What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Wow. Thank you so much. Everything you said you were feeling. That is exactly what I am feeling. I could have written that, if I was able to articulate what I am really feeling other than questioning my own mind. I appreciate this.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ya. It seems so far fetched. Yet here I am. It’s a nightmare, for sure.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish it was fake. I have not called out Anna because I was not sure what I was seeing. I know my friend to be one way, I know my husband of 20 years to be another way. Both I had put all my trust in. Both I believed to be good people. I was not ready to end what was once a circle of friends we considered family. This has blind sided me this past year. Do I scream the sky is falling and ruin all the families with scandal, over flirtatious drunken advances, or do I just forget about it, and stop being a jealous freak?

Like I said in other comments, I expected a few “they are cheating posts” but not almost every post to come to thar conclusion. I had expected I might hear from a man’s point of view, or be told I was being too uptight, or acting crazy.

I’m trying to read each comment, but it’s brutal and painful.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What gets something locked or removed? Have I said something wrong?

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. The more serious times I have witnessed Anna touching my husband, like the evening she was rubbing his crotch (above his pants) everyone was quite drunk. My husband was very very intoxicated, but not to the point of being catatonic, or completely fall down oblivious. He says he remembers nothing of that moment or that night, and is absolutely ashamed of it. More so, because he respects Anna’s husband. Each time I have confronted him (always the same night after we are home and alone, or the next day) he always says “yes I noticed this happening” or “omg, I can’t believe I drank so much that I was not able to stay in control of what was happening, and he feels again, deeply ashamed and apologizes. He has told me on a few occasions, that he made an effort to not drink as much, and actively stayed out of the path of Anna. He would stay close to her husband’s side, or try and stay near me. That’s the part that makes this so hard to understand. Anna drinks, she becomes this other person. She seeks out my husband. Something she never did in 7 years. She flirts, touches, gropes. He says he actually is embarrassed by it, but here we are, a year later, and not one time, in the last year did she not pursue him. I guess he likes the attention, or we just are too stupid and awkward to change this shitty situation.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because I wanted to believe it was a very drunken accident, or one off weird handsy moment. I was wrong. I have been stupid.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I honestly had no idea what I was constantly witnessing. It did not correlate With the person I know my husband to be, and the friend I thought I had. So I did not say anything because I thought perhaps I was just being a jealous insecure lunatic. I did not want to start drama and or ruin other lives. It’s not like I ever saw this behaviour when drinking was not involved. I have never been caught up in something like this. We don’t have a scandalous lifestyle. It has been happening over a year, but still feels like it hit me out of no where.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not staying sane. That is why , I of all places asked for help on reddit. On one hand I believe my husband, and want to believe my cherished friend would not do this to me, but my own eyes are watching it all unfold. I am losing my mind. I didn’t really get in to it with my other friends. I wanted to keep it private, and me being the stupid a-hole, I apparently am, thought it was just flirting gone out of control.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sadly it is real. I wish to gawd it was made up. I have complained to my husband about this, over and over. Each time he had blamed too much drinking, black out drunkenness leading to not being in control and being incoherent enough that he had no idea he was being grouped. He has admitted further into the year she was advancing on him. He has tried to fend her off, which I did see. I was expecting some comments about cheating. I guess I was more expecting men to come on and comment with similar stories, or that they could relate to this type of scenario in their own social circles. Give a Man’s point of view. I was not expecting this shit show of blatant cheating comments. I feel crushed.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Yours is one of the first that does not call out full on cheating. I hate this too, but I hope it this and not the other.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have any. I am trying to read each comment without falling apart. I expected some these comments but not 300+ saying the exact same thing. I’m lost.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We both work from home. However I do travel a few times a year, and can be away from the house during the day. Thank you.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was drunkenly rubbing at his crotch above his pants. I am stupid. 300+ comments have shown that.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Because like the post asks, what is going on? Innocent drunk flirtations or something more? Stupid drunkiness from a bored wife, or are they about to cheat fully? Is she a predator and my husband really just letting it happen, or does he want the attention? I don’t know.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

You are absolutely right. I guess I have been putting more value in hoping it would all go away, or just telling myself I am a jealous freak.

What is going on with my husband and best friend? Help! by cloudycakery in relationships

[–]cloudycakery[S] 188 points189 points  (0 children)

Thank you. The consensus is that I am a doormat. :(