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18 replies

Pen875 · 13/06/2025 07:24

I have just found out that my husband off 30years married and 34 years together has been cheating on me it's been going on for 9months and his excuses is because I am working 7 days a week starting work at 4 and getting home at 10 pm while he was at home all day sitting on his ass not doing anything and I was getting home and having to do all the house work and cooking and all he was doing was starting arguments with me he even slept with the other woman in our bed and we have got kids together 10 year old son and 12 year old daughter and 14year old daughter and 15 year old son and the other woman is a mum to 3 kids that go to the same school as our 3 oldest and are good friends with our 3

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Lucyliesdown · 13/06/2025 07:26

Oh OP, no words really.

Lucyliesdown · 13/06/2025 07:26

Aside from your poor children

itsmeits · 13/06/2025 07:28

Hugs OP
What do you want next?
Do they know you know?

justkeepswimingswiming · 13/06/2025 07:31

id take the kids to school this morning, and go make her feel very uncomfortable.
then id go home & kick the husband out. Can you get other childcare for them? Friends? Family? Babysitter?
You dont need him, hes a lazy waste of space who doesnt work.

Lucyliesdown · 13/06/2025 07:32

justkeepswimingswiming · 13/06/2025 07:31

id take the kids to school this morning, and go make her feel very uncomfortable.
then id go home & kick the husband out. Can you get other childcare for them? Friends? Family? Babysitter?
You dont need him, hes a lazy waste of space who doesnt work.

She’s been having sex in the OP’s bed… do you really think this is the type of person to ever feel “uncomfortable” about anything?

jeaux90 · 13/06/2025 07:41

JFC OP honestly I’ll tell you this as a lone parent, your life would be easier and more peaceful without him in it.

Assuming this is the point of no return I would see a solicitor.

He sits and home, does nothing and shags around. Nothing to salvage here.

Coatsoff42 · 13/06/2025 07:45

I’m not sure what the positives of being married to him are. A pro and con list would be heavily weighted in one column I think.

Your life sounds really hard, just such hard work and he’s kicking your legs out from under you too.

ColinCaterpillarsNo1Fan · 13/06/2025 07:46

Why doesn't he work, ditch his lazy arse and he will have to work. I doubt his affair partner would want to implode her own life to subsidise him.

Try putting some full stops in your sentence to make it easier to read but other than that kick him out.

Pen875 · 13/06/2025 09:18

ColinCaterpillarsNo1Fan · 13/06/2025 07:46

Why doesn't he work, ditch his lazy arse and he will have to work. I doubt his affair partner would want to implode her own life to subsidise him.

Try putting some full stops in your sentence to make it easier to read but other than that kick him out.

He gave up work to be home all day so he could make sure I was doing the house work he was a builder

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AnonymouseDad · 13/06/2025 09:20

It is the worst feeling there is and I am so sorry you are going through this.
One of the reasons my wife gave originally was my working too much. Some weeks 80 plus hours.
But nothing, absolutly nothing you have done has made him do this to you.
You are not to blame for his affair. That was a choice he made.
You can take some responsibility if you must for where the marriage was before the affair but that is entirely separate from his choices.

My wife went through multiple stages after I found out. There was calmness and almost relief to start with along with she was not only to blame for it.
Then she became almost its done its out why are you still upset. I could see she didnt mean this but it was almost like let's sweep it under the rug and it will disappear.
There was anger from her following that with a lot of blame shifting. I knew her well enough to know she wasn't really angry at me. And I refused to pander to it and let her strop while I calmly got on with whatever it was I was doing.
Then there was a moment of clarity my daughter witnessed. So many emotions running through her our daughter thought she was going insane.
She then took full responsibility and accepted all the blame.
We went from near certain divorce to working on us together.

I went through multiple stages too. Within a couple of days I thought right let's get back on with work, I'm dealing with this well enough to cope. Someone I work with who I'd told didnt believe me that id be ok. They were right. The next week it hit hard and I broke.

While we are working on it its still not ok. I'm not ok and I doubt you will be for quite some time.

Counselling helps. So does talking to the right friends, ones who will not tell you what to do but will be there to support you in your decisions.

Have you talked about the future? Divorce or work on it or somewhere in-between?

I was dead set on cheating is an automatic end. No second chances. But then I found in the face of it that wasn't how I actually felt.

Also, remember to look after yourself and remember to eat and drink plenty.

You didn't do this and you have nothing to feel guilty about.

One day at a time. Stay strong but alow yourself to break when you need to.

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ClaudiaAndHerFringe · 13/06/2025 09:32

Pen875 · 13/06/2025 09:18

He gave up work to be home all day so he could make sure I was doing the house work he was a builder

What's the attraction for the OW to a lazy workshy controlling slob?

Pen875 · 13/06/2025 09:35

ClaudiaAndHerFringe · 13/06/2025 09:32

What's the attraction for the OW to a lazy workshy controlling slob?

When he started the arguments with me he would even go through my phone

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AnonymouseDad · 13/06/2025 11:31

Pen875 · 13/06/2025 09:35

When he started the arguments with me he would even go through my phone

Now I've read a bit more.
That is awful!

It does not sound like you are happy at all. Obviously not with what's happened but even before that.

To stay at home to make sure you do the house work! While your working all the hours you can.

It does sound like he is incapable of respect.

Just remember to take care of yourself. Forget about him and any excuses or anything he comes up with to justify his lack of respect and what he has chosen to do.

OchreRaven · 13/06/2025 14:25

@Pen875 You are in an abusive marriage. See this as the blessing it is. He’s put a red line in the sand. It’s something unforgivable. Get him out of your life. He brings nothing positive to it, even without the cheating. If you let this go, his treatment of you will get worse as he has no respect for you already

cool4cats2020 · 13/06/2025 14:31

Let her keep him.

Rockdaylia44 · 14/06/2025 21:54

He has no respect divorce him

Bimblebombles · 14/06/2025 21:59

Are you the same woman from the other thread about feeling under appreciated? Sounds like you, but the ages of your kids are different?

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