http://www.askdanandjennifer.com/love-relationships/infidelity-cheating-affair/affair-extramarital-relationship-beginning-can-it-succeed/ Love & Sex Videos, Tips & Advice from Ask Dan & Jennifer Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.askdanandjennifer.com/love-relationships/infidelity-cheating-affair/affair-extramarital-relationship-beginning-can-it-succeed/comment-page-1/#comment-29823 Christi Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:36:30 +0000 http://www.askdanandjennifer.com/relationship-advice/can-a-relationship-that-starts-out-as-an-affair-succeed-video/#comment-29823 Thank you, thank you, thank you, a higher being must have led me to your video on can a relationship that starts out as an affair be successful to let me know that I am not the devil that many believe me to be... 3 years ago I fell in love with a married man (I was married too). We were both in bad marriages and developed a connection that we couldn't deny. Subsequently we both left our marriages and have remained together. We are not married or living together but we are very committed and are working toward marriage. I can't say that it was easy, it wasn't at all and still isn't. Our exes teamed up and put us through hell. We lost everything from jobs to friends and had all of our dirty laundry aired on really bad reality TV, but what we didn't lose was our love for each other and our committment to each other. We have found that communication is the key. Being open about all doubts and fears is the most important thing in our relationship. We both know where we came from and how hard we fought to be together and stay together, so while we both agree we wish we would have handled things differently (i.e., had the courage to leave our marriages before becoming involved), we don't have any regrets about choosing to be together. The statistics aren't good but that just makes us work harder. Thank you, thank you, thank you, a higher being must have led me to your video on can a relationship that starts out as an affair be successful to let me know that I am not the devil that many believe me to be… 3 years ago I fell in love with a married man (I was married too). We were both in bad marriages and developed a connection that we couldn’t deny. Subsequently we both left our marriages and have remained together. We are not married or living together but we are very committed and are working toward marriage. I can’t say that it was easy, it wasn’t at all and still isn’t. Our exes teamed up and put us through hell. We lost everything from jobs to friends and had all of our dirty laundry aired on really bad reality TV, but what we didn’t lose was our love for each other and our committment to each other. We have found that communication is the key. Being open about all doubts and fears is the most important thing in our relationship. We both know where we came from and how hard we fought to be together and stay together, so while we both agree we wish we would have handled things differently (i.e., had the courage to leave our marriages before becoming involved), we don’t have any regrets about choosing to be together. The statistics aren’t good but that just makes us work harder.

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