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Douchebagfree (original poster member #39267) posted at 3:23 AM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
For not seeing this douchebag for who he really is.
The things I'm hearing about him now are making my skin crawl. Getting his sister hooked on pot again after she has had a drug problem all her life. Not helping his parents out at all financially even though he's been living with them for the past 7 months. He knows that they are struggling financially.
If I could kick my own ass I would.
Anyone else feel this foolish for not having seen through the bullshit?
Sometimes you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.
Pass ( member #38122) posted at 4:33 AM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Oh yeah. I'm there. STBXWW spent 17.5 years ignoring everything about me, while I convinced myself I was desperately in love with her.
Before we were married, when we were travelling in the car, she would sing "You Are My Sunshine" to me. She would hold hands at every opportunity, and loved kissing and cuddling. Once the band was on her hand, that all came to a grinding halt.
Now she's wooing OM in the same way. He is also a musician (like me), also has ADHD (like me), works in IT (like me), and has family issues (like me). Anyone see a pattern? He is, however, extremely unattractive (totally unlike me).
What's that saying about the definition of crazy? Doing the exact same thing but expecting different results.
So, yes, I was stupid. But she's fucking nuts!
Divorced the cheater and living my best life now.
The best thing about hitting rock bottom is that everything after that looks fucking fabulous.
SBB ( member #35229) posted at 12:32 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Yep.
Absolutely.
He was always beneath me. I still don't understand why I settled.
I did love the way he 'loved' me though. There was a certain charm in his desperation. That part only lasted a few years and I wasted double that waiting for it to come back. In all honesty that is really the only thing I really liked about him.
He is a simpleton. A puddle is deeper. I mistook it for naiveté.
He has no genuine integrity. Its all for show. I believed the act.
He has poor impulse control - he is led by the emotion he is feeling at that moment. His lack of depth makes this possible. I couldn't ignore this one once I had a toddler to compare him to.
He only truly feels happy when being reckless. I attributed that to his Catholic upbringing. The self loathing runs far deeper than that.
I'm deeply embarrassed about having ever been his wife.
I cannot believe I had children with him.
The shocking thing is none of this is news to me. I knew it all well before DD. For that I feel foolish.
Hope is a devil of a thing.
I saw a quote here once about how women tend to fall in love with a man's potential. I know I certainly did.
I may have reached a point where I'd piss on him if he was on fire.... eventually!!
debbysbaby ( member #32962) posted at 12:41 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Yes!!!!! I think I, too was in love with the "way he loved me" and I think he saw me as his emotional rescuer. I'd known him for years and never liked him because...NEWSFLASH!...he was an ASSHOLE to his brother who shared an apartment with him. His brother asked me one time what I thought of poopsmear and I said, "He's a nice looking guy, but I'd never date him. He's an asshole." The catch was, he was not an asshole to me because he had a crush on me.
Well, I dated someone else for a long time and poopsmear wasn't around me at all for over a year due to school/job stuff. 2 months after breaking up with my boyfriend, I ran into poopsmear who found out I was single and hit me HARD with the charm. I fell for it and within months it was getting bad. I should have listened to my original assessment of the guy. He was/is/always will be an ASSHOLE, lying, cheater, SOB.
I feel stupid. I hate him because of the crap he still continues to pull.
-betrayed almost my whole almost 15 yr marriage
-divorced since 2004
phmh ( member #34146) posted at 12:46 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
SBB -- so many times you say things that exactly how I feel!
While I do feel foolish for being duped, since I can't change the past, I try to focus on the present and future instead. But, yes, I hate that I ignored so many red flags and wore my rose-colored glasses for so long. There were other guys interested in me, but no one who pursued me as hard, and I thought my family and I could make up for what he'd suffered as a kid. Stupid old codependent me!
Me: BW, divorced, now fabulous and happy!
Married: 11 years, no kids
Character is destiny
Lola2kids ( member #32789) posted at 3:07 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Yep SBB same here.
I am horribly embarrassed that I ever was involved with this guy.
That is the biggest reason for being in IC right now.
Ex even admits to being an asshole. It's like he's proud of it. He liked to say it. "I'm an asshole, everyone thinks so."
Wow, the red flags I ignored.
I need a lot of therapy to get over this asshole.
BS: (Me) 48
Kids: twins DD(11)
D-Day April 18, 2011
Him:out Sept. 11, 2011
He moved an ocean away June 27, 2014.
"They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder but I am growing more and more fond of his absence"
solus sto ( member #30989) posted at 4:02 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
:::Raising hand and waving wildy::: Me, me, me, me!
I am the poster child for stupidity.
The red flags were waving wildly for years. I didn't see them, except in the rearview mirror.
It's affair season; I am really struggling with anger at myself. Rationally, I understand that I was young and naive and knew no better. I fell in love with a man like my (profoundly personality disordered) father---but nicer. At 16, when your male role model is a malignant narcissist, nice is important.
Even then, Mr. Trac-Fone was leading a double life. All of 3 months older than me, but his FOO required that he learned to lie and sneak and wear a mask in the cradle.
He peeled it partway off now and then, but I didn't see.
Only now, when I look back, I realize I saw more than I thought. I just had no way to frame it. I'm still working on that part! (It's hard to make sense of nonsense, so this is largely an exercise in accepting disorder.)
BS-me, 62; X-irrelevant; we’re D & NC. "So much for the past and present. The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to let that scare you." Tennessee Williams
npain ( member #33539) posted at 5:22 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
SBB, you took the words right out of my mouth. And he showed me first hand that water does indeed seek it's own level. He chose someone on his level to have his LTA with...
So I am getting off of this crazy train and divorcing him now--time to cut my losses.
S, Filed 4/17/14--YAY, ME!!
Vulcanized ( member #33523) posted at 5:32 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
I feel alot stupid for having any love left over for XH. Ugh.
Feel stupid for expecting him to break NC on holidays, bd's, anni's, etc. Never happens. Guess I'm stupid & crazy ...
Me: fBW/MH 40s
3.26.13: Liberation day: D'd the whiny turd after being saddled with a serial cheating, NPD, jitbag 10 years too long
Now:-----> Everything is as it should be
TrustGone ( member #36654) posted at 9:08 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
I think an A and the aftermath always makes a BS feel stupid for not seeing what was right in front of their face all along. Damn rose-colored glasses!!!! We feel even stupider after we find out about the A and then try and R with a lying cheater who just keeps dragging us down with them. So yes, I feel stupid somedays. But I also know I was a loyal, lovable, hard working wife who did not deserve any of this. That always makes me feel better about myself when I feel stupid for falling for his charm and so called love.
XWH#2-No longer my monkey Divorced 8/15, Now married to a wonderful man.
"A person is either an asset or a lesson"
"Changing who you are with does not change who you are"
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