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Divorce/Separation :
First Straw or Last Straw

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 Howcthappen (original poster member #80775) posted at 1:10 AM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Not sure if I’m allowed to ask this here but I’m going to and if it gets deleted I’ll find another forum.

Are you divorcing because o initial cheating discovered from one person or are you divorcing because it was false reconciliation and your W never stopped cheating or did they years later go back to cheating with the same AP?

Three years since DdayNever gonna be the sameReconcilingThe sting is still present

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EllieKMAS ( member #68900) posted at 1:58 AM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

I divorced cus mine never got serious about fixing his shit. Staying with him would have meant putting up with more than I was willing to do and dishonoring myself and allowing his constant disrespect. That was a shit sandwich I was not willing to choke down.

If it helps you at all, I have never, not for one second, regretted the choice to divorce. It sucks that I was forced into a position where I had to make the choice, but it's the best thing I did for myself ever. My life has done nothing but improve ever since.

"No, it's you mothafucka, here's a list of reasons why." – Iliza Schlesinger

"The love that you lost isn't worth what it cost and in time you'll be glad that it's gone." – Linkin Park

posts: 3921   ·   registered: Nov. 22nd, 2018   ·   location: Louisiana
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TwiceWounded ( member #56671) posted at 3:21 PM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Last straw. I guess. STBXWW initiated D during her most recent A, so she could stop feeling like a cheater.

We had some false R in there for sure. Can’t believe I put up with so much and tried so hard, but I’m still healing and learning.

Finally time to divorce, at age 40. Final D Day 10/29/23.

Married since 2007. 1st betrayal: 2010. Betrayals 2 - 5 through 2016. Last betrayal Sept/Oct 2023. Now divorce.

2 young kids.

posts: 434   ·   registered: Jan. 3rd, 2017   ·   location: NW USA
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crazyblindsided ( member #35215) posted at 4:52 PM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

I am divorcing because of WHO my xWS is, which is a serial cheater (many A's and gave me False R), narcissistic liar who emotionally abuses.

fBS/fWS(me):51 Mad-hattered after DD (2008)
XWS:53 Serial Cheater, Diagnosed NPD
DD(21) DS(18)
XWS cheated the entire M spanning 19 years
Discovered D-Days 2006,2008,2012, False R 2014
Divorced 8/8/24

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Landslide1920 ( new member #83685) posted at 3:48 AM on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

I'm planning to D (it's 4 1/2 months post DDay for me). The A changed everything for me in how I view my marriage, my STBXWH, my vision for the future and my family, and myself. I realized there was no way forward in this M without hating my WH (and myself for staying) and while I was with him post DDay I found myself going deeper and deeper into despair, anger and depression. Since WH and I have S (2 1/2 months ago), I've felt so much more like me. It's not been easy, but I feel confident it's the right choice for me. It's not somewhere I ever thought I would be, as I viewed STBXWH as my soulmate. I was wrong.

What I guess it boils down to, is the trite but true saying...the A was a dealbreaker for me.

posts: 36   ·   registered: Aug. 4th, 2023   ·   location: USA
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BearlyBreathing ( member #55075) posted at 4:42 AM on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

It was a last straw for me. After about a year of falls, are including a few months of separation, he continued to lie and to cheat. Despite having just lost my home in a wildfire and lost my job, it was the right thing for me to do, and I have no regrets at all. That doesn’t mean it was easy, but it does mean that every day I knew it was the right thing to do, looking back, even if he had been the perfect WS, I think it was just always a dealbreaker for me. I would never have been able to let go of the anger and resentment.

Me: BS 57 (49 on d-day)Him: *who cares ;-) *. D-Day 8/15/2016 LTA. Kinda liking my new life :-)

**horrible typist, lots of edits to correct. :-/ **

posts: 6240   ·   registered: Sep. 10th, 2016   ·   location: Northern CA
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WhoTheBleep ( member #49504) posted at 6:03 PM on Thursday, November 9th, 2023

A combination of what Ellie and crazyblindsided wrote. I decided I could not live one more second with that man. Similarly, I have never for one second regretted my decision to divorce.

I believe we have two lives: the one we learn with, and the one we live with after that. --The Natural

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StillLivin ( member #40229) posted at 11:46 AM on Friday, November 10th, 2023

I divorced him for so many reasons. Ultimately, I was just done with his BS though. It was always a deal breaker but I was in shock and a little bit of denial. I had some crazy hope that maybe, somehow, he could fix what he broke. But after all the lies and betrayal, and finally coming out of my shock, I knew I couldn't stay in that sham of a M. I was done with being with someone who was NEVER going to treat me as good as I treated him. I was done with being so utterly disrespected. I was done with dealing with his psycho mistress. I was done being the affair police. I was done with doubting myself and that I couldn't live without him. I no longer had anything to lose by leaving, and nothing to gain by staying.

"Bitch please a good man can't be stolen." ROFLMAO - SBB: 7/2/2014

posts: 6143   ·   registered: Aug. 8th, 2013   ·   location: AZ
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