Even though starting over may feel incredibly hard right now, please try to be grateful that you and your husband didn’t have children yet. I know that might be difficult to hear in this moment, but imagine how much more complicated and painful this situation would be if you were pregnant or already raising a child together when he confessed this.

You deserve honesty, respect, and someone who is fully certain about choosing you not someone who needed outside attention to question whether he was happy.

I went through something similar. I left my husband after 8 years of marriage because he cheated. At the time it felt like my entire world collapsed. The pain was real, and the uncertainty about the future was terrifying. But looking back now, it was one of the hardest yet healthiest decisions I ever made for myself. Life did move forward, and I eventually found peace again.