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Reverse psychology?

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  rj0622
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  Oct-30 9:22 pm

Well, all of us who come to this board have been through it.  Catching our men secretly surfing large amounts of porn or in chat rooms or worse.  Then they deny, cry, say they will stop,, blah, blah, whatever....right?

And then we all become insecure because we feel it is about some inadequacy in us, and we all become a bit co dependent, trying to catch him, watch him, delete stuff, etc, right?

For me, it was my now husband, then my boyfriend having a secret myspace where he communicated with ex's, and then also surfing tons of porn when I did not prevent him watching porn when he was with me, but then he still needed more.  Jeez!

At any rate, I wonder, if instead of arguing, wanting him to stop, acting jealous, etc, etc, I would have just said,  "fine.  You have a secret Myspace with your tramp ho exes, I guess that gives me a get of of jail free card too!  I think I will reactivate my match.com profile, and maybe add Amateur match too (because he had one.  grrr...) and start chatting up some hotties and get some little cyberfriends.  How do you like them apples buddy?"

I know if I catch him again, the s....   IS going to hit the fan. His stuff on the driveway, checking acct emptied out, and I AM going to go online myself, not because I like it, but to give him a taste of his own BS.

 

Any thoughts  ladies??

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  Nov-1 2:11 pm

There's a chance it could work i suppose... but honestly i think most men would just see that as permission to keep going and possibly escalate and see just how much they could get away with. My ex would have leapt at the chance of fair fair to try and push through the open relationship he wanted.

The other problem i see is... could you really carry through with such a plan...if not... what if he calls your bluff. I mean it's one thing to go on line occasionally and glance around... but actually doing as much as them... that could actually be hard work.

Giving him a taste of his own medicine likely won't help... does however have the potential to split you further apart.

k

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