LBS dealing with WW (part 7) (piecing?)

[Joe2017]

To answer LH:
We talked about her pain too. What causes her pain?

Summary of her words, not mine:
The fact that she cheated and hurt me, our kids, and our families. It makes her feel guilty and sad. She is angry with herself for leaving me for a man who she allowed to woo her away with gas station roses. A man that manipulated her into spending all of her (our) savings and ruining her credit. She has pain from destroying her own family that she spent more than half a decade blending and building into something wonderful. She lost the home she loved. She lost good friends. She is financially ruined now. She gave up a great life for a 6 month fling with a loser.


She has personally owned all of her mistakes. Even mistakes during our marriage. She told me last night that it took her all year to forgive herself. She knows she cheated, and was once a cheater but she said she would never do it to me again because of how much pain she caused everyone. She would like her old life back, but she knows that's not possible. She knows she threw it away for the temporary feeling she got from OM.