Treese, I have to ask why you allow your H to live at home if he is openly with OW and hasn't slept with you in 7 months and your kids know so there's no one to pretend for. I understand in a way--because I ask myself why the heck I haven't kicked my H out after he keeps insisting he doesn't love me. For me, well, for now anyway, he has not said anything about actually leaving, and then there are the financial reasons and the fact that our kids have no idea that we don't love each other. So we're jointly--H & I--pulling an "as if" for them at this point and because of money.

I think that if my H had an OW and my kids knew and he came and went like that, I would ask him to move out until he could come back and leave OW. Doesn't letting him live there and openly see OW qualify as cake-eating?

I am not judging you, just wondering. I guess I'm also wondering how long I will put up with a H who won't say ILY and work on our M. At the moment, I feel close to telling him to shape up or ship out.


Me/X-H: 47/48
T 19 yrs
M 16 years
D14
D10
ILYBINILWY: 10/07
H moved out 6/08