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I need advice! So here goes my story: My wife and I have been married for 9 1/2 years, we currently have a 6 year old son and a 3 1/2 year old daughter. A little over three years ago my wife had an affair with a co-worker that I found out about shortly after it started. It continued on and off for the next year plus. If you read "Surviving an Affair" that is literally our story. Wife moved in with her parents for 3 months. She rented an apartment and before she moved in, she changed her mind and decided to come home. Unfortunately, we didn't have any resources and I figured she realized she made a mistake and came home to fix it. That was not the case. We have been ok at times and at times she has been very distant. Just recently she had been distant and I became suspicious. At this time, she revealed that she had lied about some of the details of the affair and that it had continued on longer than I suspected. Living with her is like a roller coaster ride. I never know what to expect. Just this morning she told me that she still has strong feelings for him but she hasn't had contact with him in over two years.
She has been reading the Surviving Affair book and at times seems optimistic. We have discussed moving but she isn't sure because she doesn't know how she feels about me. She still works at the same place. The other man works in a different building (he is married with two kids).
Any advice?
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Sorry you are here but welcome.
Who has this been exposed to?
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Just this morning she told me that she still has strong feelings for him but she hasn't had contact with him in over two years. The reason for this is right in your own post. Here: She still works at the same place. The other man works in a different building (he is married with two kids). I don't believe her that they haven't had contact. And even if they hadn't working at the same company which likely affords easy access to each other even if in the form of email, company meetings etc will keep your WW triggered and in the fog.
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Most people know. When I originally found out, I didn't want people to think bad of her, so I didn't tell anyone other than her immediate family. One year later when I found out it was still going on it pretty much became public knowledge.
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You are probably right about contact. I want to believe her but....
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Any of you that have dealt with this with a Christian spouse, how do they reconcile it. Wrecking two families???
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Has the OMW been told?
Is the OM a supervisor over WW?
Was the affair exposed at work?
You need to move your family far away from the OM and the scene of the crime. WW's job has to go.
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You are probably right about contact. I want to believe her but.... But do you want to believe truth? Is truth important to you?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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Any of you that have dealt with this with a Christian spouse, how do they reconcile it. Wrecking two families??? Welcome to MB, golfer. Whether or not a spouse is Christian, doesn't change the dynamics of the affair nor the steps needed to break it up and recover the marriage. Christians are sinners like everyone else. Being a Christian doesn't matter when a spouse is smoking the adultery crack pipe.
BW - me exWH - serial cheater 2 awesome kids Divorced 12/2011
Many a good man has failed because he had a wishbone where his backbone should have been.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. --------Eleanor Roosevelt
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Any of you that have dealt with this with a Christian spouse, how do they reconcile it. Wrecking two families??? Welcome to MB, golfer. Whether or not a spouse is Christian, doesn't change the dynamics of the affair nor the steps needed to break it up and recover the marriage. Christians are sinners like everyone else. Being a Christian doesn't matter when a spouse is smoking the adultery crack pipe. I can vouch for this. My wife was the godliest woman I knew before she started smoking the adultery crack pipe.
Remarried 7/16 Thanks MB!
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If it is going on again, do I confront her or go for exposure?
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Any of you that have dealt with this with a Christian spouse, how do they reconcile it. Wrecking two families??? Okay since you asked...Christian here. And absolutely reconciled with doing what the Bible tells us to do... Ephesians 5:11 was the biggest catalyst for me: Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. I didn't expose properly at first either, and what that accomplished is a six month long false recovery. Once I exposed, every day since then, my husband has come back to God and back to me.
DDays - six months of them THANK YOU God and Marriage Builders. We never knew that it could be this good!
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She already knows what she is doing, so you don't tell her. You expose far and wide, no kid gloves, no warning, tsunami of exposure. If it is work related, you expose to the multiple positions of power including VP's and especially HR.
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If it is going on again, do I confront her or go for exposure? It never stopped though. They work together! That is like the alcoholic changing the name of his drinks to "business drinks" and pretending to be sober. It will never work. In your case, I would let everyone know about the affair and start making plans to move away. Can you sell your home and move to another town with your kids? Have you exposed the affair to this mans wife and their employer?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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If it is going on again, do I confront her or go for exposure? That WW still works with the POS...your marriage doesn't stand a chance. There is no way she has not had contact with OM for the last two yrs given that he is right next door. You are in denial if you believe that garbage. She has to quit her job and needs to follow EPs in your marriage. If you aren't going to get serious about ending contact and implementing EPs, then there is no hope anyway. What are you going to require of her to stay married to you?
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. --------Eleanor Roosevelt
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What are you going to require of her to stay married to you?
[/quote] I really like that thought process! I have never looked at it like that?
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If it is going on again, do I confront her or go for exposure? It never stopped though. They work together! That is like the alcoholic changing the name of his drinks to "business drinks" and pretending to be sober. It will never work. In your case, I would let everyone know about the affair and start making plans to move away. Can you sell your home and move to another town with your kids? Have you exposed the affair to this mans wife and their employer? Eventually I could, but I am tied to my job right now. Need to provide for the family. Not that easy to sell the house.
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The man's wife knew the first time it came out. My wife actually went and told her and apologized. That didn't stop her though a couple of months later. The work place knew (they are both teachers). Again, this was two years ago.
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extraordinary precautions...measures to affair proof your marriage
BW - me exWH - serial cheater 2 awesome kids Divorced 12/2011
Many a good man has failed because he had a wishbone where his backbone should have been.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. --------Eleanor Roosevelt
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