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After His Wife’s Affair, He Agreed To Try To Save Their Marriage

If She Agreed To Do This One Thing…

8 min readMar 3, 2025

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Affairs are strange beasts.

Each one is a unique tale, with varying factors throughout, all the different details working to create a story that’s always a little bit different even if so many of them sound the same.

What led to the affair.
How it actually started.
How it played out.
The motivations and feelings involved.
The lies told and the pieces on the board that needed to be moved to keep it hidden, and yes that includes, in some cases, one half choosing to ignore the signs that are right there in front of them.

Then of course, the discovery, the fallout, the aftermath.

The rebuilding… whether that’s of the marriage itself or each person rebuilding their life on their own.

People who choose to stick together and work it out fascinate me. I don’t think I could do it. I think the betrayal would poison me, would poison my feelings towards the other person.

Actually, I don’t think that, I know that. But that’s a different story.

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Abigail Storm

Written by Abigail Storm

I write about sex and relationships, and the ridiculous situations I've found myself in throughout life. Sometimes I write full blown smut.

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One of my really good friends wife cheated on him for over a year. He was the first guy she had ever dated so I guess now she was sowing her wild oats. They were married for 23 years. He told me he would take her back even after she had cheated on…

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It should be back home with some priorities and demands not only for sex but also for a happy home life

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You teach people how to treat you, I am not surprised Holly cheated again, she wasn't remorseful in the first place, and she was blaming him for her own stupidity, his first mistake was thinking he had to adjust his behavior.
I have zero tolerance…

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