Cheaters and Betrayeds Helping Each Other Community Group
This is a group where cheaters and betrayeds can come to try to help each other better understand infidelity from the perspective of the other side because understanding can often lead to healing. Members can ask each other questions, share experiences, and provide insights and opinions without judgments or animosity. If you have a chip on your shoulder, an axe to grind,...
Let me ask you this, what do you want your marriage to look like 5 years from now?
When your son is 14/15, what do you want him to see in the two of you?
For some people, sharing their spouse is worse than losing them.
Don't make that decision from a point of what happened in the past, in my humble opinion, but where you want your relationship to be in the near future and long-run.
That, and the increased fighting, makes me strongly suspect he has already cheated, and now just wants it opened up to make it more acceptable.
I think the playing field is not already even.
I hope I am wrong.
Sorry :(
My best friend dated a man from a motorcycle gang. They used to go to the strippers, take drugs, and bring the strippers they meet back to the club house for orgies. I'm pretty sure nobody worries about sti's. the fact that your husband is happy not to use condoms is worrying and disrespectful.
My advice is to recover from your sex addiction, keep being a good a mother and to move on from your partner (at least until he leaves this lifestyle- if he is even able to). You want a partner who will be a good role model for your son and to make you want to recover from your addiction. The current partner will probably make things worse as your relationship does not sound healthy at the moment. Please remember that your son will observe how he is treating you, and will one day be a man that has a wife of his own. You don't want your son to mirror his behaviour.
I get that you cheated a lot in the past, and I understand the need for open relationships, but potentially the lifestyle he has entered in could be dangerous. It could be time to give yourself to someone else.
There is NO good reason for infidelity. There are "explanations" but being able to explain something does NOT excuse horrible behavior.
I beg both of you to seek intensive counseling - joint and individual.