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Revenge on the OW

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Revengeisbittersweet · 06/12/2021 16:48

Now i've name changed for this for obvious reasons.

Back story for you. A while back now during a particularly bad patch in my marriage when my dh and I had all but decided to separate he ended up having a drunken ONS with someone i knew relatively well.

Well unbeknown to me (as he never told me) he realised it was a massive mistake, gave him a massive kick up the arse and he decided he wanted to save our marriage. Again all unbeknown to me. BUT his behaviour from that point changed, he became so much nicer to me, so much more tolerant. He stopped drinking.

Anyway our relationship improved quite a lot and we stayed together, all the while i was oblivious to the ONS. Well it turns out that the OW fell head over limerence with my Dh and spent the following year tearing herself apart and imploding her life because she couldn't understand why he had made her feel there could of been a chance of a relationship only to tell her immediately after that it was a mistake. Now all of this was unbeknown to my DH, he was under the impression that she was on the same page as him and was as desperate as him that i never find out. But she proceeded to involve many of our mutual friends and they spent the following 12 months of dealing with her emotional fallout over it. And helping her to get over it but from all what i've heard she became completely obsessed, convincing herself every innocent interaction they had after was some secret sign of his love.

Anyway it all came to a head and she finally told me the truth. In a rather dramatic disclosure but basically told me they were in love and had had the most intense love affair over the space of 6 months when he broke her heart. She was very detailed in her disclosure and this was where she shot herself in the foot as she listed things and places i had been as the start of there affair and it ended when i was somewhere else (bear in mind the disclosure came over 2 1/2 yrs later). I keep a diary and on going back over it and double checking it with her the two events were only 14 days apart but the affair she claimed went on for months and months. She also threw our mutual friends under the bus saying they all knew and betrayed me. It turns out there were quite a few people who knew - humiliating much! Anyway this was another downfall as everyone said the same story - it was a drunken ONS, my husband was completely guilt ridden after it happened and told her it was a mistake, she lost the plot and convinced herself they were in love and he was tormented by not being able to be with her.

Anyway if you've made it this far congrats . Sadly the disclosure resulted in the end of our marriage, there was no bog fall out. I didn't particularly blame him for the ONS as we were in theory on the verge of splitting and there was a lot of unhappiness at that time. But it was the fact all this was going on afterwards with people we knew all party and i never knew. It was all a big betrayal of truat. ANYWAY HERE IS MY ISSUE.

I never confronted her, i never called out and said it was bullshit, that her dates didn't work out. I just thanked her for telling me. She desperately wanted us to meet but i declined she then sent a really unnecessary message detailing things they'd done in bed and things he'd apparently said about me. It was cruel but i think it was her way of really getting the final kick in for my exDH Who she still claims is her soul mate and has ruined her life.

Anyway i'm over everything else I've moved on, luckily we had no children so it was a relatively swift aplit. I have a great life, great friends etc i'm very lucky, my exH has paid the ultimate price for his mistake but i am somewhat consumed in those quiet moments where i want to kick her arse still, i want her to have a miserable time, i want revenge as she was a friend of sorts and i was only ever nice to her before, during and after. Others have said this will have driven her mad she wanted the drama and my not reacting or responding has really given me the higher ground, i haven't publicly aired my dirty linen. But i still want to get her back?? Why and will this feeling ever go? Or should i dream up some kind of revenge that she can't track back to me so i can finally move on?

OP posts:
ClaudiaJ1 · 07/12/2021 06:10

Yes, it's normal. Are her and your ex-husband together now?

Aderyn21 · 07/12/2021 07:19

Just because the ow isn't your spouse, it does mean they have no responsibility or shouldn't be judged for their own behaviour. Knowingly having sex with someone else's husband is skanky. And worse when you know (and are friendly with) the wife. And that's before you get into spitefully sharing (or making up) details about the sex and dragging the OPs friends into an ongoing deception. The OP is entitled to hold all this against her. In life people owe each other basic decency - it's not something we should only have a right to expect from our spouse.

iloverock · 07/12/2021 07:27

It's really hard to move on from stuff like this. I feel out with a partner 5 years ago. Friends also fell out with me and were particularly nasty because he had manipulated them.

It took a long time to get over the fact that a friend turned on me for no reason. She even gave evidence in court and lied.

Even now if I see her I imagine hurting her but dignity is the way to go.

I know she wants a reaction from me. They all love drama but I don't give them what they want.

Time does make it better.

Write her a letter telling her what you think of her. But don't send it.

waterSpider · 07/12/2021 07:58

Forgiveness -- letting a prisoner go, and then realising that the prisoner was actually yourself.

Revenge - when seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

loveablequalities · 07/12/2021 08:10

@Revengeisbittersweet I think you've put up with a lot in RL and on this thread!

I don't think it's about keeping your dignity but more about being kind to yourself. You've been through a terrible, emotional upheaval and all the pain and drama and hurt that goes with that. You could have a showdown with this OW and have more drama, hurt, no doubt painful words but is that you being kind to yourself? I don't think it is. I think go and see a therapist if you can. A slow unpacking of all the deeper things will help you come out the other side of this with a better understanding of what happened to you.

Take care, Op. Have a lovely Christmas.

ThackeryBinks · 07/12/2021 09:47

I wouldn't give a response because it's exactly what she wants. I have to say she sounds unwell. It's all real to her and not bullshit. Step away slowly! Don't feed the fire. What will be bugging her big time is that you've broken up with him & he has run for the hills away from her. That is some karma right there!

Wokahontas · 07/12/2021 10:31

I agree with Thackery.

He is allegedly the love of her life. He immediately told her it was a mistake as he wanted you back. Then you dumped him and he still didn't want her. She has been massively rejected and blames you. She is probably spending a lot of time musing over this and is not in a good place.

I think pitying her is far better than revenge.

thethreemuskateers · 15/12/2021 21:01

I think you just need to pity her, my ex had an affair with my next door neighbour who was also a close friend. He denies he cheated but they were together within 7 weeks of our 18.5 year relationship ending. I pity her as she’s a dirty secret even his two best friends don’t know about her. She thinks he’s going to be playing happy families with her kids when the fact is he can’t stand her kids and would call them awful names when they lived next door. She’s now had to move house for someone who will most likely cheat again when someone with less baggage comes along. Everyone is judging them and calling there behaviour shitty. I really don’t need to get my revenge.

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