WW Separated and wants a divorce - 09/29/17 07:40 AM
It's been about a year since I last posted. As most of us like to state I wish I wasn't back to ask for support, but I find myself in this situation. Sorry in advance to this long post. Apologies for typos on an iPad
My backstory in 2016: I've been married about 14 years. 2 kids, S & D. Mostly suburban life, I worked she was stay-at home mother. The marriage was not perfect, I was not able to keep my emotions in check and several emotional damaging events. I see clearly it was abuse. This categorically destroyed my wife's feeling about me and our marriage. In fact, as I should of know better, for apparently many years. BD happened in May 2016. I did everything wrong, begging, pleading, negotiating, just suffocating her with trying to save my marriage. Again, continuing to attempt to control the situation. I went to IC really made attempts in working on my emotional, control, and anger issues. Made attempts to detach and limited GAL...not successfully but where I could. At a certain point in Sept, as I was feeling stronger, could not accept anymore selfish behavior from W and told her I was done and wanted to leave (I think I really meant it at that time). W got nervous and agreed to "work on marriage" and even go to Retrovaille...which we did. However, after we came back, every 3 weeks she would change her mind on "working on marriage" and tell she would like to separate. Then via through snooping, I found that she called an Apt complex in Nov, and I confronted her on it. W got angry at me for violating her privacy, and explained that she did this behind my back because she didn't want know how I angry I would react. After a certain point and with despair on my side, I agreed to the separation thinking that a break could be good. W agreed to move in Jan even though lease started in Dec. From late Nov to early Jan, for the most part we were good to each other had sex often and kind. I can admit I was pursuing her with my behavior because I wanted to show here the new me and what she would be missing. At times, we would argue when I asked her why did she need to separate.
Separated in 2017:
She left to her new apt. We have kids 50/50. In the early months we had very little interactions. Made me very confused, as I thought we had this connection in late 2016 and now she falls off the face of the earth. Over the months, I ask her to come back and at one point she agreed to come back end of June. I admit I used what I believed to be rationale logic that try to guilt her and manipulate her to come back. 2 weeks later, she told she didn't want to come back and rather just divorce me. This again devastated me, felt like a another bomb drop, she blamed me for trying to force the situation and that she only had 2 decisions, come back or divorce. After this, we had minimal contact, except we spent our respective B-days and did family outings, family hikes, and I was very polite and cordial in any drop-off. I invited her to a family vacation at a beach resort, she agreed and for a week we acted like a perfect family doing things together having fun. The minute we got back, she left and text me to thank me for a wonderful vacation. I was a bit confused at the abrupt nature of the end of the vacation, but thought this is what she wanted. The past couple of months status-quo, polite to her in all interactions.
Recently - Via through an old smartphone (was going to give to my D) I saw enough to see that my W was having some sort of an affair since June 2016 (potentially earlier). Felt like a truck just hit me, for a year and a half, even though many people were telling me was she a WW (even on this sight), I stated there is no way she was having an affair. Not only did she have an affair, but she lied and manipulated me till this month. What this did: For a long time I carried a burden that the marriage was my cause, she never really worked on saving our marriage in 2016, I acted and did things based on thinking she was a WAS and not a WW, for example, vacation and asking her back and lastly she did not allowed me to correctly react to the true circumstances. I think If I knew she was a WW from the beginning and acted accordingly to that as opposed to a WAW, I would be in a stronger emotional state today, but now I feel like a another bomb dropped. I am going through all our interactions in my head and thinking about how now things that didn't make sense makes sense now. I'm devastated as to how she continue to keep this hidden from me, and she knew all along what I really wanted is to save our marriage.
Next confronting the WW
http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubb...941#Post2692941
My backstory in 2016: I've been married about 14 years. 2 kids, S & D. Mostly suburban life, I worked she was stay-at home mother. The marriage was not perfect, I was not able to keep my emotions in check and several emotional damaging events. I see clearly it was abuse. This categorically destroyed my wife's feeling about me and our marriage. In fact, as I should of know better, for apparently many years. BD happened in May 2016. I did everything wrong, begging, pleading, negotiating, just suffocating her with trying to save my marriage. Again, continuing to attempt to control the situation. I went to IC really made attempts in working on my emotional, control, and anger issues. Made attempts to detach and limited GAL...not successfully but where I could. At a certain point in Sept, as I was feeling stronger, could not accept anymore selfish behavior from W and told her I was done and wanted to leave (I think I really meant it at that time). W got nervous and agreed to "work on marriage" and even go to Retrovaille...which we did. However, after we came back, every 3 weeks she would change her mind on "working on marriage" and tell she would like to separate. Then via through snooping, I found that she called an Apt complex in Nov, and I confronted her on it. W got angry at me for violating her privacy, and explained that she did this behind my back because she didn't want know how I angry I would react. After a certain point and with despair on my side, I agreed to the separation thinking that a break could be good. W agreed to move in Jan even though lease started in Dec. From late Nov to early Jan, for the most part we were good to each other had sex often and kind. I can admit I was pursuing her with my behavior because I wanted to show here the new me and what she would be missing. At times, we would argue when I asked her why did she need to separate.
Separated in 2017:
She left to her new apt. We have kids 50/50. In the early months we had very little interactions. Made me very confused, as I thought we had this connection in late 2016 and now she falls off the face of the earth. Over the months, I ask her to come back and at one point she agreed to come back end of June. I admit I used what I believed to be rationale logic that try to guilt her and manipulate her to come back. 2 weeks later, she told she didn't want to come back and rather just divorce me. This again devastated me, felt like a another bomb drop, she blamed me for trying to force the situation and that she only had 2 decisions, come back or divorce. After this, we had minimal contact, except we spent our respective B-days and did family outings, family hikes, and I was very polite and cordial in any drop-off. I invited her to a family vacation at a beach resort, she agreed and for a week we acted like a perfect family doing things together having fun. The minute we got back, she left and text me to thank me for a wonderful vacation. I was a bit confused at the abrupt nature of the end of the vacation, but thought this is what she wanted. The past couple of months status-quo, polite to her in all interactions.
Recently - Via through an old smartphone (was going to give to my D) I saw enough to see that my W was having some sort of an affair since June 2016 (potentially earlier). Felt like a truck just hit me, for a year and a half, even though many people were telling me was she a WW (even on this sight), I stated there is no way she was having an affair. Not only did she have an affair, but she lied and manipulated me till this month. What this did: For a long time I carried a burden that the marriage was my cause, she never really worked on saving our marriage in 2016, I acted and did things based on thinking she was a WAS and not a WW, for example, vacation and asking her back and lastly she did not allowed me to correctly react to the true circumstances. I think If I knew she was a WW from the beginning and acted accordingly to that as opposed to a WAW, I would be in a stronger emotional state today, but now I feel like a another bomb dropped. I am going through all our interactions in my head and thinking about how now things that didn't make sense makes sense now. I'm devastated as to how she continue to keep this hidden from me, and she knew all along what I really wanted is to save our marriage.
Next confronting the WW
http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubb...941#Post2692941