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Unfaithful husband - first porn, then chat room sex, the prostitute/s
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I noticed my husband becoming more distant, going to the spare room for increasingly long periods of time, and checking his phone more often. I checked his phone and found various porn sites, and a series of sex chats and videos where he also shared information about me, our house, and even sent a photo of his car!
He swore he would stop, and delete everything, which he appeared to. Then 3 weeks later I found a message asking for a woman's address. When confronted he said he did nothing and was just curious. Then 3 days later a reply from the same number starting with"Yes, I'm free until Wed night".
He claims this was the reply to the first message I saw but that did not make sense. I confronted him and told him that I believed he had not told me the whole truth. He went quiet, and I asked if it was because I would not want to know the true story. He agreed.
He has agreed to have counselling, and I told him to prepare for another conversation about the prostitute hookup. He has said we might at well end it now.
I have now been feeling a physical and emotional wreck for nearly 4 weeks, with each new revelation spiralling me down further. I think I still love him, but can't tolerate any of the above, or blatant lying. I'm feeling like I'm hanging on the edge of the cliff while I wait for him to spill his guts and decide how to move on from this.
I have attended one counselling session and luckily have booked another. Anyone been through similar who could give me some tips?
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I would love to warn so many women about locanto, its a dirty sleazy website. At first i thought it was like gumtree until i seen what he was searching for.. local escorts..
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Hi Amberlite
The kids are older - 31, 33, 35yo - and only the eldest son has been told about what he has done. They will be fine, as they have their own lives and difficulties to deal with, so I'm not burdening the girls with the reality of what their father has been doing. I think it would deeply affect the way they see their father. No, the money is not the end of the world, but I am maintaining the right to retain my lifestyle as much as possible, as I am the victim, not the perpetrator. I feel that my self respect and self esteem has improved enough for me to be able to hold my chin up and say that I am important, and worth more than dozens of prostitutes are to him. I think has has now realised that, so it was worth standing my ground
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Hi Feral,
I’m sorry to hear what you are going through, you deserve better than how you have been treated. Many people make decisions to stay in a relationship, you love the person, you like the financial security or companionship that a relationship affords etc, and all of these reasons are valid things to consider. life is rarely as black and white as it seems. It may be tempting to blame an app for causing this, but the reality is that most people won’t know what this app is unless you are looking for it. Realistically the only way that you will regain trust in your husband is complete honesty up front followed by changed behavior over time. There is still an element of deception in his need to be evasive with the truth and I don’t think he is there yet. I suppose you need to ask yourself whether you think this is a behaviour that he can quit cold turkey long-term, he obviously knew the stakes initially but the compulsion was strong enough to override, and if not whether this is something that you can learn to live with. For me, the pain would be too great and the constant checking where he is, never trusting etc would wear me down too much in the long run but I know people who can overcome affairs etc. But I suspect this may be harder for your husband to break as brothels/prostitutes are everywhere for those who seek them out. I completely understand your anger at having money not spent on you but instead spent on his own selfish desires, it shows a disregard for you and a selfishness to put his own needs first. It’s a tough situation and I hope that you get some help from a psychologist soon
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Hi lost girl 101
Our situations are very similar, and 5 months down the track I'm still in tears nearly every day and have had to quit my job as I couldn't work effectively. My husband maintains that he hasn't relapsed, but I still can't trust him. Whenever he leaves the house I find myself monitoring the time to work out if has time to fit in a visit to a prostitute. I still am finding evidence of his activities which causes major setbacks to my recovery e.g. phone numbers in his phone book of about 8 of his "favourite" prostitutes. Despite all this, I think I still love him, but I love the person he was, not the new sleazy, deceitful unfaithful one. He claims to be over all that now, so I'm trying, but am so scared I will never be able to trust him again, so our relationship may be doomed.
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Hello Feral, I'm sorry this is a rather disappointing outcome for you and feel very sorry that it's happened.
Trust in a marriage/relationship has to be built, it can't naturally be expected on the presumption that you believe they will carry out the correct procedure, although it may be supposed from the love you have for him early on in the relationship, but after being together for a long period, trust doesn't continue on like this any more, simply because you don't feel comfortable at all.
Love can still happen but it takes on another form of love, whether it's caring, compassion, respect or knowledge of them being able to help you, when at times that's all you want. (excluding this situation)
Trust has to be continually proven and it's not necessarily built on only one occasion, because what it does is to be able to hold a marriage/relationship together as one unit.
Sorry I don't mean to upset you but here for you at any time.
Geoff.
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