TL;DR : partner messaged another women no owning it. Should I try n repair or move on
Context f40w m45 for 8 years w a 4 yo son
Relationship hasn’t been the best since our son, it’s been up and down.
Recently mostly down. My gut has been telling me he’s cheating … I’m always to one trying to trigger talking about “sorting” things out. And I just got to the point tonight I needed to close down my thoughts or confront him with “evidence”.
Rightly or wrongly I checked his phone and in archive messages sure enough there are messages to a woman …..all “babe”, “miss you”. “Thinking of you” messages with x’s on etc!
So l confronted him and boy did he squirm – tried to lie who she was (cos I know of her), lie how the came to message blah blah
Anyway claims they haven’t done anything physical.
But also is not fully owning what I would term emotional cheating.
Can I have others thoughts as to what I should do next? I don’t see how I can ever trust him again. I’m devastated for my son.
Would you just cut it and move on?