong I hate having him here at the house so I think that suggestion of having him come here while I walk and he then takes kids out is a good compromise. On a side note I have found amazon audible to be a huge help at a distraction as I've lost the ability to concentrate on tv and books but I can listen to it in the background while cleaning/doing jobs/even playing daft games on my phone. It is a good escape.

@Bouledeneige that post came at the perfect time last night I shed a few tears and then slept better for it so thankyou.

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Bouledeneige · 22/04/2020 23:21

I hope you had a reasonable day today longhaul. I understand not wanting him around and in the house. Good thinking to not be in the house together - combining your walk and and him then going out with the kids. After I discovered my XH's infidelity I just couldn't bear him to be in the house at all. I felt like I would go insane. Stand firm on what works for you - you call the shots now. And angry is fine too. He deserves it.

pickingdaisies · 24/04/2020 23:20

That's another day, longhaul. Make it clear that he can see DC but he does not get to be in the house when you are, playing happy families. You do not have to be nice to him. Reasonable is good enough and more than he deserves. Hope you have a restful night.
Bouledeneige Flowers

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