An affair

Relationship Problems

My ex-finance/high school sweetheart contacted me after 25 years through the internet. At first it started out with my husband, him and myself meeting for dinner or happy hour when he was in town (he still lives in my home town 200 miles away but travels here frequently). We enjoyed talking about old times and sharing old pictures and laughing into the night. Then it escalated into frequent emails and phone calls (behind both his wife and my husbands back) with talks about how it "could or should have been" between us.
I have to say that I was very turned on by this flirting! Well - you guessed it. It happened. And it was ok - not like rockets flaring or fire works or anything. Mostly, it was all about him. Now I feel really creepy. And I am consumed by it. He is planning on a trip into town next week and I know he'll call me. I
have never cheated before and my husband is the most precious man on earth. Could I blame this on mid-life crisis and get on with my life? And how do I stop waiting for the phone to ring?
P.S. I broke up with him 25 years ago due to his cheating and he begged me back to the point my brother had to stand guard in front of the church to make sure he didn't come stop my wedding!

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An Affair

You can call it mid life crisis if you want, and it certainly is a crisis. This is not about you but about his desire to possess you. He is highly seductive and dangerous to you and to your marriage. A part of you wants this, otherwise you would have told your husband about the emails and they would have gone nowhere. Now you are in a real mess and stand to lose your most precious man!! The fact that you feel creepy tells you it is all wrong for you.
Only you can put a stop to it. You could unplug/switch off the phone. That would be something, or you could tell your husband everything and get him on board to help you if you can't help yourself. How might he react to this? Some men cannnot get over a wife's infidelity.
You might think about this like an addiction to a poison that you mustn't touch.