I'll try and keep this story brief. I had an affair with a man 20 years older than me. We met under strange circumstances - he was my driving instructor. We live only 5 minutes from one another.
It started out innocently. Flirting via text then the texts became explicit and we began meeting. We never had anywhere to meet. His son lives with him. I live with my husband, but my husband works away.
The texts went on for months. Then we began meeting at a local hall where runs weekly fitness class. We were having sex there. The texts were daily. Nothing happened whilst he was teaching me but the innuendo and text were constant.
We tried to stop it and everytime we met we said ' this needs to be last time'. Well the last time was when we were caught.
To cut a long story short my husband found texts in my phone (They were not on my sim, it was texts that had been saved to an old handset).
He followed me to the hall one evening. Then called the other man's phone whilst we wre having sex.
This man has a partner (they don't live together he is divorced now from a 20 something year marriage and has a partne whom he sees at weekend). Not to mention his business reputation.
Since being caught a couple of months ago, I've found it hard to let go. My husband began threatening him via email and text. It all became to much for the other man and he confided in a relative. The threats came to a head last week. His relative contacted my husband and stopped the threats. His relative has been in touch with me telling me not to contact him, saying she cannot watch her brother falling apart anymore.
She knows nothing of how sexual the relationship was. She said things to my husband like ' he has no feelings for her', ' He only met her to tell her to leave him alone ' you never caught them having sex, you saw her leaving the hall'. She has told me to let him get on with life and leave him alone. She told me in a text her husband had an affair and she divorced the bastard. So obviously there are old memories there for her too.
Everything we did was by mutual consent. I now feel that is has all been turned on m, I'm being blamed by his sister and held reposonsible for his actions! His sister has no right to read me the riot act. Yes, she's protecting her brother! No one seems to have any consideration for my feelings in all of this.
His partner hasn't found out as far as I'm aware. Yes, initially when we were caught I did blame him and I did say some awful things to him that I now regret.
Living in the same area makes it very tricky as well, means I see him around. I feel scared to leave the house sometimes, incase I see him.
I'm find it hard to let go at all. I believe there was no closure. We were caught and I've never had the chance to tell him how I feel, or even that I miss him. Obviously his main worry is that this never comes out in the community we live in. Otherwise, he is finished. He has three grown up children, a daughter close to my age. I am 33.
We have text a lot since we were caught, he has never said anything nasty to me. I don't feel I should take the blame for all of this especially my husbands threats.
I did advise him at the time of being caught that he should maybe come clean with everyone but he did not.
I'm not able to find closure. She has told me NOT to text him. Yet he sent the other day saying 'I consider you a friend'. So why tell his sister and let her act as his mouthpiece.
Am I missing something here? I feel like I'll never get over him. Of course the sex was amazing. My husband wants to fix things and I don't but my situation is such that I have a little boy and we're together for his sake.
The emotional affair went on for eight months and the sexual aspect went on for another 5 on top of that. I feel a complete void in my life. I miss him. Perhaps I wish he'd of fought for me............