John
My wife woke me up at 10:30 PM, When she got home from work, asking me why I was sleeping in the guest bedroom and I told her we would talk tomorrow night when she gets home as I need my sleep because I have to be to work early tomorrow. She said she will be late tomorrow also and I replied I know you will do what's right and turned over and went back to sleep.
My name is John Harris and Marsha and I have been married for 25 years which until about 6 months ago were excellent years. We have a daughter Janet who is 23 and works at my accounting company. Our son Sean is 21 and finishing up at West Point. Marsha works as an administrated assistance for the vice president at a local family owned bank. She was a teller until about 6 months ago, see where this is going, and was then promoted to her present position working with Andrew Johnson who is the son in law to the banks CEO Leo Sutton.
Until Marsha got her promotion we made love 2 to 3 times a week and sometimes more but it has been 4 months since we have done anything and after being refused with excuses several times I stopped trying. Her job seems to require her to work late 3 or 4 nights a week, I never heard of any bank employee working that late. I have now moved my personal items and cloths into the guest room and have also secured an apartment in case I need it.
Three months ago I hired a private investigator to find out what Marsha was doing on these nights and now have video and audio proof of her cheating on me with Mr. Andrew Johnson using a condo he rents, through the bank. If she comes home on time tomorrow night I will confront her with my evidence and see where we go from there. I still love her but can no longer ignore what she's doing. If we decide to try and work things out it will take a lot of work and outside help as some of the things she has said about me have hurt me to the core. If she does not show by 5:00 PM she will then get a big surprise.
It is now 5:15 PM and no Marsha so I have moved into the apartment and made the call to my lawyer. At 5:30 PM there is a knock at The love birds apartment and when Andrew answers it a man asks him if he is Andrew Johnson and is there a Marsha Harris there and Marsha comes to the door, both her and Andrew are in robes, the man then hands each an envelope saying you been served. Neither saw the other man who was recording the proceedings.
At 7:00 PM my cell phone rings and I see it is Marsha so I ignore it and turn off the phone. The next day a suit is served on the bank for failing to enforce their morals policy. My attorney gets a call from Marsha and my attorney tells Marsha to get her own attorney. Then my attorney gets a call from the banks attorney requesting a meeting and it is set up. As for me when I arrived at work Janet was waiting in my office for me asking why I was divorcing her mother to which I told her she would have to ask her mother. I asked Janet how she knew and she said her mother called her last night telling her I had filed for a divorce and she couldn't understand why. I asked Janet if her mother sounded upset or like she had been crying and Janet said no she didn't.
Marsha
When I started as Andrew's assistance he would praise me and always made sure there was a vase with yellow roses, my favorite, on my desk. He would take me to lunch and complement me on my beauty and how I dressed. He always notices if I had my hair done or got a new dress and said he liked how these made me look. I'm not sure how we got started with the affair but soon we were going to his condo and having sex. I just got catch up in it and didn't even notice we were meeting 3 or 4 times a week.
The night I got home and found John in the guest room and his answer to why he was there I was to stupid to understand what it meant or what he meant when he said he knew I would do the right thing. When the man served Andrew and me I wasn't to concern because I felt like I didn't love John anymore, not that I was in love with Andrew either. Andrew was mad as hell and afraid his wife and father in law would find out about us and asked if I could get John to drop his suit against Andrew and I said I would try. I packed up what stuff I had at the condo and headed home.
When I entered the house it was dark and quiet as I looked around I discovered that basically all of John's things were gone. I still did not feel any lost or that I really needed John in my life so I wasn't upset and didn't cry. I called Janet asking her if she knew why her father had filed for a divorce and she was surprised by that and said she would talk to him tomorrow and find out. I then called John's cell and it went to messages. I then went to bed and as I laid there I started to feel lonely. The next day at work I was told that the bank had been served and Mr. Sutton, the CEO, wanted me in his office ASAP. I was shown right in and Mr. Sutton told me to have a seat. He then said that he wanted me to tell him what was happening between Andrew and me and I needed to be honest if I had any hope of keeping a job with the bank. Over The next hour and half I told him the entire story leaving nothing out. He thanked me for my honesty and asked if I had any questions to which I asked if I still had a job. He replied that at present I was on paid leave at my old teller's salary until after the bank's lawyers met with John's lawyers and once they found out if part of John's demand would be my dismissal or not I was in limbo. I thanked him and returned to my officer got my personal items and went home to wait.
Now I was getting scared and starting to see how I had not only hurt John but most likely lost the only man I ever loved. As I walked around the house I saw thing that reminded me of John and the good life we had until I screwed it all up. I sat and look through photo albums and started to cry and shake thinking my god what have I done I realized how much I still loved John and wondered if there was a chance we could get through this. I called my doctor and was able to see her later that afternoon and I asked her to do a complete physical on me and after telling her the story asked if she could recommend a good therapist and she said she would make an appointment with one and if that one wasn't to my liking let her knew and she would send me to another. She then scheduled the appointments and tests I needed for the physical.
Two weeks later I had the results from my physical and I did have a hormone imbalance which she prescribed medication for. I had 2 sessions with the therapist and was ready to face John. While this was occurring the bank and John's lawyers had met and my dismissal was not an issue so I was back to work as a teller. I asked my lawyer to try to set up a meeting between John and me. An hour later my lawyer called and said that the meeting would be in his office at 2:00 PM tomorrow. I dressed in a way that I knew John liked and was as nervous when I got to the lawyer's office. I was told that the ground rules were that we would meet with the lawyers present and later if both John and I agreed we would be left alone to talk.
John
I had not heard a word from Marsha since she called my cell so I figured she was ready to let the divorce proceed. I asked Janet if she had talked or seen her mother and Janet said they had talked a lot on the phone but had only seen Marsha once since the papers were served. Janet said her mother told her it was all her fault and that she had cheated on me. Marsha also told Janet that at first she was fine with us getting a divorce but as she had more time apart from me her true feelings for me were beginning to show how much she loved and missed me. Janet also said that Marsha had seen a doctor and Janet through she was in counseling.
I didn't know what to think when my lawyer called and said Marsha had asked for a meeting with me and I told him to set it up. The meeting started with both of our lawyers present and Marsha started out by telling me how sorry she was for hurting me and she could understand why I would not want to give her another chance. To this I told her that watching the videos was bad enough but what hurt the most was how she belittled me to Andrew. Like when she told him "if I had know you before I married John I never would have married him" or " compared to you John is a very lousy lover". Marsha said did I really say those things and I said do you want to see and hear the tape and she started to cry. At this time my lawyer asked me if I wanted to talk to her alone and I said yes and she told her lawyer to leave also.
Once we were alone in the room Marsha said that when she was served she felt like it was a relief and she didn't need or want me in her life. But it only took a day for her to see what she had thrown away and not only did she miss me but her love for me filled her to where she spent a lot of time crying. She knew there had to be a reason for what she did and she went to the doctor's and had a full physical done finding out there was a hormone imbalance that caused some of the problem. She also started seeing a therapist and they were making some progress but she has to accept the blame for what happened. She asked if I thought there was any chance of us getting back together. I told her I didn't see that happening in the near future but if we work some things out it might happen somewhere down the road. Marsha then asked if I would talk to her therapist and I said let me know when. She thanked me for meeting her and not getting upset and angry with her and she would let me know when the therapist would like to see me and that she might want to see me by myself for one or more sessions before seeing me with Marsha there. I said that we would let the divorce proceed and hoped that the settlement I offered was acceptable to her and she said it was.