05-23-2012, 02:18 AM
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#540 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Overseas
Posts: 26
| Re: Need Guidance With Exposure and Execution of 180
I was the cheating wife. I have some insight.
1. From what you describe she is still talking and sharing with the OM.That's why she waffles back and forth 2. You cannot move forward without full disclosure. 3. She must be COMPLETELY transparent and want to either piss or get off the pot. 4. What she doesn't fully realise because she's still involved with him is that she cannot get a full picture of reality until she breaks contact. 5. She is getting a certain number of needs fulfilled by him and she doesn't want to let that go....but she fails to recongnise that you are fulfilling her needs as well. She idealises him but if she were to leave you THEN she would realise how you were meeting a certain number of needs as well.
This needs to be all exposed and talked about before you can move forward. She needs to want to be there. She must promise and guarantee that she has completely broken contact AND be ready to prove it with full access to her phone....I let my husband communicate with the man I had been having an affair with and see and read everything... I accounted for my whereabouts everyday so that he could trust that I was really there and nothing was distracting me from the goal: trying to sort out how we could meet each other's needs again (His Needs, Her Needs: READ IT!) and work back to a connection again.
Yes install your spyware if you must but better yet ask her directly and openly for full disclosure....if she knows that she is a full partner in your reconciliation she will be less likely to bolt. Sneaking around can be detrimental. She must WANT to give you what you need as far as reassurance that the affair is over or only emotional.
It sounds like you are early on at the "discovery' stage. This is a fragile time. 1-2 months after the discovery of my affair I washighly at risk of leaving him .It's really hard to accept that someone be able to read every email or text etc. It's intrusive. At first I would erase things that I was afraid would make him doubt me again so the more you push the more secretive she could get. I really feel for you. She is not quite on the same page as you and you are trying to cope with keeping everything together and dealing with all the feeling of betrayal at the same time. Before the MC, before you install all kinds of spyware....push her to make a real choice between the two of you and if she chooses you and insist that she prove that it has really ended. There is no half way here. She can't hang on to him even just emotionally, just 'in case' you guys don't work out.
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