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This is what I'm writing to his wife after 'lockdown'- any suggestions for tweaks?

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hewasatwunt · 15/04/2020 22:51

Hi, please don't shoot me. Flowers

I was involved with someone who turned out to be quite dodgy. Some of you will recognized the details- have name changed just in case he views posts under my other usernames.

I think his wife should know about the hundreds of sexual assignations he's had outside marriage. I don't particularly have an axe to grind now, I just genuinely think she should know. She's in her mid 50s, she could choose a different life if she wanted.

Some people on various forums already gave me a lot of help writing this. Do any of you have any other tweaks you can suggest? All names etc have been changed.

Hi Sue, I thought you deserved to know what’s happening.

Bob is constantly seeking opportunities for encounters.

He was having an involvement with me for the best part of 18 months, from July 2018 until January 2020. I blocked him because I realized what he was like. I'm really sorry and won’t interfere in your marriage again.

Whenever he said he was with Fred and me, he was just with me. Sometimes he maybe said he was with us overnight, or gave some other excuse to be away; he was just with me. After I took him back home from his treatment, three times a week, there was some activity involved.

There’s a woman he’s seeing at times at his treatment, called Lucy. Maybe he said he was setting off early before treatment solely to give her a lift. That is not always the case. He also sometimes meets her in the afternoons.

He talks to a woman online called Eve. He has encouraged her to send him explicit photographs and videos. He’s frequently propositioning women online and asking for photos or to meet.

The first woman he mentioned having had an affair with was called Suzie and lived in Blackpool. I think that started at some point while he was studying at Manchester and finished a while after he finished there.

Around six years ago he was seeing Mina who attended the gaming club at the time. At one point they went to a bed and breakfast for a night, I think somewhere up north. His involvement with her lasted a few months.

He is bisexual and also goes to ‘adult cinemas’ where he engages in acts with several male strangers at a time. He’s been doing this for decades and it will have been hundreds if not thousands of men. He does not tend to use protection for his activities there. He tries to get women to go along to the cinema with him to join in with these pursuits, and sometimes succeeds.

There’s another woman, also called Sue, who he’s been involved with at times over the years. He invited her to go to the cinema/swingers’ clubs too. He didn’t mention this woman to me, so it just goes to show that what I’m able to let you know is just the tip of the iceberg.

There’s another dimension to this in that the women he targets or succeeds with tend to be vulnerable, or at a vulnerable time in their lives. He is exploitative, coercive and manipulative. He also lies to get what he wants, including about the nature of your relationship. Some women didn’t give meaningful consent as it was when they were ill, through exploiting their vulnerabilities, or it was given under false pretenses.

Sorry to let you know about all this, but I thought you should be aware.

-Judy.

P.S. If you want more evidence or to discuss this further, you can contact me

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HelloBolloxMyOldFriend · 16/04/2020 04:51

You coming back to the thread OP?

biscuitsanddiddums · 16/04/2020 05:07

If it’s the Sue I know, she’ll roll her eyes and wave it at him and tell him one of the discarded is upset, and ffs how many times does she have to tell him not to get involved with the unstable ones. Not the first one to think they are telling her something she doesn’t know. Won’t be the last. He’s a little weasel and he’ll keep it in his pants for a week or two until she thaws a bit, and then he’ll get right back to shagging anything with a pulse until someone else pops up claiming to be ‘doing the right thing.’
They are both nuts.
Mind you, it sounds as though there are a few Bob’s around. Gross.

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smokescreen · 16/04/2020 05:27

Whether his wife deserves to know or not is really nothing to do with you. It is NOT your responsibility to tell her.

If you haven't already, take the hurt and pain, anger, rejection and heartbreak you're still feeling and write HIM a letter. Pour out all your frustrations. But here's the thing, don't send it. If you do, you'll only start communicating with him again which is something to avoid at all costs. But reading it will be cathartic.

Draw a line under this affair and try to move on. Forgive yourself, watch a new series, read a new book etc. That chapter of your life is over.

AnnUumellemahaye · 16/04/2020 05:33

He was having an involvement with me for the best part of 18 months, from July 2018 until January 2020. I blocked him because I realized what he was like. I'm really sorry and won’t interfere in your marriage again.

It took you 18 months to realise what he was like? Listen to yourself. You are one of his poor vulnerable victims, aren’t you? Poor you. Hmm

Why tell her he is a bisexual swinger with kinks? You obviously didn’t mind this when you were with him so why treat it as something despicable and shocking that she deserves to know about now?

If there is one thing I really, really loathe, it’s a woman who thinks the wife of the man she shagged and then got hurt by ‘deserves to know’ what he’s really like. It’s disingenuous, spiteful and childish.

Pinkarsedfly · 16/04/2020 05:37

I’d be more inclined to report him to BACP or whatever governing body he is under.

His marriage is private, but his behaviour falls far short of good professional conduct if he’s preying on the vulnerable.

He sounds dangerous.

agonyauntie2020 · 16/04/2020 05:40

Not again.
For shame, OP.
First you didn't disclose, even in drip feeds, in your previous threads that he was married.
Second, you've ignored all the very sensible advice you got last time. Do not send this letter.
I really want to be gentle. Being obsessed with someone is very, very hard. But this is not a way to make yourself feel better - it really isn't. Please can you revisit the many responses you have had in the past with suggestions. and notice, 99% on here are saying "here's your tweak... throw it in the bin and jog on"

Monty27 · 16/04/2020 05:46

OP you have split morales. Oh sorry I'll rephrase that you have no morales that I can see. Oh and hypocrite doesn't even cover it

SirChing · 16/04/2020 06:04

I too have been on your previous threads OP and I have to say, please don't do this.

Yes, the man is a total arsehole but please don't you be the one to tell her all this. At best, she knows already and will only be pissed off that it's been brought to her door again. At worst, it could totally destroy her. He could deny it and gaslight her, meaning that her peace of mind could be destroyed forever.

You aren't responsible for his choices. He is the one who is risking her health and emotional well-being by what he is doing, not you. It's for him to tell her, or one of her friends or family if they know.

He will just be a bit pissed off at the inconvenience if you do this. She could be destroyed. And if he is more than pissed off, then if he knows where you live, and you put yourself at risk of retribution from him.

If You have an affair with a married man, you have to go into it knowing that no matter what happens to you, you will never directly tell his wife. You have both contributed to hurting her. Please don't hurt her more now

Gobbycop · 16/04/2020 06:06

So you want to cause the most destruction you can, you're bizarre.

You're probably going to do it anyway so why seek approval here?

rwalker · 16/04/2020 06:50

You weren't bothered about writing letters when u were shagging him.
you sound like a bitter bunny boiler please don't do it.
For all you know she might well know and be with him because lifestyle suits here. We know a couple he shags about but she wants the massive house, holidays and new cars .

pictish · 16/04/2020 06:54

“I'm really sorry and won’t interfere in your marriage again.”

I haven’t read the thread or even finished your OP. The list of names became impossible to follow. I must immediately ask you though...what is this entire letter if not interfering in her marriage? It’s basically you using a giant spoon to stir a pot labelled ‘her marriage’.

This I’m,educate.y makes me question your motives. I will read on.

pictish · 16/04/2020 06:55

*immediately

maddiemookins16mum · 16/04/2020 06:55

No, just no.

AnnUumellemahaye · 16/04/2020 07:00

“I'm really sorry and won’t interfere in your marriage again.”

Actually, by sending this you are still interfering. If you are genuinely sorry and don’t want to interfere then don’t send the letter. Move on from it all.

VictoriaBun · 16/04/2020 07:01

Some people learn from their mistakes, others don't.
It's up to you to decide which category you fall into.

Otherrooms · 16/04/2020 07:02

Bob is constantly seeking opportunities for encounters. He was having an involvement with me for the best part of 18 months

Sounds like one of those really bad scam e-mails...

Shitsgettingcrazy · 16/04/2020 07:04

If you were sending this for her, it would have all these details in. It would say that you have been sleeping with him (the apology for that is piss poor, btw) and you know he has been involved with other men and women.

You wouldnt go into such detail if it was for her. She can come to you if she wants detail.

It seems like you knew he was married, now going to pull the 'I didnt really consent card' to shove blame all onto him. He is hugely to blame for his affairs. But you are to blame for your part in it.

This is typical behaviour from people engaging in affairs, when they get dumped. You love the drama of it. Of the fuxked up relationship with had with him. The drama of sleeping with a married man. Now he has ditched you, you want to keep the drama going.

So you are visiting several forums, getting help writing an email, discussing it with as many people you can. It creates drama. It keeps it alive.

What you need to do is look at why you need this level of crap in your life, why you want to keep involved in this crap and what's happening in your own life that you can not let go.

But make no mistake. That email, isnt for her. It's for you.

FiveShelties · 16/04/2020 07:05

Not sure what is worse - sleeping with a man for 18 months or writing to his wife to tell her you have been doing just that.

I am just hoping this is the opening to a book you are thinking of writing.

Beautiful3 · 16/04/2020 07:07

No don't do it. Just leave it and move on.

pictish · 16/04/2020 07:07

Oh yes agreed. This was not penned for her...you wrote this for yourself.

TryingToBeBold · 16/04/2020 07:08

I believe your husband is having unprotected sex with other men and women. Please get yourself tested

Thats it

Don't cover up your bitterness and revenge as you taking the moral high ground.
Didn't care for 18months and now you do...

Sostenueto · 16/04/2020 07:08

Omg! Are you for real? Leave his poor wife alone. By the sound of it the poor woman has enough to put up with and I'm sure she's well aware of what her husband is up to without your poison pen letter.

midnightstar66 · 16/04/2020 07:09

If all this was going on all this time then I'd be extremely surprised if the wife didn't know. Just leave it. Put it behind you and move on!

alltripe · 16/04/2020 07:10

Don’t do it. It’s really nasty.