At the age of 32 I was really satisfied with my life. Living in a small Scandinavian town together with and engaged to a pretty 29 ears old girlfriend with whom I had a five years old son. A nice house in a good neighborhood, successful business in my own bricklaying company with four employees.
Julia and I had been living together for six years now and had begun to talk about a great wedding. We had no hurry to get married, most young people prefers to do as we did, live together during several years before they can afford an expensive marriage.
This story begins at a Friday afternoon when I went to the nearest main line railway station to catch Julia who had been away on a political PR continuation course for almost a week since our son and I put her on a train last Sunday evening. Julia is expected to be a "coming girl" in our small town local politics and I've heard that her local party counts on her for one of their party top positions in the future. She is member of a small liberal party between the right and left blocks holding the balance and gaining advantages from both sides. She use to be away several times a year on different political courses, usually only for one or two days. as a good mother she misses the kid when she is away and use to call home every day for a chat with him. But this time had been different and already at the Tuesday evening when our boy had got sick I got a strange feeling that something was wrong. She didn't call and didn't even answer when I tried calling her on her cell phone the whole evening. No call at home even after several text and voice messages. No connection before I got to her via the course administration at Wednesday morning and she was angry as a bee for I had connected her via the course leaders when she rang me next time at Thursday.
Now at the railway station I immediately understood that something was wrong. Of course she was glad to see our kid, but when I tried to kiss and hug her, she refused to let me do that. "Not here" Was her strange comment. In my opinion it is very common to do that at railway stations when people meet or part.
We drove home in silence and she remained silent even at home until our boy had gone to bed and was sleeping. I had prepared a romantic "welcome home dinner" but she told me she had already eaten and didn't want anything. Now I had got really worried about her and asked, "I can see that something is bothering you, are you sick? Or have you got other problems?"
"No, I'm not sick but I have something very important to tell you."
"Tell me."
"I have met the man in my life and love him of all my heart. I'm his, only his woman now. You can still be my friend but you are not my man any longer."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"And you have fucked him."
"We don't fuck, we are making love which is much more sensitive than our simple sex and of course we did it every night."
"Who is he?"
"His name is Benjamin Hassel, he has a leading position at the district board of our party. Unfortunately for me he is still married and lives in our county capital. He is not sure yet about what to do with his marriage but one thing is for sure, I love him of all my heart."
I had learnt two important things about difficult situations; First don't panic, second calm down before doing something. After a minute of silence I asked her, "When are you leaving me and where are you going? What about our son?"
"I'm not leaving you at least not for now. He is married and we need some time to find out how all three of us can handle this situation."
"Not leaving? How can you for one single second think you can stay here if you are fucking somebody else? Have you got totally mad or have 'lover boy' filled you with drugs? You seem to be complete out of your mind if you think I want to keep a slut in my house."
"As I told you, we can still remain as friends. I have never been more serious than now, please let me show you fair suggestion to our new way of life."
I decided to stay cool and listen to everything she had to say before I did anything. She dug in her bag and took her laptop, went in to my home office from where I heard the sound of the printer. She came back with a paper full of text, which she gave me. It was some kind of a contract but before I began to read it she told me, "Benjamin wanted much more rules but I did my best to negotiate fair terms for you. Ben said that if you want to change something in this agreement, he promised to accept further negotiation between him and you. But I must warn you; he is a very clever man so you can end up with a worse deal than what I succeed to get for you. I really did my best to give you fair terms."
I understood that such a Benjamin must be a supplied with some strange skills if he had succeeded to brainwash Julia to this complete madness within a week. If I agreed to their terms I should be turned to a real cuckolded wimp, so I asked her, "Do you really want to treat me as the slut wife and her jailbird lover treated poor Sebastian? Do you? And I hope you know what happened afterwards?"
Sebastian's wife made him to a laughing-stock in the whole town when she had been away on a "girl's night out" and came home with a newly paroled convict. Poor Sebastian had been forced out of his bed and out of the master bedroom where the jailbird had fucked his wife several times until the morning. Poor Sebastian hadn't dared to object when the much stronger man had demanded him wear a napkin and be a butler for them and serve them with drinks and breakfast in the martial bed. Thereafter the jailbird bragged for the whole town about what he had done. Everybody felt sorry for poor Sebastian. When the ex convict had promised to do that again and take pictures the next time, Sebastian's co-workers had got enough. A bunch of them had whipped the crap out of the jailbird who, after a week at the hospital, had left town for a healthier environment elsewhere.
Julia got a bit confused with a frightened expression in her face when I mentioned Sebastian but had obviously got so massive brain washing that she had no intentions to stop her mad suggestions. She tried to cheer me up by saying, "No, of course not, this will be a private matter between you, me and Ben. Nobody will ever get to know anything about our relation. When Ben is not here visiting me, everything will be as usual except that you are sleeping in the spare room and we don't have sex as we used to do. But as you can see in the paper, you will agree to remain faithful to me and therefore Ben has promised to permit me give you good sex so you'll be satisfied and happy. He suggested usually after that he has gone home after making love to me so you hadn't to envy him too much. Of course, it is a kind reward, which I will only give you if you have behaved well. And as you can see in the last clause, if Ben doesn't file for divorce and leave his wife within six months, I'll take you back and everything will be as it was before I met Ben."
She suggested sloppy seconds as a kind reward to me. I had heard enough and couldn't take any more of the crap she told me. I didn't believe that she was serious and thought it is impossible that a normal spouse can be so totally mad in five days at a political PR course. It must be some kind of dirty joke some funny party gang there invented. Therefore I burst in laugh and shouted, "Great joke indeed, is it some kind of candid camera? Or have you a tape recorder in your bag and intend to use the tape for entertainment at some party, great joke, indeed. For a while I really thought that you had turned crazy and were serious about some stupid Ben and his mumbo-jumbo paper." Instead of reading it, I crumpled up their contract to a ball and threw it on her with a laugh.