Well Rob....
You didn't need to put your real name on this thing (if your real name is "Rob"), so there was no need to "destroy your friendships and professional relationships".
Rob, the drama is a bit thick. What is your intent here? Is this a "public" apology to your wife, almost like writing it in the sky and submitting yourself to a virtual flogging?
You cheated. Like million of men have both physically and on the internet. Cheating is as old as human time. Sure there might be some unsuspecting men out there that are unfamiliar with how these things transgress, but there is the escape button, the back button, you can type the words, "no thank you".
So if you want my validation now that this post will excuse you because you have laid it all out there, nope.
You are feeling how many men do when they have cheated. The guilt is intense I'm sure. Obviously you love your wife, but you don't need to be so dramatic about it. You haven't destroyed everything, unless she is now packing her bags to leave you. You'll both move on, and you won't play this way again, right Rob?
Now she knows you are capable of cheating. Yep, I'd say you have opened a proverbial can of worms. Posting some tell all story on the net will get from her what you want, or it won't. And you seriously didn't need to confess to her but the guilt must have really gotten to you. And for sure, you didn't need to shove it in her face so she got to read all these transgressions. That was just mean.
And as far as that other woman (or transexual or young boy or whatever you were posting with), wagging your finger at them and telling them to "leave married men alone"....Oh brother, I almost choked on my coffee. Shame on these people for leading you down the path of martial infidelity. As if you didn't have any resistance or mind of your own. Rob, that is an old one too, blame those bad, bad women. You the innocent taken in by these brazen hussies, poor you!
Sorry this happened to you Rob. Sorry you had to further expose your wife to more pain. Sorry about all the people that will tell you that you are full of shit. Sorry you felt the need to put a scarlet letter on your blog. I'm sorry I took precious time from my day to read this.
Your wife and you will now be in a more honest space and develop your relationship from there. These lessons come and go throughout a long term relationship. Time and patience will heal the wounds. But don't expect that she will ever forgive and forget and this may come back to haunt you for years to come, after all in the end you literally rubbed her nose in it.
Rob, I'd erase that entire blog and start living (physically) with my wife. Get off the internet for christs sake!! This is not life....
Molly