Blindside and Betrayed: A Story of Lust, Lies and Infidelity

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Excerpt:

It’s not even an educated guess. It’s a timeline based on amateur means to pinpoint where it all began. The lack of communication. The staying out late. The secrets and the lying. I was (and still am to a certain degree) determined to know when she decided to choose lust over love. I have this overwhelming desire to understand why she chose to flee into the arms of another man rather than make any attempt to fix the problems in our marriage.  This conscious decision only added more fuel in the form of broken trust and a bond that’s been irreconcilably shattered.  In the moment she chose to initiate a relationship (emotional or physical) with him it was a silent statement saying he was more important than me or the foundation we had built our union upon. He was more important than the children she and I had raised over the last seventeen years. She attempted for weeks to keep her sins in the shadows, but the moment I learned of her infidelity not only was my heart paralyzed, but it was a moment that will haunt me for the rest of my life – being surrounded by family, friends and her ex-husband wasn’t any less comforting.  In fact, as my heart was breaking I was also conscious of the tears of my children as they stood in absolute shock of her proclamation, “I have a boyfriend”. 

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