Hi Sara, I just snooped in my W's Facebook account and found the following message to one of OM's friends:

Hi,
Yes I am the ex-girlfriend of OM but we may be getting back together soon. He is coming to Australia next month and I will be his tour guide!
He is very excited about flying on the new Singapore Airlines jumbo jet - it is the largest in the world.
All the best,
W


I think this tells me what I need to know about this marriage i.e. that it is a pathetic excuse of one. I feel like such an unbelievable fool. I have been buying her many gifts trying to speak her love language, taking her on trips and it has all been for nothing. Utterly worthless. A complete joke.

I need to accept that my wife is no longer in love with me and that what we had was wonderful, but it's history now. Since we have no kids or a home I cannot see any reason to stay in touch either, particularly if she is with someone else.

I sense that I am about to be overcome with grief in an enormous way - I know that this marriage has no future and that life as I know it is about to come to an end. I must accept this and get to work somehow in putting a new life together. I do not know where to start and feel lost and helpless - all I can do is take comfort in the knowledge that others have survived searing crises like these.


Me: 46
W: 46
T: 23
M: 20
DS12
DD11
DS5

W left: 01/28/08
Discovered OM: 02/26/08
W back for 9 days: 04/08
W returned 05/21/08
EA/PA - 01/08-07/09
W's MLC 2008-2014 (realised this much later)