My Husband Gave Me My First Sexually Transmitted Disease

My Marriage Didn’t Come With a Warning Label

Ask anyone who has experienced cheating or infidelity. It’s not the actual act of sex that is the worst part, it’s the deceit, as strange as that seems. The secret of my then husbands affairs, took three years to discover.

It was the deceit and the lies that made it a betrayal I could not stomach. The effort it takes to deceive someone you supposedly love, as opposed to coming clean, or working on things. That became the straw that broke the camel’s back of my decade and a half long marriage.

I can’t recall how any of this would have began. I spent endless amounts of my energy going over what went wrong. What would have sparked his decision to have an affair? I had no answers. Crumbling I watched in horror, the unraveling of a life I built every one my hopes and dreams upon.

In everyone’s eyes, we were that perfect couple. We were soul mates. It was crazy how in sync we were. Crazy in love and building a beautiful family. Infidelity was not on my radar. Call me naïve, but I believed in true love and I believed we would be forever.

Our friends would say, if you guys can’t make it, there’s no hope for the rest of us. We were fire. We were on the same page. We saw the world through similar lenses. Except, it was all a lie filtering in shadows of truth.

Part of the delay in the truth coming to the light, was the fact that my then husband traveled for work. It sounds ridiculous and the cliche, but I suppose infidelity was a stark reality. A reality I was not prepared to face.

When we first began our family, he was home every night. Because of increasing financial burdens, he needed something more. One opportunity lead to another — and he went from coming home once a week and weekends to just weekends — two then weeks gone at a time; two months at a time.

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