Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Man here. Married 20+ years. Married sex 1x week. I want more, she does not. So I have had long-term affairs for at least ten years. I got caught once, confessed and went to counseling. We are still married and I still have 2 long term affairs. I am better at not getting caught, although I really think my wife does not want to know. She questions things less. I am not sure my APs care that I sleep with my wife. They do not know about each other.
I was the wife in a very similar situation and in my case, it wasn't that I didn't want to know, it was that I was busy biding my time and making my exit plans. Soon after finding out my then-husband was cheating on me (and had been for years, with multiple women) I called a lawyer and discovered that the state I lived in wasn't going to take his adultery into consideration in terms of support and that I was in no financial position to take care of my kids and myself at that point in my life. So I sat down and made a plan and spent three years checking boxes until I had the things I needed to make a life outside my marriage. Did I know he was actively sleeping with several women throughout it all? Of course I did, I wasn't an idiot. But I had turned a page and I had my own things to take care of. So I did what I had to do in order to create the life I wanted, which included going through the motions of a marriage I had no interest in actually being in. I have no idea if he ever knew what I was up to and honestly, I don't care. All I care about is that when I filed for divorce I did it with the full knowledge that I would be ok and be able to support my kids and myself regardless of what choices he made.