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Here is my story, I will make try to make it as short as possible. About 9 months ago, I was very miserable in my marriage, my husband paid no attention to me we lived as if we were roommates and not married. I found an old friend on the internet and we began to talk and catch up on things. One thing lead to another and we ended up meeting up one weekend he lives in my hometown. He talked to me, made me feel special and intelligent. I had NEVER felt that way with my husband. I was falling for this guy. As quick as this affair started my husband found out and I ended it. Of course my husband is heart broken about the whole event and we decide to work on our marriage. He realized that he too needed to make some changes. Things were going great. Until I got a little bit of some information that I needed to watch my back because my husband was now cheating on me 9 months after my affair happened. I am a very computer saavy person so I snooped into everything I could of his. I found a number on my home caller ID and called it back it ended up being some girl. I confronted my husband about it and he said he had no idea who this girl was. I immediatley called our cell phone company and they pulled his call records for me and he called this number everyday numerous times. I then confronted him and he laughed about it. Telling me this was an old friend. Gee that sounds familiar. I knew deep down in my gut that he was lying but had no proof. I continued to grill him about her and he finally told me if I kept it up he would leave me. Once our phone bill came out I checked it and he had called this girl over 400 times and almost 400 text messages went back and forth. I told my husband I would pull all his text messages and he freaked out. He told me those are none of my bussines. When you are in a marriage everything is my business. RIGHT??? HE never apologzed to me because he insisted that nothing happened. I pointed out he could be sorry for giving someone else attention(which lead to my affair) running up our cell phone bill $300. Lying about knowing this girl. He never did. We finally seeked counciling and he admitted that his relationship was headed for an affair. He apologized but only because I was crying and the councelor asked him to do it. HE thinks that everything is fine and I still get freaked out about the whole thing every once in while will ask him for assurance that it wont happen again and he gets mad at me. I can't shake the feeling that he is still having contact with her. I have the feeling in my gut and like the last feelings that came true, I am sure this feeling is true also. How do I get him to understand even though he never had sex with this girl he still did something wrong. I need him to open up to me and talk to me about this situation so I can feel better. I did anything he asked after he found out about mine and he is not willing to do the same. I bought the book surviving an affair and he refuses to read it with me. I even went to the point to highlight the areas I feel he should read and he wont. I am just so confused. I hate this feeling that I am being lied to. I just need some advise on my situation
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Are you still snooping on him?
And can you please break your posts up in paragraphs so it will be easier to read? Thanks. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
"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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Yes, I am stilling snooping into everything of his. I am afraid he will get really upset if he finds out how far I have actually gone to snoop!
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When you are in a marriage everything is my business. RIGHT??? Yes, just like it was his business, back then, that you felt so unhappy and used that as an excuse to have an affair yourself. You should know why he's saying "its none of your business" even though its very much YOUR business. You felt and behaved the same way when you were doing it. Jo
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Almost guaranteed he is still in contact with the OW...and I would bet it is already a physical affair. He shows all of the classic signs...denials...threats to leave...indifference to your feelings...multitudes of texts and phone calls...just friends...lies...cover ups...etc...etc...this is an open and shut case...keep searching you will find your proof.
BS - 38 (me)
WW - 32
S - 4 (with me)
Married 7 years
DDay - 8/18/06 (PA)
Sep - 10/23/06 - moved back 5/22/07 - out again 6/8/07
Status - Divorce official 7/24/2007
"I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."
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Thank you, I really thought I was making myself crazy by continuing to think something is still going on and all this snooping is making me tired. I just need to know that I am not crazy thinking this and should continue to search.
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