Scotland et al, unfortunately the military is not one of those jobs that you can quit and leave by giving two weeks notice. Berating her for what you see is their refusal to leave the job is not going to help because they really can't do anything about the situation other than perhaps volunteer for an overseas assignment - a possibility marinemom that you may want to look into - which again would require an approval. just up and leaving the military, especially in time of war, is known as desertion and the military kinda frowns upon that.
That is what I've been trying to say, thanks for explaining it more. Maybe since you also said it ppl will stop thinking that we are choosing H career over our M. Since that isn't the case.
Marinemom, as I have stated in the past, and which was somewhat corroborated by one of the other male posters to your thread, the biggest issue you face (and what is driving all of your current difficulties) is if your husband is going to be able to get past the fact that you had a child with another guy and let him think it was his for two years. Everything else is secondary - the women posting here may disagree, but then again I don't think they really truly can understand how a guy would feel in this case. If you want to have any shred of a chance in recovering your marriage you and your husband are going to need some big help. Have you contacted Behavioral Health Services or the Family Life people on base to set up counseling? I think they would have a better idea of military life than a civilian counselor. If your husband cannot get past his sense of anger and betrayal (and as I've said, not many men could in these set of circumstances) with professional help, it's not going to really matter where he works, or where you live, etc, because the root cause cannot be resolved. If you feel that your husband CAN'T get past what has happened, then I would negotiate a divorce. If he says that he CAN get past it, then he needs to work with you to rebuild your family. The so called affair he had was to rub it in your face, there's no excuse that he saw it as ok to use another human being to exact revenge upon you - he doesn't exactly stack up well as far as moral position goes, now does he? But it does show the amount of anger that he has inside and the fact that whatever little that you did od to recover your marriage initially didn't work very well. So it's time for him to either crap or get off the pot.
Marriagebuilders is a GREAT program but it only works if both partners are truly interested in recovering the marriage. Otherwise it's a waste of time.
I know we have our problems. H claims that he loves OC and will always see him as his son but at the same time says he feels like his first born son was stolen from him. I've stated if I had known that I was prego with OC and not HC I would of gotten an abortion (as horrible as some might see that I never wanted to have OM's C, I didn't want a C at 19 yr old either so if I had known I would of got one).
H says that he has let that anger go and that as messed up as it sounds that his A helped him let go.
No we didn't R right the first time we started out right but then just got lazy and stopped. I got fed up with H treating me like crap and using me like a doormat and H never got the help he needed to deal with the A he just pushed it down and let it fester and eat at him making him angrier and angrier.
Now we got to deal with both our A's. Of course I'm having a hard time because H works with OW and sees her daily. H claims to have nothing to do with her but their A was at work during work. I really want to believe him but I can't right now. I have no way to check on his stories, I don't have anyone to watch him and make sure he don't have C with OW and to make sure H is never alone with OW. All I have is what H tells me and how am I expected to believe that? When H found out about my A, OM wasn't around, lived in another state so it's not like H had to deal with the thoughts about me still having C or that I was still seeing OM but I do. Yes H has to deal with OC but so do I. I mean I honestly believed OC was HC. NO that don't make it better, it's still horrible what I did but I've forgiven myself for it. I wish I could change what happen but I can't and I wish that my son was H bio son so very much but I can't change that either. However I will not keep feeling like I should suffer for the rest of my life because of that mistake. I wouldn't change having my son for anything (I'd love to change his dna). I've accepted that life has to move forward and we can't dwell on the past. I know I can forgive H's A because I love him and want to be with him but until he has NC with OW I can't fully begin to start trusting him again. I know I can move forward because I want to be with H and want this M to be what I know it can be. No matter how crazy H drives me I still love him and can't picture my life without him in it. I want so bad to move forward but the daily C with OW is stopping me from being able to and that is what is killing me.
I�m willing to wait until the end of this class for H to transfer but if he isn't able to get one I'm not sure whether I'll be able to wait for a year. I really don't see me being able to. I really would love to be able to verify everything H tells me so I could begin to start trusting him again but that would involved getting a co-working involved and being able to believe that they aren't going to lie to me to help H.