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Is seeking medical for AD worth the time and money?

Yes, anti-depressants have helped many people. Wellbutrin has lower side effects than many others. If you are feeling some depression, you should tell your doctor about what is going on.

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WW did a session of honesty and reveal.

More information than she previously provided to you?

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WW says more than sorry and pretty much willing and is doing anything she can. Which is one reason why I want to believe I have the whole truth. The other is the facts I have surrounding the hotel visits do fit with her details. NO SEX! I know this is hard for any man to believe, but many women agree with NO SEX! Her parents also believe there was NO SEX!

Then there should be absolutely NO problem with her taking a Poly to prove there wasn't any sex!


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Originally Posted by kingsrr
[. NO SEX! I know this is hard for any man to believe, but many women agree with NO SEX! Her parents also believe there was NO SEX!

Please note that the WOMEN on this forum don't believe it. And we have the advantage of being familiar with cheaters. If your wife is telling the truth, then she should pass her polygraph with flying colors!


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Waywards don't meet their affair partners in hotel rooms unless it is to have sex. I am also a woman and I don't believe her story for one second.

If she's lying to you about this, it makes me very very suspicious that the affair has just gone further underground.


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It's pretty clear that your WW is very hopeful the poly will never be followed through with.

My ex also swore on a stack of bibles that he had told me "the whole truth" and enthusiastically agreed to poly. It never happened....I later found out he, in fact, was still hiding things...a lot of things....

We actually see this a lot on the forums....it's a bad combination of a BS wanting to believe their WS and just move on to recovery + gaslighting wayward....and that's why we push people not to put it on the back burner.

If you don't get the truth, you are facing a false recovery. And NOBODY here -- I repeat NOBODY -- wants to see you endure that.


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I found that my wife was doing many many things behind my back. I have discovered over 400 texts a day between WW and OM; mostly when she was at work or I was busy with kids. I found 2 hotel room charges on WW credit card (not joint) On nights she was supposed to be working overnight shifts. I found explicit images on her phone sent from OM.
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You keep emphatically stating that NC is in place. But here you tell us she was communicating with the OM "mostly when she was at work". She still works currently 12 hr shifts and overnight shifts! You realize that she can EASILY still be communicating with the OM through the work phone or computer at work, right?

She may also have a secret affair phone now that she knows you have a watchdog program on her phone - since it seems you got her "joint agreement" on this. Not something we would have recommended. At all.




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Confrontation begun and has continued for 3 weeks. WW continues to state that I know everything. More and more information leeks out almost daily. She did confess and continues to work on it. WW claims this to be only an EA. "But we didn't have sex!"
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This is an especially CRUEL tactic of a wayward - a slow dripping of trickle truth daily for three weeks. I don't believe for ONE SECOND that she finally "told you everything". She has been playing that card from day one.




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WW did choose me and broke off contact very soon after D-Day. NC not done yet! Well, not completely to the rules of Dr. Harley; or to my liking.
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No NC letter being sent is a BIG RED FLAG that the affair is not over. Which I suspected before I even saw this fact.

Sorry to tell you but you are in a FALSE RECOVERY, kingsrr. frown

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How long has this affair been going on? I don't see that anywhere, unless I missed it.

Was this exposed to your children?

I hope you will answer these questions...


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How long has this affair been going on? I don't see that anywhere, unless I missed it.

Was this exposed to your children?

I hope you will answer these questions...
4 months in all.
Kids talked to.

Also, as all different. NC was message to OM as he dare not answer phone. As I told her to never talk to him again, she made it clear to OM immediately. Didn't text is the Dr.Harley missing part.

Again different, WS was in denial of A and had to piece it together. No sex was no A in her mind.

Yes, am worried she is away long times and could be doing things. But can not be at her side forever, var not needed for me.


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BTW: exposure to his sisters and they replied displeasure. They will help in any way possible.
So not worried about underground.


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Originally Posted by kingsrr
BTW: exposure to his sisters and they replied displeasure. They will help in any way possible.
So not worried about underground.

Why are you not worried that it has gone underground? She has plenty of opportunity and no reason to stop.


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That was my issue.
She is over OM and wants me.
She put in past. She wants Recover now.
She is doing what she can to get me there.

I don't feel closure or trust.
At this point its diff from others as she woke up before I discovered. I am just making sure ground is strong before I build on it.

Reason, WW chose me, even before we started fixing us. 22 years and plenty of problems, she thinks we can fix this one also. WW is reading 2 books now. Both recommended by Dr. Harley.


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The problem is that this is a garden variety affair and unless she changes the environment that led to the affair, it will continue. Dr Harley would tell her to remove the conditions that led to the affair.

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WW is reading 2 books now. Both recommended by Dr. Harley.

Which ones? Did she speak to Dr Harley?


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Yes, conditions removed. Mostly WW thinking op-sex friends okay to be intense.

Books. SAA. And another to help her drive. (Both are great!)


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Was this exposed to your children?
4 months in all.
Kids talked to.

What did you say to your children? Did you tell your children that their mother went to a hotel with OM several times?


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Yes. Kids 16 and 19. Gave all . all. Facts.
I believe they are at great age to understand and learn from. They are good and giving us more space to vent and work.
I love them so much, they have shinned so much through this.


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Sorry, this again was for me.
How to move on. WW wants to. Dr. Harley says to. Friends want me to.
Its just really hard and I constantly second guess.


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Kingsrr,

Even if your WW is done with OM, the fact that she is still dishonest with your about what happened is going to prevent her from recovering from this affair.

WWs continued dishonesty is also the basis for the next affair, get the polygraph there is a good chance WW will confess on the way to the polygraph in the car.

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Originally Posted by kingsrr
Sorry, this again was for me.
How to move on. WW wants to. Dr. Harley says to. Friends want me to.
Its just really hard and I constantly second guess.

I've never heard Dr. Harley utter those words except in the context that a wayward is just gone. Never during recovery. Sounds like a helluva lot of rugsweeping going on here.


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We feel like we can recover one minute, and then think that we want to divorce the next minute.

Once your WW comes clean on all of the details, and once she ends contact and comes out of the fog, THEN she will start to show empathy for your feelings and will do what she can to re-assure you.

Is seeking medical for AD worth the time and money?

WW did a session of honesty and reveal. WW says more than sorry and pretty much willing and is doing anything she can. Which is one reason why I want to believe I have the whole truth. The other is the facts I have surrounding the hotel visits do fit with her details. NO SEX! I know this is hard for any man to believe, but many women agree with NO SEX! Her parents also believe there was NO SEX!


Her parents may say they believe her. Though dollars to doughnuts they have their doubts. Though the will never admit them to you.

I hate to say how many years, 10+, reading affair forums. This experience is what makes me believe there was sex. Now your WW can be using the Clinton defense. Anyway I have seen more BH's then I can remember as you. Denying the truth that this was a PA. Because without concrete evidence and your WW not admitting that she did the OM. You can do your own damage control. And, continue to live in the land of denial.

Think about it. Flea bag motel $50, nice one $100. Who us going to spend that much money to have a place to talk?

Sit in a diner over a cup of coffee. Dunkin to go. Then drive to a Park and park.

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Not really in full agreement that a Poly will help all that much. But I do see that it should help me at least. Maybe get her to see severity as well.

I am going to take her Saturday am. Will let y'all know.

also: I am still in the fog thinking that as long as WW admitted the A, regardless of how long or how intense, this is a step. That WW has NC for life, is a bigger step. That WW is extremely apologetic and eager to SAA. That points that matter most are made; and I should get off this kick and work toward the long road of R.

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I dont understand your post.
Is she taking a polygraph this Saturday?

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