Just a quick conversation between a husband and wife, Be warned... no editor.
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"Honey, we have to talk," Joe said to his wife Jessica after dinner. She looked worried until he continued. "I had sex with another woman. Just once and I left her room immediately. Please forgive me." She sighed and smiled.
"Did you hear what I just said?" Joe had just returned from a two-day business trip and felt so guilty he had to tell his wife. They have been married for five years and have a three-year old son Jimmy.
"Thank God!" She sighed again and chuckled.
"What? You act like it makes you happy."
I'm not happy you had sex with another person. I forgive you honey. I understand how you can just have sex with someone you don't love. I know you love me honey."
It wasn't planned I had too much to drink and...."
She interrupted him, "Yada, yada, yada. I said it's no big deal. Let's go to bed and I'll claim you back."
Damn he didn't expect this reaction. When they were married they both set the bar if either cheated it would be the end. ''But I was wrong and need to face the music. I have contacted a counselor and will start sessions next week. If you want a period of separation I understand and will move in with my friend Jake until I can be assured I won't get into those kinds of situations again."
"Joe baby, it's OK. Things happen and let's forget about it."
He suddenly started crying. "I'm not worthy of you Jess. I feel so horrible and can't sleep at night. You've been a perfect wife and are married to a cheating asshole."
She saw how destroyed he was and decided to make himself feel better. "Honey, I'm not perfect either. I have slipped up too, so we are even, let it go and let's start fresh."
"What? Say that again."
"Like you, a while back I was out with the office people after work and had a few too many drinks. Remember I called and said I will be late. One of the men I was dancing with came onto me and I slipped up like you did. So, it evens out."
"Yeah it, uh, wait you weren't just late. You didn't show up until 10am the next morning. My slip was with a woman I'll never see again and it last no more than an hour.
"Honey cheating is cheating whether you do it once or many times." I don't love him and you don't love her. No one got hurt right? Forgive and forget."
"Just how many times did you fuck him?" Anger was starting to show.
"It doesn't matter. I told him last week that it's over. It's just you and me from now on."
"Last week! You stayed overnight more than a month ago. How many times Jessica?
Who is he? Do I know him? How many other people know that I've been cuckolded?"
"I can't say. He's married with two kids living at home and one girl in college." She started getting scared now. "Can we just forget about it?''
It hit him who he was, "Damn you! You've been fucking your boss Martin Jessup. You've been traveling with him out of town like once a week. I hope his wife will forgive and forget because she will soon know."
"You will destroy him and his family. How can you be so cruel?"
"Do you love him?" He asked watching her reactions.
She hesitated, which was a mistake. He started to walk away. She grabbed his arm. "Not love like I do you."
He pulled away and turned, "I'll sleep in the spare bedroom tonight and get a lawyer Monday morning.
"No please no divorce. I'll do anything to keep you."
"Quit your job? Call his wife and confess? Always keep a GPS on you?"
"I'm not quitting my job. I just got promoted!" As soon as she said she knew she screwed up. "Joe please don't make me quit."
"You fucked your boss for a promotion! You got promoted after you fucked him all night."
"I earned it," she said weakly.
"I bet you did on your knees and back. Five fucking years gone out of my life."
"Don't say that. We are about to have another child."
