{"id":13328,"date":"2026-02-11T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=13328"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:20:40","slug":"my-husband-wanted-to-date-other-people-now-he-regrets-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=13328","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Wanted to Date Other People \u2014 Now He Regrets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"186\"><strong data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"184\">He Wanted an \u201cOpen Marriage\u201d\u2026 But It Was All a Test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"285\">My husband gave me an ultimatum: open marriage\u2014or divorce. I agreed, hoping love would survive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"287\" data-end=\"422\">I started seeing his best friend, Ben. At first, my husband watched in silence, coming home late, smelling of someone else\u2019s perfume.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"458\">Then one morning, Ben confessed:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"548\">\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"548\">\u201cHe asked me to go along with it. It was a test. He wanted to see how far you\u2019d go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"631\">The betrayal hit like a blow. My husband didn\u2019t want freedom\u2014he wanted control.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"752\">That night, I packed my bag and left. I stayed with Ben, not for revenge, but to finally understand what love wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"844\">A year later, I have my own apartment, my art, and peace. Mark remarried\u2014and lost again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"962\">The lesson? True love isn\u2019t a game. Never let someone\u2019s ego make you prove your worth. Walk away. Choose yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; He Wanted an \u201cOpen Marriage\u201d\u2026 But It Was All a Test My husband gave me an ultimatum: open marriage\u2014or divorce. I agreed, hoping love would survive. I started seeing his best friend, Ben. At first, my husband watched in silence, coming home late, smelling of someone else\u2019s perfume. Then one morning, Ben confessed: \u201cHe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13330,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions\/13330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}