OK -- nobody else has mentioned this, but getting to the bottom of this could be important to your sexual health. If he DID cheat on you, can you be sure that he is not bringing home some STD that might affect your ability to have children in the future should you so desire? How well do you know the woman co-worker and her sexual history? Does your husband use condoms or has birth control historically been YOUR responsibility? Because if it's always all been on you, he may not want to use condoms now.
I smell a rat, personally, and I am very sorry for you, good girl. My response might be colored by my own recent experiences with a cheating husband, but I never in my life suspected my husband would be capable of such betrayal. I trusted him completely for over 20 years and many business trips.
I think it perfectly possible that she answered the phone because SHE wanted you to know that she was sleeping with your husband. She brazenly phoned your home to push him to come along even after (especially after?) she knew you wouldn't be there. Would you ever consider doing that?!
Are they out of town ON business? Hotel expense should have been no problem, if so. If not, I second the poster who asked you if getting another hotel room would have broken the bank for the two of you.
And MY husband told me it wasn't what I thought it was when we first discussed it, too. But he was lying through his teeth.
Yep, red flags all over the place. And I sense that you keep wanting to believe his explanations, but deep in your gut don't really believe him at all. It's very hard to get the trust back. I knew I would never be comfortable again if he disappeared for more than a couple of hours without my knowing where he was and with whom. You need to consider if you could be happy living like that.
((((goodgirl))))
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