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My husband left me, now I'm having sex with strangers

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mylifewasgreatnownotso · 20/06/2025 13:04

A week ago my husband sat me down and explained to me how he no longer loves me, has met someone he works with in office and is about to pursue things with her. This has floored me. I thought it was a joke but he's now moved out. Thankfully we don't have kids.
I'm so angry at him, he had the audacity to tell me he'll be hurt if I got with anyone else, I hate him so much.
This weekend gone I got together with my girls for a night out and ended up in bed with a stranger. We had the most amazing sex but I was just thinking about him.

I don't know if having sex with strangers is the way to get over him but I'm looking to try again and see what happens.

What would you do if you were in my position?

OP posts:
JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:14

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:12

Are you telling me you believe he's about to pursue her? That he hasn't tested the waters yet? And that if she hadn't appeared he wouldn't have suddenly realised he didn't love his wife?

He's been at best inappropriate with this OW while married to OP and now he's justifying it to himself and her by saying he's realised he doesn't love her.

He's a spineless cheat and arsehole.

OP is well rid and hopefully when she's healed she will meet and fall in love with someone loyal and decent.

Are you telling me you believe he's about to pursue her? That he hasn't tested the waters yet? And that if she hadn't appeared he wouldn't have suddenly realised he didn't love his wife?

I'm telling you what the OP told all of us here on this thread.

You're not psychic and nor am I.

Neither of us are privy to anything that may or may not led up to him telling his wife that he no longer loves her.

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:15

JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:12

Can you not understand that people who fall out of love, generally don't tend to have 'that attitude' on their wedding day?

They have an attitude that they will only stick around till the get a perceived better offer or the novelty of something new and exciting presents itself.

Why bother taking vows and putting legal status on a relationship if you think you're perfectly entitled to bounce off with whoever turns your head one day?

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JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:17

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:15

They have an attitude that they will only stick around till the get a perceived better offer or the novelty of something new and exciting presents itself.

Why bother taking vows and putting legal status on a relationship if you think you're perfectly entitled to bounce off with whoever turns your head one day?

Because again...

A lot of people feel very differently on their wedding day, and falling out of love is not something they think may ever happen.

Look, this guy is obviously a cheat and an arse hole, but it's perfectly possible to fall out of love and not want to spend the rest of your life in a very unhappy marriage.

What he should've done was ended it with the OP first.

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:18

JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:14

Are you telling me you believe he's about to pursue her? That he hasn't tested the waters yet? And that if she hadn't appeared he wouldn't have suddenly realised he didn't love his wife?

I'm telling you what the OP told all of us here on this thread.

You're not psychic and nor am I.

Neither of us are privy to anything that may or may not led up to him telling his wife that he no longer loves her.

If he doesn't love her why did the appearance of a woman in the office need to prompt this realisation.

OP told us what he told her. She's in the thick of it understandably as her heart is broken and can't see what's glaringly obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense?

He's a dickhead and a cheat.

JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:20

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:18

If he doesn't love her why did the appearance of a woman in the office need to prompt this realisation.

OP told us what he told her. She's in the thick of it understandably as her heart is broken and can't see what's glaringly obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense?

He's a dickhead and a cheat.

If he doesn't love her why did the appearance of a woman in the office need to prompt this realisation.

Well if he did love her, the appearance of any woman wouldn't have made a difference to that, would it? 🤷‍♀️

Agreed he's a dickhead and a cheat though.

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:21

JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:17

Because again...

A lot of people feel very differently on their wedding day, and falling out of love is not something they think may ever happen.

Look, this guy is obviously a cheat and an arse hole, but it's perfectly possible to fall out of love and not want to spend the rest of your life in a very unhappy marriage.

What he should've done was ended it with the OP first.

Of course people feel differently on their wedding day. People feel differently at all stages of all relationships, it's called life. If you're not prepared to work at a marriage if things get a bit rocky then you shouldn't be getting married.

He didn't allegedly fall out of love with her until the OW appeared.

Goditsmemargaret · 21/06/2025 00:26

JabbaTheBeachHut · 21/06/2025 00:20

If he doesn't love her why did the appearance of a woman in the office need to prompt this realisation.

Well if he did love her, the appearance of any woman wouldn't have made a difference to that, would it? 🤷‍♀️

Agreed he's a dickhead and a cheat though.

Yes because he's a dickhead who thinks he's entitled to pursue other women while married.

Look some people have no moral compass, no loyalty, no ethics. He was attached. If he thought he was falling out of love (lol) he should have focused on improving his marriage and talked to his wife.

Instead he's been cheating and has corne up with a new narrative that actually he's not in love anymore

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