{"id":962,"date":"2006-10-26T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/married-acting-single.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:02:37","slug":"married-acting-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/married-acting-single.htm","title":{"rendered":"Married Acting Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In four years of marriage, she says her husband has betrayed her several times. In addition to going to clubs by himself, he has been spending a lot of time online and portrays himself as a single man in posts and emails to other women. She doesn&#8217;t trust him and doesn&#8217;t believe he can stop cheating.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>I said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fidelity in a marriage is very important. It sounds as if your husband, despite having the responsibilities of a husband and father, behaves as if he is single and available. As long as you accept his behavior he will have no reason to change it.<\/p>\n<p>Decide what you need from a husband and what you will accept. If he can&#8217;t meet those needs and his behavior is not acceptable, it&#8217;s up to you to do what it takes to set a good example for your children.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling for yourself, if he won&#8217;t go with you, is a good start.<\/p>\n<p><i>What will she do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Many women feel that they have no choice but to stay in a bad marriage. Perhaps they&#8217;re stay-at-home moms without what they think are marketable skills. Perhaps they feel that any type of marriage provides more security than no marriage at all.<\/p>\n<p>Each of us must make the decision that works best for us. Divorce is never easy but neither is a lifetime of less than acceptable compromises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In four years of marriage, she says her husband has betrayed her several times. In addition to going to clubs by himself, he has been spending a lot of time online and portrays himself as a single man in posts and emails to other women. She doesn&#8217;t trust him and doesn&#8217;t believe he can stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/married-acting-single.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Married Acting Single&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}