Who told you that she was the one who cheated on him during their marriage? If she never confirmed, I'd think it was him then too. The treatment coming up to the point… I'd say it's over.
There are a couple of ways to handle this – the “passive” way or the '”pro-active” way.
The “pro-active” way is to have the conversation with her about your concerns and see if some resolution can be found as to how she treats you. If you are in the frame of mind where you can't find the words to say what you want to say, see if writing it all down in a letter to her helps. And then once it's complete and you are happy with it, you both sit and she reads it. Then let the discussion flow on from there.
The “passive” way is pretty much what you are doing now – shutting down on her completely and making yourself as small a target as possible. There are a couple of ways of doing this and if you like, google these two phrases “The 180” and “Grey Rock” and see if these are something you can do.
The 180 is basically shutting down on her completely. No affection, no sex, no lovey dovey stuff, no engagement, etc. It effectively reduces your relationship down to housemates and co-parents. And that's all that will happen between you both. If you want to do something, you don't ask – you just go and do it. Tell her as you are closing the door “I'm off and will be back at x time” then you close the door and turn off your phone and go and do what you plan to do. When you get back you give her a stone cold face to her inevitable slide into the abusive frame and walk away if you have to.
Moving into a spare room also helps with this.
Grey Rock is generally done when you find that your partner is a narcissist and Gray rocking, or the grey rock method, is a tactic some people use when dealing with abusive or manipulative behavior. It involves becoming as uninteresting and unengaged as possible so that the other person loses interest.
Both of these are things that you can do that may go some way to giving you some breathing space to think your situation through. It may give you space to see if leaving her is the best option.
It may even be a wake up call to her that her actions are forcing you away from her.
I want to do that in person, next time we meet. But I don't know if I'm taking things too seriously. Am I? I mean… It wouldn't be a “We're just starting to see what we feel and you already want to take that step” kind of situation?
Sorry if my questions are redundant, I'm not that used to these kind of situations, and this specific person makes me think a lot.
He probably cheated and is looking for a reason your at fault. He’s wrong.
Who told you that she was the one who cheated on him during their marriage? If she never confirmed, I'd think it was him then too. The treatment coming up to the point… I'd say it's over.
She may be to blame for pushing him into the arms of the colleague, she’d still be right all along though, he did fancy her.
There are a couple of ways to handle this – the “passive” way or the '”pro-active” way.
The “pro-active” way is to have the conversation with her about your concerns and see if some resolution can be found as to how she treats you. If you are in the frame of mind where you can't find the words to say what you want to say, see if writing it all down in a letter to her helps. And then once it's complete and you are happy with it, you both sit and she reads it. Then let the discussion flow on from there.
The “passive” way is pretty much what you are doing now – shutting down on her completely and making yourself as small a target as possible. There are a couple of ways of doing this and if you like, google these two phrases “The 180” and “Grey Rock” and see if these are something you can do.
The 180 is basically shutting down on her completely. No affection, no sex, no lovey dovey stuff, no engagement, etc. It effectively reduces your relationship down to housemates and co-parents. And that's all that will happen between you both. If you want to do something, you don't ask – you just go and do it. Tell her as you are closing the door “I'm off and will be back at x time” then you close the door and turn off your phone and go and do what you plan to do. When you get back you give her a stone cold face to her inevitable slide into the abusive frame and walk away if you have to.
Moving into a spare room also helps with this.
Grey Rock is generally done when you find that your partner is a narcissist and Gray rocking, or the grey rock method, is a tactic some people use when dealing with abusive or manipulative behavior. It involves becoming as uninteresting and unengaged as possible so that the other person loses interest.
Both of these are things that you can do that may go some way to giving you some breathing space to think your situation through. It may give you space to see if leaving her is the best option.
It may even be a wake up call to her that her actions are forcing you away from her.
I want to do that in person, next time we meet. But I don't know if I'm taking things too seriously. Am I? I mean… It wouldn't be a “We're just starting to see what we feel and you already want to take that step” kind of situation?
Sorry if my questions are redundant, I'm not that used to these kind of situations, and this specific person makes me think a lot.
Why doesn't she make plans around your plans? Invite friends when you're out? Did she even try?