My wife says she loves him but can’t leave me.
We’ve been married since 2020 with a 10-year age gap, and we have a 10-month-old daughter. Before marriage my wife liked me, and after marriage she fell in love with me. The first few years were good, although we also went through a miscarriage.
Later I became heavily focused on work, earning money, and chasing our dreams. I also spent more time with friends and didn’t give my wife enough attention.
Around 2023, she became close to a male friend from Instagram. I noticed she was getting emotionally attached and asked her to stop. She agreed, but continued secretly.
Eventually I found out she had fallen in love with him. They never met in person; everything was online through calls, video calls, and intimate conversations.
I asked her to choose because I couldn’t accept being between two relationships. She chose me and said she wanted to end things with him, but kept delaying it. The other guy even wanted to marry her.
Now he mostly ignores her. She says she doesn’t want to leave me, but also says she can’t let him go.
Things became worse emotionally. She even took sleeping pills once, and I rushed her to the hospital. She told me: “I can’t see you like this. You don’t deserve this, you’re a good man. I’m a bad woman. I love him, but I can’t leave you.”
My question: Can someone truly move on from an online emotional affair and fall back in love with their spouse?