I have seriously considered dropping the calls issue, but what's very troubling to me is when I asked him on Feb. 7th (could've been the 8th) when was the last time he had talked to OW. H said it was the past Thursday or Friday which would have been the 3rd or 4th, H said there would be no more contact, and he said that was the truth. H claims he was only calling OW back to tell her to stop calling him. BUT, as I found out, he called OW on the 6th before 1am while we were in Reno. I want to know the purpose of that call! He had NO incoming calls at all that day, so the "she called me first" excuse is out the window. H did call OW before on the 3rd as he said he did, but this call is questionable, too. It was actually a series of 3 calls, one right after the other. It was as if his signal kept dying so he kept calling back, or possibly OW could have been upset with H and kept hanging up on him for which reason he continued calling her back. Who knows? Then of course there's the 2 incoming calls which were after 2am and while he was in Seattle and Portland just 2 weeks ago. I know it wasn't me calling him!

H was going through many uncertainties while he was in Seattle/Portland about us and our R, but decided he didn't want to call it quits by the time he got home. During our convo about trying for a couple months and evaluating things after the first month, I reminded H that any and all contact with OW had to stop - no excuses! H agreed and said it had stopped when he said it did (on the 3rd or 4th).

Like I said at the beginning of this post, I have considered just dropping it..........but can you understand why I'm really having trouble with that? He lied. The deception is still there. How am I supposed to rebuild our M and the trust that goes along with it when there's still this wall of secrecy obstructing my view? And if I do ask H if any contact has been made by OW or himself without bringing up my evidence, and he were to say "no, not at all", then what? How do I handle that? I know I won't lash out and accuse him of lying (although he would be lying). That got me nowhere last time.

Thanks for listening.


Valerie

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." ~ author unknown

"Piecing is not for the faint of heart." ~ sage