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My wife of four years (together 10) has been having an affair with a company person that lives 1900 miles away. I have told her that I can forgive her and someday forget. I want to be with her the rest of my life. I do not want to move on to another women because I'm married and believe in vows. I feel right now that I could never be with anyone else... ever. I have tried everything and now have started plan A last Wed. We still get along fine but no sex which is starting to take a toll on me. I feel that she is gone... but she is holding on for some reason. Maybe she is not sure of her feelings and is having a hard time making up her mind or she is using me financially until she can leave? I feel she still loves me and does care about me but.... I want to say:<p> "I feel if you love this person you and want to be with him I guess I will have to let you go. I don't want this to happen but we both need to get on with our lives. I don't want you to make a decision you may regret... but if your decision is made up that you do love this person that much then you must leave... I myself, will love you forever." <p>Would this be wrong... maybe this would be reverse psychology thinking that I want her to leave?<p>Or should I just keep moving on with plan A and hope she will come around. I have not told anyone about the affair because if we move on I don't want anyone to look at her differently. No one would believe me anyway... my wife is the sweetest thing in the world or so I thought... if you can't trust your wife, who do you trust.<p>Thanks for replies.

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Mr. Hurt,
My advice is just to keep on the Plan A track. If you do a good job at it, your actions will speak for themselves!!! Hang on to yourself!
It will take some time, but she'll come around. You need to be there when she does.
Great about not telling anyone about the affair, but it is also really tough on you! It's important for you to have some people that you can rely on to talk about some of these things too, so don't be hesitant if you need the ears. Otherwise, it can be mightly lonely out there.<p>
Good luck!
Sweden

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Hurt, I wouldn't do the paragraph to her. Do Plan A, give her some space. Make arrangements, that the money situation is your control. My WH spent $7000.00 on the OW, and we are not rich. OW didn't have to pay for anything, she gave the woe is me to my WH that she didn't have a job and they didn't have enough money. Keep track of all money spent, give her an allowance per week/if need be. Jennifer told me in the very beginning, but it is hard with having your own business. WH just had the customers make checks out to him, and he cashed them.<p>Do Plan A, tell her that you love her, tell her how sweet she is, and set up counseling. If she doesn't go to counseling, then you know she is in the BIGGEST FOGGGG!!!! <p>Hurt, this is going to be very difficult. My WH showed a very ugly side of himself. Our older Kids and myself were careful of what we did or said. Hopefully, the sex will come around, and just as a precaution, STD is rampid. Remember who she sleeps with, you will sleep with, and who the OM, is you are going to sleep with all he slept with. The commercial on TV that showed the one girl in a theatre and how STD is transferred by one sexual encounter to others, is really a great commercial. <p>I am fearful of my state of health. My WH slept with the OW, and she has had for sure one other sexual affair in her marriage. Possibly more, with an investigator I had hired. I have asked WH to have the AIDS and STD tests done. Found a place recently that will do it. This is a FEAR in me, and a FEAR of all of us whose spouses decided to have an outside sexual partner! This is nothing to be laughing about. I asked my WH what is he going to say to our kids, my mother, his mother, family, if I have AIDS? This is freaking me out.<p>Anyways, don't encourage her to leave, be kind and gentle. Plan A beautifully, and you will probably get the turnaround you would like. ALSO, do counseling, she is in a deep FOGGG!!!!!

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