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It was and has been very hard dealing with this. You pretty much nailed it. She does make me feel bad when I bring it up. She resents te fact that I bring it up. Like she told MC she doesn't believe anything positive comes out of it. She points out how she never brings up my past problems. How she doesn't bring up that I was sexting old girlfriends, or that I was a bad father and husband. She says that its seems pointless to bring past problems when moving forward and that doesn't do anything positive. She says that she has faith in me that I am not that person anymore and I should have faith in her that she has moved on as well from that.
We talked a little more about boundaries yesterday and she seemed to understand the reasoning better. I will bring this up tomorrow again in MC


I am glad you brought this up in counseling. I don't know what the resolution was, however, I am with W on this one. I know many are going to get upset the second they read that but stick with me here. She is right! If you constantly bring it up, it continues to hammer home that what she did was worse than anything you did in the M. Or do you want her saying to you every day, "Now make sure you pay attention to me, take me out, hug me, go to the movies with me, cook me dinner, don't talk to me that, smile more" or whatever myriad of things you did/didn't do in the M that caused your R to be so disconnected she thought an A was ok? She has a right to be upset when you continue to bring it up. When my H brought it up, all I could think was "Wow, we will never get past this" and then, I didn't want to try because I couldn't come up with a reason to. I don't blame her for resenting it. It's either in the past or it isn't.

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She says that its seems pointless to bring past problems when moving forward and that doesn't do anything positive. She says that she has faith in me that I am not that person anymore and I should have faith in her that she has moved on as well from that


I agree


M 46
H 44
D 12 S 8
M 9 T 11
BD 2/15/13
"Makes sense to stay together" 5/12/13
Agree we are 'healing' 7/13
Definitely Piecing 9/13