In the corporate world, a tie symbolizes professionalism and credibility. But do you know what it symbolizes when a woman sits on your husband’s lap and pulls on his tie? Problems in your marriage.
This woman’s 43-year-old husband has a high-powered career in management. Well, technically, he has two jobs, as he’s a regional director overseeing three locations across America, as well as the company’s financial director.
Everyone at her husband’s company has a lot of respect for him, and he pretty much never has time for her or their teen kids because of what he does for work.
He leaves the house at 6 a.m. and returns around 6:30 if it’s not a crazy day at the office. However, her husband goes to the gym before coming back to the house.
“When he is at home, because he is so stressed out, everything irritates him. No one can even breathe around him. He watches TV in the living room, and if [the kids and I] talk louder, he snaps to be quiet because he cannot hear,” she explained.
“I iron his shirts every day, fix his collar, [and] do my best to be a good wife while also working. It has been years since we spent more than Sunday together. And this Saturday, he told me he [is going] back to his hometown for the night. Just like that.”
“His old buddy from high school called him out of nowhere to make a boys’ night out, just like [back] in the day. He wasn’t even in touch with these people anymore.”
She did complain to him about leaving, but only because her husband refuses to make time for their family, yet he easily cleared his schedule for his old friends.
The following day, one of his friends brought him home, and he was completely wasted. He was being silly, so she wasn’t that irritated.
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He tried to kiss her and hug her as he laughed, then went to vomit in their garden. Her husband mentioned he felt like he was half his age.
He took a nap, and when he got up, he was back to his domineering, unsmiling self.
“But a random waitress from his hometown messaged me and sent me 2 photos of a woman our age (so early 40s), but good looking, sitting on his lap, pulling on his tie,” she continued.
“In the second photo, she was still on his lap with a finger on his lips. I showed him the photos, and he said she is his classmate and they had so much fun together when they were in high school, and were happy to see each other again, and yeah, they had too many drinks.”
“But nothing happened, he said. In the photos, his male classmates were visible, so he was not a liar about that. She never left the hometown, got divorced, and works in a grocery store. He barely goes home. His mother died 2 years ago, [and] we sold the house. So I doubt he is having an affair, but… it hurts.”
She’s left wondering if the photos are a valid reason to divorce her husband, and she is worried that perhaps her husband slept with this woman.
I think the most upsetting thing here is that her husband fails to make time for their family, but drops everything for old friends he never speaks to anymore. That’s strange.
As for the photos, it’s totally inappropriate that a woman sat on her husband’s lap, and disrespecting her and their marriage like that is divorce-worthy.
What advice do you have for her?
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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