Pam, I have been the dog food too. Many years ago, mind you, but I acted on feelings that I had for a friend - even though he was seeing someone else (I wasn’t seeing anyone). He chose the someone else...and I learned my lesson the hard way.
Truth is, if it came down to brass tacks I hate the OW for threatening my space and making abandonment by H all the more probable. She means ‘danger’ to me, and that makes me react like a nut. I don’t blame her necessarily, but it is easier to hate her than it is to hate H. Wow, how’s that for making no sense!
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
--Agnes Repplier, writer and historian