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I am a single mom of 4 years after being diagnoses with a very serious disease my ex told me about his 7 year affair it almost destroyed me. But i am learning daily to live life for me and my son and enjoy it. He has moved into our home his 'special'other and had a baby and wants to get married and you know what I say to them all HAVE FUN!
- February 5th, 2009, 10:38 am
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Wow! These are intense posts and I'm in the club. After 29 years in a "marriage" I was hit with a breast cancer diagnosis and a unfaithful husband leaving to "find himself". Yes..of course, with other women..and for who knows how long and how many.
Mother of 2, working for us 24/7. Got both pieces of bad news within a week of each other in fall 2006. Good news folks, it's true that with inner work and and time, all is healed. faith doesn't hurt nor does reaching out.
Sure, penty of scars for me, literally.
3 surgeries, chemo, divorce, emptynest...Somehow it's 2009. I began dating last year to build confidence and mostly to have fun. My turn Having a support group helped as did private counseling, meds and reading. My favorite is Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends.
I get triggered at holidays and birthdays. Having the ex show up at family events with ...wait for it...the new wife (not the woman he left me for either) is okay. I get triggered by old photos. I remember the look of love and I miss that connectedness. I know he changed, maybe chemical imbalance perhaps. We all change and I am starting to see that monogamous relationships are useful and what I wanted, especially raising kids.
Now I am not certain that makes any sense at all. Good, reliable, steady honest friends and relatives are the best. Enjoy the beautiful moments. Like emotions, they are fleeting, but come around again....just watch for them.
Hang in, I'm back in my music profession and working towards great health. Enjoying dating now and then.
All we can anticipate in life is change. How it's viewed is key. attutude is everything.
Sorry for all your losses. Now I'll read the 5 things to do...you'd think I 'd have this stuff memorized.
I found online daily reminders from Course in Miracles, Mariane Williamson useful to set my mind for the day.
- February 5th, 2009, 12:39 pm
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- February 5th, 2009, 01:42 pm
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Another thoughtful article - I really like what was said about realizing that when someone betrays you it isnt about you or anything you did -- but their deficiencies.
Scotch, you hit the nail on the head with the problem not being anything I did, ratherthe problem wasin his deficiencies , plus his lies, a total deception of who he is and what he is about. He was after the insurnace money I received from my husband's life insurance policy after he died. He & his sister are a con team and have done this with other widows. She pretended to be my best friend and he pretended he loved me and wanted to marry me.I was married only once for many years to a wonderful man who was trustworthy,and I am too, so I didn't have a clue about low life people like them. After 18 months of scamming me for all they could get, he told me he knew from the first day with me that he didn't love me.. That hurt !it didn't make sense either, since he called me on the phone usually 15-20 times a day when we weren't together, each time telling me how much he lovedme and wanted me to come home to him. He lives in Ms and his sister was living here in my house for free here in IL. I was doing a lot of traveling back and forth fromIL to Ms. When I was up here she wanted to stay heres so she could use me for mega shopping trips and going out to fancy places.., when I was down there he wanted me to stay there so he could use me to spend money shopping for all kinds of expensive things for him or forfixing up his house for US for OUR house. It was a very costly mistake! As he became unmasked as the evil man he really is , and I cut back on my spending, he resorted to stealing by signing a check of mine that came to his house.. he put it in his bank without my permission ..when I asked him for my $2500.00 he said "It's gone baby, I used it to pay my bills" Whenwe broke up,he also refused to give me my personal belongings that are worth a lot of money. Another thing, he was cheating on me with a married woman near his house for the entire time we were engaged. She is living him with now , enjoying all of MY things I bought to make turn his run down house into a beautiful home. When we broke up I made his sister move out of my house too.. Live and learn ..and learn how to forgive but not forget and learn from this horrid situation.
- February 5th, 2009, 01:54 pm
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Step 6. Join eHA ha ha and get addicted.





Step 7. After getting bored with the same questions in the Dating forum go to step 8.





Step 8. Join CSC.





Step 9. For comic relief become friends with fino, kibbie, dennis, roger, LBMM, LIT, TP, CG, lada and the latest reincarnations of seedy are and Alf.





Step 10. After a couple thousand posts intentionally get banned as the 1st step in a 12 step program.
Dang, i'm on step 9 already?!?!?!
- February 5th, 2009, 02:40 pm
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If you've recently suffered the sting of betrayal, you probably feel like your life is spinning out of control. Between the tears, humiliation, and confusion, you may wonder how you'll ever survive. What follows are five crucial steps to successfully move forward and beat the bite of betrayal.
I am 58 years old, remarried 2 years ago, lost my youngest son whowas 19 years old last 2007, in the midst of my depression, i caught my husband courting girls he met at the net, the girl is from china, we are residing in the philippines, he sent her mails everyday, called her through long disance everday, even sent flowers overseas, he was already arranging his flght to china to meet the girl when i discovered it accidentally, when confronted, he gave me the excuse that he is just doing it as a diversion, he wants to prove that he can still be attractive to a girl 25 years his junior at the age of 67, he claimed that it is not a betrayal, but rather to prove that he can still win girls in spite of his age.


I have also to make it clear that i have never sulk in front of him even though the pain of losing my son is so devastating, i never even cried for fear that he may not understand as i know he is rather a selfish person. i can never imagine he can do it at this time that i am in a terrible state, he himself lost his son from hs previous marriage, i could not forgive what he have done, it haunt me everyday, i can not rreckon this thing could ever happen when i have given him all my love nd care much more than anybody can offer, to the extent tha in his presence i have to hide my depression.


I just want to know if what he have done can be called BETRAYAL





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- February 6th, 2009, 11:38 am
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Ummm...scientific research ??
- February 6th, 2009, 02:46 pm
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Dear 67 year old lady from Phillipines.


Yes, he is betraying you. He was probably betraying his formal wife while she was mourning their son's death. I understand your fear of losing him, but he doesn't seem to have any feelings of sympathy toward you. He will probably get the girl from Chinapregnant and make her life miserable and make you feel like dying.


My dad who is now 70 cheated on my mom who gave him 4 beautiful children, 1 is me, 1 died after birth. 1 child is a doctor and me and my sister has a child each, therefore making my 70 year old, a Grand father.


Nevertheless, his cheating went on and on for 30 years. Every few years, I would hear them argueing, fighting, dad beating my mom... I was 6to 10. Everyday, I lived in a fear of them fighting, because it was so bad. In a country where I am born and lived for 12 years, it is not illegal to physically abuse a wife. Anyway, I saw my dad beating up my mom and told my mom to get a divorce...I was only 8 or so. She didn't and we all moved to US. Here, instead of heating her, he chose another way to hurt my mom. Cheating, cheating, and not giving her support in raising us.


He met a girl my sister's age (Like almost 30 years junior of my dad) and got her pregnant. He ended up taking the child away from her, as he is very good at manipulating girls, and is raising the child with his new wife who is basically there to cook, clean and keep him company in his old age. He is still hurting my mom and hurting us with his devotion to his new child, neglecting all his grand children.


My point, man's phsycological age will never change. His personality of not devoting to his family or child will remain no matter how old he is. If he doesn't know how to prioritize to make him and his family happy and content, he will use whatever way it is available to make HIMSELF seem important and happy. Him lying about you about the girl in China proves it. He probably told her he is separated or divorced and is on his way to sleep with her to prove to himself that he is young and attractive. He already wrote you off as incapable of making him feel young and therefore feeling self important.


I would immediately divorce him and take everything. Hope phillipine law is generous to you.


- February 6th, 2009, 03:30 pm
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And ladies buy a copy of "he's just not that into you"....I did and it has changed how I react to when a man behaves in any way that causes me to doubt my self worth......We are SUPERFOXES and deserve to be treated accordingly. DONT WASTE THE PRETTY!
- February 6th, 2009, 07:24 pm
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My now exwife left me 8 months ago for another. This is complicated by the fact that I have to drive by our house at least twice a day. It gets worse. I also work less than 500 yards drictly behind that house and have to look at too many times a day. Times are tough but I have a good job and guess that I'm afraid to test the waters during turbulent times. I guess that I should put my faith into practice and leave this little town of Moab, Utah and move back home to Denver. I just wish this would all go away, the pain is agonizing and paralizing me constantly.


Confused in Utah, all advise is welcome.
- February 7th, 2009, 07:39 am
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