Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
No. Research. It does not matter how good or bad a marriage is cheating happens at the same rate.
Mental illness, personality disorders, alcoholism, PTSD, bad coping mechanisms are all predictors of cheating.
I think it is very hard for people to take responsibility for their own actions, they always want to blame others. You should try to stop blaming others, you will increase your happiness level. good luck!
Cheating research is reliably bad. Cheaters lie to pretend things are worse, and those cheated upon lie to pretend that everything was heavenly. It wasn't. How can things be good if one person is willing to go outside the marriage, and one person thinks things aren't going well? It might be they have horrible communication skills, or it might mean the other spouse has horrible observational skills. But it never means the marriage is going well. Even if just ONE spouse is really unhappy, the marriage isn't doing well.
Just because you didn't notice the smell doesn't mean there isn't shit on your shoe.
You are kidding right... why would one person go outside the marriage if it is good. You don't know that happily married people cheat, lie, drink too much, etc. You think if you are happily married nothing bad happens in your life and you never do anything bad.
Or maybe they are happy with the marriage and ...
they have sex because that is how their self esteem has always be qualified.
Or maybe they have impulsiveness issues and just can't stop themselves.
or maybe they are depressed and they think an affair will fix it but it doesn't
or maybe they have anxieties and the high of an affair makes that feeling go away for a minute, of course like alcohol you wake up even more anxious.
sometimes there is no shit on the shoe ...
he says he is unhappy because you won't have an affair with him if he admits to being happy... it's the bait and you swallowed it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wife bought new phone, she was transferring still DD from her old one but didn't complete it. I remember her stressing that all her messages and photos wouldn't move over - ironically she never asked me to help.
Her old one was out and plugged in and an alarm kept going off. I was like a message ring or a little tune. It was annoying so I picked it up and found the txt messages. Photos she sent him, messages saying how she used to do stuff to avoid having sex and the tactics she used, how she dislike me. I knew we had some rough times but things were improving, so I thought. Painful to read. I guess since it was attached to WiFi it just downloaded them or synced or something. They were older ones and I knew there were newer ones but she wouldn't let me see them or said they weren't there. Pretty damaging to the ego.
Would it hurt your ego if you found out she was an alcoholic. Really it is not different. She has terrible coping mechanisms and she uses new men to make her feel better, this has nothing to do with you.
Except she was getting dicked by another guy. I can help her through a drinking problem, not the ultimate betrayal
That is where you are wrong. You can't help her through a drinking problem. She is the only one that can stop drinking. Families try to help (enable) and it goes horribly wrong.
I am not saying to help her, she needs to help herself. But this has nothing to do with you. She needs to fix herself. She will cheat on you again or the next guy or the next 10 guys until she fixes herself.
It feels like she is rejecting you but that is not what is going on ... she is destroying herself, you are collateral damage.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DH got suspicious when he noticed my best lingerie missing for a business trip. Two days later he saw an incriminating email. I was in a terrible place internally. My life was so dark and my marriage was so lonely and lifeless. I have so much guilt and shame. My DH has stayed with me and kept our family together and I will always be grateful for that. We are in a better place now. Not great but better and working on it every day. I learned so much
Your husband is a cuck..I would have dropped your silly ass and told the kids why.
Why is it that men who stay and fight for their marriages get hammered for it but women who fight for their marriages do not? Every situation is different. In the end if a couple thinks they can work through the problems, I wish them well. Especially if they have kids. ThAt kind of upheaval can damage them for years.
One answer: 11/04/2016 07:17
Anonymous wrote:Couldn't hide my pregnancy.
A man who stays and "fights for his marriage" is either already raising another man's child or probably will wind up doing so. That makes him a fool and the target of well-deserved contempt.
Wait, so the assumption is every woman who has an affair has an illegitimate child? And is raised by the DH? Um, OK... By the way, many women who have affairs are older-- they are in their 40s and 50s and done with child-rearing.
No, dummy, every man who stays with a cheating woman COULD be forced to raise an illegitimate child if he is not doing so already. That is why a man who stays with a cheating woman is rightly regarded with contempt.
"By the way, many women who have affairs are older-- they are in their 40s and 50s and done with child-rearing." -- By the way, this is irrelevant.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DH got suspicious when he noticed my best lingerie missing for a business trip. Two days later he saw an incriminating email. I was in a terrible place internally. My life was so dark and my marriage was so lonely and lifeless. I have so much guilt and shame. My DH has stayed with me and kept our family together and I will always be grateful for that. We are in a better place now. Not great but better and working on it every day. I learned so much
Your husband is a cuck..I would have dropped your silly ass and told the kids why.
Why is it that men who stay and fight for their marriages get hammered for it but women who fight for their marriages do not? Every situation is different. In the end if a couple thinks they can work through the problems, I wish them well. Especially if they have kids. ThAt kind of upheaval can damage them for years.
One answer: 11/04/2016 07:17
Anonymous wrote:Couldn't hide my pregnancy.
A man who stays and "fights for his marriage" is either already raising another man's child or probably will wind up doing so. That makes him a fool and the target of well-deserved contempt.
Wait, so the assumption is every woman who has an affair has an illegitimate child? And is raised by the DH? Um, OK... By the way, many women who have affairs are older-- they are in their 40s and 50s and done with child-rearing.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DH got suspicious when he noticed my best lingerie missing for a business trip. Two days later he saw an incriminating email. I was in a terrible place internally. My life was so dark and my marriage was so lonely and lifeless. I have so much guilt and shame. My DH has stayed with me and kept our family together and I will always be grateful for that. We are in a better place now. Not great but better and working on it every day. I learned so much
Your husband is a cuck..I would have dropped your silly ass and told the kids why.
Why is it that men who stay and fight for their marriages get hammered for it but women who fight for their marriages do not? Every situation is different. In the end if a couple thinks they can work through the problems, I wish them well. Especially if they have kids. ThAt kind of upheaval can damage them for years.
One answer: 11/04/2016 07:17
Anonymous wrote:Couldn't hide my pregnancy.
A man who stays and "fights for his marriage" is either already raising another man's child or probably will wind up doing so. That makes him a fool and the target of well-deserved contempt.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DH got suspicious when he noticed my best lingerie missing for a business trip. Two days later he saw an incriminating email. I was in a terrible place internally. My life was so dark and my marriage was so lonely and lifeless. I have so much guilt and shame. My DH has stayed with me and kept our family together and I will always be grateful for that. We are in a better place now. Not great but better and working on it every day. I learned so much
Your husband is a cuck..I would have dropped your silly ass and told the kids why.
Why is it that men who stay and fight for their marriages get hammered for it but women who fight for their marriages do not? Every situation is different. In the end if a couple thinks they can work through the problems, I wish them well. Especially if they have kids. ThAt kind of upheaval can damage them for years.
Anonymous wrote:Couldn't hide my pregnancy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
No. Research. It does not matter how good or bad a marriage is cheating happens at the same rate.
Mental illness, personality disorders, alcoholism, PTSD, bad coping mechanisms are all predictors of cheating.
I think it is very hard for people to take responsibility for their own actions, they always want to blame others. You should try to stop blaming others, you will increase your happiness level. good luck!
Cheating research is reliably bad. Cheaters lie to pretend things are worse, and those cheated upon lie to pretend that everything was heavenly. It wasn't. How can things be good if one person is willing to go outside the marriage, and one person thinks things aren't going well? It might be they have horrible communication skills, or it might mean the other spouse has horrible observational skills. But it never means the marriage is going well. Even if just ONE spouse is really unhappy, the marriage isn't doing well.
Just because you didn't notice the smell doesn't mean there isn't shit on your shoe.
Anonymous wrote:not me, but my SIL figured it out when she discovered my brother sent 3,000 in one month to an unfamiliar number. She called it and AP spilled everything.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
No. Research. It does not matter how good or bad a marriage is cheating happens at the same rate.
Mental illness, personality disorders, alcoholism, PTSD, bad coping mechanisms are all predictors of cheating.
I think it is very hard for people to take responsibility for their own actions, they always want to blame others. You should try to stop blaming others, you will increase your happiness level. good luck!
Cheating research is reliably bad. Cheaters lie to pretend things are worse, and those cheated upon lie to pretend that everything was heavenly. It wasn't. How can things be good if one person is willing to go outside the marriage, and one person thinks things aren't going well? It might be they have horrible communication skills, or it might mean the other spouse has horrible observational skills. But it never means the marriage is going well. Even if just ONE spouse is really unhappy, the marriage isn't doing well.
Just because you didn't notice the smell doesn't mean there isn't shit on your shoe.