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LittleMonk ( new member #86661) posted at 7:03 PM on Friday, August 14th, 2026

Just a different wrinkle in the thought experiment here.

My ACE score is 5. I think my wife's is like 2 or 3...

Most of the "perfect storm" was centered on me, not my wife.

Was her experience different? Yes... I would say mine was arguably worse, yet I made different choices.

- LM BH

"The hardest cage to sit in is the one where you hold the key, knowing exactly what freedom looks like on the outside."

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GotTheMorbs ( member #86894) posted at 8:22 PM on Friday, August 14th, 2026

I'm sorry the discussion you started went so off track and for my part in it, Asterisk. I understand how incredibly frustrating that can be. I will try to do better with listening more closely before responding in the future.

[This message edited by GotTheMorbs at 8:23 PM, Friday, August 14th]

I'm not arguing... I'm calibrating

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Pogre ( member #86173) posted at 12:52 AM on Saturday, August 15th, 2026

Just a different wrinkle in the thought experiment here.

My ACE score is 5. I think my wife's is like 2 or 3...

Most of the "perfect storm" was centered on me, not my wife.

Was her experience different? Yes... I would say mine was arguably worse, yet I made different choices.


I also scored a 5.

My wife got a zero...

Where am I going... and why am I in this handbasket?

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GotTheMorbs ( member #86894) posted at 2:18 AM on Saturday, August 15th, 2026

I think comparing yourselves like that is pointless

I'm not arguing... I'm calibrating

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LittleMonk ( new member #86661) posted at 4:58 AM on Saturday, August 15th, 2026


I think comparing yourselves like that is pointless

Isn't that the entire premise?

- LM BH

"The hardest cage to sit in is the one where you hold the key, knowing exactly what freedom looks like on the outside."

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GotTheMorbs ( member #86894) posted at 6:14 AM on Saturday, August 15th, 2026

I am trying very hard to refrain from being rude.

I'm not arguing... I'm calibrating

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LittleMonk ( new member #86661) posted at 4:16 PM on Saturday, August 15th, 2026

Asterisk's wife deserves empathy. He deserves empathy. I deserve empathy.

All unfaithful spouses deserve empathy, and all betrayed spouses deserve empathy.

To me, empathy does not require identification.

And if the goal of the exercise is empathy, then that empathy has to extend in every direction, including toward the people living with the consequences of choices they did not make.

Empathy and grace.

- LM BH

"The hardest cage to sit in is the one where you hold the key, knowing exactly what freedom looks like on the outside."

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reidhbear ( member #87703) posted at 4:34 AM on Friday, August 21st, 2026

"I know this is a hot take, and I think there are plenty of people who are truly loyal, very unwilling to ever have an affair, and never will. I know those people exist, but I think pretty much anyone is capable given the right (wrong?) conditions and the right set of circumstances."

@Pogre , what made you come to this conclusion, out of curiousity?

In my lifetime and relationships I've been in, I've wondered if there are women out there who are truly loyal till the end.

I've been told various times that biologically, they can't be this way. It's just not in their nature, via hardwired biology (survival of the fittest, choosing the strongest mate, etc.)

I think a girl that I was with, whom I was her first and only sexual partner, and she was very hardheaded and stubborn, and Christian... I think she was actually truly loyal, and would stay that way. If you believe in astrology, she was a Taurus, and I read that Taurus's are the most loyal sign (Take that as you may - just repeating what I read).

She was a great girl, I really like her and wish her the best, but we would end up just arguing most of the time, and although we loved each other, it didn't work out for that reason. But if it had, I feel she was one of the ones who would have been loyal forever.

(I hear people change every 7 years, as every cell in our body gets regenerated every 7 years. Another questionable theory I heard, but if true, maybe the above wouldn't have mattered in the end).

Sorry if ranting - just putting in my 2 cents.

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