Where to begin...
It's quite intimidating getting started on this writing project! Even though I stopped feeling guilty a long time ago, I suppose I'm overwhelmed by the amount of information I will need to cover, in order to tell you everything.
Starting at the very beginning seems to make the most sense, but first I'll introduce myself, then we will get right into it. My name is Kristen (alias), and I have been happily married to my husband Rob (alias) for fifteen years. This series will be the only place that I ever confess publicly, that I've been cheating on Rob for around 20 years, for the entire duration of our relationship. I strongly believe that nobody who knows us IRL is ever going to find out about this, and I'd like to keep it that way, I'm good at keeping a secret. All names I provide will be aliases and I will also be keeping our location information vague, but I will provide you as much information as I can.
Rob and I are currently both 39 years old, and he is the only long-term relationship that I've ever had. I've always thought that it's nice to be with someone the same age as me, he understands all of my jokes and references, we are great together. Rob was my highschool sweetheart, he was the first man I ever dated seriously, besides the usual innocent early experimenting like kissing someone on a dare lol.
We were dating before this, but, things took a bit of a turn the year after we graduated high school. Rob had just turned 19 and I was 18 at the time (sounds cliche but it's true), my birthday was later in the year. Rob and I had been having sex less frequently in the months leading up to our graduation, I remember that during the summer of that year, the most recent time I had sex with Rob was on our two year anniversary which was in March, so it would have been at least three months that had passed since then. In those three months there had been a lot of opportunities for us to be intimate that had been missed, in my opinion, and I was feeling disappointed.
The first of these missed opportunities was at Rob's birthday (late April), it had already been a month since we fucked on our anniversary and I was hoping that having some fun with friends was going to rekindle the spark. We spent a long weekend evening at a friend's house party which he had organized for Rob as a surprise (I had been tasked with making sure he didn't make other plans that evening). Everyone was having a lot of fun but at the end of the night Rob was asleep early, he claimed he was stressed and overworked preparing for our exams, which made sense.
I love Rob, and at this point in our history I still viewed cheating as a bad thing to do, which I think was naive. I didn't want to risk hurting his feelings by having my needs met elsewhere, but a month felt like a long time. I have always been a little bit hypersexual, in hindsight. I could tolerate a week or two without that level of physical affection, but a month without sex was weighing on me a lot! Nothing especially bad happened that night, the party took place on the actual date of Rob's 19th birthday so I figured it would be extra wrong if I cheated on his birthday. Looking back on it now, I think this was when my mind started wandering to the possibility of cheating though, and when I started to feel excited thinking about the possibility of going through with it.
Anyway, I'm starting to get a bit rambly now. All that had happened on the night of his birthday party is there was a late night game of strip poker that took place after most people had fallen asleep or gone home. I won the game, so I didn't even need to get completely naked, which I felt proud of! This felt mostly innocent and pretty normal in terms of just being a common party game, even though it was definitely sexually charged, nobody was touching each other or anything so I thought it seemed fine. We played with four people including myself, the other three players were a girl I had been best friends with for years (Maya), one of Rob's friends from his hockey team (Jeremy), and Maya's older sister Taylor.
As an aside here, I just feel the need to insert that while I can understand it may seem a bit inappropriate, the relationship between Taylor and Maya was in no way sexual or incestuous. Apologies to any readers who are into that but, they were nothing but sisterly to each other. Jeremy made a few pervy comments about this during the game, but we all just told him to shut up and be respectful lol.
I've always been excellent at card games so I felt very confident about my abilities going in. Jeremy had always been a bit of a perv and had made comments about me several times in the past which I had just brushed off. Oddly enough strip poker wasn't even Jeremy's suggestion although of course he happily went along with it. Taylor had been the one to suggest we play the game, according to gossip I heard through Maya, apparently Taylor had been secretly hooking up with Jeremy for the past several months. Taylor was two years older than us and in university, but Jeremy was one year older than Rob so, there was only a one year age gap between Jeremy and Taylor, it didn't seem all that weird or unusual. Anyway, according to what Maya told me that Taylor had told her, Jeremy allegedly had an enormous dick. I'm pretty certain that Taylor wanted to use the game as an opportunity to show us that she wasn't exaggerating.