CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: incognitobynight So far I am not a cheater, but I am contemplating. I have been with my husband for nearly 10 years. We have never had an intimate physical relationship. Not one night! Why then, if there was no physical/emotional affection shown that was a more intimate nature than "I love you", did you marry him? Did someone force you to? quote:
I have told him that if he could not show me some kind of affection (other than to tell me that he loves me), that I should be allowed to find and fulfill that need in me somewhere else. I have tried to leave him. He will not allow me to find it somewhere else (and goes to extreme lengths to make sure I don't), but has pleaded with me not to leave him. And you should be allowed to go find it elsewhere...without him. On your own, if that's what needs to be. He will not allow you to cheat on him, but pleads with you to stay? I can understand him not wanting you to cheat...what I can't understand is why his pleading with you to stay, you will obey but not his pleading to not cheat on him. If you want the physical and emotional intimacy of being with someone...and don't get me wrong, I know we all need that in our lives too along with everything else we need...then ignore both pleas and go find it. quote:
We have a good life together otherwise. So did my ex and I...but it was empty. It was why I was not only led to the state you are in now but went past where you are and cheated...and caused nothing but misery for myself, my ex, my children, and my career. We separated and I knew I could not go back to a life that included all intimacy except the physical kind. I left. People say, "he will be better off knowing the truth. Better off alone". Bull shit! He can do nothing to change who he is (I won't go into details, but he can't), and I don't want to spend the rest of my life without physical intimacy. It would be best for ME to leave him....I know this. But is it best for him? Who are you kidding? He will lose everything ELSE that we have built together. He will lose the only family he has. He will lose the woman who has for the last 10 years SHOWERED him with gifts and attention and who has focused everything on HIM. If I pull all that out from under him now (and I confess, I am thinking of it), how is that better for HIM???To be honest, that's not your choice to make, it is a choice for the two of you. You present him with the facts and your options and he presents you with his options and you make a decision from there. Will it be a mutual decision? Maybe, maybe not. But it is not yours alone to make. And your statement about how you are keeping all this from him to allow him to keep everything he has? That's bull...it also allows you to keep everything you have. quote:
You think this frees him to go find a woman who can't stand to be touched? Get real!. Kitten, you know who I am. Yeah, in a perfect world, I wish I could have a totally open and honest relationship with someone who fulfills my needs, but we don't live in a perfect world. We are all just doing the best that we can. I'm trying not to destroy my husband, if he finds out...he will be hurt. But I'M HURTING NOW! Then do something about it. How does twisting and turning yourself into knots to stop your hurt when you know that what you do...if you cheat...hurts your husband? You can go on and on all you want about how you will do everything you can to keep him from finding out and therefore, he won't be hurt...but from what I've seen, he will be eventually...and where will all your noble purpose be then?
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