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I'll ask if he'll come here, but it seems he isn't speaking to me and doesn't plan to for at least a few days. So I will as soon as he speaks to me again.


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Originally Posted by allfalldown
I'll ask if he'll come here, but it seems he isn't speaking to me and doesn't plan to for at least a few days. So I will as soon as he speaks to me again.

alldfalldown, it would be helpful for us to get his perspective. What do you think is his biggest obstacle to reconciliation?


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Originally Posted by allfalldown
...I can see there is not much place here for a WS like myself who desires reconciliation and is trying to take all the rights steps without interest or cooperation of the BS.
Allfalldown, a mere month past D-Day, it's far too early to be judging your husband's motives & interests. He is still riding the emotional roller-coaster that all betrayed spouses feel, irrespective of whether the infidelity is emotional, physical or both. With new information, and with (already) a broken "no-contact" washing over his decks, he's hunkered down fearing what might come next. It's altogether plausible that he's still too much in a "How do I get through the next hour/day?" mode to be able to think what he wants for the long term.

You must be patient, allfalldown. That's the least you can do for him right now.

If you've read the "Lurkers" thread, then you've met me. Three years ago, I was the unfaithful spouse. It was a full-blown affair. In many ways, it was as bad as it gets.

Your constant course of action in these early days has to be to cut your husband lots of slack. When you get the book "Surviving An Affair" (or on this site, if you don't want to wait), read about the Rules of Protection, Care, Honesty and Time. And strive to implement them each & every day.

In time, for your marriage to recover & become better than it was before your affair, your husband will probably need to get on-board. Obviously, there were needs of yours that weren't being met. Perhaps he wasn't doing his best, and/or perhaps you weren't doing a proper job of communicating your needs to him. BUT either way, not having needs met doesn't justify what you allowed to occur. I learned the hard way that close opposite-sex friendships with people other than my spouse are absoutely impermissable. They work in movies & on TV shows, but in real life, they lead you to a point where you end up paying cash for a hotel room somewhere so that it won't show up on a credit card statement. That's assuredly where you were headed, and that's not how you want to live, is it?

And this OM is not someone whom you'd want to live with, if you saw him as he is. Yes, he "understands" you in a way -- but not in the way that you think! How do I know this? Because my affair partner was also married -- so I was someone's OM myself. Go read my post to PleaseSetMeFree: http://forum.marriagebuilders.com/u...in=164736&Number=2574819#Post2574819

Have no doubt about this: No man who'd willingly intrude on another man's marriage, and cultivate a relationship that by its very existence injures that poor man (your husband), is worth even a puddle of cold spit when in the midst of such conduct. No relationship that has to be concealed is worth having. That your OM is willing to be an instrument of injury to your husband -- a man whom he's never even met & who has never done him a shred of harm! -- says all that needs to be said about the worthiness of your OM's character right now. Just as I was when I was an OM, your OM is morally corrupt. He will take what you give him, and he will invest the effort necessary to keep his doors open for receiving it. You are, for him, an option, not a commitment. You want to know what your OM thinks of you? Don't ask him, because people in active affairs will lie to you, point-blank. Ask me. I'll keep it real for you, even if you don't like the answer.

You've discovered that withdrawal is real & that it can be a b*tch. But you need to make it stick. If you haven't changed all of your e-mail & cellphone addresses & given your husband passwords to any accounts of yours, then you haven't done enough. You cancel your Skype account so that he can't contact you, and you just don't do Skype, period, anymore, unless it's from your husband's account with your husband there next to you.

Stick around. Read. Learn. If you've got questions, ask me.


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Hang in there. I am the WS and I often feel like they are beating me up but in reality I think they are trying to to the best of THERE abilities. Everyone has a different outlook. You may not agree but do listen and do take there advice.


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Originally Posted by senninpaswife
Hang in there. I am the WS and I often feel like they are beating me up but in reality I think they are trying to to the best of THERE abilities. Everyone has a different outlook. You may not agree but do listen and do take there advice.

Thanks?

Actually, what the posters do here is use what WORKS.


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Originally Posted by allfalldown
I just don't know that it's a good place for him if he has no desire to reconcile. What do you think?


I have no desire to reconcile and I'm on here all the time. laugh

The posters will be interested in healing HIM and helping him with what HE wants to do. They can help him with the emotional rollercoaster every BS gets to ride. One day up- next day down, its murder.

People who havent been through it dont get it, so it will be good for him to have other BSs to talk to.

You have to give him reasons to want the marriage - he may or may not want to buy what you are selling.

But either way he is in an awesome amount of pain right now. I'm six months past D-day and doing ok, but the memory of that initial, searing pain can still stop me cold.

And I never had an NC promise violated. That must suck, to put it mildly.

Keep on, keeping on though. I see some promise here.


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Oh and listen to gloveoil!


What would you do if you were not afraid?

"Fear is the little death. Fear is the mind-killer" Frank Herbert.

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Originally Posted by indiegirl
I have no desire to reconcile and I'm on here all the time. laugh

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Keep on, keeping on though. I see some promise here.

Me too.

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Cheers Pep. I am as happy as I have ever been though!

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What would you do if you were not afraid?

"Fear is the little death. Fear is the mind-killer" Frank Herbert.

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