DEAR ABBY: I found out a few months ago that my husband, "Hal," the father of my children, has had affairs with five different women. I left, and we are now being divorced.
I desperately wanted revenge, so I have been secretly seeing Hal's good friend "Ron," whom he "forbade" me from contacting after I told him his infidelity and disrespect gave me permission to act on the attraction I had for Ron. It's just a friends-with-benefits situation and I am having fun, so I don't really consider it to be revenge.
Hal has spent the last five months begging me to forgive him and work on our marriage, but I no longer love him and I certainly don't trust him. I told him I would "work on" forgiving him, so now he calls, says he still loves me and flirts.
The last woman Hal cheated on me with is his current girlfriend. He told me that if I ever want to hook up, I should make sure to use code words when leaving messages because she might see my calls and text messages. He also told me that he is not interested in a longterm relationship with her.
I slept with Hal recently to have leverage. I was contemplating sending her the proof as payback for how she treated me some months back, although I don't want her boyfriend back. I am now questioning if this is the right thing to do. Should I just leave it alone? -- PAYBACK SOMEWHERE IN THE USA
DEAR PAYBACK: Yes, do it for everyone's sake -- including your own. This cycle of revenge is doing no one any good.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
She has no right to fvck with her ex's girlfriend's life. Aside from their children, she is the most innocent here.
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Innocent? Did you miss the part about her sleeping with another woman's husband?
That said, she should just leave the whole stinking pile of shyt alone. Just walk away.
She has no right to fvck with her ex's girlfriend's life. Aside from their children, she is the most innocent here. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Innocent? Did you miss the part about her sleeping with another woman's husband?
That said, she should just leave the whole stinking pile of shyt alone. Just walk away.
She shouldn't seek revenge, but the ex's GF is not innocent, she had an affair with a married man.
How about she moves on with what is left of her dignity intact?
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He's an ex. He can screw who he wants to at this point. The LW has no more right to tell him he can't sleep with his girlfriend than he has the right to tell her she can't sleep with Ron.
If she wants that privilege, she can take him back, although, such prohibitions didn't work the first time around.
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Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
Sorry. She's not innocent at all. Sleeping with a married man is much more wrong than Ron sleeping with his friends ex because you know, she's an ex at that point.
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Sorry. She's not innocent at all. Sleeping with a married man is much more wrong than Ron sleeping with his friends ex because you know, she's an ex at that point.
That is long past history. If the LW wants to tell her ex who he can and can't sleep with now, she should have stayed married.
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Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
So what. She knows now and stayed with him. Backtracking again husker?
But he's not married now. Divorced people should never date again?
Yes. He is. They are getting divorced, they are not divorced. AND he slept with his WIFE, which, if known to the court, could squash that divorce in a second.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
This is not ending well for anyone. She should be grateful she's not being cheated on by him anymore and move on. Although a part of me would like his girlfriend, the woman who slept with him while he was still with his wife, know of his infidelity on her.
My point was you said she was almost as innocent as the children and you are wrong...lol
No, I said she was more innocent than the other players here--but even if you disagree, that has NOTHING to do with your comment about her "still being with him after she found out he was married".
thats the point I was wondering about.
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I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
You didn't read the OP because it says right in the OP that the wife wanted to get back at her for how she treated her and she wasn't more innocent than the others. The wife didn't sleep with the friend until after and Ron did not sleep with the wife until it was over either. I guess cheating is ok in your eyes. She's worse because she stayed with him even though she knows he was married. Once a cheat, always a cheat is how it usually goes.
-- Edited by Tinydancer on Wednesday 23rd of December 2015 02:31:28 PM
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“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.” ― Julia Child ―
You didn't read the OP because it says right in the OP that the wife wanted to get back at her for how she treated her and she wasn't more innocent than the others. The wife didn't sleep with the friend until after and Ron did not sleep with the wife until it was over either. I guess cheating is ok in your eyes.
.???? I said that her ex had no control over whether or not she slept with Ron.
Tinydancer=irrelevant tangent
-- Edited by huskerbb on Wednesday 23rd of December 2015 02:32:20 PM
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I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
This is not ending well for anyone. She should be grateful she's not being cheated on by him anymore and move on. Although a part of me would like his girlfriend, the woman who slept with him while he was still with his wife, know of his infidelity on her.
You mean with the woman who is still his wife? LOL.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
This is not ending well for anyone. She should be grateful she's not being cheated on by him anymore and move on. Although a part of me would like his girlfriend, the woman who slept with him while he was still with his wife, know of his infidelity on her.
You mean with the woman who is still his wife? LOL.
Do these people write multiple letters? I hope this isn't the same lady who had unprotected sex with a guy. With everyone sleeping with everyone who knows who has what.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Or something. But yeah, I'm having a hard time figuring out who is sleeping with who.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Or something. But yeah, I'm having a hard time figuring out who is sleeping with who.
I have to admit I don't really care...so there's that.
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Well yeah, there is that. I can honestly say I don't get the concept of revenge sex.
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So she slept with her soon to be ex in order to punish his current gf for being nasty to her some months back, and she is having casual fwb sex with her stbEX's former best friend in order to punish him.
And now she wants to know if she should send proof to the gf in order to end their relationship.
No. She should stop seeing and talking to all of these people and focus on her KIDS.
And maybe in a few months, when she has calmed down some, reenter th e dating scene properly.
So she slept with her soon to be ex in order to punish his current gf for being nasty to her some months back, and she is having casual fwb sex with her stbEX's former best friend in order to punish him. And now she wants to know if she should send proof to the gf in order to end their relationship.
No. She should stop seeing and talking to all of these people and focus on her KIDS. And maybe in a few months, when she has calmed down some, reenter th e dating scene properly.
Spot on.
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I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.