My husband asked a girl in my friend group for nudes.
I feel wildly unsupported right now. I have never really cared about online “cheating”. It doesn’t feel like cheating to me if it never leaves the screen and isn’t emotional. In this day and age most young adult men grew up watching insane porn that nobody can sustainably keep up with so it genuinely does not bother me if he interacts with women online once or twice. Genuinely I have no feelings about it. That being said it makes this even more confusing and difficult.
He asked a girl in my friend group who is notorious for loving the attention of taken men and having the biggest mouth ever. Is he stupid? Obviously. She immediately called me and told me. She and I then got into it because she accused me of taking his side and turning it around on her and threw it in my face that “my husband was asking her for nudes”. She called me the moment I sat down at work and was hysterically crying about how upset it made her and how I couldn’t understand how hard this was for her and how much she values our friendship and I snapped at her for choosing the worst possible time and way to bring this to my attention. Now she’s going to spread my business like wildfire and play the victim like I got mad at her for my husbands infidelity. Because yes, this one was personal.
I want to just move on. Part of me doesn’t give a shit. It doesn’t make me feel less about myself and it doesn’t make me feel like he doesn’t want to be with me either. Part of me feels the insane disrespect. I told him to go to therapy for this sexual need bullshit bc it’s not normal to need something so badly you destroy all of your wife’s friendships.
I always knew this about him, I love him despite his flaws and I understand where they come from. He’s a good husband otherwise. And with the kids and the fact that he’s the breadwinner it’s not so easy to just pick up and go. I tried to explain that to her, because she acted like I wasn’t upset enough. That’s it’s not the same as a casual relationship break up. I’m just so unsupported right now. I want to be able to work on my marriage and attempt to forgive. I’ve given myself a time frame and if I just can’t get past it I’ll take next steps and it really depends on if he will get himself together. I just need some assurance that prioritizing my marriage is the right thing to do here.
PS. I am not upset about the fight with this girl. The fact that she threw it right back in my face tells me she was never on my side. I’m just worried my other friends won’t understand even though they’ve been through infidelity in thier marriages and sometimes worse.