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KingRat ( member #60678) posted at 9:38 PM on Thursday, October 17th, 2019

What makes it hard is that I so badly need validation on the hurt that I bring to her, and she tends to instead focus on showing me that she didn't mean to hurt me and explain her intentions.

She needs to understand that specific intent is irrelevant. Knowingly committing an act is just as bad. If you fire a gun into a room full of people and kill someone, it is not a defense to murder to say that you did not have the specific intent to kill person A. The actor knew or should have known that the likely result of the act of shooting would result in great bodily harm or death.

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waitedwaytoolong ( member #51519) posted at 9:39 PM on Thursday, October 17th, 2019

I have a slightly different take on this. Look, your wife is far from perfect in her responses, but they are not tone deaf, and not accepting of responsibility.

The pain you have is coming from within. They guys here who reconcile, while they still have pain over what happened, have learned to accept it. She cheated, I got screwed, but there is nothing I can do about it now. That of course assumes she is remorseful and takes reponsibility for what she did.

The guys who don't make it, like me, never get to the point where they can accept what happened. I tried, but frankly I could never look at her without seeing what she did. She and our marriage to me became tainted goods.

Accepting it like some do, doesn't make them weak. Not accepting like me, doesn't make me a bad person. Its just who we are and of course the type of affair and the aftermath come into play.

I think she is really doing the best she can. Not that you have to "get over it", but its never going to change. And nothing she says will ever make it better or OK. It is just something you are going to have to live with. It is going to have to come from within.

I am the cliched husband whose wife had an affair with the electrician

Divorced

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ramius ( member #44750) posted at 10:17 PM on Thursday, October 17th, 2019

I try to clarify to seek better validation.......

What makes it hard is that I so badly need validation on the hurt.....

What if you are asking her for something she is literally incapable of giving? From your description, it appears that her innate ability to empathize is either severely underdeveloped, or nonexistent. For whatever reason. FOO, Solipsism, immaturity, etc etc.

Can you accept staying with her if she never gives you that validation?

How many scars have you rationalized because you loved the person who was holding the knife?

Their actions reveal their intentions. Their words conceal them.

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