Having been on the receiving end of this type of garbage many years ago; I feel qualified to address it.
We had an 8 yr. old child. - Husbnd “met” the woman at work. She had a “supervisory” job, (unlike “nobody” me).
She “looked” clean, neat & well dressed. Of course, there was no way she could possibly be a diseased old skank. Was there? - I don’t know. Now, he & I go to the same doctor. I can’t broach the subject at this point. He goes off on a tangent if I do. All I can do is *hope* I don’t have crabs or some other STD. I’ve lived for the past 42 years not knowing for sure. AIDS wasn’t a biggie at that time. Of course, he *assured* me they “hadn’t done THAT”. So, all I can do is *hope*. (I do know that I dropped by her apartment the following evening & she already had her another “squeeze” lounging on her settee drinking beer & smoking cigarettes. My husband accused me of lying about that at the time. There was no way she would cheat on him! Ha!)
I asked him politely to stay with me because we had a small child. In retrospect, I wonder if it was a good idea after all. Lately, it just gets worse & worse. His “enthusiasm” for other women is still pretty active. Me? I’m nobody with a capital “N”.
It sent our whole family on a whole different (decidedly worse) trajectory.