Found my way
wouldnt of been able to forgive that... did she want forgiveness? Did she say she wanted to be with you, and not your best friend? Just wondering why you felt the need to forgive her....
Yes she wanted forgiveness, I think?? She never came completely clean for years afterward and you know JW plicy after years, of course when it all came out, she was thinking of what I could have done to her name but I swept it all under the rug except for one elder, never confronted her family or anybody about it. I stayed in it for my daughter who was only 7 at the time, my so called best friend had moved away to California with his new wife, which ironically was one of her best friends but I never told her what happened. Of course I was a lot younger and I don't want to say dumber but I was and also naive. The thought of not being with my daughter who had done nothing to deserve her parents not being together was not fair.
However it was always in the back of my mind, right before she finally left after 20 years of marriage, she started acting as she did when she cheated on me, so I asked her if she was cheating on my AGAIN, she ironically said word for word what she said 15 years earlier and I told her that, she made no reply and was gone in a week, she never admitted to me again bu the elders met privately with her and her elder father the whole way through my divorce but never disclosed anything to me.
This is why it won't happen again, I never cheated on my ex and it doesn't even come to my mind with my present wife, I just cannot imagine hurting someone like that, I know what it feels like and would not want to do it to others, but I will never go through it again.
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