HELP!
CAN ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME SNAP OUT OF HOW I AM FEELING??!!
THINGS STARTED WITY MY FIANCE BACK LAST YEAR HE WAS MY NEW BOSS, INCREDIBLY GOODLOOKIN AND CHARMING. PROMBLEM!! HE WAS MARRIED! AND HAD A DAUGHTER! BUT... HE WAS VERY UNHAPPY IN HIS MARRIGE WHICH HE WASNT SHY TO ADMIT WHEN WE FIRST MET AND SAID HE HAD LEFT MANY TIMES BEFORE BUT MISSED HIS DAUGHTER. I WAS ALSO IN A RELATIONSHIP AT THE TIME THAT I WAS QUITE UNHAPPY IN TOO THAT I ALSO WASNT SCARED OF ADMITTING. HE WAS VERY PROFESIONAL. NEITHER OF US MADE A PASS AT EACHOTHER AS DIDNT WANT TO OVER STEP THE MARK BECAUSE HE WAS MARRIED AND MY BOSS. WE GOT 2 KNOW EACHOTHER VERY WELL, WE COULD BOTH HONESLTY SAY WE BECAME GOOD FRIENDS. HE CONFIDED IN ME ABOUT A LOT OF STUFF WHEN IT CAME TO HIS WIFE THAT HE HAD CHEATED IN THE PAST BUT HAD TOLD HER ABOUT IT AND THE GUIKT KILLED HIM. HE TOLD ME THEN THAT HE NEVER WANTED TO MARRY HER AS WE WAS SELFISH AND ONLY PURPOSED BEACUSE HE FELT IT WAS ''THE RIGHT THING TO DO'' NEXT. THEN AFTER BEING FORCED INTO A QUICK A MARRIGE THAT SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL THEY GOT PREGNANT AS THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MAKE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WORK BUT IT DIDNT AND HE STAYED THERE FOR ANOTHER 7 YEARS. I BELIEVE WHAT HE IS SAYING AS HIS FRIENDS AND OUR OTHER WORK COLLEGUES HAVE TOLD ME THAT HE WAS VERY UNHAPPY. ANYWAY...JUST BEFORE XMAS ME AND HIM STARTED GETTING CLOSER AND HE KISSED ME THE GULIT KILLED BECAUSE OF HIS WIFE AND MY CURRENT BOYFRIEND BUT I KNEW I WAS FALLING FOR HIM, HE SAID IT WOULDNT HAPPEN AGAIN BUT ON BOXING DAY HE TURNED UP IN A WROK COLLEGUES PARTY WHERE WE OUT LATER AND WE GOT ON SO WELL AGAIN DANCED HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME BUT MY CURRNET BOYFIREND TURNED UP AND HE DIDNT LIKE IT. AFTER XMAS RETURNING TO WORK THE FIST DAY BACK WE SLEPT TOGETHER AND IT KILLED ME I BROKE UP WITH MY BOYFRIEND AS IT WAS TO MUCH BEING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE ELSE. HE TRIED TO LEAVE HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTER WENT CRAZY AND MADE HIM GULITY HE STAYED SO WE BROKE IT OFF. TWO WEEKS LATER HE LEFT HER ''MOVED TO HIS MOTHER'' BUT ACTUALLY MOVED IN WITH ME. 10 MONTHS LATER HERE WE ARE ENGAGED HE DIVORCED LEGALLY AND WE HAVING A BABY. I LOVE HIS DAUGHTER VERY MUCH , BUT I JUST CANT DEAL WUTH HIS PAST I THINK ITS BECAUSE IT IS SO FRESH. EVERYTIME HE HAS TO GO THERE TO PICK ABIGAIL UP , OR IF HIS EX PHONES HIS MOBILE EVEN DOWN TO THE WAY HER NAME IS WRITTEN IN HIS PHONE GETS TO ME, I HATE THA FACT HE WAS MARRIED TO HER FIRST , THAT ABIGAIL IS HIS FIRST WITH HER. AND THE FACT THAT HE STILL HAS MAIL GOING THERE AND THERES A LOT OF THINGS OF HIS STILL IN THAT HOUSE THAT I HAVE BEGGED HIM TO GET OUT OF THERE BUT HE TO BUSY HE SAIS, HE STILL OWNES THAT HOUSE WHICH HE PROB WILL FOR A LONG TIME. I KNOW HE LOVES ME! AND I KNOW HE WASNT HAPPY THERE. BUT HE DOESNT REALISE WHAT HE DOES TO ME BY STILL KEEPING THAT STUFF THERE I KNOW HE LIVE DTHERE 8 YEARS BUT IF HE MOVED OUT AND WE GOT UTR OWN HOUSE TOGETHER AND HE DIVORCED WHY IS HIS STUFF STILL THERE GET THEM OUT! HIS FMAILY ARE REALLY NICE ON OUR ENGAGEMENT PARTY THEY WERE GRAET HIS BROTHERS NEVER REALLY LIKE HER ANYWAY BUT SEEMED TO LIKE ME. HIS MOTHER TRIES TO MAKE AN EFFORT WITH ME BUT HIS EX WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER ONE I THINK. ABIGAIL HAS TAKEN TO THE DIVORCE REALLY WELL AND I HAVE ADAPTED TO HER BEING AROUND AS IT WAS HARD AT FIRST SHARING KEN, BUT IM CRAZY ABOUT HER. BUT HIS MOTHER ISNT REALLY BOTHERD ABOUT HER NEW GRANDAUGHTER WHO WILL BE HERE SOON ALL SHE CARED ABOUT IS ABIGAIL AND HER MOTHER BECAUSE THEY HAVENT GOT KEN ANYMORE. ABIGAIL HAS GOT KEN! BUT HER MOTHER IS NOT HAVING HIMBACK AND IM SICK OF PEOPLE FEELING SORRY FOR HER HE DIDNT LEAVE HER FOR ME , HE TRIED LEAVING HER BEFORE!! I WASNT THERE THEN! THEY ARE DIVORCED NOW AND RATHER THAN PEOPLE BEING HAPPY FOR ME AND KEN THAT WE HAVING A NEW BABY, ABIGAIL IS EXTATIC SHE HAVING A SISTER ITS STILL PITTY ON JOANNE! AND MY NEW DAUGHTER IS AT BACK OF THE SHELF AND SHE NOT EVEN HERE YET. HOW CAN I TELL MY FIANCE THIS? I HAVE BUT HE JUST SAID HIS EX WIFE BEEN IN HIS LIFE A LONG TIME SO HIS MOTHER CANT STOP TALKING TO HER COS OF ABIGAIL. IM NOT ASKING HER TOO!!! IM JUST ASKIN PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE HAVING A BABY NOW ABIGAIL ISNT NUMBER ONE IN HIS LIFE HE HAS TWO! ABIGAIL HAS NOT LOST HER FATHER HE IS NOT DEAD! HE JUST DOESNT LIVE THERE ANYMORE WHICH SHE HAS ADDAPTED TOO! WHY CANT HIS MOTHER OR HIS EX WIFE! HE HAS TWO CHILDREN NOW NOT ONE ! HE IS AN AWSOME FATHER AND I KNOW HE WILL LOVE SOFIA BUT I HOPE HE DOESNT FEEL LIKE HE HAS TO TREAT ONE DIFFERENT TO OTHER COS ONE GETS HIM MORE THEY SHOILD BE TRAETED EQUALLY I THINK BECAUSE I PLAN TO HAVE MORE WITH HIM. SOMEBODY HELP ME? AND TELL ME MY JEALOUSY S NORMAL. PLEASE BECAUSE IM GONNA END UP RESENTING HIM AND PUSHIN HIM AWAY!
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This may come across as me
This may come across as me being a jerk, but Why don't you just for one second think about how YOU would feel if your husband left YOU and YOUR daughter 6 or so years from now?
Your finance is the typical selfish cheating man who is only thinking about himself. He told you how miserable he was in his marraige etc. because he needed to justify what he was doing. I bet his ex-wife has a completely different story. Sorry, but I know what it is like to be cheated on and I didn't even have any children with my ex. My husband was telling me he loved me, sleeping with me, acting like nothing was wrong and he was having an affair for over 2 years (yeah stupid me!) but again, he was acting like life was wonderful between us. So until you've walked a mile in the exwife's shoes, you really have no businesses asking that she just get over it already.
Stop consuming yourself with the ex and what she thinks, feels or says. She is really none of your concern at this point. She'll say what she will, you have no control over it, so why let it bother you. Focus on your soon to marriage and your new little one and let the past go.
I agree with HappySearch and
I agree with HappySearch and DaizyDuke.
Like DD said, this is still fresh for everyone. It's fresh for you, DH, your stepdaughter, her mom and MIL. Was he telling his ex that everything was ok and that he really loved her when indeed, everything wasn't ok?
Things won't get better for any of you overnight. I wouldn't recommend dealing with the ex. I'd let your DH do that. Does she badmouth you and DH to SD? I know she has every right to be hurt, but she doesn't have the right to take it out like that on SD.
MIL and ex might feel that DH left SD when he left ex. DH might want to explain to them that he pays a hefty amount of child support, communicates with SD often and sees her as much as he's allowed to and therefore he did not leave SD.
He needs to fix the fixable stuff. He needs to get his things out of the ex's home and separate the bills. He needs to get a visitation agreement that will let him see and communicate via phone with SD often. You can't control that MIL and ex talk to each other. I hope they can act like mature adults so SD can see her Dad's family as much as possible. But MIL does need to at least not bring up the ex around you.
As for your daughter? Hopefully MIL will realize once she meets her that she can love all her grandkids equally. I think that if you get SD involved, and both you and DH let her know how much you appreciate her help with her younger sister, SD will be fine and she'll know that she and her sister are equally important to their dad.
Ughh, I have no respect for
Ughh, I have no respect for either of you. What selfish horrible and immature behaviors.
Word of caution-new marriages that start out as affairs rarely if ever actually make it. Keep that in mind.
The reason you are restless about the ex-wife and his past is because you're being tormented by your own concious (hopefully)...and maybe it's some karma added to it.
Oh...and perhaps I'm wrong but this smells of BS.
so you had an affair,with
so you had an affair,with your boss.Now you're engagedand having a baby and you expect everyone to be perfectly ok with this??i'm sorry you're stressed out but you need to take a big gulp of oxygen and come back to earth sweetie.think about how you'd feel if you spent years and years of your life with someone only to have them cheat on you with some little tartlet employee,leave you for said tartlet and knock her up.
all bickering from the scorned woman aside, you're lucky she hasn't put a contract on your head yet.i realize it takes two to mess up a marriage but he had other options besides cheating.you are now suffering the consequences of your actions with him.if MIL doesn't accept your baby that would be really sad for the child but ultimately,any judgment against your baby will be the fault of your actions with a married man.
I hope for the sake of your baby that MIL will come around and treat the child well.
And by the way,it doesn't matter how many times he tells you he 'tried' to leave that woman,you had a choice to either be part of a mans betrayal of his wife or wait until he was free.You chose to act on your feelings before his marriage ended.Now you have to accept that people can't just turn off anger and bitterness like a lightswitch.It is going to take them some time.You have to show that you're worthy of his mothers respect and so far your actions haven't shown her anything worth respecting.
Gem, I have zero sympathy for
Gem, I have zero sympathy for cheaters. Sometimes you truly do reap what you sow.
i agree with Chavez too.don't
i agree with Chavez too.don't care if i get blasted either.what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.I don't care if he was lying in the middle of your office with his dingdong out and ready to rock n roll,he was MARRIED.OFF LIMITS.Regardless of whether or not he made a move on you first or you made a move on him first,HE WAS MARRIED.THAT is why your future MIL is having issues with you and that is why when his daughter is older she will probably have issues with you as well.
"Situations like yours give step-moms a bad name, women in the workplace a bad vibe and society in general a black eye. Whatever happened to married means off-limits?" Kris I am FULLY behind this statement.I think that's why this topic makes me so angry.I'm tired of women making bonehead choices like this and giving the rest of women a hard way to go in society.
You are in a tough spot. I'd
You are in a tough spot. I'd like to hear what it's like in a few years when you're BM#2.