In January I caught my dh on a WhatsApp video call with a cam girl, (I was upstairs in bed as were our teens) I came down at 3am to find him on his phone with his hand down his pants.
He admitted this has been going on for some time and he pays for it about once a month, he also admitted to having a porn addiction and accessing porn most days! My head was blown as I just couldn’t fathom how he found the time to be looking at it on a daily basis.
He said he wanted help and the day after all this blew up he found himself a sex addicts anon group and went to his first meeting that night, he went to the gp and spilled his guts for 45 mins and got referred for counselling (there’s background to the porn addiction of abuse as a child) but as with anything on nhs there’s delays and he’s still waiting for an appointment.
As a couple our sex life has been crap for years and I am willing to take some responsibility for not trying to salvage that sooner but with raising kids and shift work we’ve both been guilty of not making time for us. Since March we have been seeing a sex therapist and it has helped us get closer emotionally and physically things are improving but we can only afford one session a month so it’s a slow process.
The reason for this post is today he said something odd, when trying to get discount for a product online he said “just give them my new email address” well as far as I’m aware he doesn’t have a new email address, when challenged he said oh I know it’s not new now but I think it’s a new one to that company as they’ve got my old one (we’re talking 3 years plus he’s been using this “new” one)
When he went for a shower I looked on his phone, I’m not proud of it and even when things were awful earlier this year I never did that but today I couldn’t stop myself. I didn’t find any secret email folder but to be honest I wouldn’t know where to look anyway!
What was odd however was that his WhatsApp could only be accessed by Face ID, that is the platform he used when on with the cam girl, why would he lock it like that if he had nothing to hide?
I’m worried to confront him if he’s innocent as he will clearly know I don’t trust him yet but i
dont think I can live with just carrying on as normal and wondering if he’s on sex rooms while I’m working a night shift (or in bed like last time)
Oh also, he says alcohol made him more likely to go on the chat room so he hasn’t drank since that night.