This 40-year-old woman and her husband, who is 41, have been married for eight years. But, back when he was in his twenties and early thirties, he decided to embark on a different career path.

Her husband opted to become an entrepreneur– partly because he had a hard time keeping a job. It even got so bad that owning his own business was the only way her husband could possibly earn some money.

Apparently, her husband’s supervisors were either “dumb” or “controlling.” Sometimes, he also just didn’t have enough experience or the right degree for positions that he was willing to “tolerate.”

Finally, some of her husband’s former jobs just have terrible hours. So, with all of this being said, he decided to become an entrepreneur.

“I understand his struggles with all those reasons, and when we started dating 14 years ago, I was the primary breadwinner simply by nature of the fact that I had a steady source of employment,” she recalled.

At the time, her husband also told her that she was only the second serious girlfriend he had ever had. Yes, he did hook up with some women before they met, but most of the women were much older, and the hookups were one-time things.

So, by the time they began dating, her husband was always the person actively pursuing her– claiming he was lucky to have her. He also said that she was “worth the world” because she was different from other New Yorkers and saw “invisible people.”

Anyway, that was almost a decade and a half ago. And now, she and her husband are married and have two daughters together– who are 8 and 5 years old.

Their finances also stabilized by the time they were 35 years old, and she was always supportive of her husband’s business. In fact, she even quit her job to care for their children after he decided to move their family to a nice suburb in Connecticut.

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“But these past few years, he’s been treating me differently. Like me and our daughters are a source of annoyance,” she admitted.

For instance, her husband is a member of various professional organizations. His company also enjoys going to a good party. Yet, she is not often his date for any of the events.

Then, when she does attend and is alone with her husband, he will chat with her. However, as soon as a pretty girl joins the conversation, it is apparently “game over,” and she gets excluded from the rest of the social interactions.

On top of that, her husband will talk– within earshot of her– about how beautiful other women are. He doesn’t find any issue with this, either, and claims that he’s allowed to think other women are pretty.

Still, the final straw occurred more recently when she and her daughters attended a family event for her husband’s company.

When she and her daughters walked in, her husband actually ignored them until somebody else said hello!

“Then he waved his hand at us, like he was bashful of our presence and dismissing us,” she revealed.

Not to mention, she noticed how her husband’s younger employees acted around her. And it has made her suspect that her husband was lying about attending other corporate events without a date.

Since then, she and her husband have begun going to therapy. Her husband also admitted something that completely shocked her.

Apparently, he asked if they could “test” an open marriage for two years. That way, he could “explore” other opportunities because he was not able to during his twenties.

“He says that while I had the chance to play around when I was young and attractive, and other guys that weren’t him could, he never could,” she said.

Quite frankly, though, this just isn’t what she signed up for in a marriage. She told her husband that, too.

“And that I didn’t think it was the charitable thing for a wife to do,” she vented.

However, all her husband did was accuse her of enjoying the lifestyle that he provides. Then, he told her to just “carve out” her own life instead of complaining about what he wanted to do with his.

Still, she stood her ground– telling her husband that either he was only intimate with her or she was leaving their relationship.

And now, in the wake of their argument, she’s been left wondering whether threatening to leave was justified or if she should’ve tried to understand her husband’s perspective more.

How would you feel if your spouse wanted to open up your marriage only after they became successful, and you were supportive the whole way there? Does it sound like her husband may already be having an affair? What would you do if you were in her shoes?

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