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How to deal with partners affair during lockdown

78 replies

Fierywhenhot · 03/04/2020 22:49

Hiya,
This is my 1st post and I really need some advice so please be kind.

So, I have been with my partner for over 12 years. 3 years in, we had a break and I regrettably started a short relationship with someone else. We got back together and life was good.... or so I thought!
Something didn't feel right so I checked his phone and there were messages from another woman!! I confronted him and he eventually confessed they had been having an affair for around 5 months and had slept together "a few times".
She's married with a toddler. He was their plumber and pushed together by his boss- whom himself has affairs with married women. Obviously I am absolutely broken and torn to pieces but I really dont want to give up on our family just yet, and still love him. I just still have so much anger, mainly towards that slag and his boss. I feel like a way to help me get past it is by hurting her like she has me!! I have a message in my drafts ready to send to her husband (who supposedly knows) with juicy info. Do you think it's a good idea? Has anyone had a similar situation and stayed with their partner after an affair? Now I'm stuck with him during this lockdown.
I have a child from previous relationship and we have one together.

OP posts:
Qwerty543 · 16/04/2020 23:12

So because OP is in pain, that gives her every right to cause untold pain to someone else? I don't think so. This is spite and nothing else hence no respect for the OP.

And I never said I turned a blind eye.

MLouise183 · 16/04/2020 23:49

@Frankola the OW is equally responsible if she knows he's married. People need to stop going around shitting on each other. It's not acceptable to cause physical pain to another human being is it? So why is it so easily accepted if someone is complicit in causing another human emotional trauma?

MLouise183 · 16/04/2020 23:57

@Qwerty543 you really don't believe OP is justified in telling the OW's husband? She slept with her husband 🤷‍♀️. She deserves everything she gets. Why should the OP's marriage be in shreds and the OW get to go back and play happy families? I don't think so.

Are you an OW by any chance? 🤔

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