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brokenheart83
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Hi I’m new and I’m 28 my wife is 29 and this is my first posting, I’m wondering if anyone has been in my situation and how did you handle it. Last Wednesday June 20 my wife told me she longer loves me and has felt that way since Christmas, we have been together for 8 years and married 3 years. We have no kids of our own but she did have a 3 year old when we started dating, as time went by I learned to love this child as he were my own, I raised him from 3 years of age to now being 10. My wife has completely torn my heart from my chest, although she didn’t ask me for a divorce she did ask for a separation. I’ve asked her where I went wrong and she stays silent, I ask what can I do to fix our problems and she says nothing. We stopped having sex about 4-5 months ago because she was never in the mood and she says that it is not normal in a marriage. She says she felt like my roommate and she was okay with that, that she went months trying to make it work but never held an open dialog with me on any problems. I’m your typical male and I don’t pick up on the issues easily, I do know that my wife was very distant and rarely ever let me show her affection such as a hug or even a kiss. We weren’t without problems though, about a year and a half ago I strayed off the pathway. I’m not trying to justify my actions in this next information but I started talking to a woman that I met on Facebook, my wife had not been showing me the love or affection I felt I deserved. It felt great to get some admiration from someone since I was not receiving it at home. As the Lord as my witness I never had the intention to do anything with this woman, it felt nice to be adored. Well my wife found out and I broke her heart that day, I told her the same that I didn’t plan on doing anything with that woman. After crying from the both of us and me begging for her forgiveness she said she could forgive but not forget and that it would take time to regain her trust which I told her I knew it would take time. As time went by 6 months to be exact I was the perfect husband I tried hard to regain her trust, we were the first couple that didn’t hide passwords from each other, and she knows my passwords to all my accounts and I know hers. Well one day she happened to forgot to log off her Facebook account and I discovered she was flirting with some old school mate of hers and she had been telling him how I had cheated on her, well he was trying to entice her to do god only knows what and I now got infuriated but I knew now how she must have felt those 6 months prior. As I prodded deeper into her email accounts I discovered emails from 4 years before us getting married or before my transgression that she had signed up for a dating sites match . com. She claims to never have used it but the fact that there was that intention just hurt me. So after months of having me dragged around like a puppy and begging for forgiveness she had been a hypocrite the entire time. Now I know 2 wrongs don’t make a right so I forgave her but not before having a discussion that moving forward we were to both not keep secrets from each other and also not before her telling me that she didn’t enter our marriage just to give up so easily. I whole heartedly love my wife and my son, it hurts me to know that the woman I opened up my heart wholly said the words “I don’t love you”. She says she would rather struggle on her own than to be miserable in a house where she has everything, she stated that she didn’t like the fact that I took care of all the bills. To me it seems like a false pretense, I was never the type of husband to tell my wife she couldn’t do anything. I would let her have girls night with her friends, and I even let her go to a concert with a group of her work friends 6 hours away. My wife had her freedom, and but was it too much freedom? It’s been a little over a week since we separated and she clearly told me she needed time and see if she could make it on her own. After a week of me crying for her return she has made no attempt to see how I am doing but out of the blue asks for my help on her car note as she is behind, but instead of calling or asking me in person she texted me. I didn’t respond because now after a week I’m angry, angry for the fact that when she left me she left me in tears and claiming to try to make it on her own but now wants help. How do I handle this? Now that I’ve had time to think I’m angry, sad, mad all at once, if she learns during our separation that she still loves me how do I trust her? How do I trust her again after breaking my heart and taking my son? We’ve never in 8 years been able to concieve, is this gods way of telling me this not the right woman? Any questions or advice I welcome.
