Since discovery, we’ve started marriage counseling. We’ve sort of shifted our focus to talking about his anger and the way he treats the kids when mad/disciplining. Put the whole, “hey I feel like you’re cheating on me when you watch porn” issue on the back burner.
Our last session we talked about handling conflict with the kids on vacation - which he failed miserably. But at one point during the trip I noticed in my emails, the vpn on his phone had been turned off twice. Both around 7am when he was the only one awake. To mention, I’d also been turning him down all week because I’m on antibiotics for Lyme and I felt awful. So my mind immediately assumed he found an alternative. I was sick. I don’t want a blow out fight on vacation. With all his extended family around. I swallowed it and waited until we got home when he asked what is wrong with me and why have I been so mean to him. I scoffed and said seriously? Did you watch porn on our vacation. He was genuinely confused. I said I know you turned the vpn off. He was like huh I don’t even know what that’s for I just couldn’t get online to make the overdue car payment and I thought that was blocking the website. He opens his phone and he shows me how he tries to turn it off (it would say disconnecting and then it stayed connected) and opens up the website for the car and the website indeed wasn’t working. I knew right away he was being honest because I already saw in his log that he was on that site a minute or two after the vpn being off.
I started crying. he said why are you still upset. I said because this is my life now. I have to question every move. Check his history. Who wants this kind of stress and anxiety forever.
It was a relief to focus on a different issue in our marriage. I don’t want to think about porn anymore. But if I don’t stay proactive, it’ll be permission for him to watch it. If he doesn’t know I’m watching his every move, there’s nothing that’ll stop him.
I want to give up. Not on our marriage but just trying to keep his focus on me and me only.
Rant over