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Am I over reacting. Currently feel betrayed

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DadSpeaking · 19/01/2024 12:15

My wife and I have been having relationship problems for a little while but we're trying to give it a go.

Yesterday my wife went to an event all day which involved a lot of drink but essentially a family party.

I finished work early and went to meet her in a bid to support her and be with her.

This is where I initially noticed what I felt to be some flirting. She was engaged chatting although in a group to her friend's brother. As the time passed She and the brother were really engaged in heavy banter and held eye contact and focus totally and it really begun to feel like it was just them two. Although there was two or three people sat around the table, nobody else was really involved or could get a look in..if we changed the conversation they found a reason to just engage with each other.

I moved up to sit next to my wife and she moved forward on the edge of a seat to be more engaged in the conversation with this brother. So she almost had to turn ahead all the way around if I said something.

As the drink flowed? The conversation got off more into a sexual nature and straight into talking about anal. These are conversations that my wife would never normally entertain and actually find extremely crude and put off but here she was laughing and joking fully engaging. It was raised again and again.

We then moved on to another venue and I went away to pick up the children. When I returned I found them again setting opposite each other. Fully engaged more conversations yet more sexual talk, laughing and joking. Again, nobody else seem to exist.

As the rest of the family started to leave she remains seating throughout except for when the brother wanted to leave where she got up. Walked around a very long table to go and say goodbye with an embrace

When we got back I raised this conversation to say I wasn't comfortable the way I felt she was flirting with him holding eye contact. Not engaging anyone else around and how the conversation went straight into sexual nature and it was totally out of character for her to be discussing and how she enjoyed engaged, laughing, joking and really being giddy like a school girl. It felt over the top and totally out of character like a performance, wanting to be funny and happy.

I said that I felt really betrayed and really hurt and initially her reaction was not great and made me feel worse but she did later. Apologize and said that she would just thought she was having banta.

From a lady's perspective, what are your thoughts on this? Am I overstepping the mark reading too much into this? They haven't met before and got involved with a similar level of banter and focus and attention on each other. She did say that she doesn't fancy him. She's not her type, but I found that actions spoke louder than words.

whe. She got back home before I raised this she went straight to bed avoided me really.although she was very drunk.

What should I do? I don't want to lose her but I feel so betrayed and hurt. I just can't look at the moment.

OP posts:
dorisdaydidnitdodirtydeeds · 19/01/2024 23:51

If this is a really unusual way for her to behave, I think it is really important to remember she had been drinking all day. She was drunk and disinhibited, and some man was making her feel attractive and interesting and desirable and a bit naughty. Do you make her feel like that?

A secure husband would have taken her home, put her to bed and had a bit of a laugh about it in the morning with her. A secure wife wouldn’t have done it in the first place.

Get some marriage counselling. If you are as lovely a husband as you say you are you can appreciate we all make mistakes.

Ladyj84 · 19/01/2024 23:58

Hubby and I would never even consider doing this we respect and love each other to much. I mean I'm sorry but it doesn't sound like a great marriage anyhow, barely any physicalness sounds like your 2 friends living together...I couldn't do this I love my hubby even more than when we married and even more cause of our 4 kids, being intimate several times a week or month is all part of love for us

DadSpeaking · 20/01/2024 06:45

Ladyj84 · 19/01/2024 23:58

Hubby and I would never even consider doing this we respect and love each other to much. I mean I'm sorry but it doesn't sound like a great marriage anyhow, barely any physicalness sounds like your 2 friends living together...I couldn't do this I love my hubby even more than when we married and even more cause of our 4 kids, being intimate several times a week or month is all part of love for us

I think that's what I need to find in all honesty. Someone who respects me and wants to prioritize being with me. Not taking me for granted while spending her entire energy and attention elsewhere. Thanks all for the comments it's been helpful for me be able to process this all through.

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C1N1C · 20/01/2024 07:06

I agree with some of the others in here... Your relationship sounded 'forced' before this night. I don't think it's anyones fault in general, some relationships just fizzle.

I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, do you think she can't wait to see you again when she's out? Do you think she generally has a strong desire to be with you?

Honestly, it sound like she's checked out and this night was a bit of an escape for her, but I could be wrong. Have you properly discussed your relationship in general?

Epidote · 20/01/2024 07:25

Although I consider the conversation OTT and strange is difficult to say if she was just acting drunk and feed up or if she was purposely doing it to annoy. I would think the first just to give it the benefit of the doubt this time.

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