Lonely
Sad
Tired
Angry
Bitter
Numb
Frightened
These are some of the feelings I am having tonight. I was doing so well and then infidelity bitched slapped the fuck out of me today. No matter how hard I try, seems she always has the upper hand and she wont let me forget it.
Woke up literally crying this morning from a bad dream I had. I hate when that happens. It doesn’t happen nearly as often as it used to so it really rocks my world when it does. JR had text me earlier when he awoke, as he has every morning that I have been away. I called him almost as suddenly as I opened my eyes. I just needed to hear his voice and then I didn’t want to talk to him. I made up some excuse and we hung up. We text back and forth all day, but no phone conversations. I just couldn’t stomach talking to him. He called me right before he went to bed and I kept it very brief. Then he text me.
Baby, you going to be ok?
Aren’t I always.
You don’t sound ok.
JR…sometimes I just really hurt. I think of everything you did to me and I don’t know how you did it. I will never understand how you do those things to someone you claim to love. Most days I handle it ok, and some days I don’t. Today is a day I don’t….today I walk around with this pain in my stomach, on the verge of tears…today I hurt. Today I have doubts, today I have no confidence, little faith, and less hope, but tomorrow is another day.
I’m trying to make it up to you. I’m trying to be better.
I know you are and I am grateful, but unfortunately that doesn’t erase it…it never gets erased. It happened and it breaks my heart. It changed me forever. It changed us forever.
I’m sorry. I know I screwed up our life, but I’m trying ok. I’m trying to make it right. Going to bed. Have a headache. I love you, goodnight.
So that’s how he left it. So my last response was….You always decide when the conversation’s over…no matter how I feel. When you have had enough you end it…at least with me you do. Goodnight.
I was sad after that conversation, and lonely. I know I’m probably over reacting…in fact I’m sure I am. As I sit here though, the only thing I know is that my husband didn’t cheat because he was an addict in any form. He doesn’t drink or smoke anything, he doesn’t pop pills. He isn’t a sex addict. Nothing. He is your average normal man and he cheated simply because he wanted to, no more… no less. He still hasn’t figured out why he cheated, or so he claims. He has still given me no answer to that question.
I hate what this has done to me. I hate how insecure I feel. If you would have asked me about my husband before this I would have sworn on anything that he would love me forever…that I was his one true love. If you ask me now, the answer is much different. I live with this daily fear of one day at a time. Today he loves me and wants only me, but at some point that changed for him and he wanted someone else. If it happened once it can happen again. It’s absolute agony to live with this fear. It is unbearable at times, but to deny it would be to deny my own heart. I love him. He is my heart. I decided he was my one and only forever and that still holds true. I simply don’t know how to live with this yet.
I’ve never been afraid of anything…except spiders, and I can smash them if I have to, so I struggle with how to live with this fear everyday of my life. If I’m being honest the days I do well are the days that I push this so far out of my mind, it’s almost like it never happened, but it did happen. No matter how well I manage to ignore this, it happened big time. I just don’t know how to deal with this at all.
I ask my self if I have really missed JR these past 2 weeks. I have, I think. I don’t know. I haven’t had any deep pains or yearning sensations and I can remember being separated from him before and feeling those things. I do miss being hugged, touched, kissed, held, but those are all just sensations, right? I certainly miss the sex, but oddly haven’t even had the real urge to masturbate these past 2 weeks. I know we said we wouldn’t and that we would wait until we were together…but shouldn’t I at least want to? Shouldn’t it be hard to resist. I love sex…until recently I wanted sex daily. JR has struggled to keep up with me for the past 4 years, and BAM, all of a sudden nothing. How do you know if you miss someone. I honestly worry that I am incapable of having any true emotions anymore. I was an extremely emotional person before, almost too emotional. I was passionate about everything…life. Now I feel passionate about nothing. It scares me.
Many, many years ago (15) when JR and I struggled in the marriage…when he fucked some whore twice, we separated. I found out about that affair 2 years after it happened. He ended it on his own, it was not emotional for him at all. Just 2 fucks…nothing more. During that time, not knowing of his infidelity, only suspicions, I moved every piece of furniture and all of our belongings 12 hours away, I pulled my children out of school, I left completely…I told him I didn’t love him anymore, I went to a lawyer and made him sign legal separation papers….the whole nine. I was numb to everything. I was on Prozac. I described this to JR as a feeling like none I had ever known. I told him that while on that shit I could have watched my whole house and it’s entire contents burn to the ground and I would not have shed a tear, not one single tear. I was emotionless. That’s how I feel now, not as extreme…but close. I do cry now…all the time, but that’s the only emotion I feel, sadness and fear. Gone are the days of anger, hostility, hyper bonding, denial(I miss that one), and rage. What has replaced them is almost nothing. Are my emotions going to return? I so badly want to feel something other than what I feel. Anything would be nice. I feel like such a shell of a person. On the outside I look healed. To those who see me I am very put together, confident, sure, happy. But on the inside, I cry constantly. I want to crawl in a bed and sleep forever. I want to pull the covers over my head and disappear into some dream where my world is beautiful and untouched by infidelity. I want to sleep and never wake up.
I left my journal on my nightstand when I left. I did this on purpose. Most of it was written when I was hurting or angry. I planned on destroying it after I return home. I invited JR to read it. I never planned on him reading it when I wrote those pages. After I was here I realized that those pages, my words during some of my darkest days could allow JR a glimpse into my world that he would otherwise never see. So, I told him to read it. He said he would, it took him over a week to pick it up. I apologized before he began…I don’t know why I do this. I should not feel the need to apologize for words of pain that were caused by JR’s affair…but I did.
He called me after he read it. “What did you think?” I asked him. “I can tell that you went through a lot of pain. I know that I left you alone for most of your pain. I left you to deal with it on your own. I don’t know why I didn’t help you. You went through a lot.” he answered. That was pretty much it. I really can’t believe that’s all he had to say about it. I don’t know if he just didn’t want to discuss it any further because we are apart, and maybe it’s a conversation that would be better face to face, or that was it. That’s all he has to say about it.
Sometimes I try and convince myself that the words he spoke to her…the I love you’s, that he didn’t mean it, but I know my JR and I know that at the time he said it…he meant it. He wasn’t cruel to her. He wasn’t unkind. He gave himself freely and totally to her when he was with her. She had all of him during those days and he wanted it that way. He felt guilty about the pain he caused her when it was over, He needed and wanted to apologize to her. He was never cruel to her. He worried about her. I believe he loved her. I really do. He will go to his grave denying it because he knows if he ever admitted it to me, it would destroy me once and for all. The odd thing about this for me, is that knowing in my heart that he was good to her is why I love him…because he is good. He is good to me, just as I know he was good to his lover at the time. I would expect nothing less of him. Even though it is completely contradictory to say, JR is a gentleman. I wish I could say he was awful to her…that he used her, but that would be a lie. He even apologized to her for my behavior towards her. He didn’t want to hurt her. He never set out with that intention. I don’t think he wanted to love her and he never planned on her loving him, but when she did, he felt bad for her. He wanted her to leave their relationship and be happy. I believe that a part of him will always be with her. I believe that’s true about anyone that you have a long standing relationship with. You take something from them, and you leave a little something too. I know that whatever he felt for her doesn’t even come close to what he and I share, but dammit, it stills hurts so fucking bad. Can someone be in love with two different people at the same time, but on different levels?
How will I ever make my heart and mind move on from this. I have cried an ocean of tears and tonight I add to that. It’s been a long time since I got bitch slapped by infidelity, but tonight she reminded me that she is here and in charge and has no plans of leaving anytime soon. Whenever I am having a good day, or going through a period of calm, it’s only because she allowed it.
Is this really my marriage? 
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To be a shell is the most lonely feeling in the world.
I wrote almost the exact same thing to my coach on Friday. I am numb.
I’m really over being numb, just as much as I am over being sad and afraid. I must figure out how to feel something else.
It’s normal for us to have emotions all over the place. A couple weeks ago you were on cloud 9 and then the realization that infidelity has rocked your world hits once again. This too shall pass…
I could not understand or grasp that my husband had a 6 year sex affair with another woman and had no emotion. Our therapist said that he thinks it bothers me that my husband was capable of having no emotion towards someone he was having sex with, I assured him that was not the case. In your case JR cared about her because as you said, he’s not an addict. If my husband was not an addict and had a relationship with a woman devoid of any emotion I might start thinking he was a psychopath. But even in that case science would undoubtedly prove me wrong. Men want to breed, it’s engrained in them, they don’t know why, they just want to do it. In JR’s case a woman presented herself and he took the bait, does not mean he did not love you, does not mean that he did not want his life with you. It just means he stupidly fucked a whore and in the process he got attached. The hormones released in a normal healthy person during sex bond them to their sex partner.
Even in my husband who was an addict I’d venture to say that even though he had no romantic feelings towards his AP he surly must have had some kind of attachment to her to keep fucking her for 6 years, even if she was a crazy stalker.
Can you love two people at the same time? Absolutely… maybe not in the same way but yes you can. You can love more than one child at a time, you love both your parents, you love your siblings what would make someone think you can love only one mate at a time.
Don’t you think for one second if he needed a real life wife that he would not have chosen you a hundred times over. Do you think he would have wanted her to see him sick on the toilet, or take care of him with the flu, or be the step-mother to his children? Even if he had feelings for her, even if he was attached to her, it was not real life. It was a temporary fairy tale made up of superficial interactions where they were both on their best behavior.
You’ll be okay Kayboo…. reread your post about what you plan to do on JR for Valentines day. You were doing good that day. {{{{Hugs}}}}
You know I thought I had gotten off this roller coaster ride, but I guess not. I know that JR and Nikki never would have worked in the real world. Outside of their affair they had nothing in common. Seems the only thing they did have in common was cheating on their spouses. I know he never thought of her as wife material, which is why he never stopped treating me like a wife during his affair. If it’s possible to love two people at the same time then I guess it’s also possible to love and hate someone at the same time. Sometimes I think that’s what I struggle with the most…I hate him for hurting me this way, but I love him and the life we have shared. Such a struggle…does it ever end.
((HUGS)) I wish I couldn’t relate to this, and that you didn’t feel this, but unfortunately it seems to be the norm for us betrayed spouses. Knowing that makes it a little better, but really, I just want to feel something again. Anything. Seems like you do, too.
I do…just any emotion about anything. Not even just for him, for anbody or anything. I just want to feel. I worry this will last forever. I know that I don’t want to go through the rest of my life this way.
All of this is so familiar. You are not alone. I hope tomorrow is a better day for you.
Thanks…I am feeling better today. Not as sad. Not happy either, I’m just here…surviving. This is a one day at a time thing for sure.
Infidelity is one of the greatest emotional pains a woman or a man can experience Let your mind experience all the levels of grieving. Continue asking questions of your spouse but only the one’s you know you can handle. Go to BAN (Beyond Affairs Network.com) its a great orgainization for betrayed spouses.
You can get to the other side of this but it will take time. Be strong and do not let FEAR rule you because it will. F.E.A.R= False,Evidence that Appears Real.
Talk this out.. don’t keep it inside you. Blogging is good therapy
Peace and Joy I send you.
Jaclyn Grayson-Reckless Disregard.
Wow! That paragraph you wrote that described your perspective of how he probably felt about her when he was with her was really powerful. It takes real grace to look with that kind of balance at their relationship. Does he realize how lucky he is that you can be that empathetic?
Thanks for that. I’m sure he knows how lucky he is…he tells me so all the time. He still swears up and down that he did not love her. He claims he has only loved one woman. He does admit that he had strong feelings for her though. He did care about her and what happened to her. The funny thing is that when it was over and he called to apologize to her 2 months later he really just wanted her to know that he and I were going to be ok. It was important for him to make sure that she knew that it didn’t destroy us, that we would get through it. I always thought that was odd. Maybe it’s because after the affair her and her husband separated and planned on divorcing, which they did. I think that he had some guilt about things he had said and done that pertained to me and he wanted her to know that he really did love me. He really was in some fog for all of those months. I hardly recognized my husband during that time period..I just didn’t know why.
I’ve so been here. The hardest thing I’ve ever gone through in my entire life. But it will get better. If you need anything shoot me an email.
I feel for you…I really do! I know I’m an OW now…but I was also cheated on by my partner of 23 years. (I didn’t find out about his infidelity until after I broke up with him.) However, my partner had at least three affairs during our relationship…and I am positive there were several more. So, I can understand your pain, kayboo. I really,