YouCanHaveThePettyLiar (original poster new member #87450) posted at 2:08 PM on Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Do your cheater's family know your side of story? Or have you never got a chance to tell? What would you do? Would you tell them? Thanks!!!!!
What are the situations that you told and then regretted of telling?
Bigger ( Attaché #8354) posted at 4:55 PM on Monday, June 22nd, 2026
What do you hope to gain from telling them your side of the story?
Reality is that people divorce. Life goes on. You can tell your soon-to-be-ex-husbands mom and brother and sister and niece and aunty all about the affairs and how he treated you. But… next Thanksgiving you won’t get an invite anyhow. He might, as his new partner. But definitely not the ex wife.
That doesn’t mean they condone or accept his behavior or think you are the cause or in the wrong. It just means that he’s family – you aren’t anymore.
You don’t win some moral battle in divorce. Your friends will support you, his family will be nice towards you and maybe even understanding. But they will go with him moving on. Hopefully there will be goodwill and compassion when it comes to family events where you all might meet – like a graduation or marriage – but that’s about it IMHO.
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone." Epictetus
BearlyBreathing ( member #55075) posted at 5:17 PM on Monday, June 22nd, 2026
I think you get to tell whomever you want. Will there be valuing in telling? Maybe, maybe not.
For me, I told my family and XWS told his. (This was in the first months when we attempted R).
Local family (cousins) are still close to me and not to him - but he lied quite a bit to them and they were mad. His immediate family is 3000 miles away and they pretty quickly moved to just Christmas cards and then nothing. They liked me, but our relationship was due to the M, so it faded away pretty quickly.
I did not tell his work colleagues and that was strategic. He really did not want his reputation sullied so that was the ace up my sleeve if he reneged on some promises.
To me, it’s more important how you tell if you do. If you sound bitter or vindictive, they’ll just assume he was right when he called you crazy or whatever. So if you do, it’s matter of fact. Just this is what happened and now we are divorcing.
What do you HOPE telling will gain you?
Me: BS 57 (49 on d-day)Him: *who cares ;-) *. D-Day 8/15/2016 LTA. Kinda liking my new life :-)
**horrible typist, lots of edits to correct. :-/ **
