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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
I found out that my boyfriend of two years is
married and has kids. I'm showing myself to his family
tomorrow at his church throwaway because I don't want my
followers to see this. I'm just so confused right now
and need to talk to somebody. I've been seeing this guy,
Adam thirty two, for two years. He's from another town
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that visits me on weekends. I never met his family
friend to his town. I know that he works at
the church and he takes pride in that. Three weeks ago,
I found out that he's actually married and has two kids.
I was devastated and in a state of dispal life.
But most of all, I was mad, especially after I
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confirm this via his wife's social media account. We're still
talking and I haven't broke up with him yet. I
planned and decided to show myself to his family on
Sunday at his church and let them know that he
used me and took advantage. I plan on ending it
right there, and then I'm currently in his town staying
at a hotel. I'm doing this tomorrow and no one
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knows except myself. He's still texting me lies, thinking that
I'm stupid or ignorant. I feel terrible, but something's pushing
me to do this. Don't know if it's anger or
feeling bad for his wife and kids. I just I'm
not gonna lie. I'm worried this might backfire at me,
but at this point I have nothing to lose. I
just feel like I need to get my respect and
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dignity back if I'm being lied to and fulled for
two years. Redditor's reactions story two after Redditor one. As
stummy as that is, it is pretty remarkable that he
got away with it for so long. I can't even
take an asset without my wife and kids hunting me down.
I'll answer. I admit that he managed to play me.
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I'm usually the type of person that won't trust people automatically,
nor go out of my way to be malicious to others.
I'm not a bitter person, but I feel a great
deal of depression and sadness because of him. I was
in a bad place before meeting him. Now it's worst
edit verge of my typing because I had few drinks
and my hand is unsteady. Redditor two saving thread, please
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update with your decision result. Redditor three, you can get
your respect and dignity back without traumatizing his kids in
the process. Tell the wife, but leave the kids out
of it. Edit to those sending me messages saying the
kids deserve to know and check's notes. Fuck them kids,
Shut the actual duck up. There is not a need
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to publicly embarrass a woman and her children because her
husband can't keep his dc K in his pants. Grow
up and go to therapy because your head is ducked,
reddit or follow up, Yeah, I second this. The kids
didn't sign up for the circus. They're innocent. Redditor for
I'm with everyone else here. It's going to blow up
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in your face. If you make a scene, the church
will make you the villain, him the victim, and the
wife the lane duck. Sit next to her and tell
her you want to speak to her in private, give
her unrefutable evidence, walk away, never look back. If she
wants to make a scene, let her make that call.
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It's probably hard to see it this way, but both
of you are victims of this man's machinations. As much
as you want to ruin this man in spectacular fashion,
it's not her fault he did this. Please be considerate,
Reddit or follow up you throw Away ninety seven sixty seven,
Please ee this advice. Don't blow up her and their
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children's lives. They are innocent in this. Tell her, but
do not bring inevitable shame to her in the way
you're planning. I get that you want to burn it
all down, but that's selfish of you, when really it
should be about her and the kids. They deserve to
know when he deserves to burn But doing it to
create a spectacle and involving the kids is pretty ducked up.
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Story two. My partner told me he isn't in love
with me any more after ten years. Days before I
gave birth to our second child second of January. My
partner seemed off. I asked him, what's going on. He
told me he wasn't in love with me anymore and
ended our relationship. He has been feeling this way for
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a few years. Apparently. We had just bought our first
house together two months ago. As the the earth of
our second child was only days away, I asked if
he could stay living with us to help out. I
also requested if he could not get into a new
relationship for three months so we could focus on the
newborn stage and I could deal with all these emotions
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as he would be living with us. He agreed. In
days later, I had our baby. He did not attend
the birth he couldn't handle the procedure. Thirteen hours after birth,
my son took a turn for the worse and was
transferred to nik You for two weeks with lung issues.
Once we returned home, my ex met his son for
the first time, while also smiling a lot at his phone.
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Later that night, I found out days after we broke up,
he started talking to a girl from work. After our
son was born. He told her he liked her, and
he told me she was a support person while our
son was aniek you. I was disgusted in him, and
the next day I gave him three weeks notice to
move out. They were the most emotional three weeks of
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my life. He sat next to me, smiling and constantly
messaging this girl. Then things didn't go anywhere with her,
so he downloaded dating apps and went straight on there
to talk to women. When I asked him why we
broke up, he said it's because I put on weight
and he lost attraction to me, and then I would
lose weight and gain it again and it frustrated him. However,
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when I did lose weight, he was never cheering me
on unless I asked him if he was proud of me.
I had lost thirty three kilograms in two years and
was nine months pregnant at the time of break up.
I love him still after everything he has put me through.
I thought we would have been together forever. We were
so compatible. He was just a really lazy father and partner.
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But I accepted that. I want him to love me again.
I'm working on a lot of self love at M two.
I just don't know what to do, and letting go
is so hard. Thank you for reading this. Redditor's reactions
Story three after Redditor one. You deserve so much better,
someone loyal and faithful, someone who isn't acting so shallow. Seriously,
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he is not treating you right at all. I hope
you find someone who won't make you feel like asset
about your image and body. Op answer, thank you. I
just wish it could have been him, fingers crossed for
better things to come. Redditor two. I don't think that
he just left because of falling out of love. It's
more like falling into his colleague, if you know what
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I mean, op answer. That's what my mom said. It
happened so quickly, and now things didn't work between them
because she didn't like him back. It's like he wants
to play the field to see what's out there. I
thought he was having an early midlife crisis. He is
thirty seven. I am thirty two. Redditor three, he is
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a complete and other piece of asset. I hope Karma
sends some horrible as it his way. You are honestly
the most tolerant reasonable person for giving him three weeks
to move out. I would have wanted him out with
immediate effect. I want to give you a big hug.
Redded or follow up literally this unless IP is leaving
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out some serious, serious issues she has where she abuses
or otherwise endangers her partner. Any man who leaves a
woman days before giving birth to his child as an
irredeemable piece of asset. Story three. I have cheated on
my husband and the guilt is killing me. My husband
M fifty stopped having S time with me f thirty nine,
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about nine years ago. At that time, he had health
issues that we thought was prostate cancer and I just
had a late and painful miscarriage. We both were traumatized
because of our experiences and stopped having S time. We
never stopped showing our love, though we still kissed, hugged,
and cuddled the moment we got home. After a while,
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about one one Comma five year, I started initiating S
time again. He was very avoidant in the beginning and
tried to blame it on many things, including what we
went through. I asked him if he maybe should talk
to a therapist, but he said he just needed time.
We tried a bid and after two half attempts, I
stopped trying because I felt unwanted and embarrassed. I stopped
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feeling desired and saw myself as ugly and unattractive. He
never stopped loving me or showing me that with kisses
and touching. Until about a week ago. I still fell
asleep in his arms every night. I noticed that he
didn't have physical issues with getting hard, and it made
me feel worse about myself. For some reason, it must
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have been me. He didn't want or as time in general.
When I turned thirty five, I realized I'm probably never
going to have children and accepted that fact. We got
each other great jobs, so I busied myself with the
material things. We're both high earners, so we bought our
dream apartment, built our dream lake house, expensive cars and
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designer stuff, and I was happy in content. The problems
started again about three years ago. I wasn't satisfied, and
I told him I wanted S time. Nothing was enough
for me anymore, not the cuddling or the love or
the material things. He said it wasn't me. He just
didn't want S time. He was content with what we
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had and I should feel lucky that we have found
love and a great life with each other. He didn't
want to get a divorce and begged me to just
find some other hobby. Many married people don't have s time,
and very few are as happy as we are are
his exact words. I told him I wanted to separate,
but he refused and asked me to go to counseling
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with him instead of I promised not to talk about
s time or divorce in our sessions. After two appointments,
I stopped going. He was right. I loved him very much,
and he loved me and didn't want to lose the
life we built together. Instead, I started working out more,
taking piano lessons, climbing lessons, et cetera. And before COVID,
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we traveled all over Asia. When COVID hit and we
were home for the majority of the time, I started
fantasizing about other men. I am very beautiful, and even
being almost forty, I still got a lot of attention
from men. That was something I was aware of before
but never interested in. Now I suddenly was. I found
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myself loving the attention and not immediately rebuffing men who
approached me. This got worse when after COVID my company
started hiring many new people. Right before Christmas, one of
the new colleagues, a very handsome, thirty something yeah old
man was not shy about how beautiful and attractive he
found me. I was overwhelmed at first, but secretly I
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loved his attention and fantasized every night about him. After
a couple of months and some outings with him and
other colleagues, I started talking to him more than any others.
Last week, we were on a work trip to London,
me him in two fifty something year old ladies who
weren't interested in taking a drink before going to the hotel,
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so I spent all my evenings with him instead. One
of these nights, he was drunk and bluntly told me
what he in details wanted to do to me and
asked me to go to his room with him. And
I was just living my fantasy and said yes. Halfway
through our session, I don't know what came over me,
and all I could think of was my husband. I
told him to stop and just left. This was a
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week ago. Now I can't bear the guilt I'm feeling.
I'm so disgusted with myself and I hate everything about me.
I'm a cheap, cowardly, pathetic human being. I have moved
to the guest room because I can't let my husband
touch and cuddle something so filthy and disgusting. I can't
bear falling asleep in his arms, and I don't feel
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I deserve him. I don't know why I'm writing this,
but I needed an outlet. Feel free to be disgusted
with me, because you will never be as disgusted as I'm.
When I was fantasizing about cheating, I never considered my
conscience or my love for my husband. I totally forgot
these two very important feelings. Please, before acting on your lust,
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just take one step back and consider what you're going
to lose. I have lost the love of my life
because I was a Tierney. I can't keep this a
secret because the guilt is killing me, so I'm telling
him tonight. Update. Thank you everyone for all the comments.
Although I don't deserve the kindness and understanding so many
of you have shown me, I have kept my word
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and told my husband yesterday. I saw immediately in his
eyes that I have lost him, and if guild felt
so bad yesterday, the way he looked at me made
it a hundred times worse. He didn't say much. I
didn't try to explain myself or blame any one but myself.
I told him that I was sorry. He is still
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at work and he's probably not coming home to day.
I have lost my best friend and true love. Redditor's reactions.
Redditor one, please go talk to a therapist, one you
trust and are completely comfortable with. For the love of God,
don't take random advice from people on Reddit. AP answer.
I will eventually seek therapy. My husband didn't want me
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talking about our s time life to therapist. It was
very important to him, and I didn't dare to do
it behind his back because I didn't want to hurt
or embarrass him. But I ended up doing something a
thousand times worse. Redditor two. Considering you've already expressed wanting separation,
him not wanting you to address s time and counseling,
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and the fact you moved into the guest room, he
might put two and two together, but regardless, I'm happier
telling him AP answer. I told him I had an
important week at work and needed my sleep. He's a snorer.
Redditor three one hundred percent. You should not have cheated.
You should have divorced a long time time ago. To
some s, time isn't important. To others, it is. Your
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love language is different from his. You need intimacy with
a partner. You cannot hide or run from that at
as timeless. Faithful marriage only works if both are willing
to commit to that. It's been nine years and you
are still not feeling fulfilled without S time. The best
thing you can both do is to move on reddit
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or follow up to some S time isn't important to others,
it is. Your love language is different from his. You
need intimacy with a partner. You cannot hide or run
from that as time will hear indifferent to S time
and don't quite feel the need like others do, nor
does my self esteem or worth get tied to it.
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Yet I've never asked someone to give up S time
if it was important to them. This absolutely will always
be subject of frequent, constant communication with any partner I've
had or will have. Just because it's not a big
deal to me doesn't mean it isn't for my partner,
and I have to understand that if we ever hid
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an impasse on the subject, it is completely fair and
right for them to move on for both us to
be happy up. Your husband isn't being fair at all
to you or your needs at all. If he isn't
willing to find compromise that you like too, or therapy
or work this out in any form. Do yourself a
favor and find someone who will. This is clearly an
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important part of a relationship for you, and you deserve
to be happy in your relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's the New Year, Better Sleep Sale a Mattress Warehouse.
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Purple Casper, and more, Plus get a free adjustable base
with select mattress purchases. The only place to use true
diagnostic technology to help you find the right mattress for
your body, Mattress Warehouse makes it even easier with zero
(17:19):
percent interest financing, free next day delivery, and a one
year lowest price guarantee. Don't miss the New Year, Better
Sleep Sale at Mattress Warehouse