Dear Annie: My husband returned after a year's deployment with the Army. We were so happy to have him back.
However, in a casual conversation, he told me that he and his buddies had gone to a stripper bar while in the States. It was amateur night, and he knew one of the girls performing. He tried to "help her relax" by stroking several parts of her body while she gyrated. He was thrown out of the bar for fondling the dancer. He thinks this story is hilarious.
I, of course, was less amused and have asked him to leave our home of 17 years until I can think things out. He swears he only touched her. I think he crossed a line and wonder if things would have progressed had he not been tossed out.
Am I being too harsh? He swears this is the first time he has ever done anything like this and he has never been unfaithful to me, but I don't trust him. He touched another woman intimately, and if I let him get away with it, I suspect he not only will do it again, he might do more.
We have two daughters who are devastated that Daddy has moved out, and they think I'm crazy for showing him the door. Please help.
Skeptical Wife
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