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

433 replies

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

OP posts:
tara66 · 16/04/2020 09:03

NO! Every one has enough problems right now. Maybe she is very unwell
with virus.

HollySideEyes · 16/04/2020 09:06

You're quite prepared to crush an innocent women (sic) *in all of this
*
Er no, her husband did that.

Can someone explain why everyone is so keen on shooting the messenger here rather than Sir Sleazy Penis, king of STIs.

HPLikecraft · 16/04/2020 09:17

Can someone explain why everyone is so keen on shooting the messenger here rather than Sir Sleazy Penis, king of STIs

Er, no... “everyone” is keen on not hurting his wife, who is (as far as we know) blameless in all this.

Mistystar99 · 16/04/2020 09:18

Yuk. Don't do it.

TheStuffedPenguin · 16/04/2020 09:21

Ruin her life ? Destroy her ? I'm surprised so many people would rather live in the dark than know about their cheating spouse . I wish one of my friends had told me about my cheating ex at the time as opposed to me finding out about it after the event. I agree it doesn't need to be so elaborate , stay factual . I also have knowledge of a man lying about his "status" - his poor wife in her life not knowing about all the women he has shagged thinking she has the perfect marriage.

BlindAssassin1 · 16/04/2020 09:21

After all these years does she really not know? She'd have to be astonishingly naive to not guess her husband is a scummy arsehole.

OTOH the wife could have contracted an STI and would need to know to look after her health. The tone of the letter suggests this isn't the focus though.

HollySideEyes · 16/04/2020 09:22

The husband is 'hurting' his wife whether she technically knows or not she'll sense his distance, it's detrimental either way.

He made the vows. Not OP.

fascinated · 16/04/2020 09:22

I think the reason folk are saying no is that this has clearly been going on years (if even true) so why tell her now? It’s too late anyway.

HollySideEyes · 16/04/2020 09:23

Aside from all that she needs to get checked out for STIs ASAP.

TheStuffedPenguin · 16/04/2020 09:23

Too late for what ? Her to get a new life away from this scum and perhaps end up with a man who will appreciate her ?

fascinated · 16/04/2020 09:25

True, but no need for the wallowing in detail in this letter! A shorter letter, anonymous, would suffice.

fascinated · 16/04/2020 09:25

Or assuming she already knows (which was my assumption tbh)

mrsfury · 16/04/2020 09:25

@HollySideEyes obviously he is as much to blame but the OP wants to send this ridiculous email to gain revenge because he's dropped her and it's wrong! The only person that will get hurt in all of this is his poor wife. As previous posters said maybe she already knows? Who knows. OP is not just the "messenger" she's doing this for her own satisfaction absolutely nothing to do with having a conscience. She wants to bring him down but it will only hurt an innocent woman. I'm not saying don't tell her as I would like to know but the op including all that information isn't to let her know he's been cheating it's to create maximum damage.

tiredanddangerous · 16/04/2020 09:28

Why do you want to destroy her life? What a nasty thing to do.

Annaminna · 16/04/2020 09:31

She will send it anyway.
Dumped lovers revenge is unstoppable.

HollySideEyes · 16/04/2020 09:31

If it were me the detail or not that they went into would be irrelevant, the salient fact of my husband shagging around would be my focus, I wouldn't be taking time out to rate her or his essay skills.

thefourgp · 16/04/2020 09:31

You need to seek counselling to understand why you were ever attracted to this man and why you’re still obsessed with him so you can move onto a healthy relationship.

HollySideEyes · 16/04/2020 09:32

Good.

I hope she sends it. With dates that the poor wife can check. For facts that can help in divorce.

nightswimmers · 16/04/2020 09:35

This is one of the most disturbing posts I have ever read.

Please do not send this. That poor woman.

I agree she should be made aware, but that is NOT the way to do it.

HazelBite · 16/04/2020 09:36

You are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think that his wife does not have any idea about her husbands behaviour!
I am in my 60's and have seen several relationships where a wife knows all about the behaviour of her wayward husband and chooses to brush it under the carpet/ignore it for their own misguided/mad/unbelievable reasons. Nothing you or anyone has to say/tell will make the blindest bit of difference, in fact the whole tone and content of your letter is unbelievable.
She knows about him and his behaviour, probably not all the gory details, but you are wasting a lot of time and energy on this.
Please for your the sake of your own well being stop dwelling on this distract yourself, watch TV, read a book, just do anything rather than obsess about this worthless man and his life.
How about questioning your motivation in all of this, why did you pursue a relationship with him in the first place and why now you are unhealthily hell bent on revenge, when lockdown is over I think you need some sort of therapy.
I am trying not to be critical, just offering you some advice, you need to look after yourself, not him or his wife.

ginlover5 · 16/04/2020 09:36

Eh I'm massively confused at everyone telling you to absolutely not to send this/let her know. If this was my DH of course I would want to know, would all these people telling you not to send it prefer not to know and live there life with all these lies and god knows how many STI's?! You need to let her know. All these people saying it would crush her etc her husband done that, not you. Obviously you would be doing the right thing in letting her know, please ignore all the ridiculous comments saying not to.

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 16/04/2020 09:37

Telling the spouse is a way of getting revenge after an affair has ended and ends up hurting an innocent person. No matter how much it’s dressed up as helping the person, its rarely done for that reason.

If you’ve had to post numerous times maybe you need to seek counselling to help rather than resorting to letters.

OhCaptain · 16/04/2020 09:37

@hewasatwunt are you still seeing your therapist?

If not, I really l, strongly suggest you go back. Go back before you send that email.

ImeldaJ · 16/04/2020 09:37

I don't really care about your intentions, I think you should send the wife this letter, because I think a person has the right to know the truth about their spouse. Yes, she's going to be devastated, but it's better to know the truth than live a complete lie.

The fact that the husband is practising unsafe sex with numerous men and women is a good enough reason to let the wife know. He could be bringing all sorts of diseases back home with him and infect her with them. She should know.

Maybe she already knows what her husband is up to, maybe she does not. If she doesn't, she should know so she can make an informed decision about how she wants her life to look like. She deserves a choice instead of being deceived.

Smilebehappy123 · 16/04/2020 09:39

Would you not want to know what your husband has been upto?
Why is it OP fault that this dude is shady

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