Question:
Did correction officer husband have emotional affair or physical?
Mom-to-4
2008-12-16 04:11:36 UTC
(I did ask this question once before but since learned new details that I've added)
My husband works as a correction officer at a jail. I recently caught my husband in a lie about a 4 man golf tournament with coworkers in which he told me it was all males and yet it turned out to be him, 2 other male coworkers, and a female coworker. He told several lies regarding his day of golf that didn't add up when he was telling me how his day went which is what opened up a huge can of worms. I found out that he met at the SINGLE female coworkers house that morning and no one else was there yet. He says another coworker met them shortly after and drove them all. He stated they thought the tournament started at 7:30am but really wasn't until 8:30am. The other important details he has divulged after questioning was of course that him and the female coworker are "just friends". I told him his guilt didn't add up to his answers (because he was like a scared puppy the night I realized something was wrong). He first told me his guilt was from the fact that he tapped her on the butt with a golf club when saying "nice hole". But then I asked about how well he knew her. He told me their history was that one time she asked at work how he was doing and he really needed to talk to someone and just spilled his life to her. He said she was always soft and understanding in her responses and so he began to talk to her frequently. After a couple of months of "talking" he says she told him they were work wife/work husband. They addressed each other this way in private conversations at work. He then said that one day she started saying "I love you" to him and that he responded because it was a sign that they cared for each other but he insists they didn't love each other but also claims that saying those words were never discussed as to WHAT they actually meant to each other.
( I love you was said to each other the better part of a year) He says they never spoke sexually or saw each other outside of work. But here are the facts that happend at home and now I kick myself for being so complacent:
*He worked alot of overtime - all accounted for on paycheck
*He worked out at the jail's gym alot for a while and then sporadically - I cannot actually account that he was there
*He was distant - over time he began to ask if I really loved him
*He changed positions one time during sex but never did it again after because I did question why he did it
*Sex became less frequent
*He seemed angry all the time
*I once performed oral right after he got home and he tasted like copper or rust is the only way I can describe it
*He never mentioned her name
*He never brought his schedule home

I had him call her one night while I secretly listened on the phone (although I now believe he had already planned for something like that from me and prepped her to some degree) but the main thing that sticks out from the conversation that of course I got nothing out of because it was so robotic was that when he told her I knew everything and wanted a divorce she first asked exactly what I knew and then he told her I knew about him tapping her on the butt at golf and the work wife title her response to him was "You've already said too much" she then got defensive and told him she shouldn't feel guilty if our marriage is failing because of what he did. Someone please tell me if it's possible that after they have been doing this for a year that nothing sexual ever happend? Can you even flirt with someone that long and not become sexual?
UPDATED DETAILS: He has now said that he DID have a sexual desire for her. He flirted with her to develop sexual fantasies in his head. The fantasies were simply of what it would be like to receive oral or what it would be like to see her breasts or what it would be like to have sex with her. He says it did feel like they were in a relationship but that they did not do anything physical...it was all talk. He says he eventually got bored with the fantasies but that he did not want to stop flirting with her because it would hurt her feelings and he was still getting pleasure out of the thought that she was interested in him. I am confused because people do strange things and I can't assume my husband is any different so I don't know if I should truly believe he didn't act on his desires or if he was able to keep them in his head and why this went on for so long with no sexual consummation. Has anyone ever heard of this as a true story??
Seven answers:
Shiningami_Gurl
2008-12-16 04:39:10 UTC
I say you need to get in contact with THEIR supervisor first...if they did or didn't have sex is not the first priority but the relationship is. Maybe it wouldn't be a big deal if he worked at the mall but they do have a code of conduct in corrections. This shouldn't be going on in any form and it needs to be dealt with as a WORK PROBLEM.



Next I'm sorry to say that it looks as if they might have been doing more then talking. And the reason he keeps coming up with 'details' is because he's trying to cover his tail as much as possible in case the truth comes out. He's got to think of what he needs to hide and how he can lie about it before he can tell you...hence the trickle of information. And NO MAN flirts with a girl for a year to make a f*&**** fantasy, it takes men about a quarter of a second to make a fantasy about all those things...and that's with never even talking to her!!!! You don't see him chatting up Pamela Anderson do you.



And it's FUNNY that this all came out around the time he was playing golf with his coworkers...and the whole tapping her on the butt and saying something about her hole. I think he's scared that the other people he work with know something or suspect and might come to you or you to them...and he's not sure what they'll tell you. And she's obviously pretty comfortable with him touching her body if he did it without thinking.



And it even funnier that this hussy is telling him that he shouldn't feel bad if his marriage breaks up because of this...because it sounds like they have already talked about being together. Why should he feel bad when she believes that he belongs with her...or has actually been with him instead of YOU all this time? In their reality you are the one breaking up thier happy home.
blue scissors
2008-12-16 04:20:50 UTC
wow that whole situation is crazy. I really don't like the fact that if he felt he had to hide details about her. What's to hide if she's just a friend and they didn't do anything wrong?

He's telling her personal information, having sexual fantasies, telling her I love you... it all seems too much between them for you to trust him.

She's waay more than just a co worker and sometimes men can have close female friends if there is no sexual attraction there but there definately is sexual attraction there on both parts.

I wouldn't be surprised if you broke up with him and she was next one on his arm.

Now that he's told so many stories, how can you believe him. Even if he admitted they had sex one time, he has lied so much, maybe even that would be a lie!
anonymous
2008-12-16 04:29:10 UTC
First off, you most obviously do not trust your husband. You at one time probably did, but not any more.

The relationship between CO's is unique and even as a wife or best friend, you will not be able to fill it. Their lives can depend on each other at times and the trust that they share with each other is crucial for them to perform their jobs. Dealing with hostile subjects, unarmed, is not an easy job.

How much interest have you shared with your husband in his job, his co-workers, his career goals, his fears?

I can guarantee the female CO and most his male workers know all of the answers.

Don't want to throw the blame on you...it is not your fault...just how it is.

Perhaps there is no affair and just that strange and flirty relationship.

If that is the case, which your hubby tried to tell you, try to accept it if you can. If not, make the changes only you can change.
luvmynwf
2008-12-16 04:56:32 UTC
I'm sorry to say it sounds like he did have a physical/sexual affair - this went on for a year? It made me feel sick for you as I to read this story. You must be driving yourself crazy. Sounds like your marriage is at cross roads, you either go into marriage counselling and work on getting past this or, you move on without him. I wish you all the best
Kim from Sydney
2008-12-16 04:24:47 UTC
oh well, we all learn from our mistakes - it is time to rekindle your relationship with him before you loose him if not move on and don't look back I say they prob had sex somewhere during their time together either at work or outside etc...



I believe there is no harm having fantasies but as long as you don't act on it, it is not a affair
lady c
2008-12-16 04:17:55 UTC
it really sounds like after their emotional connection it is 100% possible that they did indeed have sexual relations. from an outsiders perspective
David B
2008-12-16 04:15:32 UTC
I work in corrections, and I see this all the time. Believe him and drop it, or don't and drop him. It's not going to go away unless you make it.


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