My wife and my relationship deteriorated majorly during COVID. Neither of us was a good partner to the other, and eventually she cheated. We separated, and I bought her her own place to live across the country. She almost immediately started seeing the guy she cheated on me with (don’t know why but i feel like it being a guy made it worse) and honestly I’m not sure how I made it through this time in my life.
He quickly turned out to be a paranoid conspiracy nut and she had to get a restraining order on him which he violated and the cops of course did nothing.
I helped her through all of this, and she took care of me when I had some surgeries and we’ve since been repairing our relationship for the last couple years. I’ve not fully forgiven her for the cheating and lying, but I understand how we got there
Oddly my parents had a very similar story. Stressors tore holes in their relationship, there was cheating, eventual divorce when I was five but they stayed in each others lives because kids. They both did some growing and eventually started hooking up when i was about 17…then moved back in together when I was in my 20’s…then remarried in my 30’s (on what would have been their original 40th anniversary). Original marriage lasted ten years, current one is at 14. Life spins strange journeys.
My wife and my relationship deteriorated majorly during COVID. Neither of us was a good partner to the other, and eventually she cheated. We separated, and I bought her her own place to live across the country. She almost immediately started seeing the guy she cheated on me with (don’t know why but i feel like it being a guy made it worse) and honestly I’m not sure how I made it through this time in my life.
He quickly turned out to be a paranoid conspiracy nut and she had to get a restraining order on him which he violated and the cops of course did nothing.
I helped her through all of this, and she took care of me when I had some surgeries and we’ve since been repairing our relationship for the last couple years. I’ve not fully forgiven her for the cheating and lying, but I understand how we got there
Oddly my parents had a very similar story. Stressors tore holes in their relationship, there was cheating, eventual divorce when I was five but they stayed in each others lives because kids. They both did some growing and eventually started hooking up when i was about 17…then moved back in together when I was in my 20’s…then remarried in my 30’s (on what would have been their original 40th anniversary). Original marriage lasted ten years, current one is at 14. Life spins strange journeys.