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Hi Jen, what a surprise to see you around! I’m glad things are going so well in your life! laugh

I was also gone for a long while and although I don’t post regularly anymore, I’ve recently send an update to this forum on great news me and my H received e.g. a great gift and miracle from God - I’m finally pregnant after almost 12 yrs of marriage! laugh It still feels so unreal and I must remind myself everyday that I'm not dreaming!

Anyway, just wanted to say “Hi” and share the good news with you too!

God Bless,
Suzet

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Zen,

I haven’t read the whole thread, but sine you’re still in withdrawal from the OM, here is a thread you might find helpful (it’s a guide on withdrawal I’ve compiled a few years ago):

http://www.marriagebuilders.com/ubbt/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1354401&fpart=1

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Suzet....


I just wanted to say I love the link you provided. You had some incrediable insight in there.....I even bumped it up...(I've been here 6 months and have never seen this one...and since we are just beginning recovery, it was good info for this stage in the game....)

anyway, thanks oh and congradulations on the preggers.... wink

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HI JEN!!!

Good to see you back. This place is in need of your advice.

Zen, so your H thinks you sugar coated things??? Fine. So he has no problems with you having an affair on him, is that what you are saying???

Please clarify this for me. If he really has no problems with your affair, then why are you on marriage builders? What help would you really like?

God Bless,

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Sorry about all this threadjacking - just had to say congratulations to Suzet, that is WONDERFUL news and to say Hi to JL.

I haven't read this whole thread yet. I hope I'll be able to help.

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Zen,

I am a WW and am only 2 months out from d-day. I was doing the exact same thing you are. It might help to read my thread. Trying to move forward, PLEASE HELP is the subject title. If you read through the whole thing you should notice some similarities.

Anyways, I wanted to pass on something that was asked of me.

Thanks Pep, this one was a real eye opener for me.
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You committed adultery because you felt entitled to drop your personal standards.

Here is a question:

Why weren't you concerned with dropping your personal standards to the level of adultery? (exclude any mention of what anyone else did - this is about you and you alone)

Also, if you havent already, please read Resonance's Inside the Wayward Mind

When the fog clears you will be able to see more clearly.

I hope this helps you in the way it has helped me.

P.S. The people on here are not trying to hurt you, but like I was told
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I don't care if you like me. My goal is to help guide you toward RECOVERY. I respect you as a woman, as a human being, and as a married person trying to recover.

When I see that you are steering toward a brick wall at high speed - I will get your attention and try my best to influence you to steer in a new direction. You may not always be pleased with how I get your attention, but remember, my goal is to help you avoid further damage, not to be liked.


I think that it is safe to say that the people replying to you feel this same way. We can see what you cannot through the fog. We have BTDT!!


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Me- FWW, 26
H- BS, 27
Together 11 yrs. 9-4-98
Married 8 yrs. 10-27-01
DS,7 ; DD,3 ; DS,2
D-Day 5-3-08
NC established 5-7-08

*** UPDATED 8-6-13 ***

Me- BS, 30
H- FWS, 31
Together 14 yrs. 9-4-98
Married 11 yrs. 10-27-01
DS,11 ; DD,7 ; DS,6
D-Day 4-6-13
NC established 5-3-13
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Originally Posted by zen07
You know I was just talking to my H about what you guys were saying and he wants me off this site. When I told him what I said he thought I was being kind. His version of our first 11 years is worse than mine. I am not rewriting history to justify my A. We are trying to find out how to create a good marriage when there was no foundation to beging with. Have others done this? Like he said he is not hurting so much from the A as from all the bad stuff that happened in the years before.

Your husband is in a fog of his own. Your emotions are controlling YOU. So are HIS. He doesn't have the knowledge to understand himself or you. The good news is that in time, your feelings will change as you lose the hormonal charge. And so will his.

Reality check:

Your OM is a scumbag for having sex with a MARRIED woman. He is no hero.

You are NOT a kind and caring person at this point in your life, look at what you are doing to your kids and what about the OM's family??????????

LISTEN to the FORMER wayward wives on here who are trying to tell you that you are mouthing a script, one they have heard before because they said it; it was garbage then and garbage now.

The brain chemicals controlling you right now are like Meth in the way they work. In other words, you are an addict. Unlike Meth, eventually the chemicals will wear off and you will be looking at the disaster you have created with your choices.

Think about doing the right thing instead of what God has said is wrong: Adultery.

Larry

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