SoonToBe said:
Harry - if Robert were somehow Brad (he'd returned or whatever) - then I admit that I would be much more hesitant and cautious and even scared about letting their emotions go. As I said, I felt a bit of security somehow with Robert that he felt a bit of a boundary - but if it were with Brad - I know I'd be a lot more hesitant/cautious. But to be honest too - and I guess this is something I have to accept - I don't think I'd stand in their way. I know it'd hurt more and have a lot more risk - but at the same time, I do think she wants to have this full-blown-affair. We haven't talked about it much - I guess since she's felt this change in her relationship with Robert. But I know she would like to feel this sense of validation by another man wanting to sweep her off her feet.
Steve, I asked that question to put her desire for a "full blown romantic affair" more in perspective. We know, after the fact, that her affair with Brad got to the place where Brad, and even Sue were weighing the thought of making their relationship permanent 'in some way'. But did not want to end both marriages.
It would 'logically' seem that if she desires to have a relationship of that intensity, with a man that is: "wanting her," and Loves her, and Is not hampered in any other way, as Robert is.
If he Is looking for a wife, and, "sweeps her off her feet," She is literally asking to be pushed to the decision of weather to terminate her marriage with you, and "go with him."
She would want this, so she could have the experience of a "full blown love affair." The "validation" and feeling of having a man desire her so much that he would "fall in love with her," and then she plans to
end that affair? And come back to you?
I cannot think of anything more likely to destroy your marriage, weather it got to the point of "that decision" or not.
And haven't you told us many times, that she already has such a man (YOU) as a husband.