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How do you learn to forgive yourself post affair? I am really struggling badly with guilt and shame. I think back to how I treated him during the affair and it hits me like a sledgehammer. I am so ashamed of myself. And the guilt on top of that is just eating away at me. I need solid...

I am a wayward wife. And my beautiful husband has decided I deserve a second chance. I am not going to let this issue derail the most precious gift I have ever received. So I am going to make a giant story short. I am bipolar 1 and its onset was late in life (was in my fifties). This is...

I have been living with my partner for seven years and have had very many happy times - we are not married but it didn't mean we were less committed emotionally. Around a year ago, I started having suspicions that he was having an affair but there was always some almost plausible explanation...

Ruined is the title....I am sure some will read this and be able to somewhat relate but I hope that none of you have done or will do the same. The full story is much too long so this will be just the main essentials. I married and was absolutley in love with my wife, who was pregnant at the...

I just found out my husband of 22 years has been cheating with prostitutes the entire marriage and before. I'm a fairly bright woman, how did I miss this? I feel so incredibly duped and stupid! I keep waiting to wake up from this nightmare. If you were to ask anyone if my husband was a...

I got married when I was 25 to a man I thought the world of and whom I was deeply in love with. Shortly after we were married, he became abusive and very neglectful. I put up with it (making all the usual excuses) until one very bad incident of physical abuse (after two years of marriage) when...