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FiM,

I hope you are feeling strong and peaceful today. I'll be working all afternoon so I'll check in and see how you're doing. It can be so slow on the weekends.

I know it is hard to think of Dork stranded out there with no money on the cards.... NOT! Just kidding. I'm sure you are enjoying this and hating it at the same time.

He's a big boy. He'll find his way home. You take care of yourself and those two beautiful girls. Enjoy your Saturday.

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I woke up this morning to a full mailbox of messages from WH. I had cleared all the messages yesterday and now I have to do it again!

Anyway, I picked up on the pattern pretty quickly and so didn't listen to everything. It seems that he called about every hour to assure me OW wasn't with him. He said that the cold kept waking him up (no heat in the trailer up in the mountains) so he figured he'd at least try to do that. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

I got a call from MIL today too. She can't wire him anything since it's the weekend. Hmm. Cold weekend it will be.

She talked with him and he's telling her that he knows what he's done is stupid. He said he just wants to come back but is afraid he might not get a warm welcome. He actually thought he might get a little pat on the back from her when he told her he was looking for a little sympathy from me about his truck breaking down and he's not getting it.

DORK!

She let him know what she thought of that stupid statement. He's swaying her a bit though. She really believes he's sorry.

So do I. SORRY HE GOT CAUGHT AND BROKE DOWN!!!

He probably is regretting this little charade. Good. He can think about it a little more. In California. On a mountain. In a trailer. In a parking lot. With no money. No heat. No food. No FIM.

Enjoy your little love vacation, honey?

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hahahaah FIM your so evil......but it's sooooo cute....*hugs*....good going girl he's going to regret every second of his stupid mistake....now can you come here and help me figure out how to do this with my WH.....he's alot tougher....

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by faithinme:
He probably is regretting this little charade. Good. He can think about it a little more. In California. On a mountain. In a trailer. In a parking lot. With no money. No heat. No food. No FIM.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well, actually, he's GETTING exactly what he said he needed....

"Time by myself to think"....

But God provided him with a "EUREKA" moment .... instead of the "Grand Canyon" experience he was trying to arrange for himself!!!!

LOLOLOLOL

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FIM, you really remind me of myself and your H reminds me of MY H. You love your HUSBAND, not WH so much that you KNOW he is in the aliens body someplace deep down inside. HE IS FIM! He is there...but he will not come home until he is ready! Your WH has never ended contact...he said he did, but never did...He planned this trip, oddly based out of SAT? DUH!!!!

My FWH did soooo many things to me, and sooo many people told me to leave him, I could do so much better...But the faith in ME kept me holding on to the HOPE that someday he would emerge again. The lies. When I would think we were in R, we weren't. He was seeing her all along! Just would find other ways of doing it.

She even came to MY HOUSE while I was in San Antonio visiting my dying dad! YES, you read correctly! She slept in MY BED! I had NO IDEA! My kids were upstairs asleep!

One day I had had enough! I wanted my WH to HURT so badly that it just came out of my mouth! I leaned in towards him real close and I said
Honey, guess what??? I had SEX with another man!!!

ummm, he was not too happy about that one! I even approached him with the fact I kinda liked this open marriage thing. That wasn't ok in HIS eyes...he could do it, but NOT ME! Well, the sex comment opened his eyes. That is when my H came back to life!

FIM, I am not saying to say this to your H...I later told my H that it was not true! I did have lunch with him, but I never slept with him.

When you know in your heart that you dont want him, ONLY you can determine that! NO ONE can tel you that! You are not there yet...I hear the faith in you! You have hope and frankly so do I! I do think that your H will come home someday! I just hope his OW doesn't get herself PG!

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Faith -

Hope you are having a great day today. This story is getting better and better. I know it is sad for you, but it is soooooo delicious reading about your husband's predicament.

Now if we could just figure out where OW is.

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I found her.

She left a message for him on his VM (yeah, I broke down and checked). She's all whiny and sniffly asking why he won't answer his phone. She left name of the hotel she's at. I called and checked. She's registered. I asked for her room. She answered. I hung up.

She's in Phoenix.

His latest message says how he loves me and made a mistake. He said OW has been calling but he's not going to answer.

Whatever.

He misses me. He misses us. He misses our family.

Blah, blah, blah.

It must be chilly and lonely down there.

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Just a thought FIM. Is there anyway you can fix it for OW to hear/read any of these messages he's leaving you? It sure would help to burst her bubble, to know the things your H has been saying to you. She's been getting a different story from him all along. If only she had a chance to hear the truth, it would make for some interesting interactions between them when they do talk again. A bit of conflict would help kill the fantasy they share.

I'm not sure if that idea is MBs. Like I said, just a thought.

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Faith -

This is too gooooooood. If your husband believes in God at all, this has got to have him thinking. And bless your MIL. I can't even think about being in your hsuband's position. Here his mom has prayed for you two, and he is stuck in Eureka (gotta love that!), you found out what he was planning, and OW is in Phoenix. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!

So how long are you going to leave him there?

I really think that you can sit back and relax. The Lord is going to do this one for you.

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I'm gonna leave him there till he can get his own butt out of there!

FIM has always been there for him. Had his truck been pointing north instead of south, I might have a different inclination.

Being that it wasn't though, I think it's time he actually lives with a consequence of his decisions.

MIL told him he needed to get back home and that God had given him enough signs. She's willing to wire him the money but it won't get there until Monday.

That's a cryin' shame <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" />

Know what I told her we're doing? Oldest D has her first volleyball game of the year today, then we're going to come home and make hot cocoa and pumpkin bread, sit in front of the fire and cuddle in our jammies watching scaryish movies before putting some finishing touches on our Halloween decorations.

Guess what MIL is going to be sure to tell WH?

Those thoughts of his little cozy family might help keep him warm over this weekend.

Dork!
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Faith - I love it. Please take care of you and daughters. Have a wonderful day, and forget about WH. I'm sure he will be back soon. And I think he may be a changed man.

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FIM,

I do think it is awesome that your H is finding that time to reflect which he so badly wanted. It is nice that he can really MISS you as he wanted to too.

God works in mysterious and glorious ways sometimes.

(((hugs))) for this difficult time in your relationship.

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My goodness. Could he be more irritating if he TRIED?

He's on the move. The truck was fixed with money he had in his own account...it was much cheaper than he thought it would be. He had left a message that he would be staying there (it's Yreka, not Eureka....my bad!) overnight since the truck wouldn't be fixed until the end of the day.

It wasn't true. Hard to believe, and yet it is so. When he left that message he would have been getting out of town.

I found out because I found the account number to this oh-so-secret-account. I called and said I was him. WH has a pretty masculine Spanish name and the guy on the other line questioned it really being him. He asked me twice, "Any your Mr. FIM?"

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> YEP! I sure am.

They check your identiy with a social security number and birthday....both of which I had so they had no choice but to help me. hehe.

Well, he got gas in Redding and Dunnigan, California.

Dumba$$. He ALWAYS gets caught. Why even do this to himself. Dork.

So, I called. I shouldn't have, but I did.

He admitted it....after trying to act dumb. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> Says he's NOT going to see OW. He's heading to SAT where he will get his stuff from her since she'll be back there by then. Then, he thinks he's going to head home because his little experiment is proving true.

He's longing for me. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

If I keep rolling my eyes like this, they're gonna get stuck. It'll be HIS fault too!

He really thinks that his taking this time to himself...including going to SAT....is something I'll eventually think is good. It'll HELP our marriage in the end. He's going to get so much out of this.

He needs it because....

He's the broken one.
He's the volitile one.
He's the confused one.
He's the one who has been questioning our R.

Whew!! So glad he told me that. I've been thinking I was the one feeling that way. Now I know I don't have to because he is.

Broken! I'd like to show him broken! And he hasn't seen volitile yet!

Anyway, he says that he super-dee-duper misses me and is getting so much clarity from this LONGING he's feeling. He really feels that he's on the right track.

Seeing OW in SAT will give him CLOSURE. He's only going to see her to get his stuff. And say goodbye.

Don't forget, he's LONGING for me now. He KNOWS seeing her won't change anything. He'll be in and out before anything can happen.

Prize for FIM..I didn't take the bait on the in and out statement. It was just too damn easy to run with it.

And although he knows he's lied and I have no reason to believe him, he'll show me and prove to me how good this idea of his is in the long run. When he comes home he knows he'll be the kind of man he can be proud to be. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

He knows this because he's LONGING for me right now. He is so proud to have me for his wife. The best thing he ever did was have the divorce dismissed.

I hope that the sarcasm that is lacing my voice is coming through here.

This is just about funny, really. I had a feeling about it. That's why I checked it. I called her hotel and she's there in Phoenix. No way he's making it there tonight. She sounded pretty bad, like she'd been crying. Her voicemails, yeah I checked that too again, are still whiny and crying too. He's not answering and she's not happy. She also seems to think he's supposed to already be there and is worried because he's running so late.

I do believe he hasn't told her he's not coming.

Is it odd that I'm more amused by his antics than anything else? There are other emotions too, but not nearly as strong as that.

I've decided to stop looking. I'm staying dark this time. When I found out he was on the go again I wanted to bust him. I'm not going to put myself in that position again.

He does need to figure this out. He KNOWS the answer. He needs to find his way out of the dark by himself though. We'll see what happens then.

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FIM,

Okay, I'll bite on this one. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

You are a Christian.

The Lord says, be wise as a snake and as innocent ans a dove.

Keep yourself in knowledge.

Thank God for it. Pray and do what God might have you do.

Knowledge is power. Don't react, LB or abuse the info that God gives you.

Anyway, I am praying for you.

Most of all, step back and do what is healthiest for you, children and your marriage. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Love in Christ,
Miss M

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FIM.

No matter what, I could not get the edit to happen.

That would be:

Be wise as as snake and as innocent as a dove. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Love in Christ,
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Will this man ever be able to tell the truth again. The lies just keep spewing out and he gets caught every time. Unbelieveable. It would just be so incredible if you could get there and surprise them. Keep strong and I hope your daughter won her volleyball game <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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"Seeing OW in SAT will give him CLOSURE. He's only going to see her to get his stuff. And say goodbye."

WAT !!!

Your boat is safe! (He emailed me concerned I had lost his boat in a bet) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Believer!!!.... your Harley is safe too.

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Dang.
He is a card that H of yours.

Yah, Faith go dark. Darker than ever before on the man.

You can't do anything else and have any good results at this point.

Have a really good Sunday (I say with camp couselor enthusiasm to help you along)

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Wait a minute!!! What about that JOB that he was SUPPOSED to be going to based out of SAT?? Whatevre happened to THAT <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> Is he just bailing on that JOB now..that all so important JOB he HAD to go to based out of SAT???

FIM! When he does come back home, you need to just assume he has been with her...because you KNOW he will be with her. And if he says NO he hasn't been with her, just look at him and say "sure honey, I believe you! Whatever"

This man CAN tell the truth again, but not until he has ended the affair. It's amazing how they lie and lie again and soon enough he will be lying so much he wont be able to keep up weith all the lies. That one comes stratigh from my H mouth. He said he was lying so much he couldn't keep up with them anymore! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

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I've been here reading the latest, FiM.

AMAZING!

I know you plan to go DARK. I also know you are an Uber Plan A girlie. So, just a reminder that you need to be very strong in staying dark.

Is there anything we can do to help you?

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