@sniff -
I love this site. I find it cathartic I always wondered if I am sick. After reading the great discussions i at least know that if I am sick there are a lot of normal people who are like me. What I would like to know is do you consider getting a happy ending massage from a professional cheating on your marriage. I am very Catholic and have a lot of guilt but it does not stop me.
When I first got here - I was committing adultery, and being a hypocrite about it, trying to split hairs and justify the fact that I was cheating on my husband, who I love very much. I did all sorts of - mental gymnastics, giving reasons to justify what I was doing. Everything I was doing - I wanted to do with my husband, I didn't know how to ask for it, or even what I wanted really. The bottom line @sniff - I was cheating.
After I admitted - to myself, that what I was doing was what it was, and that I really in my heart wanted that with my husband, I faced facts about who and what I was. I'm either the greatest sales lady - smoothest talker, or or whatever, but eventually I was able to get my husband into what I wanted. The road I took was - anything but the high road, and when I found out he had been cheating too, it didn't change a thing about who and what I had become. My husband and I - found what we wanted to have together, and along the way our relationship and marriage changed to what we have today. We both fuck other people - we know about what we both did, and how we got to where we are now. We were both cheaters - hypocrites, but we don't have any more time to indulge in beating ourselves up over how we got to where we are. Where we are now - is where we want to be, both of us, and the friends we made along the way are gold. 😃
I do regret how I got here - he regrets how he got here, and that means that be both have regrets about how we got here. But the thing is @sniff - we are once again on the same page with each other and at peace with where we are now. And it was us - finally being honest with our ownself, and then with each other, that we have made some friends, and have family, that will be there for which ever of us is left behind. I want that for him - and he wants it for me, but in the end it was admitting to ourselves that we are human, and that we wanted to communicate with each other.
@sniff - you are getting your ass kicked here, rightfully so, I got mine kicked, here and from myself, and rightfully so. You say you love your wife - I believe it, I really do, but take a short cut, learn from my dumb ass, and communicate with her. Hell - she might be way ahead of you and just not know how to say it!
I was a hypocrite - and / or maybe that label sticks or still applies, but my husband and I are at peace with each other and what we have done, where we have been. But we don't piss in each other's ear - and tell each other it's raining anymore. The people beating the shit out of you here - are right to do so, you aren't helping yourself out by pissing in your own ear and then telling others it was rain.
@sniff - these are good people here, taking the time to talk to you, or at you. You say that you - and your wife that you love, are in your 70's. Take a tip from me - skip all of the handwringing, bullshit justifications, and lay it out there with your wife. If you don't know how to do it - and buddy I know how that works, 😉 do some reading, rehearsing, test the waters with your wife and find what works. If you don't want to do that - then have some self respect or stones to admit that you are cheating and don't kid yourself or the good people here.
I went about it all wrong - I was a hypocrite, but luckily when I fell into the shit this time, I came out smelling like a rose. I am glad to see - that my youngest daughter has the stones and the finesse with her husband, at least with her husband :-\\ , to avoid my road, and have her husband on the same page and in the same bed with her. 😉
I cheated - I was / am a hypocrite and it's almost over and we both know it, and to borrow a term, no shit and no sugar, it's just what it is. @sniff - you and your wife are in your 70's, don't you think it's time for a good dose of no shit and no sugar, if for no one else, at least yourself? 🌹