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My husband left me 2 months ago. He left because I questioned him about a 24 year old woman he ask been texting. After that over Instant Message he told me he was leaving. He said he has had enough and doesn't want to be married anymore. I didn't think we had been fighting or anything was wrong. We have been married for 5 1/2 years, and have 1 child together, and 1 each from a previous marriage. We both are 29 years old. When we got married we told each other no matter what if things got bad we would go to counseling, that divorce was never going to be an option. Well, now he won't go to counseling, I go every two weeks, but he has only gone twice. He is a basketball coach and is just wrapping his entire life into basketball. He used to never text message because he said it was a pain, now he has 6900 text messages a month. He is texting this 24 year old woman all day every day and he will not stop. He is living with his sisters boyfriend that lives 1 hour away. He rarely spends time with the kids; he was a wonderful dad before he left me. He said he isn't going to file for divorce until we have debt paid off, because we can't afford it now. He will not talk to me about anything. If I bring it up he just gets more angry with me. All he will let me discuss with him is finances and the kids. I tried to get him to read His Needs Her Needs, but he said there is no point. He wants to be single again, he wants to be able to do what he wants when he wants. He said he plans to be single for the rest of his life. He grew up in a christian family, his father is a baptist preacher. He has totaly turned away from God, and any beliefs that he had prior to him leaving. I don't want to divorce, and I don't know what to do to try and save our marriage.

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Sorry for your situation. You might want to have this moved to the infidelity forum.

Mods?

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sad part is once he is free of you the 24 ow will be gone and he just ruined his whole life because of that.

First thing is first let EVERYONE know of this affair, your family, his family, his friends everyone. Once it is out in the open it has a better chance at ending.

Once that is done he will be so pissed at you but that is par for the course, you have to do plan A to get things back on track.

That is the starting point.


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JHaskins, I would click on the notify button and ask the mods to move this to the Surviving an Affair forum. Your H has left so he will be free to carry on his affair with the 24 year old.

The folks over there can help you try and restore your marriage.


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You have to expose the affair to his parents, his siblings, your parents/siblings, the OW's parents and siblings, and his friends.

You will never get him back if you don't tell all these people what he has done.


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