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I've wondered this a lot. She for sure knows he is married and has kids (I met her once, earlier). I'm sure he's feeding her lots of untruths about his life here, but I'm sure she doesn't care. She is my age but single, no kids - she has no idea what it takes to have a young family, or what it means to them to keep their dad. Still, I wonder if anything I say might appeal to her conscience? Or would it just make me crazy, or him protective of her?

(right after D-day, some friends of mine emailed her, not mean at all - just truthful things like 'walk away - you're destroying a beautiful family, etc.' and i guess she went to him crying and he got kind of protective, asked people to stop, etc. 'poor her' huh? aargh.


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3DS - now 10, 8, 6
Married 10 years
D-Day 10-5-07, lots of Plan B, etc.
Plan D --finalized 2-09

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I confronted the OW 2 days after she kissed my WH at work. She told me "You can cuss at me or whatever, I understand." I told her I wasn't angry, just more hurt than anything. I then attempted to explain how her "relationship" with my WH would only serve to hurt him, me and our children.

Toward the end of the conversation, she even promised to give me and my WH a months time to work out our problems....however she saw him the very next day and shortly there after, they had SF.

Nothing I said had any affect on her.

I tell you this, not to discourage you from contacting the OW, but merely to let you know not to expect anything from the conversation.

You may feel like you really got through to her, but all the while she is just letting your words flow in one ear and out the other.

OW are just as selfish and horrible as a WS....except they are even more detached from you and your situation than your WH is. She really couldn't care less about you and your children. So don't expect any sympathy at all from her. If she was a kind, caring, and feeling person, she wouldn't have engaged in an affair with your WH in an attempt to destroy your family.

My WH used to tell me frequently how "bad" his OW felt about cheating with my WH, that she "felt sorry" for me. Well, I must say that I actually feel sorry for her. She is nothing but a desperate sorry excuse for a woman with no morals or integrity.

And for all her talk, she certainly does not show any signs of ending her relationship with my WH.

So just know that going into such an discussion, the results may not be what you want and in fact may make you feel worse.


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I agree with Sara...

She is YOUR ENEMY...

Her main goal will be to use whatever you say AGAINST you...and to gain his sympathy...

This is between YOU and YOUR WH, IMO...

Hold your head high..chest out...STAY OUT OF THE GUTTER...keep away from that EVILNESS...


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What you should do is tell her PARENTS. That will get her attention and prevent her from bringing him home.


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Still, I wonder if anything I say might appeal to her conscience? Or would it just make me crazy, or him protective of her?


Phoenix,

I know what you're feeling. I, too, thought that I could appeal to OW, that she would be loyal to me if I was her friend.....and that she would refuse continued contact with my WH.

She wrote the most sincere sounding apologies and pledges to renew her R with her own H, to never speak to my WH again, to refuse his attempts to contact her....yada yada yada.....and the next day when my WH set up a secret email account, she betrayed me again....willingly, secretly.

Stupid me for thinking she would be truthful and stupid her for trying to keep in contact with WH, telling him one thing and emailing me another. In the end, her lies helped to defog my WH when he realized what a liar she really was/is. WH even said he figured she was cheating with another WH within a few months.

If I had known about MB, I would have exposed to her H and her principal....yes she was/is a highly regarded 'teacher of the year' still influencing young children....even getting her masters so that she can teach young teachers how to teach our children.

It's too late now, but at times I wish I had exposed to her school board to remove someone with her moral values from impacting our innocent children. But to do so now would be only out of spite and revenge. I did expose to OWH but OW has not attempted to contact my WH for over a year now, as far as I know.

In answer to your question, NO, don't waste your time trying to appeal to her conscience. She doesn't have one. What little conscience she might have is deluded and foggy at best and posessed at worst. The OW is your enemy like Mimi said. Dr. Harley told me that himself when I called the radio show for advice.

How do you know she knows your WH is married? If your WH told you this, most likely it is not true.

Best wishes,

Ace

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I called the OW. She never called me back. But I left her a voicemail message that said he was married and had a wife who loved him. I told her if she was any kind of woman she wouldn't be fooling around with somebody else's husband. That she was in fact a homewrecker and that she had no morals or honor.


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I was divorced 10/08/2008.


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