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Husband has told me about a temptation...

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Seagullsrule · 13/03/2010 09:42

My husband told me that there is a woman at work who has created an "awkward" situation for him. It boils down to her appearing to follow him around, blush, and "shut down" when he is around (in a way that he thinks is because she likes him). Not exactly major crimes and neither really consituting sexual harrassment or anything!
I said to him that if he's noticed it then others will have too (he's not that perceptive about these things). He commented that once he looked up and watched her walk across the room and the colleague he was talking to followed his gaze.
He said he feels awkward and it sort of emerged that he finds her attractive too. In fact he had a particular look on his face when he described her that very much reminded me of what he was like when we first got together :-( When I asked him to describe her, his comments included that she doesnt wear perfume, has a rubinsesque figure (which before we had the conversation I had flukely seen he had searched for on google when the predictive search came up), described the way she wears her hair, what its like etc - quite detailed I thought. I've since searched for on Facebook and she is gorgeous.
We had a longish chat where I said it's perfectly normal to fancy other people and was basically completely understanding about it - but also pointed out the pitfalls of affairs, the hurt it could cause, the fact that this woman is probably a minx as she knows he's married and could also cause problems for him at work so he needs to cover himself in case she gets funny or anything.
However - I feel quite rubbish about the whole thing really, mostly just feelings of sadness. I'm not sure whether I'm overreacting or perhaps should have been a bit more 'angry' at him??
Any comments or advice appreciated.

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AnyFucker · 16/03/2010 13:19

...and I would like to thank The Academy for voting for me....

smileyrainbow · 17/03/2010 12:41

Hello

Have just joined mn so all new, but am in slightly similar situation although I found out - New Years eve friends here with teenagers for supper and I go up to look for dh and find him on iphone (constantly attached to it these days) and talking to a girl who apparently he is/or has developed empathy with, return to diners and carry on all very jolly til they go home - apparently he has been unhappy for at least six months and this young lovely, only 26, I am 41, he is 49, is someone he can talk to etc He feels he needs space and everything is claustraphobic here - we have a 7 and 15 yr old. Sex is good, but just appears to be that, he says he still loves me,and has stopped with the empathising, but I am so hurt and sad and angry, and usually I am quite a happy character - sounding a bit dramatic for me, but everything seems wrong.....and I didn't even know it!!!!! He works in media so is always out and about, but now wants to stay a way for a night, but surely if you are away then why come back if dislikes it all so much, or feels so hemmed in? Also obsessed by weight, fitness, appearance, very short tempered - 15 yr old certainly noticing absences and general bad vibes - is this some sort of midlife crisis and do they come out the other side or what am I doing?? Feeling very out of kilter - have told my mum who is sympathetic but not sure of way forward, off to GP tomorrow for chat, but maybe some help will come from here?

BelleDameSansMerci · 17/03/2010 12:48

Hello Smiley - not sure if you've already done this but think you should take this post and start a thread...

From what you've said, I'm afraid I would be very wary indeed. To be honest, your DH does seem to be emotionally involved with this younger woman.

smileyrainbow · 17/03/2010 12:54

Hi BDSM

Thanks for that, not sure I know how to start a thread! Not sure am capable of much at mo!!!

BelleDameSansMerci · 17/03/2010 18:53

I'm not surprised given all that you've posted... Hope you're as ok as you can?

If you do want to start a thread, the easiest way is to select "Topics" from the talk page and then go to "Relationships". If you select it, you'll then get a list of all the active conversations and, right at the top, you get the option to "start a new thread in this topic" and you go from there.

Good luck. x

saltspray · 17/03/2010 21:01

Can't add anything to the advice + opinons given but jsust wanted to add two (hopefully reassuring hings)
1- I look nice on FB but not so much in RL, so don't worry about the office crush woman being gorge.
2- If your google bar is the same as mine, the predictive text thingy is based on all google users and not your specific computer. I know this as I am the only person who uses my computer and there is all manner of random things that come up on the predictive. In fact,there is a whole 'funny' website devoted to it... autocompleteme dot com or something. Thought you might like to know as it would mean your DH has not been googling rubenesque figure. (unless you are talking about saved searches or internet history, but seems like you're not). Wanted to tell you to put yur mind at rest. Thin you sound lovely, btw.

Hope I'm not prying but...you mentioned the unusual circumstance in which you and DH got together. Did you mean you met at work? I was thinking boss/employee due to the things you mention about him being more authoritative. If so, I wondered if that might be adding to your worry about another woman in the workplace. Sorry if I'm being presumptuous, was just a thought.

darkandstormy · 18/03/2010 14:15

you have acted with pure dignity,well done.really I think your husbands honesty makes me think there is no real problem.However, just be mindful of how these things can develop,dont drop your guard.

Seagullsrule · 18/03/2010 20:27

SaltSpray - you're v. perceptive - and in the right ballpark!

He came home from work yesterday looking much better than he has done recently - saying he feels like a free man. He told me he printed off a prayer from the net and prayed to God that he would stop feeling so swkward and apparantly it worked (hey - whatever floats his boat!!). We had a really long chat and were both very openly discussing our relationship and it was really useful in seeing where we are coming from (discussed all sorts of hypotheticals - it was quite good fun actually!! - I even used some of the topic titles from Mnet as inspiration for a "what would you do if..." type conversation!)

Feeling much better today and even glad its happened. We've been talking really well and our relationship I think has improved as a result - the silver lining is nice and shiny!

Smiley - hope you have worked out how this thread thing works now and get amazing support just like I have been lucky enought to get.

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