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Originally Posted by Vows4Good
I'm sorry to say I know all too well what you mean. I do not think I can ever feel the same again about my husband, our marriage, anything. Knowing he obviously didn't feel the same way about our wedding vows as I did really bothers me, and knowing he could lay aside the fact that I exist and neglect me so he could spend him time with her, really bothers me. Knowing he didn't care how I'd feel about his sexual activity and emotional involvement with some tramp bothers me. I mean if he cared so much, how could he do it? Just thinking I'd never find out isn't good enough for me, I want to know HOW COULD HE DO THIS?! I mean if anyone has been neglected in this marriage, it's me not him, yet I was faithful. I was always high in the sex dept. so why did he go outside our marriage? They talk about Plan A, h_ll, I've LIVED "Plan A" with him since we were married! I just don't get anything. I think he's selfish and incapable of loving at least the way I thought he would love me. I think he has lied to me from Day one and conned me and I don't think there's a lot of hope. I don't even know why I'm giving him another chance. Maybe it's just the anger because it's been 3 1/2 months since D-day, maybe my anger is kicking in. I feel like I have every RIGHT to feel angry and I'm tired of trying to understand and be nice!


Well you have every right to be angry, as do I. I'm at the anger phase myself. More angry at HER than him at the moment. I'm thinking of so many ways to lash out though none of it will probably do any good. I'm mostly just hurt when it comes to my H. How he could even say "I love you" and then be with her! UGH!!
Lived in Plan A too, yet I really didn't know it for the longest time. Sometimes I feel like straying myself and taking pics for him to see me with another man. He says he is sorry and trying to make things right but it's not taking away what he's done to me. It doesn't make me forget the lies he told me over and over.
I feel like leaving him would hurt him really bad and that is what he deserves. Sadly I know it will hurt my kids most and I hate the idea of that. Sometimes I feel like staying makes him hink "Yeah, I cheated and got away with it. I don't have to pay for my actions." It's a dirty secret I hate keeping. Then the ones you do tell you feel like an a$$ around them for staying in the relationship. It just feels like a lose-lose situation sometimes.

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It IS a lose-lose situation for us, unless they "get it" and are truly remorseful and do everything they can to make this up to us by being the H they should be.
I was told that 6 mos. is the worst and I'm only at 3 1/2...I don't even want to see what 6 mos. feels like.
The things you are saying...what you want is for him to feel what you felt and know how bad he hurt you, how wrong he is...but having an A of your own would not accomplish anything good, it would just lower yourself to being like him and you really don't want that. Keep on keeping on, maybe someday this will all pay off for us all...at any rate, we'll know so we can make an educated decision.


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i know for me, the details were excruciating but absolutely necessary for me to even consider moving on ... i had to and still have to know everything...and as i come with new questions, my WH is willing to give details...even if he knows they are painful... that's my personality though, some people are better off not knowing.

I'm sorry you are going through this, i know the pain, and it's primal!!


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I asked. I was told everything. It hurt. I didn't like it. I still don't like it 2 1/2 years out. We're in recovery. You need to know whatever you need to know. I'll tell you the truth...find it all out now, and if you can live with it and they get the severity of what they've done, stay. If you can't, what's going to happen if you do find out someday? If it happens again, do what you have to do. I had suspicions that there was more to it than I was told for six months and I finally dragged it out of her - every single detail. I made her answer explicit and uncomfortable questions just to make her say the words. It changed her attitude towards what she had done. It became real.


D-Day #1 6/26/2007
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