What and how much could you forgive if you are in love?
A year into her marriage, because she was extremely unhappy, Helen did what was to many people, including herself - an unforgivable thing.
She had an affair. It lasted 6 months, mainly sexting and a couple meetups. It started as a drunken mistake, but she carried it on anyway, as the person she had an affair actually paid attention to her and listened to her dreams, and answered her texts fast.
When the cat was let out of the bag, shortly after one of those 'couple' of meetups, there was much turmoil and heartache at her incredibly selfish actions.
But her husband decided to give her a second chance, to give the marriage a second chance. And she agreed, as just maybe with better communication the marriage could just work.
They made a plan to salvage the marriage, show each other that they still loved each other every day, so that such an event would never happen again and their united dreams could still survive.
Sometimes words failed Helen, but they came out beautifully in poetic form. She was truly sorry and still loved her husband and wanted desperately for him to believe her, so she wrote out her feelings in these words...
You are the buoy that keeps me afloat
You are the treasure on a pirate boat
And the boat that keeps me safe at sea
You are the best thing that happened to me.
You are my blue sky in the rain
You are the paracetamol to my pain
You are the music that soothes my soul
You are the part that makes me whole.
I don't want a future without you
I want all our dreams to come true
I'll do whatever it takes to make it right
Just to be curled in your arms each night.
I love you, please believe me
I'm on bended knee
It's true
My life isn't a life without you.
Forgive me.
What do you think?
Would you forgive her?
Do you think this marriage survived, or could survive after this?
Is an affair ever forgivable?
Words and Poem by @hopehuggs
Forgiving is such a subjective case and is hard to make a judgment without nuances. For me it's about how the truth came forth and what she expresses. If she came to me telling a mistake or a regret, forgiveness would be easier. But for me forgiveness is more about if the person I have to forgive WANTS the forgiveness and how far she would reach for it. Anything is forgivable, it's just a matter of if you AND the person deserves it in the end.
I like that answer. She reached for the stars, but should have reached for the moon.
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Forgiving is very hard, and it's even harder in that case. But after a brief period of grieving your past relationship and being angry at the person, you will realise that you deserve better. You did not deserve to be cheated on. And today, you do not deserve to feel awful because of this person. Forgiving is a very important step to move on. It does not justify the wrong but instead does not allow it to affect us anymore. Forgiving also helps us to see the positive as we are choose to free ourselves from the negative feelings.
No, he did not deserve to be cheated on, no-one does. When you look at someone and see in their face that their heart is shattered into a million pieces and they become undeservedly physically and emotionally broken, by someone who supposedly loves them.
Six months is quite a long time if you ask me. Enough to have stopped and asked yourself several times how much hurt would a person be by your actions. I feel she's only sorry because she got caught. I really don't know what I'd do if I was in her hubby shoes reading the poem, one thing is certain.
The trust is gone
You are right, they tried to make the relationship work for another 7 years after this and the trust never came back.
Wow, 7 years. That's awesome both parties doing their best to keep things together, because of the kids as well probably . Guess as hards as it is to forgive, even harder is it to trust again.
Yes, 2 kids that magnified the problems if truth be told.
Hmm...whether to be forgiven or not its depending on the partner's love for her. But in my opinion, trust is something like a glass. Once its broken,it can be glued back but the scars remains there forever. It can never be as beautiful as it was before again. Likewise, relationships are made of trust. It definitely takes lots of effort and time to gain back that trust!
Scars can be beautiful sometimes, and there were moments when they thought that everything they had been through made them stronger than ever.
Lovely story and really shows the relationship You did not deserve to be cheated on. If there is no trust in a relationship, there is no relationship.
It depends I think on how much you want something and sometimes it is impossible to let go, even though more pain is being caused.
It's hard to say, I think if y husband cheated on me, I wouldn't be able to forgive him. A poem wouldn't help. I don't think I could ever trust him again.
Also in her case, it was a 6-month relationship, which means that there were probably feelings involved. If it was just a one-night stand it would be a different thing, I guess. But one never really knows until one is in that situation, so it's hard to judge.
I intentionally left out chunks of the tale to get a more honest opinion from people. The poem was just one action of many, she didn't go out anywhere, they resaid their marriage vows, she left her job etc.
Totally agree. It is hard to judge until you are in the same shoes... But then again, every relationship is different.
Well as for me, I would say "love forgives all but when the love is broken it hard to forget"
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Trust is a very precious thing, its priceless. But when its gone, its gone.
There will always be a question mark.
If there is no trust in a relationship, there is no relationship.
Helen was told on numerous occasions that the trust was back and had it retracted other something or nothing, or just a bad mood. I now am of the same opinion that when it's gone, it's gone.
Never, trust is the most important part of a relationship.
It is the foundation of any relationship.
Lovely beautiful writting and really shows the relationship . I like it .
Complicated relationship. Or are they all like that?
Really nice@adsactly this is main in any relation that there is a communication in between both of husband and wife to solve their problem and understans the problems nice
Communication is always key. I think communication was a problem for Helen, as when she tried to say she was unhappy, but it always ended in a heated argument, in which the husband was always invariably convinced he was right.
Well it depends on whether you still love the cheating partner and care enough for the relationship to continue. If the answer is yes, then it's forgivable, if no then there's nothing to be done about it; the unforgivable affair just happened.
it happened because she thought it would make her happy, after forgiving, the husband should go ahead and show more love..personal thinking
@posterking, yeah, that may work too.
So one partner in the marriage decides to make themself happy at the expense of hurting someone else? The person the vowed to love? Did you read what was making her unhappy? A lack of attention. If she felt neglected why not tell her husband? Why run to another person? The husband should forgive if he wants but the wife's need for attention is the problem. If the guy is busy, why can't she understand? Do people that love each other need to be joined at the hip all the time? If you need that are you really in a secure relationship? This woman actually has emotional problems and needs counselling.
Yes, emotional problems a plenty.
There is a right love and a wrong love, a nurturing or a possessive love.
@hopehuggs, I agree with you.
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@adsactly..first I think your post creative and touching but i have something to say about marriage. I lot of people have built a bad mentality about marriage and is affecting our world. Marriage is good and if there are more good marriages, there would be good homes and if there are more good homes there would be good society and and then a better world. If you enter into marriage with a bad mentality - fear, them you sure will sensitive to issues and having an affair it the best way to hurt oneself. A good man is a man who loves the woman in a thousand ways. Never love a woman in one way. Be many things to her. Same as the woman. I will forgive, but it does not end in forgiveness. Marriage is a product of who you are.Thanks
hmm
I think that you can fool yourself into thinking that you love someone so much that you think marriage is a good thing. You have blinkers on and when they finally fall off, you realise it too far down the line and you either get used to the unhappiness, try to do something to revive it, or get out.
I live in marriage for 14 years) If I knew about the betrayal of my husband, I would forgive him. Why did he start a mistress? I think it's my fault too, not only my husband's fault. No need to get divorced. You need to think about the reason, and try to correct your mistakes.
I think the main reason that Helen carried on the affair was to escape in whatever form that may have taken.
This is a very common reason. I think you're right.
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Yes, this marriage can survive. She will have to really work hard to make him trust her again. But she clearly still loves him. I hope they make it.
Unfortunately, it didn't. The burden became too much for either of them to bear.
I love the fact that you didn't see the reply comments. That's the spirit of hope and forgiveness right there!
Yes, I can completely understand why.
Amazing interesting love story
. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."
I like that quote. Who is it by?
Very nice 🤗
thank you
In the love, nothing will forget all will be a sweet pain in soul thank you for sharing a good post.
Sounds very poetic
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very well written
really appreciate
sad but forgiving.
Bless you.
marriage is such a wonderful matter which is based on trust. If you have a little trust in ur partner you should try to save the relation otherwise separation is the best way.
it's my opinion.
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It takes a lot of time, patience and love to save a relationship, if you love each other enough I believe it is possible to save it.
I forgave the mistakes she did when she wasn't matured and the also.we love each other very much so we are really committed to one another.
Yes I guess we all make mistakes, question is if you keep making same one, how many times should it be forgiven?
I don’t think my marriage could survive. Not for me not for my husband. :(
Anything but physical abuse and cheating
emotional abuse too, mental scars can be so much more severe and raw than physical ones.
nice story
this story is really moving, the feelings make us everything can be overcome. Thank you for sharing it with us
At one point they both believed this too.
It shows strength of character to look at someone's actions and ask yourself what led them to make those decisions when those actions hurt you.
True, it does.
Loved it! Nice done.
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Can be forgiven but never been forget. Thats the worst part. You will always have a thing in your mind eating your mind all the time. Trust is everything. She has to make me believe in her again. Not words but behaviours and feelings.
It certainly eats away at you. I don't think that there is anything she could have done that would make him totally believe in her again.
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Forgiveness is part of Love. If you really love, you can't stop forgiving
But not always the easiest thing to do.
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Everyone will have a different opinion about the affair and it depends on many factors whether or not you can forgive them.
I was in the same situation once and I left her no matter how painful it was.
She had cheated on me with a known friend and she only confessed it to me when one of my best friends found out and told her to tell me or he would tell me. She was cornered.
So she told me everything that she's sorry, she still loves me and doesn't want to lose me.
There are probably some out there who would forgive her and give her a second chance, but I'm not one of them. My view is both radical and simple: I gave her everything I could and if she cheats on me; she can't be the right one.
And also an opinion a lot of people share. I'm sorry you were on the receiving end once.
Forgiveness Is The Best Form of Love. It Takes a Strong Person To Say Sorry And An Even Stronger Person to Forgive...
A battle in the mind.
Exactly
Everythin is forgivable! You just can't take everything so personally. Becaue people make mistakes. Sometimes it's hard to do right things when you are under impct of emotions. And when people do these things they don't do it because they want to hurt you, often times they realiz what they did and thay are sorry. So in my opinion everything is forgivable and it is never too late to apologize or change something.
There was no intention to hurt, Helen was just so tired of giving and not getting anything back, she got her head turned.
I always wondered if I could forgive a betrayal and supposed I wouldn't. But I think it depends on the person close to you. How strong are your feelings towards each other?
In this case the affair lasted for 6 months - quite a long span of time. As I concluded from the reason of the proceeding affair, the girl lacked attention, her husband's ability to listen to her dreams. But these are the main things we seek in our partners and he couldn't provide them! I guess the event will reiterate. The spouse's forgiven, but has he found out the reason? He should do it and change the attitude to his wife. If no, the alliance will fail.
She discovered the reason after she separated from her husband 7 years later, she was just trying to escape something that she made infinitely worse by having the affair.
Nice content and pretty interesting. Thanks.
But her husband decided to give her a second chance, to give the marriage a second chance. And she agreed, as just maybe with better communication the marriage could just work.
That's what they tried to work on.
the guy in the story is a loser, dont give her another chance, shes done move on
ive never bin in love, but id toss that chick to the curb so fast. how could you ever trust her again??
id never know if she was lying to me, or making stories up or being sincere. im all about giving people a second chance, but trust is a big one, she would always be on thin ice with me
It is all about the trust.
which she broke
She did indeed.
Being in love with someone for so many years is one of the best things you can find in your heart and in your soul but when you get cheated on by the person you love it takes a toll, on the relationship it destroys the foundation that you have built together if there's no trust there's no love.... keep it up look forward to you next post mannyfig1956
I think there can be love without trust, that is what causes the immense pain.
Interesting that you say that it sounds like you are very open-minded that's a impressive thing in a woman, but I believe that there has to be trust in a relationship in order to survive.
I would just live life enjoy mang yeeeeeehhh nice post doe FORGIVE AND FORGET.
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Wow, that's a nice poem! Thanks for sharing!
thanks
“Once a cheater always a cheater” but I don’t believe on this line, I think, everyone deserve a second chance.
Helen would be a millionaire if she had a pound for everytime this was said to her by her husband.