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In house separation hell

83 replies

feeficken · 20/03/2021 12:16

So long story short i'm 39 and W 39 comes to me and said we needed time apart and she needed space, I was dumbfounded never saw it coming, so she moved out to live with our son and about a day or two later she calls and says its over that she has feelings for someone else and that's that, no discussion nothing.

I spiral and have no idea what to do so try and convince her things can be better if we work at it etc etc. She starts justifying her actions by telling me its all my fault, I am stunned by the stuff she is saying and doing as she takes absolutely no responsibility for herself. Turns out she had been texting a co-worker as "friends" for months unbeknown to me and they'd developed feelings for each other (he is 55). Problem is from the get go I run with its all my fault and that i'd caused all of this and the break up of my family so I set to try and make things right. I look back now that some time has passed I have realised that the problems we had where NEVER that bad and certainly didn't justify existing the marriage this way and hurting me like this. Yes there where things that could have been better and I know I could have been better (then again so could she) but I am honestly talking normal practical stuff that comes up like money, working too much etc. If she had sat me down and told me how unhappy she was I'd have set to work and we could have sorted things together as the team I thought we where. I thought we where soulmates and that we where on the same page.

Anyway over the next year I basically work myself crazy to try and make our marriage a better place to be if she wants it and even if she doesn't I know we'd both be in a better position financially amongst other things.

She bounced back between myself and OM over the year and at one point they get a flat together (he lives with his daughter) and she starts texting me asking to come back saying shes made a stupid mistake and she loves me etc so of course I love the woman and I agree as I think perhaps she now knows the grass is not greener, she initially its resistant to just leave him though (crazy right should have been red flag right there) but things are strained between them for whatever reason (no idea) and she wants back right away so while he's out I help pack up her stuff into my van and bring her home, I told her before hand this wasn't right that she should tell him the truth and that she was going to give our marriage the best chance (I know right why should I care but heh). After she comes back its all good and shes all over me and then pulls back but I later come to find out ALL the times shes come back to me she ended up texting him again and at one point is shagging him again while I think we where trying to reconcile.

Around Sept she ends it with me again (course she does cause she is still seeing and sleeping with him behind my back!) and starts seeing him openly using our house her base. I get to the point in January where I've had enough and I can't take it and me and my adult son some move out and I tell her she can have the house and she plans to move the O/M in. About a month later she starts texts again (you know where this is going right?) to say she doesn't want to move him in and is sorry for what's she's done and that we should at least try again and I like a fucking idiot agree and so we start working on it again and everything seems good for a month and agree I should move back in but about a week before I move in (at this point I've kitted out a whole flat) she changes her mind and says she doesn't want the house and wants me to take it over that she will live with her Dad until she finds somewhere new, a couple of days before I move back shes decided she just going to stay in the home until she gets somewhere and at this point i'm already in the process of moving back in.

So here I am again moved back in and shes using the house as a base to see the OM and conduct this new relationship and its fucking hell (this is a joint mortgage so I can't just tell her to leave). She also doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get her own place and won't move in with her Dad who BTW does have room, what's pissing me right off is she is going about life like everything is normal as though she has done nothing wrong and that she has been honourable (she says she never had an affair). At one point in the last couple of weeks she is saying she started saying she doesn't know what she wants and then swings back the other way (she is all over the place) but still seeing the OM. Not sure why I am even posting to be honest don't have anyone I can talk to really.

Honestly I do still feel love for this woman (crazy right?) but I can feel it dying and more of me wants her gone than for her to stay, more of me feels less forgiven. She knows I love her I have told her, my actions have told her but she also knows this is killing me but it doesn't seem to matter.

Anyone been through anything like this?

OP posts:
Mix56 · 03/04/2021 20:12

What kind if example are you setting your son ?
Tell her she has 2 options, leaving & you will buy her out
Or leaving & the house will be sold.
She is also profitting from a cheap housing...
Enough. She is not the person you loved.

Onthedunes · 03/04/2021 20:21

It must be an unbearable situation, you sound as though you cannot take anymore.
Your wife currently wants both men, you for security, family and maybe recharging her confidence battery. I have a feeling this older man is using her and she is somehow in awe of him.
It's good that you have the financial means to act, have you ever had the divorce talk.?
Would she agree to divorce.
I honestly think you need to end things, draw a line, make your boundaries firm and clear.

I personally don't think it's going to work with this om and her but that shouldn't stop you from acting.
Make a move, nothing will cange unless you act.
Words will mean nothing to her, stop talking, go grey rock and then lights, camera, ACTION.

winterchills · 03/04/2021 20:51

You deserve better get her out of the house and move on. She has no respect at all and sounds awful!!

Carreterra · 03/04/2021 21:46

@feeficken

Have you posted about this before? I seem to remember a recent , similar post where the OP mentioned she should go back to her Dad's, as he had more room.
I would just like to say on NO account do not leave your house ! She is messing you about, and to me, she sounds depressed, as if she cared anything for you she would not treat you like this! Can you afford the mortgage on your own? If so, the next time she leaves I would change the locks & then see a solicitor.

Carreterra · 03/04/2021 22:01

@lovetobeatpeace
Well said ! I can relate to the advice you gave, I'm in a similar situation now, when I started doing things & making plans, ex stepped up, being confused, saying he still loved me (yawn) and being ridiculously sentimental, all too late, I had made my mind up to go it alone. I am moving into a rented flat very soon, and while I dread the logistics of moving, I'm looking forward to a co-ercive free home.

Closetbeanmuncher · 03/04/2021 22:13

I remember you and frankly I can't believe you moved back in there again.

Grow a spine and file for divorce. You have no underage children so the house will have to be sold to split assets.

Get your shit together OP ffs.

Closetbeanmuncher · 03/04/2021 22:15

You need to stop repeatedly bleating to us for the sympathy card and see a solicitor.

How long has this shit been going on for now, you're going in circles.

Onthedunes · 04/04/2021 20:44

Hi op, hope you're doing ok.

I think you know what you need to do, but ultimately you have to be ready.
Until you make yourself unavailable to your wife, she will not make a decision.

You have to make that decision.

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