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Well in my case, OW#1 was younger, pretty (enhanced by botox and surgery) and wealthy but she was as dumb as dirt. OW#2 was attractive (she also had aqua lungs) but was very smart (she scared me more than OW#1). They both were major party girls (translate: alcoholics).


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My H chose someone 10 years younger who was flailing her over-ripe eggs at him like they were dessert!

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that's a very very funny visual...

well done

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This latest one was literally as old as my mother!! Yuck! I have very pleasant thoughts of my mother and CANNOT imagine someone her age would act the way that this retarded OW has. Yuck again!


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Well, we don't!! Can ya think of something real creative and real SILLY to say about him? c'mon!

Well, much of our problems was over having kids.

And I don't mean any offense to our "elder" posters, but I always felt that FWW's OM was old enough that she might be changing diapers soon enough anyway.

Does that count?


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Well, we don't!! Can ya think of something real creative and real SILLY to say about him? c'mon!

Well, much of our problems was over having kids.

And I don't mean any offense to our "elder" posters, but I always felt that FWW's OM was old enough that she might be changing diapers soon enough anyway.

Does that count?

ok, that is a START! GOOD! So this guy was a GEEZER on da fast track to wearing DEPENDS? grin


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Well, I've never seen OW because she lives in another state, but she's our age, divorced a couple of times, has filed bankruptcy a couple of times and lives in a slummy area. WH said she was a bar biatch. I picture her with a mullet, bottled hair color, etc. because he said that he knew he could take me out in public and not worry (I'm no super model, but I spend a lot of money on high end clothes, make up, hair etc). I'm an ex-corporate type and WH used to call me a yuppie, so sounds like OP is completely opposite. Where I considered him my equal life partner, OP has him on a pedestal.

I have read that it is common to affair down.


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6-3-07 - Dday#2 Found out NC never took place and A never ended. Found MB NC promised again, but WH would not write NC letter.

9/07 - Dday #3. Still lying and sneaking around. Plan B implemented
WH wants nothing to do with me

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Oh thank you Chai, I almost forgot the legal parts of OW.

Driving around in WH's car on a suspended license with 4, count them 4 outstanding tickets.

I wish I was a cop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Okay, without emotion or embellishment, the FACT is that my FWH did choose from the lowest branch when he chose his AP.

She is a woman who calls herself a swinger, although her husband does not participate in EMRs. She participates actively in group sexual activity, and trawls for men on the Internet and in local bars, or wherever she can find them. Obviously, combs the homes of her friends for possible partners, too.

We both have college degrees, however, my GPA at 4.0 definitely outpaces hers. She was not able to find employment in the area in which she holds a degree, which BTW, ought to have given her almost instant job security.

She has not read a book for research, fun, or other reasons (if you don't count The Cat in the Hat or reading to her kids) since, well, SHE SAYS, "In YEARS".

During most conversations with her I have had to define words for her that I use daily.

She chews her toenails.

She does not have the ability to apply make-up with appropriate sense for her age and coloring.

Her lack of vocabulary leaves her unable to understand many jokes, especially puns. At social gatherings, it is often the case that others have to explain jokes to her.

On many occasions, people have said to me, "Is she just stupid, or what?" When I have told them she has a college degree, they are shocked - and I am NOT lying - this has occurred three times that I distinctly remember.

She owned one business, and decided to sell it because, and I quote, she "just had to work there". ????????? Now, she has opened another business. I am wondering if she has to work there?


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Originally Posted by schoolbus
She chews her toenails.

laugh laugh laugh

That's a quality woman right there! Haha smile

'My' OW reads that same books as my 12 year old daughter. LOL, oh wait, she's only 7 years older than DD.


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I am wondering if she has to work there?
Maybe not, she could hire people if you get my drift. wink

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She chews her toenails.

She does not have the ability to apply make-up with appropriate sense for her age and coloring.
Thanks SB for the reminders, sorry to copy once again.

OW chews her nails when she is pissed as she did that day i showed up at the lacrosse game. Oh, and she has black liner all around her eyes, no makeup and a nose that even a *edit* would be ashamed of.

She is 46, but looks over 50 and LONG black hair with bangs.

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Originally Posted by QueeniesNewLife
Oh, and she has black liner all around her eyes, no makeup and a nose that even a *edit* would be ashamed of.


Cooper edited out my "racial" description.

Let's see what happens to this one.

My reference was demographic and not racial, cooper needs to brush up his education a bit. I have a brain injury and know the difference between demographic and race.

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In my case, OW is essentially my complete opposite.
However she looks superficially like I did when WH and I met apart from her age is showing.


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Of course just by virtue of someone being the OM or the OW they are automatically unattractive, no matter how attractive they look.

OW in my situation? Well, she went to college, I didn't. Gray affaired UP in that department. Now she spends all her money on him. She's probably paying for his lawyer, too.

Looks? Well, I don't normally talk about mine but in this case I'll make an exception.

It's like comparing a red rose with velvety petals to a moldy slab of cheese.

How's that? wink

Let's see...she's licensed to carry a weapon. OOOOOOOOOOOOH!! I'm SO impressed!!

I could out-shoot her any day of the week and I haven't fired a weapon in years.

Oh yeah, and her husband has MS. Yeah, so that's real nice, Slag, let's cheat on him and cause angst, that will help with his condition, sure. 'ho' to the Nth degree!!!!!

I will REALLY be laughing if I find out she hired the same lawyer as Mr. Gray, since OWH hired mine!! LOL!! I'll have to ask Shiny about that. Or I may find out myself if they need me at OWH's temp hearing.

I have my fingers crossed!! I would LOVE to help OWH out!! He's keen!

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Originally Posted by not2fun
No it is not typical of an affair partner.

The COW in my sitch is beautiful (more than me, I am not so sure....),an amazing figure (saw her "pictures"...something I could have done without... sick), professional earning $200,000.00 per year, supposedly a good mother, well respected and liked (I know of others in the industry that sing her praises... sick) and well kept. Oh, her one bad thing is that she is 10 yrs. older than my WS, 9 yrs. older than me...but according to my WS that didn't matter....(rolley-eyes...)

BUT I have to remind myself that SHE can never raise to my level no matter what she does. SHE broke her vows, SHE was willing to throw HER children under the bus, SHE spread her legs willingly, SHE gave up her morals and virtue....I DID NOT.....SHE is still BENEATH ME.....I did not deserve this NO MATTER HOW "GREAT" SHE MAY HAVE BEEN....

And I can tell you that it is just as hard to deal with someone who "seems" like a good person on the outside, but the inside is just the same as if she where some kind of trailer-trash junkie with kids by multiple fathers (like some of the OW others on here are dealing with....)....

just my opinion.....

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I take it all back....She is DEFINATELY not prettier than me..... just an old used up lack of morals/principles COW......

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Well, I have never seen the OW, but here is what I do know:

Quit school in her home country in the 6th grade because she said she didn't want to work hard enough to learn English. She has been in the USA for 10 years and refuses to learn English and is not a citizen. During the A, they actually had a translator!!!!!!! One of her co-workers translated. YUCK!!!

She doesn't drive, doesn't own anything, lives with her son in HIS house.

She had 2 children, boys, with a man she never married(I suspect HE was married!) She had an affair with a married man that produced a daughter, but no marriage for HER. Then she came to the USA, married a man, had a daughter with him, he beat her, they got divorced, and then he he had a stroke and lived in her son's basement until they got him deported. And then of course, she had the affair with my H. Yuck again.

She cleans buildings for a living(I actually do not have a problem with that.)People think she is mean.

He said her cooking was awful.

She made fun of him because of his inability to...you know...with her.

My H says her skin is terrible, she is flat-chested and has skinny legs. The things he he has ALWAYS found most attractive about me were my soft, clear skin, my(shall we say) "buxomness" and my curvy legs. Go figure.

I have a college degree, a teaching certificate(although I don't teach). I am a professional musician. I have a VERY public, professional job. I am well-liked. I have lots of friends and family who all LOVE him.I have always praised him and appreciated him, faults and all.

I am not a movie star, but small children don't run screaming when they see me.

I own my home and have run a successful business. I am a FABULOUS cook.

She didn't like sex or kissing or touching. I LOVE sex and my H was NEVER wanting and KNEW that I find him to be the sexiest man who walks the earth.

He admits ALL this and can't figure out what the H*** was wrong with him.

Just writing this out makes me want to go smack him on the head. I better stop writing and find my "happy place".

Sigh.

He DEFINITELY "affaired down".

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