I never get this excuse. If they have an open marriage, he won't mind? They would have already agreed to it? So really no harm, except maybe he tells her not to F married men? |
This would be my fear. People are seriously on edge these days and quick to get violent. |
Ha. Yeah- emailing a spouse to let them know about a multi-year affair is worse than sneaking around, lying and efffing someone else's spouse for years. OMG. Cheaters are just delusional. They really are selfish scumbags. |
IT should be every cheater's fear. They invite so much potential and danger into their family's lives with that behavior. It can be a deranged, jilted AP or a irate OM/OW. OR some psycho they meet on the internet. IF you have children and you cheat, you are an awful guardian and don't have your children's best interests. |
That's your husbands problem. Maybe don't F*** the wife of a crazy man with a gun. It's was his fault, entirely. Your kids should know that. |
Agreed! The cheater brought this trouble home, not the honest person. |
He would not be there if the wife had not cheated. Bam. |
DP and this is re: the story about the AP's husband who turned up to threaten that poster's husband (the cheater). I am very firmly in the "tell the spouse" camp and want to note that. But I disagree that the story sounds fake. Why? Similar incident happened to someone I used to know. Only it was the cheated-on wife who ended up nearly killing someone. Her DH cheated; the betrayed wife did NOT tell the AP's DH but somehow the AP's DH found out and showed up at this couple's home, banging on the door and calling out the cheater DH to come outside and fight him, and the idiot cheater DH actually went outside swinging. The betrayed husband wasn't armed, but my "friend" was--she had a gun, brought it outside to defend her idiot cheater DH, and she ended up shooting the other guy in the leg. She was freaking lucky she didn't hit a vein and make him bleed out in their yard. It was such a clusterf**k. I'm not 100 percent sure how she evaded going to jail but word was that the guy she shot was so embarrassed he wouldn't press charges. plus her daddy was a huge deal in her small hometown, so....She did end up having to pay the guy a substantial sum of money later; I don't know if that was a civil suit or under the table, for his medical expenses. I am relating that only to say, the PP's story does not sound fake to me at all. But I still believe in telling the other spouse because this kind of thing is surely rare. I'd note that the idiocy here was with the betrayed wife thinking she should defend her cheater DH and her stupidly bringing a gun to a fistfight rather than calling the cops immediately. Fortunately, no kids to traumatize with all this adult nonsense. |
This is true. My friend and I talked about it many times. She feels sympathetic toward the APs husband. He is equally a victim and is operating without knowledge.She doesn’t care about the AP since she believes her loser DH would have had an affair with anyone who conveniently presented the opportunity and would say whatever to get what he wanted. He proved himself a liar so. |
Um I'm not cheating. . |
I would!!! |
I think you have to consider what YOU want.
If the goal is to try and rebuild your marriage, then causing the AP's family to potentially fall apart / disintegrate may lead to the AP pressuring your husband to marry her instead. If this is not a concern, then of course you tell him. |
There is no such thing as rebuilding a marriage after an affair. |
Not necessarily. There are so many variables. |
That doesn’t usually work but would at least provide a laugh to watch it play out. |