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Done something really stupid and I’m so ashamed

761 replies

BeenSuchaStupidCow · 01/04/2021 23:23

NC for this because I’m so ashamed of myself, I’ve been so stupid. For the last few months I’ve been chatting to a guy I met through OLD. Because of COVID we’d never met yet. I found out a couple of weeks ago he’s married and I’m gutted, I really really liked him. Tonight I’ve done something I shouldn’t and I wish I hadn’t but it’s too late and I’m disgusted with myself. I found his wife on FB and I sent her a message telling her her man’s a cheat. And I sent her some photos he’d sent me in our chats. Now I feel so guilty that I’ve ruined this poor woman’s life and I wish I’d never said anything. It was a stupid impulse after I’d had a couple of drinks and I wish I could take them back. I can see she’s read it but she’s not replied. I keep thinking of what I’ve done and going hot with shame. Why was I so stupid and destructive?

OP posts:
DoubleTweenQueen · 05/04/2021 11:19

Under the circumstances, I think you did the right thiing Flowers

MrsMaizel · 05/04/2021 11:39

@ConfusedAsAlways42

As the wife of someone who was having an affair with my "friend", I was so grateful when a stranger knocked on my door to tell me, out of the blue. I was the last to know and it seems the whole neighbourhood knew, including her young children, it seems. I've never once been angry at the man who knocked to tell me - he said that I was known as a kind person in the area, someone who always did good for others and he couldn't stand by any longer without someone telling me. He'd tried to persuade others who knew me to tell me, but they didn't want to know. I wish I'd known sooner. Needless to say, I've dropped many of those "friends" and neighbours. Cowardly to the end, in my book. Those who knew about my DH's affair but didn't say anything can't look at me. The shame belongs to DH, my now divorced "friend" and those who chose to look the other way.

So, BeenSuchaStupidCow, perhaps this wife is actually grateful to you too. If not, that's her choice. I know you're beating yourself up - my messenger was too but I reassured him he'd done the right thing. We keep in contact now and again via text. He even "advised" me on how to handle the whole mess, bless him! As for my DH and I, that's another story and, surprisingly, a happier one, which I won't go into here.

Take care of yourself, especially dating next time and I'm sure, if you think about it, there were probably clues he was married. There usually are.

I was in your same situation and looked back at all the times people would have known and said nothing , all the situations I sat in eg a party I organised for him and others knew and said nothing ! I have cut myself off from all of those people now ( there was also a change of location involved ) . It causes you to question your whole life especially over that time period . I wish someone would have told me at the time . I am now remarried and happier than ever .
ConfusedAsAlways42 · 05/04/2021 12:01

So pleased for you, MrsMaizel. It does shake your reality but best to know, for me. Not everyone is the same.

Sandra15 · 05/04/2021 12:07

I have been on the Daily Mail to pick this story up. There is one comment suggesting the OP has made it up for a story to then put in the DM.

MissTT85 · 05/04/2021 12:17

Do not feel bad for been honest, its a shame he couldnt be. Good on you for letting him now take ownership of his actions. :)

Budsey · 05/04/2021 12:41

yep it defo made the Daily mail on -line ...........Easter Monday ---

CandleWick4 · 05/04/2021 13:40

See it’s been mentioned but yes this is now on the Daily Mail

Sunflower1970 · 05/04/2021 14:12

@notangelinajolie

Nope. You have absolutely have done the right thing. You haven't ruined ruined their marriage - he has. And his wife needs to know.
Her motive wasn’t to do the woman a favour it was to get back at the man! Therefore just cruel
Becstar90 · 05/04/2021 14:23

She deserved to know!!!

OnlyHerefortheBiscuits · 05/04/2021 14:58

I'd want to know. Your motive wouldn't really concern me.

Knowledge is power.

Captnip500 · 05/04/2021 15:48

OP, you have done the right thing. That poor woman who is married to him, she has the right to know. Whether or not you did it for the right reasons or not is irrelevant, you have given her the information and now it’s for her to decide what to do. Any harm caused to her life is entirely on him and would only have got worse the longer it was left.

I have also been in the situation of being ‘the last to know’ and it was SO humiliating. Loads of ‘so called’ friends had been aware for a few months and said nothing to me. I honestly don’t know how they could have turned a blind eye like that. I no longer consider them to be friends.

cherrytreesa · 05/04/2021 18:11

Her motive wasn’t to do the woman a favour it was to get back at the man! Therefore just cruel

Can you explain to me why you think it's 'cruel'?

Countless women on this thread have said they wouldn't care what the motive behind this information was, they would just want the information given to them.

Butwasitherdriveway · 05/04/2021 20:59

@cherrytreesa

Her motive wasn’t to do the woman a favour it was to get back at the man! Therefore just cruel

Can you explain to me why you think it's 'cruel'?

Countless women on this thread have said they wouldn't care what the motive behind this information was, they would just want the information given to them.

But they don't speak for every woman even though they think they do.
GoToSleepBabyPlease · 05/04/2021 22:20

Her motive wasn’t to do the woman a favour it was to get back at the man! Therefore just cruel

The right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.

Sandra15 · 05/04/2021 22:31

@GoToSleepBabyPlease

Her motive wasn’t to do the woman a favour it was to get back at the man! Therefore just cruel

The right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.

It would be crueller to allow the wife to live in ignorance of what a cheating, foul, rotten twonk she is married to.
cherrytreesa · 06/04/2021 00:46

But they don't speak for every woman even though they think they do

But they do speak for the majority and you keep trying to shout the majority down and insisting they're/we're wrong. We get it, you wouldn't want to know. Fine. We would. Accept it.

Butwasitherdriveway · 06/04/2021 01:08

@cherrytreesa

But they don't speak for every woman even though they think they do

But they do speak for the majority and you keep trying to shout the majority down and insisting they're/we're wrong. We get it, you wouldn't want to know. Fine. We would. Accept it.

No, I've never insisted they're wrong , or shout anyone down.

My point was that answering that this was a cruel selfish move by OP with 'well we would want to know' isn't an answer.

Not sure what your problem is with me cherry

Parkerwhereareyou · 06/04/2021 06:39

@Sandra15

I have been on the Daily Mail to pick this story up. There is one comment suggesting the OP has made it up for a story to then put in the DM.
Yes I felt it was a bit too well-thought out as the perfect moral conundrum. Actually was my first thought.
JustJustWhy · 06/04/2021 08:31

It's the DM themselves who make these up. The OP never returning is always a giveaway. Every thread like this should be introduced with a "Fuck the Daily Mail et al"...

BeenSuchaStupidCow · 06/04/2021 09:21

The DM can fuck off and anyone who thinks this is made up can fuck off. This is my life and I’m hurting, sad, disappointed and lonely.

The scumbag’s wife hasn’t replied so I’m going to block her FB account now too, and try to move on from this. Not planning to go back to OLD any time soon, this has really put me off. And it might seem hypocritical to say this when I threw a grenade into her life, but I do genuinely hope she’s happy, whether that’s with this arsehole or without him. And that’s my final word on the subject.

OP posts:
Sandra15 · 06/04/2021 10:28

For what it's worth I think you did the right thing, and I don't think it is made up at all. I was simply mentioning what was said in the comments on there, that you, the OP, is a journalist for the DM. (the site is a cesspit full of Markle fans but let's not go there).

Just because she hasn't replied, doesn't mean she's ignored it. I know how you feel in part because I was ghosted last December by a guy I had been talking to. It wasn't originally a romance thing, not online dating at all. We were talking in a work context and hit it off and he told me he had feelings for me. When we arranged to meet he just bottled it and is now ignoring me.

I really wish you well and I think the one who threw the grenade is that cheating twonk who you met. I would have also sent her the online dating profile as well. He will be up to his old tricks before too long.

Onwards and upwards!

RealisticSketch · 06/04/2021 10:33

Phew, thought you were going to say you'd slept with him. It's probably not your most noble moment but it's not a bad thing he will have consequences instead of assuming anonymous internet is licence to cheat. It's a pity her bombshell came through you but it's the truth so it's not like you've caused damage you've shown her what she's got, which it's probably painful but ultimately her reality.

RealisticSketch · 06/04/2021 10:34

Oh and I'm sorry for your sadness that the guy you liked was a fraud. Flowers

unforgotten23 · 06/04/2021 13:08

The fact that he gave you a fake name and a fake Facebook account is fucking predatory - I hope his poor DW kicks him to the curb and get the all clear from the STI tests she is going to have to take Sad

gord2018 · 06/04/2021 13:17

Don't beat your self up for even a second op. I would want to know 100 percent and it's him who's the dick not you x

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