Isabel,

I have massive respect from him, he is actually the CEO of the company so I think it is more the attraction of ‘man in power’ .

Yeah, some old geezer sleezing on his younger married employees sounds very respectable. I can see the attraction.

Pre Covid there were rumours he was up to this kind of stuff with other employees.

Why didn’t you report this to human resources? You’re actively helping to enable his behavior and create a hostile workplace for all the other women have to work with this dirtbag. Now that he knows there are no consequences for this he’ll just keep right trying with other employees.

That being said what I did was wrong but what I am feeling now is that I need to learn from this and find a way to forgive myself. I am going to gain nothing from telling my husband other than hurting him and my daughter. I think as well when my anxiety manifest I always look to attach it to something. I need to find a way to get out of this vicious cycle.

I guarantee your boss is going to be bragging to all the other male co-workers about what the two of you did (“got another one hehehe”) and at the next work function where your husband shows up they’ll all have smirks on their faces while shaking his hand. You’ve made your husband into a laughing stock. If you’re not going to leave your husband, at the very least you should quit your job to save him the embarrassment.

Also, you realize your boss was setting you up for this right? That’s why he choose you to come into the office in the first place, he was just trying to sleep with you. All the flirting and gradual transition to friendliness, it didn’t all happen naturally, it was all pre-planned, like you said, with all the other women he’s told the exact same lies and used the exact same lines on. You were duped.