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 cuppacoffee (original poster member #39313) posted at 3:35 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Is the dumbest cop out!

I asked for the whole truth. Instead I get repeatedly stabbed.

He said he didn't want to hurt me more. F@ck you.

They had sex 3 times. Not two like he told me at first three times. Apparently it takes three times to feel bad.

I want to scream.

In other news, I want to tell the bbf. I think he deserves to know. And I think she deserves to rot in hell for her mistake.

I'm like a vacuum bag
That holds all that old dirt
Remember that time we said we'd be together forever?
Don't hate me, don't regret me, don't ever forget me
Wherever you go, whatever you do, don't say I never loved you

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tired girl ( member #28053) posted at 4:36 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

I think you better expose this in order to have two sets of eyes on this.

What are YOUR boundaries at this point?

He has shown that he is not done lying and he doesn't get it yet. What are you doing for you?

Me 47 Him 47 Hardlessons
DS 27,25,23
D Day's becoming less important as time moves on.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
My bad for trying to locate remorse on your morality map. OITNB

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 cuppacoffee (original poster member #39313) posted at 5:43 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

I have no idea. I feel like I know nothing about myself a d my life. I don't know what I like or don't like anymore. I am a homeschooling mom of 6. I stopped hanging out with my friends a year or two back when he would get angry with me for going out every month.

I don't know who I am.

I'm like a vacuum bag
That holds all that old dirt
Remember that time we said we'd be together forever?
Don't hate me, don't regret me, don't ever forget me
Wherever you go, whatever you do, don't say I never loved you

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Eudaimonia ( member #32445) posted at 7:06 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

((((cuppacoffee))))

Take a deep breath.

You DO know what you like and what you don't like. Do NOT doubt yourself. You DO know who you are. The problem is that you do not know who you have been married to. You thought you knew, but you were deceived. This has nothing to do with you or who you are.

Yes, the other bbf does deserve to know. Have you thought about how to inform him?

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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tired girl ( member #28053) posted at 9:23 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Can you start getting in touch with some of your friends again?

Me 47 Him 47 Hardlessons
DS 27,25,23
D Day's becoming less important as time moves on.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
My bad for trying to locate remorse on your morality map. OITNB

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 cuppacoffee (original poster member #39313) posted at 11:18 PM on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Idk most of them were my mommy friends and their little ones have grown. I'm the last one with a baby. Also they tend to do things that I am no longer comfortable with.

I hang out with my sister but I haven't told her and I don't Dolan on telling her.

My homeschool friends are very religious so I don't fit in.

Excuses I know. I just don't feel like me but I don't k ow what I am. I do love to run but ive gained so much weight that I do feel like running.

I'm like a vacuum bag
That holds all that old dirt
Remember that time we said we'd be together forever?
Don't hate me, don't regret me, don't ever forget me
Wherever you go, whatever you do, don't say I never loved you

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Jospehine85 ( member #35971) posted at 12:19 AM on Monday, June 10th, 2013

(((cuppacoffee)))

I am a home schooling mom just like you. I am going to take 1 exercise class this week.

What one thing are you going to do for you this week?

Me - BS
WH - old
Kids
Dday May 2012

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luv2swim ( member #13154) posted at 12:44 AM on Monday, June 10th, 2013

cuppa ...

I was a homeschooling mom too. I do not know that homeschooling necessarily contributed to my own emotional trauma and what now, in hindsight seems like some form of PTSD. I do however, notice that the requirements of homeschooling caused the kids and I to be a very family oriented unit. We included husband/dad in this, and assumed he was "all-in" with us. The bubble-burst of reality was challenging for me, and to an extent, it seems to have been difficult for our kids too.

As you wrote here, I too became detached from myself. A good therapist explained that this was a common experience when someone we love, and most importantly, trust deeply, act with disdain towards us, and the trust/love we hold for them. It is destabilizing to all we hold to be true.

I was outraged that my beloved mate was/is who he is. And too, I was not happy with my own outrage at someone I loved. Sometimes I felt like his actions with the affair partner were acts of aggression towards me/us/the family. As you wrote, I used the word being "stabbed" by his actions. For me, it felt like his actions with OW were sharp cuts to the very heart and soul of my love for him, for us, for our family.

For me, the road back to "me" began with simply recognizing I love my husband. However, his actions, and his putting the needs of the other woman before our family, did not work for me. And, this never will work for me as his wife.

As tired girl noted, recognizing YOUR boundaries at this point is important. Defining your boundaries are part of knowing who you are at this point, and important in knowing the desired order of your world.

I traveled the road back to "me" when I recognized what is now so obvious (but I could not so easily grasp in that PTSD mush-mind state), that I did not EVER want to be married to a man who wanted to be with someone other than me, and our children.

As a homeschooling mom of 6, it may also be helpful to recognize in you, your importance and value as the stable parent, and director of education for your children. Assuredly this is a huge job, made more challenging when your mate puts his own selfish what-evers of the moment as priority one, and in full disregard of you, his mate, and your 6 children.

You will find the path back to you in time.

My mantra during this phase was:

Left foot - Right foot - Breath in - Breath out .....

[This message edited by luv2swim at 1:46 AM, June 10th (Monday)]

Me: BS
Him: WS
Married 24 years -
2 fantastic kids!

divorced 2009


D day: 2006 ... he left to live with OW.
Divorced: 2009
WS + OW: Married and still together (as far as I know).

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