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Created on : Friday, July 01, 2005, 05:02:24 pm
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Has your partner been unfaithful? Have you been the one to stray? Share your advice and support with others that have experienced infidelity.

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November 13, 2006, 7:16 pm PST

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 I am 47 back when I was 11 my dad left my mom and us 5 kids for his girlfriend because she was pregnant..it has taken me along time to get over that and I have been married to the same man for 24yrs and he has helped learn how to trust people..it has been along road...I was one of the lucky ones it really screwed up acouple of my brothers and 1 sister...but when people have affairs it hurts the whole family.....
 
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November 13, 2006, 7:24 pm PST

Thank you for this post

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 I am 47 back when I was 11 my dad left my mom and us 5 kids for his girlfriend because she was pregnant..it has taken me along time to get over that and I have been married to the same man for 24yrs and he has helped learn how to trust people..it has been along road...I was one of the lucky ones it really screwed up acouple of my brothers and 1 sister...but when people have affairs it hurts the whole family.....
So often those that cheat think they are not affecting anyone else. Or maybe they realize that they are affecting their spouse, but that their spouse deserves it for some reason. The fact is that these decisions are very far reaching. A couple friend of my wife and I are going through a nasty split. She had a several month affair that he discovered this past summer. Very sad, and it has even affected my wife and I, I can't even imagine what it has done to their two children. The decision she made is very far reaching, much more far reaching than she will ever know.
 
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November 14, 2006, 7:40 am PST

Man...do I ever need help....

I have posted here a couple of times, and yet I am back...I love my husband with all my heart. But more often than not, not as a man...more as a friend. We have been together for 13 years now...we have 3 beautiful boys...but we fight alot....I had an affair once, and I admited it, ended it and went to counseling. He never lets me live it down though...He looks at me funny when I say I am going to visit my mother or sister, which I am...I am not messing around now. Our sex life is the best part of our relationship...but we can't seem to get the rest of it straight. Is it wrong to stay until your kids are older? mine are 12 and 7. I wake up everyday hating my life. I am going back to school, and trying to better our life, but my husband is not supportive of that at all. He wants things to be all about him. I want more out of life than he does...How does one cope in these situations?
 
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November 14, 2006, 8:04 am PST

To be blunt

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I have posted here a couple of times, and yet I am back...I love my husband with all my heart. But more often than not, not as a man...more as a friend. We have been together for 13 years now...we have 3 beautiful boys...but we fight alot....I had an affair once, and I admited it, ended it and went to counseling. He never lets me live it down though...He looks at me funny when I say I am going to visit my mother or sister, which I am...I am not messing around now. Our sex life is the best part of our relationship...but we can't seem to get the rest of it straight. Is it wrong to stay until your kids are older? mine are 12 and 7. I wake up everyday hating my life. I am going back to school, and trying to better our life, but my husband is not supportive of that at all. He wants things to be all about him. I want more out of life than he does...How does one cope in these situations?

It sounds to me like you want to leave him and are just looking for justification to do so. To be honest from my perspective, it doesn't matter if your kids are 12 and 7, 6 and 1, 24 and 19, or 46 and 41. All children want to see their parents together, mentally healthy, and happy. You have 1 of the 3. Nothing you have told the board suggests a dealbreaker, something that cannot be tolerated. He has trust issues because of your affair. Well, can you blame him? Put yourself in his shoes, would you trust someone that cheated on you implicitly and without suspicion? Sorry, the human brain doesn't forget trauma that quickly.

 

My suggestion, get Dr. Phil Relationship Rescue, read it, do the exercises and start practicing the advice. If you husband will read it with you then even better, but that isn't necessary. Dr. Phil wrote it so that even if one is spouse is completely unplugged the other spouse can better the relationship by putting into practice his advice. My next suggestions is to get back into counseling. Together is better, but alone is fine if he won't go. Eventually he has to deal with his trust issues, but until then I detect that their is an awful lot you could improve about yourself that might make the old boy come around. You can't fix your marriage until you fix you. That is why Dr. Phil's book causes you to concentrate on you.

 

Or you could take the easy way out, throw up your hands and give up. You wouldn't be alone, nearly 75% of marriages now end in divorce.

 
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November 14, 2006, 8:54 am PST

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Hello all...I'll get right to it....I need some advise...

I'm not married, but we live together 4 yrs now...been together 10 (off and on in the first 3 due to him still being married and me believing he was not with her anymore...duh me). Things seem to have been going really good for the past 4 yrs or so...we even have a beautiful 10 month old daughter together...until about 9 months or so ago. He's started working alot and sometimes his job keeps him out overnite...he just doesn't seem connected with me here anymore. I've had these terrible suspisions lately and started checking up on him a little....I checked his cell phone voice mail once and heard a message from a female he's been working with now and then that she was alone and on her way up to where he works, would he like to go for lunch. I asked him then if something was going on and he denied. He said he'd been out to lunch with her before, it was a group of co-workers all having lunch together, never just the 2 of them. Well, I also found a womans t-shirt while I was folding our wash I do everyweek...asked him whose it was and he said he had no clue where it could've come from...maybe it was his male co-workers...I said it was a womans shirt...and he said he didn't know whose it was. I also found an empty pack of over the counter sexual enhancing drug in his car....confronted him with it and his excuse was that he was having problems lately...haven't I noticed? And I haven't noticed any difference at all....I don't think they were taken for my benefit. I asked him straight up if he was seeing someone else and of course he denied. I don't know what to do. The thoughts of finding out if this is true is totally consuming my every waking thought and keeping me from sleeping at night. I just don't want to be taken for a fool, but I don't want to be wrongfully accusing him either. What can I do to help ease my mind...its driving me crazy!!!!

In my experience cheaters that do not want to get caught usually won't.  They are much too careful.  However, their are some cheaters that aren't careful because they are ready to be confronted.  It sounds to me like your husband is being a little too careless and wants you to call him on the clues.  I think you would be wise to sit him down and "gently " discuss all of your feelings.  Set some boundaries that would make you feel more comfortable, it is not fair that you are having to worry. 
 
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November 14, 2006, 9:05 am PST

Absolutely no excuse for lying

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I  have been married for 15 years, during this time my husband has cheated on me 2 times... i have been able to forgive him what happen in the past, but now i discovered that he was lying to me about something and I'm confused and  frustrated, i don't know what to think. he told me that he had a new supervisor that was helping him a lot, and he spent a lot of time with this supervisor on the phone, i was checking our phone calls and a number grabbed my attention because of the quantity and the lengths of the calls, it turns out to be this supervisor is a woman. when i confronted my husband he said he had to lie to me because he knew  i was going to make a big deal about this! he said that he only talks about work but now i don't know what to think, I'm devastated, any advise??

Warning, Warning, Alarm, Alarm - there is no such thing as a lie that has to be told to keep you from making a big deal of the situation.  You have every right to make a big deal of that, and now you have every right to make a bigger deal.  My advice is that you tell him that you will not tolerate being lied to - especially considering his past actions - and that if he values your marriage he will play by the rules - no more lying and no more after work phone calls. 

 
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November 14, 2006, 2:10 pm PST

I'm the cheater

I have been married for 17 years and we have 4 children. I recently had an affair with a married man. It is over now, but my husband doesn't know. Should I tell him?
 
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November 14, 2006, 6:57 pm PST

thanks for advise

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Warning, Warning, Alarm, Alarm - there is no such thing as a lie that has to be told to keep you from making a big deal of the situation.  You have every right to make a big deal of that, and now you have every right to make a bigger deal.  My advice is that you tell him that you will not tolerate being lied to - especially considering his past actions - and that if he values your marriage he will play by the rules - no more lying and no more after work phone calls. 

i feel much better today knowing that is not only me who thinks this is a big deal. he usually knows how to turn things around and make me feel guilty for my actions, saying that i don't trust him, but he doesn't know how hard is to trust him after all the lies. sometimes i think i should do something crazy, flirt around, mess around, so he will feel the same way, but thats not me.. i will definitely let him know I'm not going to tolerate this.
 
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November 14, 2006, 8:24 pm PST

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i feel much better today knowing that is not only me who thinks this is a big deal. he usually knows how to turn things around and make me feel guilty for my actions, saying that i don't trust him, but he doesn't know how hard is to trust him after all the lies. sometimes i think i should do something crazy, flirt around, mess around, so he will feel the same way, but thats not me.. i will definitely let him know I'm not going to tolerate this.
I am sure it is beneath you to do the same thing to him that he has done to you.  Stick to your morals it will pay off in the end- With or without him you will be able to hold your head high.  Good luck.
 
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November 15, 2006, 7:55 am PST

Moving on...

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I have posted here a couple of times, and yet I am back...I love my husband with all my heart. But more often than not, not as a man...more as a friend. We have been together for 13 years now...we have 3 beautiful boys...but we fight alot....I had an affair once, and I admited it, ended it and went to counseling. He never lets me live it down though...He looks at me funny when I say I am going to visit my mother or sister, which I am...I am not messing around now. Our sex life is the best part of our relationship...but we can't seem to get the rest of it straight. Is it wrong to stay until your kids are older? mine are 12 and 7. I wake up everyday hating my life. I am going back to school, and trying to better our life, but my husband is not supportive of that at all. He wants things to be all about him. I want more out of life than he does...How does one cope in these situations?
 You say you had counseling after your affair, but did your husband? Learning to trust again can be very difficult, there's a constant feeling of  "it's only a matter of time," and "I'm not going to be fooled again!"  The cheated on party has had something taken away from them, their comfort and ease around their partner, their peace of mind, their self-confidence. Counseling can help them to get back some of these lost abilities.
If you are waiting for the day when your children are old enough to leave, then your life is being short-changed. Explore avenues, anything, that will make your marriage better. Only after you have tried everything you can think of or have heard of, then think about splitting up. You owe your husband and children that much.
 
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