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We'd all just really rather complain about what others do and have done than to examine ourselves to make sure that what WE are doing is right.

Some of us enjoy our Independent Behavior and our Disrespectful Judgments that we use as leverage to get our own way and if we have to fight the affair it could cause us to have to change our own actions. We like blowing off steam built up from things at work by lashing out at our spouse and really enjoy being able to get what we want by demanding to get our way.

We don't want to give WS a reason to tell the world our own dirty little secrets. We LIKE our own hidden sins and that can't possibly be part of the problem.

It's so much easier to just blame it all on lack of commitment from our spouse and vent about how unfair life has become than to actually do something that might make us examine our own behavior.

The first question any BS has to answer is, "Why would my WS want to be married to me?" (What's in it for my WS?)

And the second is, "Why do I want to be married to my WS?" (What's in it for ME?)

The third is, "What do I do now?"

Until you answer the first two, you have no hope of finding an answer to the third.

It all comes down to fear. Fear of being alone. Fear of being seen as a failure. Fear of being found out to be a fraud. Fear of looking in the mirror and realizing I don't much like myself either...

If an affair is fueled by resentment, where do you suppose that resentment came from? I can't fix my marriage until I figure out how to fix MY half and I can't fix that until I fix ME.

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Originally Posted by Mark
It all comes down to fear. Fear of being alone. Fear of being seen as a failure. Fear of being found out to be a fraud. Fear of looking in the mirror and realizing I don't much like myself either...

If an affair is fueled by resentment, where do you suppose that resentment came from? I can't fix my marriage until I figure out how to fix MY half and I can't fix that until I fix ME.

This was one of the hardest things for me to face during the false recoveries, because WxH made it sooooo easy to excuse myself from the mirror by continuing to withhold affection and refuse to be O&H....but I knew that I needed to change if I was to ever be a good wife/partner again. I've done the majority of the work in his absence, and have been called out many times by AZman, just as I've called him out.

The A is no excuse to be a total poo head to your WS when/if they are trying to recover with you.


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16. I cannot expose because my spouse said that if the kids find out they will lose all respect for him/her and suicide would be the only answer for him/her.

<Can you say emotional blackmail?>

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"Because people might not believe me, and say I am just airing dirty laundry and/or its just sour grapes. They all say I should just move on because he has obviously made his choice, and besides (heard behind closed doors) you never really know what goes on in a marriage behind closed doors, even if it looks good on the outside." MrRollieEyes

I think that one boils down to FEAR of what others think of 'me', the victim, and how good society is a vilifying whom ever they think is the bad guy.


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Because I was embarrassed and shamed that my XH was having an A with a plastic pig when I worked there too.

Many 2x4s later I exposed but it was too little, too late.



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Originally Posted by Vittoria
Mark, you are supposed to give your reason a number.
You are messin' with PM's list!
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Hey - I'm just happy Mark kept it to a few lines smile


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It may not be vindictive in the larger scheme, but it is bound to be perceived that way. Everyone says that the anger passes in a few days, but that is a huge thing to take on faith when you're hanging by a thread. I don't know all of you yet - what results has it yielded for those who did it?

The reason I fear doing this is that it is the nuclear option. I hear everyone loud and clear that you firmly believe that it is SINGLE BEST CHOICE but its hard to jump when you can't see the net.


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Originally Posted by fight4life
It may not be vindictive in the larger scheme, but it is bound to be perceived that way. Everyone says that the anger passes in a few days, but that is a huge thing to take on faith when you're hanging by a thread. I don't know all of you yet - what results has it yielded for those who did it?

We saved our marriages. That is the result. It is the single most potent weapon in saving your marriage.


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Originally Posted by fight4life
It may not be vindictive in the larger scheme, but it is bound to be perceived that way. Everyone says that the anger passes in a few days, but that is a huge thing to take on faith when you're hanging by a thread. I don't know all of you yet - what results has it yielded for those who did it?

We saved our marriages. That is the result. It is the single most potent weapon in saving your marriage.

and as my now XH said to me once. "it was no longer fun... it became real with all the real life stuff to deal with" IE people knowing he broke one of the top TEN made it harder for him to keep holding his head held high...atleast for awhile


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18. I don't know who the OPH/W is, and my parents kinda know, so since its kinda exposed I dont have to.

The partial exposure does not work, and it does not expose anything to anyone. Nuclear exposure is the only way to go.

19. Im just going to wait a little longer, so I can get more evidence, when I think I have enough then I will expose.

Procratstinating the exposure makes it not happen even longer. By the time you are ready to expose, your plan A is all used up and you have no more fight in you. Plan D is in the works.

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This is a play off #1...
20. Because my spouse and the affair partner work together and they're going to start "just being friends." My spouse NEEDS this job to support us, so we're going to let them go back to their platonic friendship. There are NO OTHER JOBS in the whole world so we have to endure this.


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21. Because my spouse told me everyone already knows.

Wrong! Waywards lie.


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#306. Because it's only an EA so far.

doh2 Huh? Ya wanna wait until AFTER they've had sex???

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#873 - Because our marriage is different (special).


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Well, here is my question. For those that know me and/or my story. I never exposed. Needless to say not much has gotten better. Nevertheless, there are times when I wish that I could, or did.
Someone that I talked to told me that it is too late now. That I should have exposed right away, but now there is a "statute of limitations" or something.
Does anyone agree with that?


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Well, here is my question. For those that know me and/or my story. I never exposed. Needless to say not much has gotten better. Nevertheless, there are times when I wish that I could, or did.
Someone that I talked to told me that it is too late now. That I should have exposed right away, but now there is a "statute of limitations" or something.
Does anyone agree with that?


Nope...I don't agree with the statues of limitations thing...because your signature line says it all...

Too many other D-Days to remember .

It is going to continue until YOU do something.

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IMVHO, there IS a statute of limitations, you aren't there though. Expose this. You will feel badly at first but then you will feel so much better. You will even find out how many people have dealt with infidelity. You will gain A LOT of support.

There are going to be people who tell you that you shouldn't air your WWs dirty laundry. Thank them for their advice and move to the next person.

So, what I am saying is EXPOSE THIS. laugh



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