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myperfectlife (original poster member #39801) posted at 4:14 AM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Was anyone in the position of filing D on a remorseful WS?
If so, what were your reasons for going through with the D instead of R?
Thanks...
I cannot be responsible for another's personal growth.
DDay#1 of a "cheatillion" 4/1/13
Divorce final 11/04/13
homewrecked2011 ( member #34678) posted at 5:25 AM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
double post
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Sometimes He calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage, but calms His child. Dday 12/19/11I went to an attorney and had him served. Shocked the hell out of him, with D papers, I'm proud to say!D final10/30/2012Me-55
fallingquickly ( member #36599) posted at 6:02 AM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Because, although he is remorseful, his choices for how to proceed and what I need are different. His idea of transparency and truth are different than mine. He won't do an "SI type" reconciliation. He is more of a "focus on the future" kind of guy. Maybe that means he isn't truly remorseful but just sorry to be caught. I don't know that he would do much differently if he could go back. It really is what he wanted to do at the time. He had a lot of fun. He continued to cheat after DD#1. Basically, although I want to, I don't trust him enough. He has shown me he will hide things from me.
Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going. (Criminal Minds)
I saw him, I could not unsee him. -StrongButBroken
There came a point when it was too painful to love him, so I stopped.
crazynot ( member #24572) posted at 7:41 AM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
IMO the A resets the clock, and you have no obligation to stay married. It comes down to whether or not you have feelings of love, affection, passion for the WS.
Me - 50
Him - 51
DDay 21 March 2009
Divorcing and delighted!
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.
brainless twit ( member #12085) posted at 9:32 AM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
I do believe my xWH was remorseful. That said, I wasn't able to recover from what happened and move forward. I hated who I had become and I couldn't be happy no matter what. The divorce seemed to break the cycle.
When I told him I was filing, that was my last attempt to see if he cared one way or the other, to see if he would fight for us. And his response was, "Well, if that's what you think you need to do.." And two weeks later (we were still living in the same house) he was in "love" with some random girl. I actually had to comfort him while he cried because she rejected him.. Talk about rebound relationships!
You should probably take everything I say with a grain of salt - as you can see in my signature, we have tried to R since our divorce. And he cheated again. So I don't even know where we are right now. But even before this happened, I didn't regret divorcing him. It was necessary for me to start to heal.
"Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough rocks." --Forrest Gump
D-Day 8/7/06
Divorced 12/14/09
R Began 5/21/11
D-Day #2 7/9/13 (OW #2 is OW #1's first cousin)
R Began (again) 5/03/14
Williesmom ( member #22870) posted at 1:43 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Mine was remorseful, but I proceeded with the D anyway as a means of financially protecting myself.
Turns ou that he was still seeing MOW and his current girlfriend. He did have a major breakdown about 18 months after the D was final, but it was too little, too late.
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister. -George Costanza
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. - Madeleine Albright
Loyalty2Liberty ( member #36714) posted at 2:21 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Don't worry, you probably aren't.
Claims of remorse are common. Actual remorse is rare.
If you feel the need for D, odds likely are that the reason boils down to your WS's lack of remorse causing them to continue hurting you and hurting you.
Maybe you think you have to believe anything they say about their thoughts and feelings because to do otherwise is improper. Maybe you're buying the "different standards" bullshit. In the end it will be made painfully obvious.
LisaP ( member #15088) posted at 5:23 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
In the end, what he did was a deal breaker for me.
I didn't make any rash decisions, took it one day at a time, got my head straight, and a year and a half later....I filed. I had to do it for me.
Me BS
Divorced!
~Feel your emotions, but control your behavior~ Unknown
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 6:02 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Sometimes there just is no other way.
It's agonizing, especially when they are genuinely sorry for what they've done. But in my case it was twenty years of cheating, and I just couldn't wrap my head around continuing with someone who was capable of that.
We are now five years down the line from D Day and he agrees with me that continuing as we were would not have been the right thing to do.
I also got what appeared to be a teary snot-dripping mascara-smeared (well if he had been female...) apology, quite recently actually. He has nothing but regrets, and I don't envy him one little bit. He's the one who has to live with himself.
You have to do what's right for you to move on and heal. I couldn't imagine ever getting there if I had stayed.
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
myperfectlife (original poster member #39801) posted at 9:26 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Thank you everyone, so much. I really appreciate your comments.
I guess I need to really think about the fact that the WS remorse does not mean I owe them anything in return.
I don't.
I don't.
I don't.
I cannot be responsible for another's personal growth.
DDay#1 of a "cheatillion" 4/1/13
Divorce final 11/04/13
wonderpets ( member #35901) posted at 4:57 AM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Sometimes remorse comes when they have so thoroughly fucked up that there is no turning back. And then, are they just remorseful for the Mrs their life has become?
m334455 ( member #26893) posted at 6:01 AM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
You're exactly right. Just keep repeating it to yourself. It's not your place to be responsible for another adults feelings of remorse or regret or to protect people from the consequences of their actions.
BW 38, 5 kids
Dday Dec. 2009
persevere ( member #31468) posted at 6:18 AM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Define remorse from your perspective. I doubt his definition is the same. And if you're not on the same page how can you reconcile?
Btw - I would love to be wrong here - but from what I've seen it's unlikely.
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.
whatdoto ( member #28555) posted at 2:48 PM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Yes, I am divorcing a remorseful spouse. Remorseful for WH is saying I'm sorry, ILY's and let's get on with our life.
And, after Dday, I started looking at all the "broken" pieces of our M foundation and saw the total dysfunction in our M. He didn't see it, therefore there was nothing to "fix". I and the M wasn't worth the real work.
ETA: fixed some wording
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"If your ideal image of yourself is in the future, it's going to stay there".
tigrislilium ( member #39893) posted at 6:49 PM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Whatdoto,
HOLY SHIT!! Your tag line: "If your ideal image of yourself is in the future, it's going to stay there"
just nailed 80% of the baggage I brought into my marriage!
Thank you! I hope you see this because THAT just gave me my next IC session's topic (and probably MANY more).
I'm gonna PM you so you know how much you helped me!
Me: BS, early 40s/ Him: WS, mid 40s
Married 2004, DD9
DDay#1(Dec 2011): 3 LTAs over at least 5 years
DDay#2 (Oct 2015): cheated while separated, plus more LTAs came out from before DDay#1. Body (booty?) count currently at 8.
whatdoto ( member #28555) posted at 8:03 PM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
tigris,
Thanks, but I cannot take credit for that tag line. Another SI member, sorry I don't remember who, said that and it rings very true.
I want to be my ideal person now, not down the road. That's why I'm here in D/S.
Glad you got something from it.
Stay strong sweetie!
"If your ideal image of yourself is in the future, it's going to stay there".
myperfectlife (original poster member #39801) posted at 4:16 AM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
When I told him I was filing, that was my last attempt to see if he cared one way or the other, to see if he would fight for us. And his response was, "Well, if that's what you think you need to do.."
I did the same thing. His response was that he wanted me to heal in whatever way I could.
After swearing not to talk to OW ever again (D or R) he went back to her before I even had the chance to file.
He's been textbombing me all week (I just filed last Monday) about wanting one more chance. He's borderline nervous breakdown here. I asked him if they were intimate lately and he had sex with her AFTER I caught him at her house before I filed.
Wow.
The hits just keep on rolling.
At least he was honest about it.
For whatever pitiful amount THAT is worth these days. Not much.
So, yes, he is remorseful but in a way I think he's more upset about what HE has lost than what I have lost.
My youngest son called to tell him about football practice and mentioned I made soup. STBWXH told him "I really miss your mom's soup."
Hahaha...maybe you should have thought about the soup before you had an affair.
Hahahaa...that sounds ridiculous, but really, marriage is made up of so much-an entire 18 years of life that we shared. Was it worth throwing that away? Was it?
No soup for you!
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I cannot be responsible for another's personal growth.
DDay#1 of a "cheatillion" 4/1/13
Divorce final 11/04/13
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