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WWYD? Affairs

62 replies

OliviaDeSen · 25/08/2025 16:57

I have been having an emotional affair for past 2.5 years

I met this man in work 10 years ago. Both of us were married but there was this intense connection. Nothing happened physically and as much as I tried to steer clear for both of our marriages, I was falling for him. So much so I quit my job, changed my phone number.

he quit his job 6 weeks later. Then another year passed and he found out where I worked and would call my office

eventually I told my husband and he messaged him threatening to tell his wife if he didn’t leave me alone

i blocked him for 7 years

my marriage ended 3 years ago.
I bumped into him at a mutual friends funeral. I say bumped… I actually saw him, but steered clear and hoped he didn’t see me: there were 100s of ppl at this funeral.

anyway I started to stalk his social media. Looked to me like he was also “single” so I reached out,

I didn’t ask him if he was single.
he told me he and his wife separated:
that he bought a flat, and he wanted us to meet for coffee

we did. It was electric
but he didn’t instigate we should go anywhere after our coffee

his excuse was that his flat was a bomb site

anyway. After a lot of sexting daily texts (sometimes 100s per day) we arranged to meet up at his flat.
morning of, he text me to say he was so ill. And had taken a covid test. So had to change our date.

i ghosted him for 3 days after that. Something just didn’t sit well with me:

his ex is a doctor. But why did he have Covid tests let alone need to do one in 2023 ??

eventually I told him I had my doubts about his separation

he sent me screen shots of their separation certificates and pictures of his flat

i felt stupid. He was telling the truth and I doubted him.

This continued for months. We don’t live close to one another so mostly calls and texts etc. but for some reason he just didn’t want us to be some where on our own: he never wanted to come to my house.

fast forward and I tried to delete him to block him over past year and a bit coz it was just going no where.
but he’d make up fake accounts and add me
watch my on line stories every day.

i would try to let him go but id end up giving up,

anyway fast forward to last week

his mum died.
he reached out to me
told me he loved me that he took so long getting over me before and now he was having to do it all again,

given that he was grieving I told him that I was happy to remain friends. asked him again if he was still married “no!!!”

Saturday night he sent me a selfie and in the background was a medical trolley. I know his “ex” is now an aesthetic doctor.

i have been right this entire time.
he is very much still married..

i didn’t confront him: I just blocked him,

my question is.. should I tell his wife.

i know if it was me i would want to know.
my friends are mixed in saying i shouldn’t say anything. That I should confront him,

but he has lied to my face for years.

so WWYD?
thank you so much for reading all of this

OP posts:
Thisisnotmyid · 25/08/2025 19:47

I wouldn’t OP. Just block and stay well away.

You won’t be the only one he’s playing away with and there’s a very high chance she won’t believe you even with proof unfortunately so any hope of him getting just desserts probably won’t happen

Rasell · 25/08/2025 20:00

What would you say? That's a long and patchy story and nothing physical happened...he was actually the one to cancel the date? I'd want to know but it's all so vague and dragged out! He sounds awful and she deserves to know, but be prepared for it to get messy because it sounds like he could just turn around, have excuses ready and you might go down with the ship...

NapoleonsToe · 25/08/2025 20:07

LegoMaxifigure · 25/08/2025 17:58

Um that trolley could be full of DIY type things? There's nothing that is certainly medical.

With Cerave on it? A carpenter with very soft skin perhaps Grin

CeaselesslyIntoThePast · 25/08/2025 20:17

None of this adds up. She running a surgical hospital in her house ? You think he wouldn’t have thought what was behind him? Think it’s the OP that has got the wrong end of the stick. On several occasions

arcticpandas · 25/08/2025 20:17

I think he's in a relationship with a beauty therapist (black market one who does it from home).

GentlemanJay · 25/08/2025 21:28

Betsy95 · 25/08/2025 17:25

No don’t tell her. Ultimately you’ve both behaved like berks for nearly a decade.

Just move on and leave it alone.

Just move on.

AnotherVice · 25/08/2025 21:41

It’s probably one of his other girlfriend’s stuff.

winterwoes · 25/08/2025 21:54

Are you being really really honest with yourself about your motivation to tell her? I think this is more about you than her. On some level you are pissed off and want to do something to make yourself feel better. As others have said don't waste any more time on this tosser. Block and walk away. Leave him to sort out his duplicitous life. There will be others that he's cheating with for sure

VeryStressedMum · 26/08/2025 03:36

Why are people talking about anaesthetics ? Twice the op has said the wife does aesthetics

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 26/08/2025 04:08

ChaChaChaChanges · 25/08/2025 18:46

Why on earth would any specific anaesthetist equipment be in his flat, even if he’s still married? There’s no way on earth an anaesthetist would bring her equipment home. It’d not even be sterile.

Not Anaesthetist

Aesthetician

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 26/08/2025 04:10

ChaChaChaChanges · 25/08/2025 19:24

Then she’s not working as an anaesthetist. You think she has a side job - working from his flat?

OP never said she was. That came from the lack of reading comprehension.

Planesmistakenforstars · 26/08/2025 05:07

I don't really understand how you have the means to contact his wife, but not to have really checked that he wasn't married in the first place. You seem to have suspected that he was still married, since you asked him multiple times but just believed him only to ask him again.

But regardless, my stance is always to tell. I don't understand the don't get involved mentality at all. You are involved. You would not be breaking up a marriage, his behaviour will. You know he's a pig and you have the opportunity to let this woman have the information to make fully informed decisions about her life, and probably also her sexual health. I don't see why you wouldn't give her that dignity.

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