Disclosed too much detail to family about husband's PA
Been married for 19 years (M46 F39). Discovered SA/PA 12 years into marriage (about 7 yrs ago). DH went into recovery but not fully. Just enough to make me happy and shut up. Had multiple DDays since then but porn use only (vanilla porn only). He had therapy for 3 yrs (not CSAT) and I had therapy for 1 year and we had some marriage counselling too. Last year we agreed on boundaries and consequences on slip (watching porn once) and relapse (watching it repeatedltly behind my back) with a therapist. Part of the consequence was if he relapses one more time and I find out, the marriage is over.
This happened in oct 24. He relapsed and I found out. We have been separated since then. I told my family everything (parents and 4 siblings all adults), all his past abuse, manipulation, porn use, secretly meeting up ex crush hoping to act out (nothing happened though), him calling up prostitutes while away on work. Everything. Family is quite religious so there was a lot of judgement (he is religious too externally). After the separation, he finally got his acts together now. He found a CSAT and I can see a lot of positive changes in him. Did a disclosute and polygraph with CSAT.I am totally hands off his recovery and he has volunteered to take off all social media, have accountability software and do whatever is required to get the marriage back. The CSAT emails me to update on his recovery. He is still paying for the kids, most of the bills and comes to see the kids everyday but we don't talk f2f anymore. I am going to watch him for 3 more months then decide what to do (but feeling positive atm)
My issue is I told my family everything because I thought I was definitely leaving the marriage. Obviously they are all feeling sorry for me and think we had a terrible marriage. They are being supportive to me, left the decision to stay/go with me and not sharing it with anyohe else (all sensible adults). We did have a lot of good times too as a couple but I didn't share it with family as it wasn't relevant at the time. Now I am super embarrassed to give him another chance, it's like I am feeling the shame in myself. Will my family ever treat him the same way as before? (They live in a different country now but we plan to move back there after 1 yr). What will they think of our marriage? It's so shameful. I know I shouldn't care about what people think but I just can't help it. I regret telling them everything but there is no way to go back now. He doesn't know that my family knows all the details.
Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do to integrate DH back into the extended family? Was it strange for you to continue as a couple?