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I like openness, honesty, and transparency in my relationships. However things have been… different than I expected.

I’m not even sure what the protocol is here. I have something I want to tell my partner, I feel like I need to, but also the thought of doing so makes me feel sick to my stomach. Let’s just say the last time I tried to, things….. didn’t go well.

I don’t know how much my partner knows. I’m just learning things myself. I thought in the beginning I was only going to have two partners. I had no idea about anyone else. This is a learning process for me, and it’s not easy. I learned about a third not long after, but things were happening at the same time and it just… it was too much going on at once.

I know it sounds crazy, but I’m not 100% sure how many people I’ve slept with. Years ago, there were people. But.. after learning about my husband, I honestly wasn’t sure if those encounters were him or them. But, I believe it was them. And new evidence supports that. It’s hard to describe all the things I’ve gone through but I’m trying.

The thing is, I didn’t go searching for those encounters and I was shocked and even afraid when they happened. I did try to end things.

It took me years to end things with one of them. And the other I have a weird feeling got mad at me when I pulled away. But like- it’s scary? I don’t know these people and clearly we’re not on the same page.

I was such a devout Christian that on some level it makes me feel like I’m a w**** or something that I had very s***** relationships with other women.

Some from years ago, and some only recent and new.

There’s a girl, I think I slept with her but I’m not 100% sure.

For me it’s like I’ve been in a daze because so many huge, life-changing things were happening at the same time and the last thing on my mind was having encounters with people but it just happened.

All I can say about it is things are just not going the way I expected. I wanted to actually talk to my partner about all these things, have an honest dialogue. Because I’m not the type to hide things like that. So I wanted to be up front about it, but… things are just strange. The last time I hinted that I’d slept with someone and again, it wasn’t even something I pursued, it just happened; it surprised me.

But my partner made me feel like I betrayed them and did something wrong, like they were trying to punish me. Which confused me because I thought my partner wanted to be in this kind of relationship with me? I thought my partner knew. But instead I was made to feel like I did something horribly wrong, even though I didn’t even seek it out to begin with.

So even though I want to be honest, the thought now of doing so fills me with dread and makes me feel sick.

I know this sounds crazy but I have actually feared for my life because I don’t know how my partner will react.

I don’t even know what my partner knows- but the fact that I feel intense guilt for loving my husband, who I’ve been with much longer, is not good.

It just completely took me by surprise because I believed we were all on the same page. I thought my partner was fully on board, only to be shocked at the revelation that they see me as being a cheater?

I have so much going on and now this?

I’m confused, that’s all I’m gonna say…

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