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Getting to Happy ( member #35200) posted at 8:51 PM on Sunday, January 6th, 2013
Thanks for the Bump Edie!
This post never gets old!
WS him
BS me DD's 26, 25' DS 23
dd1 1-1-10, dd2 Mothers Day 2011, dd3 3-12-12 Hawaii trip with ho-worker...
Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.
Unknown
n0tm3 ( member #37884) posted at 4:16 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
I so needed to read this today. I have spent half the morning crying. Unable to pull myself out of my funk.
Me: BS 49
Him: WH 49
DDay #1: 12/17/12; OW 52 now D after 24 years
Married 21 years, friends since 1993
3 kids; 10,16,18
Reconciling
PlumLoco ( new member #38045) posted at 8:01 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Thank you, this is great and just wanted I needed.
sj81 ( new member #36538) posted at 11:00 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
So glad I read this, it even made me smile to myself
It's in my notes so I can see it every day
Thanks to everyone who kept it bumped
Eta: I hope it's true, really really hope its true! I haven't seen/don't know much about ow yet as WH doesn't remember much at all apparently, if its true I might smile a bit more in general.
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notquiteoverit ( member #32919) posted at 11:09 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
I always enjoy reading this post. In my case, this most definitely was true of OW.
Me - BS 50
Him - WS 49
SOW - 52 destitute loser
D-day 1/28/11
catlover50 ( member #37154) posted at 11:34 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
My fWH has said that there is no way he would even DATE his OW if we had split up. Can you imagine? He had no respect for her, no love, she chased him at a vulnerable time and he played out his pathologies with her, in between her threatening to tell me if he did not give her what she wanted. He never took her on a date, never spent the night, or a holiday, or a vacation, never said I love you. Yet she dreamed that there was a chance he would leave his family for her? Even after he repeatedly said he wouldn't? How deluded could she be? Now she tells me she was victimized and HE has a problem? Well yes he does, but it would have been much better if she had stayed away from a married man, a man who she had met his wife and children. Unfortunately their pathologies collied into a toxic mix. My fWH is disgusted he ever touched her.
Okay, yes, they always affair down!!
Dday -9/23/2012
Reconciled
Jaded4life ( member #37577) posted at 11:35 PM on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Great post! My wh doesn't have the personality or charm to sweet talk a real person into sex. He had to find them online. I guess when you're broken and pathetically inadequate you'd f¥<{ anything.
I saw one of the ow on Facebook and
what a dog! Actually that's an insult to my yorkies
D-Months: Nov & Dec 2012. TT.
StrongestGirl ( new member #38110) posted at 3:55 AM on Monday, January 14th, 2013
Love this post! I've said it ever since but not as eloqunetly as you did. Thank you!
BS (me) - 30
WH - 31
M - 9 years
2 kids - 6 & 4
DDay 12/27/12
Status - Trying to R and put me back together.
When you think something hurts to much to forgive, then you realize you have to forgive BECAUSE it hurts so much.
Beowulf ( new member #38128) posted at 8:34 PM on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
What a great post. thank you. I really needed this.
The best revenge is living well.
NoraLee ( member #37922) posted at 3:53 AM on Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Every word of this is soo true! My husband betrayed me with a women with 3 kids from 3 different daddies, none of whom stayed with her, she'd never been married, her family won't have anything to do with her, she's on 9 or 10 different meds for mental illness, has no female friends - just her live in bf, the guy she screwed on the side and my husband - the knight in shining armor. Oh - and no one's ever asked her to marry him. She's a waitress with no high school diploma, covered neck to toe in cartoon tatooes and vines, gets high with her kids, does various recreational drugs, her kids go without while she buys herself implants - tells the men at work how her boyfriend's penis is too big (I mean really???) just unexplainable how my husband found these faults "endearing" (his words on D-day). I'm an elementary teacher who goes without so her kids have what they need. I don't do drugs and until the A - didn't even drink socially. My H admitted he could never take her to meet his family - he'd be mortified. Yuck - this turned into a rant. Sorry. Just want to say that I've bookmarked this link - its what is starting the healing of my self-esteem. I read it everyday. I've always been a strong woman who values her attributes - and I will no longer allow this affair to make me feel "less than...". I am fortunate that my H's fog has cleared - now I will reclaim my self-esteem and value. This post will carry me through the rough patches. Thank you for posting it...
Me - BW - 44
Him - FWH - 42
Married 16 years
D day - 1/2 truth - July 2012
Full disclosure - August 2012
EA with skanky waitress coworker
3 kids - 14, 16, 21
In R
circlinggirl ( member #37035) posted at 10:58 PM on Friday, January 18th, 2013
Bump. Always great to reread this one.
Me- BS (27)
Him- WS (32) MajorTom
Dday July 23, 2012
PA during January 2012
In R.
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." -- Lao Tzu
myheadreallyhurt ( member #36424) posted at 3:22 AM on Saturday, January 19th, 2013
I love this. Of course I knew any woman stupid enough to get involved with a married man with pregnant wife and two small kids who was fine walking away from them without even a fight must have the lowest standards around.
"See that no one repays another evil with evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another"
tinysteps ( member #36104) posted at 4:13 AM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Bump. Needed this tonight. I am so glad this is here. I have read it over and over again.
TS
BS-Me (56
WH-Him (62)
M-20 years T-23 years
D'Day April 20, 2012
On the R Rollercoaster
8.2.19 back here again. Something tells me I need to be concerned.
11.6.20 back here again. Why don't I remember why I was concerned in?
What if
Maxine ( new member #38178) posted at 4:27 AM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Thank you, Well said and very true, I guess I just haven't thought of it this way.
What doesn't kill you, will make you stronger. (I sure hope this is true)
NikkiD ( member #38173) posted at 4:39 PM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Whew.... Needed this!!! Thank you!!!! Screen shotted and saved as a reminder!!!!
"Spoil me with Loyalty; I can finance myself...."
ME: BS-33
HE: WS-32
Married 3 years, known 20
2 kids
D-Day #1 12/30/12
False Recovery
D-Day #2 1/21/14
LTA 5 years-ish
Riding the "Struggle Bus"
Living apart....
Putto ( member #38261) posted at 6:31 PM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Your words are exactly what I needed to hear. Seriously, you have no idea how much you have helped me.
I don't say much but I lurk around a lot. Thank you for baring your souls here, you've said the words I couldn't find and you've helped me heal more than I can say.
bridar ( member #34512) posted at 6:49 PM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
I can't tell you how much this means to read this!!! Today is one of my extreme anger days, and upon reading this, I just broke down. Now...how do you make yourself believe all of it!?!?!?
Thank you!
Me:41
WS:43
Married 19 yrs, together 22
2 kids 21/19
Feels like I am in Hell
BFFGone ( member #38263) posted at 7:41 PM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Thank you for this.
The OW in my case is a size zero whore with big boobs, to my size 8 with better boobs...but honestly, I wonder if on some weird level....the reason literally cannot eat food is because of how f'ing tiny she is.
I'm prettier, better in every way humanly possible....and I have more class in the pinky toenail,than she has in her whole diseased body.........BUT why do I compare?
"F" all the weak whores that sleep with married men.
I choose to thrive. I choose to be happy.
That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger...but damn, aren't I strong enough yet???
Newstart43 ( new member #36562) posted at 9:12 PM on Monday, January 28th, 2013
Enjoying this thread...at least I'm not alone.
ME: BH 44 scientist (PhD in Genetics)
HER: XWW 30 scientist (PhD in Neuroscience)
OM: 44 HS diploma..now a student going back to school for RN after leaving career as lobsterman
REALLY?!?

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"Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". "
-Maryanne Radanbacher
deathbybetrayal (original poster member #22478) posted at 3:12 AM on Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
We're almost five years out so I'm not around much anymore. But I do "pop in" every now and then just to see how everyone's doing.
I read your stories. I feel your pain. I'm happy this thread has helped at least a few of you survive the next hour, or day, or week. I've still not seen any trade ups ... and once in a while something really strikes me ... like tonight:
ME: BH 44 scientist (PhD in Genetics)
OM: 44 HS diploma..now a student going back to school for RN after leaving career as lobsterman
^This is what I'm talking about. Seriously? I'm sitting here just shaking my head.
Hugs to all of you. It does get better. Eventually. It really does.
DBB
Married 10 years at DDay
Me: 53 Him: 52 - Desperately trying to unfuck the donkey.
DDay: July 16, 2008
FWH Epiphany: Aug.23, 2008 NC: Aug. 28, 2008
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