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Oh...and btw...you were the OW and you did not potentially cause a divorce for her family...YOU DID.

Just a mirror showing you the words you wrote but worded back a bit differently.

Please seek healing and forgiveness and I pray you are able to work this out.


me:37 BS; s:7; xh:38; OW:26;eloped w/OW 1 wk after D: 12/29/03. OC born 3/17/04. Happy! Blessed to be the mother of a wonderful son..great profession..Life's good!
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Oh....btw...I do know that I was involved in the ending of the marriage of my H and EW. I apologized to her 8 years ago and she still has not gotten even slightly over it. We share their 3 children, they have practically grown up in my house and she and I still never speak. She still "brainwashes" them into not even speaking to me when in my home. She is causing them more mental damage than the divorce. My EH and his new wife are civil to each other when regarding my children. I give her the benefit of the doubt in helping to raise them because she/they have no children of their own. My children like and respect her. I have worked hard on building a relationship with my step children but their mother tears it down every chance she gets. I accept them, love them, worry about them, they are a part of my life and my boys life but you would think that they were strangers. My H has tried to build the relationship between us but thier mother won't allow it.
She still will tell "her story" to people she meets that knows me, she has had a boyfirend for about 6 years, she needs to move on!
I am sorry for the pain I caused her, I did/do feel very guilty, still even prior to my own H's affair. It has come to a point, where she gets too much out of telling her story and living in the past. I don't know what else to do. I can understand how she is getting pleasure out of seeing my pain, but the A's were very different. An A is an A, I get that...but how can she condemn me and be friends with my OW who did so much more damage to our family as a whole?

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Jilly - I hope you will jump over and post on General Questions II. There is more traffic there, and you will get more answers.

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Wow Jilly...I didn't spew hate at you...I told you to seek FORGIVENESS..AUTHENTIC FORGIVENESS NOT LIPESERVICE...

and for 2for2? who are YOu? I didn't know you were an OW, but so you were/are. It is what itis.

I am saying to TRULY FORGIVE...AGAIN, HONEY YOUR WORDS...

"I am not trying to justify my own A. It was wrong and a long time ago. I am trying to save my marriage now to learn from past mistakes and to be a better person. I realize that I deserve the hate of you and any other BS out there."

If you can say that Jilly hon, that a BW out here in MB land can ask you to truly and authentically seek forgiveness and REPENTANCE from a BW and a BH, then what is wrong with that? I didn't spew hate. Ididn't say I hated you. I disliked your actions.

If you don't want to dance w/the karma train, then I would seriously be REAL WITH YOURSELF...and seek authentic forgiveness from the BW and YOUR XH...for the pain caused and the families ripped apart. Start again with your present marriage from ground zero. GROUND ZERO.

I am not saying anything about hate. I am saying about forgiving NOW AND ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS IF YOU WANT THIS MARRIAGE TO LAST. to begin anew. as YOUR FIRST BEGINNING IN YOUR MARRIAGE WASN'T EXACTLY RIGHT...I mean, we don't even know if kids were involved or not.

PLEASE OWN YOUR OWN ACTIONS...AND SEEK SOLUTIONS THAT TRUTHFULLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS...which is why you're here right? I don't want to discourage you from posting here, but can't you see that I just want you to find a centering place and work and begin from there.

I will not nor will ever believe the words about how "good your xh's bw is" about your affair then marriage. Not so. Can't do it. And I am the hippest bw you'll ever find. I even forgave the wistress last year...and cried with her when HE BETRAYED HER. Yea he did too.

Just like yours is doing now honey.

They don't change.

That's why I want you to try to make a concerted effort b/w both you two to TRULY ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR AFFAIR AND FOR THE DESTROYING OF THE TWO MARRIAGES...then and only then can you begin anew. It's the first step.

You gotta get real and get your heart right.

My xh's ow, the wistress as I call her, begged me last year for my forgiveness...but it was b/c she thought she was going to divorce my now xh,..and saw $$$$. It was NOT AUTHENTIC. And she is NOT MY FRIEND. She is still THE ENEMY OF MY FAMILY.

I beg of you to do the right thing. And to begin anew.


me:37 BS; s:7; xh:38; OW:26;eloped w/OW 1 wk after D: 12/29/03. OC born 3/17/04. Happy! Blessed to be the mother of a wonderful son..great profession..Life's good!
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2,

This is my last post here and it is to you. I wanted to give you an email that you can contact me by if you wish to remain in contact. It is justjilly2@hotmail.com

Feel free to email me anytime as I would like to keep in touch with you.

I have deleted all my post here except this one and one final in GII.

I hope that you and your husband make it. This site is not meant for me. As a former OW and one who married her affair partner my marriage isn't considered legit. I understand why they say it but it doesn't hurt any less. I am hurting enough as it is and coming here just makes me feel more of a worthless person than I already do.

If you don't want to keep in touch I will understand. Thank you for your kindness to me here...I will forever be grateful to God that I met you.

Love,
Jilly


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