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New Discussion-New Member @rcapcav Cheating DH
  • lifeisgood
    Posts: 481Member
    I pulled this off the thread feeling helpless because of cheating so you wonderful ladies can welcome her and give her some advice.

    @rcavpcac I'm sorry you're going through this. I know the sickening feeling of being unable to sleep because you see disgusting images as soon as you close your eyes. Big Hugs. I understand you wanting all the details also, at times it's the only way to decide if you're going to continue working on the relationship...or just cut it off. I think your DH's brother must think volumes of you to show you what your DH was texting him. All I can say at this point is if you think he's cheated before...he probably has. The gut never lies.


    @rcavpcav1 6:49AM
    Posts: 1Member

    I have read through many comments and never imagined there are that many sleeze balls out there. I need help in the worst way. A few months back I caught my husband at a bar after telling me he was at a friends after work. I was not too upset even though we made a geological change 5 years back to help in his sobriety, I understood him falling off the wagon but something just did not feel right. I asked for his phone while at the bar and found a girls #, which he said was a friend of a friend of ours that he seen there earlier. I called the # and heard the same background noise when she ansered, she immediately hung up. I asked him over and over again if she was there and he denied it (needless to say I found out later she was) I promised to let it go as long as he never entered that bar again. Things were going fine until a few nights later she called when we were going to bed, I had deleted the # from his phone but it was embedded in my head. I told him to answer it but he wouldn't. I called her over and over to ask how she knew my huband and finally just left a message to not call him again. I asked over and over for him not to go back there and he if did I would know there was more to it. Exactly two weeks later he called me while I was at work and said he was helping a friend, I said "you've got to be fucking kidding me" "you expect me to believe that" I again found him at the same bar he came up to me and I asked why he was lying. Then a girl came up on my left side and I asked him if that was the whore he was fucking? I was so upset that I left and packed some things going to my brother in laws. He tried to call me a few times but I did not answer. Later that night not knowing I was at his brothers he texted him "I am with a hot piece of ass you have not heard from me" He later sent a pic of her naked at a motel with a condom on the nightstand. My world stopped at that moment, the man I trusted, my best friend just killed me is what it felt like. I left the bar that night not thinking in a million years he would ever cheat on me. We had a marriage that people envied, we were always told we had a one of a kind relationship.

    For two days he kept calling and texting me.I finally started texting him back, I did not want to even hear his voice. I accused him of fucking someone and he says he did not that he would never do that to me, he loves me and I am the only one for him. I had to forward all the texts and even the pic of her and he still denied sleeping with her. Well I came home even though I knew the truth, I was not about to lose my home and everything I worked for, for some whore. I ended up texting her that Monday and she told me everything, that he told her he was getting divorcesd, that he could not get his ring off and that I came in that night to discuss the divorce. the fucked up part is that he tried calling me and texting me a half hour after he fucked her. We finally sat down and talked about things and I got the rest of the details and oh how they hurt, like a knife through the stomache. He says it ws the stupidest things he has ever done and that he realizes more than ever how much he loves me. Why do they realize it after they screw another woman? I know there was not a relationship there, she is a coke addict whore and I am not the most beautiful thing in the world but she was nasty. I asked him do you realize this is what she does to get what she wants, drugs and that who knows what the fuck she has. The hardest thing this week was waiting for my husband to get blood work done for std testing, Never in my wildest nightmare did I imagine having to do this. I know this has been long but I do not have anyone else to talk to this about. I am embarrassed, I blame myself for not seeing the signs that my husband was drinking again and that he was using drugs. He has agreed to AA, DA and even a lie detector test. I need to know that this is the only time he has cheated and that he is sincere in wanting to work this out but I am not too sure it was the only time. I had suspicions a few months back about a girl that used to live our neighborhood but never had enough proof just suspicions. Q Does anyone know anything about a SIM CARD READER? I have his old cell that has a Sim card and thought I could recover the deleted texts. Thanks all for reading and any advice you may have would be well appreciated. I know that no one can tell meto leave or stay but I am having mixed emotions, can't even close my eyes without picturing him with someone else.
  • AnonUser35
    Posts: 543Guest
    @rcavpcav1 - First of all, welcome to SM! :-h

    As for your post, while I have never been in your shoes, my advice is to trust your instincts. If they tell you that this is not the first affair, then it probably isn't. You have to do whatever is right for you and your family (not sure if kids are involved). And whatever you do, it needs to be 100% (either leave for good or stay, forgive and move forward with the marriage).

  • lovinmom
    Posts: 682Member
    I am so sorry you have been through this. There is so much I want to say about what has happened but it is your life and you know what is best for you. I don't know anything about sim cards and getting texts. I just want to say please love and value yourself and know you deserve someone to love and value you too.

    On a different note....welcome @rcavpcav1
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,448Member
    I am so sorry you at going through this. @Kim is right, whatever you decide is best stick to it 100%.

    I fucking hate addictions...just as bad as cancer in my experience.

    >:D<
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • rcavpcav1
    Posts: 4Member

    I really appreciate all the support and warm welcomes. I really do know what I need to do but it scares me to death after all the hard work I have put into this relationship but now realizing while I was giving it my all he wasn't and now that he has fucked up he wants to give me the world. I need to remember and recite that saying "once a cheater, always a cheater" He swears he will never do it again but what I hear is he will never get caught again. I can see right through him.

  • lifeisgood
    Posts: 481Member
    @rcavpcav1  I've been where you are.  My XH was a serial cheater.  I had suspicions repeatedly but no proof.  When I put forth the effort to obtain proof....it wasn't hard or very long before I had him red handed.  Your gut knows ...and I assume by your statement "I really do know what I need to do" that you intend to end it.  If you do leave, I hope you eventually realize that the work you put into the relationship, wasn't a waste, it just wasn't appreciated or reciprocated which puts the blame squarely on him.  It will allow you (down the road) to realize the marriage is over due to his actions and not because you didn't try.  I'm 3 years past where you are right now.....and it's small comfort I'm sure....but if you do leave him....they are not ALL scumbags.  You will eventualy find yourself in a relationship that's not founded entirely on your efforts.  

    **edit** 'once a cheater, always a cheater' - is a good mantra to keep in mind.
  • yourmuthayourmutha
    Posts: 333Member
    He's very sorry - he was caught.

    Hope lots of positive support gets u through this horrible time.
  • lovinmom
    Posts: 682Member
    @rcavpcav1 I can understand the feeling of putting so much of yourself into a marriage and getting shit on in return. It is a scary thing to leave. You work so hard to get where you're at but It's worth leaving and finding someone who will love and treasure you. You deserve better and you can see it. Again I am sorry you are going through this!

    @yourmutha is right, he's sorry he got caught.
  • Charlotte_SometimesCharlotte_Sometimes
    Posts: 1,756Member
    @rcavpcav1

    I want to recommend another site to you.  http://www.survivinginfidelity.com/

    I am not wanting to discourage you from posting here at Scary Mommy.  This site (SM) is full of warm and caring people who will gladly reach out and help you through this... but the other site is focused on infidelity issues.  On that site, some people divorce, some stay together and work it out, either way you will find support for your decision and stories from people who have been exactly where you are.  And someone there might know about a SIM card reader.  You'll find plenty of book recommendations and practical advice and people who have been through years of therapy (either alone or with their spouse) and know what you are going through and the emotions that you are dealing with that are very much like the stages of grief when someone has died.

    That site was very helpful to me --- crucial in fact --- in what was one of the darkest points in my adult life.  I hope to never need to go back there but I am damn glad it was available when I thought I wanted to just curl up and die.


    Hugs.
    "But a lesson must be lived
    In order to be learned"

    Ani DiFranco, Manhole
  • MistressHeidiMistressHeidi
    Posts: 973Member
    I wish I had known about survivinginfidelity.com while my marriage was spiraling into the pits of hell.

    My xh was and is a drug addict and a serial cheater. I don't even know how I survived it all to be honest. I lived with it, suspected, but refused to go looking for proof because I really was afraid of the truth. I fought long and hard for my marriage and didn't want it to end after all I had put into it.

    @rcavpcav1 trust your gut. I really wish I had trusted mine a long time ago. I ignored what my gut was telling me to do. Trust in yourself. And I really hope you find some peace in all this turmoil you're feeling right now.
    >:D<
  • no_whine
    Posts: 61Member
    I have no advice but just wanted to send you hugs. trust your instinct and stay strong with your decisions. >hugs<
  • shadylaneshadylane
    Posts: 3,037Member
    i just want to say that drinking and doing drugs does not make u cheat. u still know what ur doing. u cheat b/c u want to. he's using his addictions as an excuse. when i was at the height of my drug use i still would never had cheated on my bf. i don't care how drunk u are, u still know ur cheating.
    ~slim shady~
  • MegsueMegsue
    Posts: 1,848Member
    I have no advice either. I don't think that I can or should tell you how to feel about this. My stomach rolled several times while reading this, and if it were me...those tarps and shovels that get talked about on here would be put to use ASAP.

    Just know either way you decide to go we will back you up. And you have a ton of shoulders to cry on here. >:D<
  • MegsueMegsue
    Posts: 1,848Member
    Oh, and well said @shadylane! Excuses, excuses, excuses.