heartbrokeninaz (original poster member #40779) posted at 3:52 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
When I found out, I slept on the couch. For a long time. Why dont they think they should be the one sleeping on the couch? It still makes me angry 10 years later. WS slept like a baby. WTH?
BW 51(me)WH 51DDay 1 07/31/13 ONS with whorenado DDay 2 05/09/14 texts to another woman (not returned)Dday 3 06 15/18 texting to meetup with a mutual friend not reciprocated. I live a real life fairy tale.
Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 4:04 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
I don't know, but I started sleeping on the dining room floor using the couch cushions on D-Day 1 and I did that for 5 years until we moved. SAWH slept like a baby in the king-size platform bed I'd built for us. It never bothered him to see me on the floor. But I just could not stay in that bedroom even if he'd moved out of it!
Shehawk ( member #68741) posted at 4:08 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Many betrayed spouses in this group have experienced this sort of mistreatment. It’s like there is a playbook for waywards. I am not
Sure how they mesmerize bses to lower even their standards for where they should sleep. This really should have told me everything I needed to know…me sleeping on the couch in a sexless marriage while he was doing who knows what with who (or is it whom?). While him telling anyone who would listen that I was a frigid wife….i
I am mad right along with you. There is such a thing as righteous indignation.
Wishing you peace and healing.
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Shehawk ( member #68741) posted at 4:12 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
"It never bothered him to see me on the floor"
The lack of care, concern, and empathy displayed by active waywards is shocking. I would not have believed the half of what I have read on these boards had I not lived it.
It’s like all of human decency is sucked out of them.
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Heartbrokenwife23 ( member #84019) posted at 4:56 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Prior to the A when we would "fight" I would always be the one to sleep on the couch, in the other room, on a shitty air mattress on the floor (when pregnant!!!) … he had noooooo problem sleeping peacefully in the bed.
Dday … HELLLL Nah!!! Not only was he not sleeping in MY bed (that my mom bought us), the couch was still too good for him. Out he went to his car were he slept for a month until I allowed him back into the house. He graduated from his car, to the floor in the basement (no he wasn’t allowed to sleep in my beautiful guest room), then I gave him an air mattress, then he moved upstairs to the couch, then finally I allowed him back into the bedroom.
I will admit there are sometimes I don’t want to lay next to him so I go sleep with my kids and snuggle up with them and I find I have more of a peaceful sleep when I can see them and hear them breathing 🥰
At the time of the A:
Me: BW (34 turned 35) Him: WH (37)
Together 13 years; M for 7 ("celebrated" our 8th) DDay: Oct. 12, 2023
3 Month PA with Married COW
StillLivin ( member #40229) posted at 5:02 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Why did you sleep on the couch? Why didn't you kick him out and make him sleep on the couch? I may not have slept peacefully in our comfy king-sized bed due to insomnia from the affair, but neither did he. Bonus points, he had a bad back and was miserable on the couch.
I would guess entitlement as the reason your former(??) cheater felt he was due a good night's sleep.
"Bitch please a good man can't be stolen." ROFLMAO - SBB: 7/2/2014
The1stWife ( Guide #58832) posted at 7:58 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
I am with you all that the cheater HAS NO PROBLEM SLEEPING!!!!
After dday1 I was lucky to sleep 45 minutes a night.
While he slept soundly!!!!
However after I told him I was D him and he had to leave, he was the one unable to sleep some nights. Not many, but I know he was up a few hours some nights worrying about the trauma he caused. And whether I would R w/ him.
Survived two affairs and brink of Divorce. Happily reconciled. 10 years out from Dday. Reconciliation takes two committed people to be successful.
Justsomeguy ( member #65583) posted at 12:50 AM on Friday, November 15th, 2024
I kicked my WW to the guest room...
I'm an oulier in my positions.
Me:57 STBXWW:55 DD#1: false confession of EA Dec. 2016. False R for a year.DD#2: confessed to year long PA Dec. 2 2017 (was about to be outed)Called it off and filed. Denied having an affair in court papers.
Divorced
Webbit ( member #84517) posted at 3:50 AM on Friday, November 15th, 2024
I am glad it’s not only my WH that can sleep no matter what. Nothing ever seems to bother him where as I, like most BS have had terrible during recovery plus any other life drama. Before his A I quite often slept on the couch because of his snoring but after the A no fucking way.
I remember the first night on D-Day I built a pillow wall to stop him getting to close and when he snored (yes still slept so well he snored) I punched and kicked the pillows while yelling at him to shut up snoring.
Now I have no problems waking him up when I can’t sleep due to the affair. Those first few months my crying woke him continuously. I guess I’m lucky in a sense he would always try to appease me even though I’d tell him to F off most of the time.