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I had an affair and I love him.

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Question - (5 April 2008) 17 Answers - (Newest, 21 January 2009)
A female United Kingdom age 36-40, anonymous writes:

Last year i had an affair with a married man and too this day i am still in love with him. i have never been able to get over him and i know for a fact he loved me aswell. I have decided to write him a letter but as if its wrote to his wife. SO he can see things from a different angle. this letter involves every moment, feeling, emotion, innocent and everything that has happened between us. I am sending it too his work next week but i am scared off his reaction. i also am going to send him an email before hand to let me know that its not for his wife but i only wrote it that way to let him see the full extent of what i have been through and how things were between us. if i right it as if i am writting it to him then i cant explain everything that i want too. there is also key points that would prove to his wife that this happened which i am not putting in this letter and i am going to tell him that to make him evan more aware of how much i do love him and i all i want from this is peace. Deep down i hope it helps him be honest at least with himself. he has been honest with me at times and told me he does love me but i feel like this letter may changes things. i am really scared he will flip his lid at me but he needs to know the truth. i am sending it special delivery aswell to his work and not his home address which i do have. i would never do that. I hope something can come from this that will help me move on as its been a year later and i can't do that. its really this or go and see him myself! He lives far away and I can't see him when i want. I am writting this on dear cupid to get a response from people about what i am doing. i am fully aware most people will say, why don't u just move on and forget him. hes married! Its not that easy and for people who have been in this situation you may understand where i am coming from. I go to counselling for this and it doesnt help so hopefully this letter will. All responses welcome. xx

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A reader, anonymous, writes (21 January 2009):

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I couldnt really reply to the last post

because, it was anouymous (I cant spell sorry)

But I just wanted to thankyou for your words of wisdom.

I know how hard it is too talk about something like that.

In the end I thought you may like to know, if you are ever

going to read this? That I did send him the letter.

In fact it was the best thing i ever done. he finally understood how much I loved him and how much I was hurt by everything. He knew that I would never send it too his wife but that i just needed to get stuff off my chest.

I think you made the right decision by not telling her.

You have to let fate run its course.

Its been 2 years since I had this affair. Believe it or not. I still love him deep down. I have moved on in such a big way though. I am happy. I do enjoy my life/

But when I think of who my soul mate could be. I cant see anyone in that picture other than him. I am sure you feel the same yourself. I dont talk to him anymore. It wont do me any good. However I always have hope that one day. Even if it was years from know. That he would come back into my life and we would life happily ever after. We can all dream though.

Everything happens for a reason, doesnt it?

I hope everything works out for you. I really do.

xxx

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A female reader, anonymous, writes (13 May 2008):

Hello there. I understand. Other people may not but I do... as I have been in your situation. Everyone makes miskaes or not even just mistakes but choices.

So if a woman, like us, fell for one person in her lifetime... SHE CAN still be a good person for goodness sakes!

Marriage is a lot more than a piece of paper, but it is also a piece of paper. People like long long lives nowadays if they are lucky.

I think everyone should avoid causing other's pain, and therefore affairs are overall in the end not a good idea- Everyone usually gets hurt as you are finding out.

I would NOT send the email/ letter to him as what if he freaks out and gets agressive toward you...feeling that you might mess up what he has with his wife (as reality sets in that he might truly lose her).

I was in love, am still in love with the man I had the affair with. My husband found out about he and I (several times). My hubby finally confronted his wife (affair went on over a year and a half) just recently.

I lied to the wife, denied the affair as did my lover (the married man). I only did this to protect his family, her too, their life and home and kids...

But yes, I too sometimes contemplate whether or not I should tell her- but in the end I think it would just be something I did out of revenge for him.

Which isn't nice.

So I have not told her the truth.

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A female reader, ladybug23 United States +, writes (18 April 2008):

Does he have children and does he love his wife? If the answer is yes then you should back off and let them work out.How did you meet him and how long did you two see each other?How do you know if she wont cheat on you?

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A reader, anonymous, writes (18 April 2008):

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Stop watching movies and realise this is real life! It happens, its shite, get over it! I didnt intentially go into this with him. He was my friend and I fell for him. End off! What you say just proves you dont understand. Offcouse I am not trying to gain perimission or for you all to say yeah thats great what you did! But I have paid for what I done and theres nothing I can do know. I lost a great friend through this but I realise now is that its her lose! What happened was none of her business. I have way better friends who actually support me from know on. I am a good person and what amazing is I can finally say that!

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A female reader, Dawnie United Kingdom +, writes (18 April 2008):

Dawnie agony auntI have to admit what you have put in your update does not make a lot of sense. I have standards and would NEVER have an affair with a married man, that is the way i have always been. People make choices everyday, nobody has to have an affair with someone. I think you need to grow up and stop believing you are the victim, you willingly went into this relationship with this married man, you say about people on this website not understanding, what did you expect? for people to say "go for it, don't worry about the fact he has a wife just help yourself?"

Get yourself some serious help as at the moment you really do sound like that nut in the film Fatal Attraction.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (18 April 2008):

I am sorry but I can't find a lot of sense in what you are saying, what I see is a lot of justification and a so what attitude, shit happens and a lack of responsibility for making poor choices.

No, not everyone goes through something like this no matter what country they are from. I for one have never had an affair or dated a married man, nor ever wanted too. I know what the rules are, and I have boundaries that keep married men out of bounds....I would never entertain the thought much less the action.

You say things just happen, no they don't, you made a choice to lose your virginity to someone else's husband because it was better than losing it to some guy in a bar that did not remember your name, but the married guy remembers your name? What about waiting until you find a boyfriend who loves you? You seem self destructive.

When you say unless you have been in a similar position you wouldn't understand, your friends did not understand. They do understand, they understand the attraction of sex, the feeling of loneliness and longing for connection that drives two people together, but they also understand when they or you are being used, and they don't ACCEPT it or take it on board, that is a whole lot different than not understanding it....they can't accept that you are so frivolous about accepting proper boundaries with your relationships and leaving married men alone, period.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (18 April 2008):

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I would like to go back here and add something else for everyone who has been responding to my add! I have read everything everyone said and taken it all on board. The truth is I did send the letter and this married man of mines well he already knew about it and agreed to read it before I sent it! When I said Americans are different from us UK girls, maybe I didnt explain myself! See I have lived in America myself at one point and what I can gather is that Americans dont know any world outside America hence you dont have any other perspective! I am sorry If you took offence too that but its simply my opinion as you have your own. When he read the letter he finally understood what I have been going through and when before he could not see how this affected me - He can know! I believed he hadnt told his wife himself as I was suger coating his feelings and easing his guilt however after I he read it I told him that he should tell his wife "one day" as its not fair on anyone to life a lie like that for the rest of their life! I didnt say that for me! I have to focus on uni and my own stuff but I wanted to be honest and say what I thought! He has taken that on board and although he doesnt want to tell his wife! I hope if she ever finds out its because, he told her and no one else! I am not a mad, crazy person who needs a restraining order thankyou! I am a normal 21 year old who has been through alot and I added this question on this website for advice. What I have noticed is people are quick to jump with abuse and not understand! No one ever sets out to have a relationship with a marriad man and no marriad man ever sets out to hurt his wife! Unless he is plane evil! Thinsg happen, its a crazy world we life in! It doesnt matter at the end of the day if your american,british or from any other country in the world everyone goes through situations like these. I have noticed that from reading alot online which has helped! I have began to see that unless you have been in a simalar situation then you will never understand! My friends could never - just like everyone on here but I can relate to alot of peoples storys I read online. I am really happy I wrote that letter,my counselour (not therapist thankyou) told me I should send it with his permission (which i got!) so he can undertsand how i feel! He does know. I thought once he read it that I would be over him but I am not! I dont think i will ever be over him. He was my first love but he wont be my last I am sure. :) We remain friends as he trusts me and he will never forget me! You can tell me I am being eccentric all you like but I dont care anymore because, I know the truth! Thats all that matters! I would like to add that I would never do this again and just because, I had an affair with a married man it doesnt mean i would ever cheat - I am not that type of person! I know myself too well. However I would never take back what happened because, I would rather have loved and lost than never loved at all. Fair enough I could love a single guy just as much and sometimes i wish it was like that but it wasnt! My first time was with a married man but i dont look at it like that! I think even though he was married, I am so glad it was with him than a random guy in a club who wouldnt remember my name! This man always will remember my name! I hope you all can find some sense in what I am saying.

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A male reader, Collaroy Australia +, writes (7 April 2008):

Collaroy agony auntwow, fatal attraction anyone?

This should be used as an example to show cheating men what can happen if they cheat on their partners. It's a little scary reading this - the single never ending paragraph sends alarm bells ringing.

but to the writer, well, good luck , I don't think anything anybody suggests here is going to detract you from doing exactly what you want to do.

But if you can listen to one piece of advice, don't date married men, simple as that. But whatever crazy stuff you are going to put on him - he deserves it!!

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A female reader, Dawnie United Kingdom +, writes (5 April 2008):

Dawnie agony auntYou are not his wife and you do not have any rights over him, please aknowledge that. He wanted a bit on the side, now he is bored with you and probably up to the same with someone else. He is a cheat and i feel sorry for his wife.

You need to let go, you sound desperate but i don't have any sympathy as you knew he was married and are no better than him. Don't send the letter, you need to keep going to counselling as you do have problems and you need to work through this for yourself. Move on with your life and for gods sake leave married men alone.

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A female reader, carebear United Kingdom +, writes (5 April 2008):

carebear agony auntDear poster

The FIRST thing I am going to suggest to you is you call this LOVE! You are having to see a theripist! this guy sorry did not love you or his wife, he's a lying cheating rat! Look what he has done to you, how can you love him? Its a yr later and you still suffering, do you think this is love?

I wish you could find a nice decent single guy that you don't have to share with anybody, the doen't have to keep you secret, that you really can believe and open your eyes to how it can be.

You are young dear, this guy did take advantage of you regardless of what you say, I really hope you get over this, and learn a very hard leasson married men are SHITE they lie, deceve and hurt you PERIOD!

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A reader, anonymous, writes (5 April 2008):

Ok so you are writing it from your prospective as if you are telling his wife every detail and every moment of your affair with her husband, as he already was there and if he is not brain dead might remember all of the details, but have a different feeling associated with those details than you did, since he is a seperate person with his own mind and has his own way of seeing things and his own opinions about you and about why he did this.

So is this an apology letter to his wife? Because why would writing it to her be a way of showing him just how much you love him as you state in your post? It doesn't make sense, you are not in competition with his wife for him, she already is married to him and you are the inteloper.....

Sending a letter special delivery to a man's work when you are a woman he has been away from for a year, you are not his wife, is going to make him look very suspicious in the eyes of everyone at his office. He is going to be royally pissed at you and if I were him I would get a restraining order against you...we have those in the US, it means that you can be arrested if you are found anywhere near him at the same time....usually they aren't worth the paper they are written on, but they send a clear message, stay away.

Your therapist might have said writing the letter was the thing to do, but I seriously doubt the therapist told you to actually send it....if she/he did, I would find a new therapist.

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A female reader, anonymous, writes (5 April 2008):

He choose his wife over you. You need to get over it. Trying to put it down to uk girls being different is a joke. Listen to the advice if you really want it.

Good luck

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A reader, anonymous, writes (5 April 2008):

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i am the person who wrote this question. i would like to add that i am writting this letter from MY perspective and how i feel. For a year we have kept in touch with each other and he cares deeply about me. There is so much more to this than meets the eye. I have to do this in order to move on and have some sense of peace. I have alot of unresolved issues and my therapist as you put it has helped me realise that sending this letter is the right thing to do. I have put in this letter every detail of what happened and how we meet. it wasn't your typical affair. i am not going to publish on here what happened. He never leid to me and was always honest. YOu americans see things totally different from we UK girls do. I should know i spent 2 months living in dc last year. He loved me in every sense of the word and he told me this 6 months after our affair as at the time he couldnt get the words out. I went abroad to work and then came home got a new boyfriend and my married man was still in my mind. My own relationship wasn't working out for its own reasons and deep down i still loved the person i lost my virgnity too which is my married man. i expect all the typical this letter wont do any good answers but no one here read what i meant as u thought i was wriiting it from his point of view when in fact its my own. maybe it will do no good but i know this guy more than anyone and i know he will realise a few home truths. its not about him leaving her for me or anything like that. its about being honest and once i can do that maybe i can move on.

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A female reader, birdynumnums Canada +, writes (5 April 2008):

birdynumnums agony auntRent the movie "Fatal Attraction" if you want to know what he will think of you if you do this. It's time to let the whole affair go. You need to get over him, and remaining involved with him isn't the way to do it. Remove yourself from the whole situation. It's so unhealthy, it's obsessive. He used you and you still don't understand that. For whatever selfish reasons, he used you and dumped you. I'm in total agreement with Ask oldersister, get mad, get away from him and get over it. You are such a young girl, you have your whole life ahead of you. Why waste any more of your youth on this?

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A reader, anonymous, writes (5 April 2008):

I think askoldersister has some very valid points, and I don't have a lot to add except this, you sound like you are obsessive and have a "fatal attraction" to this man....it has been a year and you are writing a letter as if it were from him to his wife. You are very very angry at him for hurting you, and instead of telling him that you are making his wife the perpetrator.

Hate to tell you this but she was the victim.

You chose to become a direct threat to her and her family by having an affair with her husband. He never belonged to you, he lied to you and cheated you as well as her. For this he is dispicable. Affairs happen for all kinds of reasons, but you allowed yourself to be taken in by him and for this I am sorry for you.

Don't send the letter, he may decide to take legal action against you if you send it to his work certified or special delivery. Do you hear how nuts you sound? You were lied to, you made a bad choice in your life, these are the consequences of your poor decision making ability.

Work with your therapist, process your emotions and move on. You clearly have issues that have nothing to do with this affair, I am sure you have your reasons for why you let this happen, but now that you know better, you can do better, and one thing you need to do is leave this man and his wife and his family ALONE.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (5 April 2008):

I think askoldersister has some very valid points, and I don't have a lot to add except this, you sound like you are obsessive and have a "fatal attraction" to this man....it has been a year and you are writing a letter as if it were from him to his wife. You are very very angry at him for hurting you, and instead of telling him that you are making his wife the perpetrator.

Hate to tell you this but she was the victim.

You chose to become a direct threat to her and her family by having an affair with her husband. He never belonged to you, he lied to you and cheated you as well as her. For this he is dispicable. Affairs happen for all kinds of reasons, but you allowed yourself to be taken in by him and for this I am sorry for you.

Don't send the letter, he may decide to take legal action against you if you send it to his work certified or special delivery. Do you hear how nuts you sound? You were lied to, you made a bad choice in your life, these are the consequences of your poor decision making ability.

Work with your therapist, process your emotions and move on. You clearly have issues that have nothing to do with this affair, I am sure you have your reasons for why you let this happen, but now that you know better, you can do better, and one thing you need to do is leave this man and his wife and his family ALONE.

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A female reader, Cindy303 United States +, writes (5 April 2008):

Cindy303 agony auntThis man loves you so much that he has been in contact with you how many times since he ended the affair? He loves you so much that he is still married to his wife, he loves you so much that he never ended his marriage and went with you. I think that sending a letter to him will do no good. I DO know and understand what you are going through. I have been there myself. Its alot easier said then done when it comes to anything in life. But, I promise you that he is over this affair and is still married with his wife because he loves her and picked her. I think that you are trying to hold onto something that will never be and until you get that straight with yourself you will never be able to move on. Trust me, the best thing you can do is not send that letter. Why open that can of worms for yourself?

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