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Follow up Thread, Husband in 2 year affair and wants to come home

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Thescornedwife · 27/10/2025 19:08

Hey, I have been advised to start a new thread by a poster as the other was about to run out!

In a nutshell, my husband was in a 2 year emotional and physical affair with a co worker. He left me 6 months ago stating he didn’t love me anymore but failed to say it was because he was in a long term affair. Love has been professed and he has been living with his parents for 6 months but been at his affair partners house more times than he can count, playing happy families with her.

he didn’t come on our family holidays this year and he has devastated our DD’s. He has told so many lies it’s flabbergasting! He came clean to me under duress because the OW had left her husband and moved to her own place and I now believe she wanted more commitment. There was also the fact that people at work had found out and the jig was up, OW left her job because she didn’t want to work beside him anymore and in doing so, she said she was going to confess all and that the relationship and lies were over for her. So he had to come clean.

to top it off, DH is employed in a very good job with my uncles company with my dad being an investor, he has left his job also because he was asked to because of the fact he massively broke their trust (trust is a big thing in my family) and he and her were using the workplace to have sex in at weekends and after hours, and also during the work day, so gross misconduct.

it’s all a mess and only been 5 days and I’m still reeling and hurt to my very core, I went down the worm hole of reconciliation websites and got myself so confused. The help and advice on here has been invaluable! Real people with real experiences and feelings! All the help I can get is more appreciated than I could ever explain!

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Paraguay · 07/09/2026 10:02

Very odd

EveryoneUsingOutro · 07/09/2026 20:13

I’ve just read all of the OP’s first thread and now this one. Resurrected by the banned poster. I too am wondering how she’s doing as last post was March. I hope she’s found some peace, one way or another.

@Thescornedwife

Thescornedwife · 07/09/2026 21:18

EveryoneUsingOutro · 07/09/2026 20:13

I’ve just read all of the OP’s first thread and now this one. Resurrected by the banned poster. I too am wondering how she’s doing as last post was March. I hope she’s found some peace, one way or another.

@Thescornedwife

Hi, I’ve not had much activity on this either for a while until some posts today.

life is strange for me at the moment, strange in the sense that I am still in my marriage but clearly struggling. Time doesn’t seem to be making things better. Constant Triggers, lack of trust, embarrassment, insecure within myself, all the textbook stuff. We have some happy periods I suppose, I can forget for a bit, but it’s always always there. Maybe I need some more time

Husband is doing everything he’s asked of to gain back some trust and he’s treating me really well and certainly seems to regret it all. He did get his job back, mainly because I had a hand in it. The OW found out a couple of months ago, and while she has stayed well away and doesn’t cause any bother to us (apart from having an affair with someone else’s husband of course) she is very angry and has reared her ugly head at what she claims, that she’s taken 100% of the blame and consequences for 50% of the crime. She’s threatening legal action etc. she has a new relationship from what I see, so why she can’t just leave it I don’t know

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