Although this story could possibly stand alone, it was written as the sequel to "The 'Do Nothing' Option", and I strongly recommend that you read them in order. Or not, whatever, you do you.
As this story is published in the feral swamp that is the 'Loving Wives' category, I expect the following;
Some readers may appreciate my attempt to follow an adulterer's emotional journey after being outed and rejected. Whether they enjoy the story or not is up to them.
Some readers will negatively critique my narrative on the basis that cheaters have no self awareness and cannot ever be redeemed, under any circumstances. Whatever...
And, sigh, some readers will leave barely coherent diatribes aimed at most women, not mommy obviously, calling them whores, sluts, cunts, cum dumps, etc. I will also be the target of their venom for not having Tina die an agonising death, preferably alone in a squalid hovel, from something like radioactive herpes. Again; whatever...
Commenters in Category 3 please note, I am not your therapist. I have no duty of client confidentiality to you, therefore I am totally within my rights to take any deranged comments down the pub for our regular, "Spot the personality disorder" game. You have been warned.
All the characters in the story are made up and obviously over 18.
February
My forenames are Christina Annabelle, but everyone calls me Tina. Well, not quite everyone; but I'll explain why later in the story. I won't share my family name. My father says that it's been dragged through the mud so much that it couldn't get any more tarnished, but I won't risk making things worse. I've done enough harm already.
I'm quite pretty, 5'2" tall, slim, with nice C cup boobs, short brown hair and brown eyes. I'm 25 and recently divorced. I've been having counselling since July, and my therapist has recently suggested that writing out my story honestly will help me come to terms with the consequences of my actions.
It started about this time last year when a colleague, Sophia, asked me for a favour. My initial response was quite guarded; it's not like we were particularly close. Anyway, she said that she and her partner, John, were 'in a bad place' and she'd decided to see other men. She wanted a friend to provide her with an alibi for her assignations. That was my first missed opportunity. If I had told her to fuck off, the way the other girls had, then I'd still be married. I didn't though, so that's on me, not her. Though I still fucking hate the bitch for asking.
So, in the the absence of an outright refusal, she kept pestering me, saying that all she needed me to do was to agree with her if John ever asked if she and I were out together. I didn't know her partner, and Sophia said he was being a jerk and deserved it, so I said yes. Why? Why did I agree to lie for someone to help them cheat on their partner? No idea. Even if she'd been my best friend I should have said no. I was brought up better than that; so I failed as a daughter too, as well as a wife.
Sophia kept me up to date on her 'dalliances' and despite my reservations, I was intrigued. How was she finding these men without going out clubbing to pick them up? John would certainly have noticed that. So I asked her. Five paragraphs in, and I've already lost count of the ways I fucked up. What a fucking specimen I am!
So, excited at me showing an interest, she pulled out her phone and logged into this website, Infinidelity.com it was called, and she told me how people in relationships could register with the site to find singles to have sex with, no strings attached. Then she smirked and said, "Unless you actually do want to be tied up."
I was disgusted, partly at the fact such a site existed and partly that someone I knew would even think of using it. But then, a couple of times a week, she'd show me the guys that matched with her profile. Some of them were really cute. I asked her if she wasn't worried that John would find out somehow.
"No," she told me. "The members who are in relationships have private profiles and they only reveal them to singles if they want to follow up on a match. So, if a single guy says he wants to meet a tall, blue eyed blonde in her thirties within a 30 mile radius, I'll get a notification. I can check his profile and, if I'm interested, I can message him. Even if one of John's family or friends was on the site and turned out to be a match, I could just ignore them and they'd never know it was me."
By the middle of March, Sophia had fucked six different men and bragged about every one of them to me. She never mentioned it to anyone else in the office, though I think that a couple of the older women suspected something. One even took me to one side and suggested that I put a bit of distance between me and Sophia, but I ignored her. Clever, huh?
By the middle of April I was starting to be intrigued by the type of response I might get if I registered. It wasn't that I was unhappy with Pete, my husband. I just wondered... And, having read what I've just written, I realise that I've not only made it clear what a self obsessed bitch I was, it appears that I still am. Fuck! I started this story by writing about what happened last February and I've now got to April and this is the first mention of my poor husband. What. A. Bitch! I'll have to break off now. I can't see the keyboard well enough to go on...
It's okay. I've got a hold of myself now. It's just that I keep breaking down in tears when I think of Pete, our plans and what I've done to him. Pete was my husband. Tall, strong, intelligent, hard working, way better looking than he gave himself credit for and a wonderful lover. That's what's so fucking insane. If he'd been a dud in bed, perhaps, just perhaps, I'd have had some excuse: it would have been a shitty excuse, but I don't even have that.
He's 27 now. I didn't send him a birthday card this year. Partly because I don't know where he's living any more, though I could have posted one to his dad's home, but mainly because I know he'd have shredded it and probably posted the bits back to me to make the point. I'd have deserved it too. Anyway, how would I have signed it; "Love Tina"?
So, you've guessed it. By the middle of April, I've registered, paid the subscription and created a profile; 'Little Miss Annie', from Annabelle, my middle name. Mum was not happy about that when she eventually found out from Pete. I think that her exact words were, "You fucking dared to use the name I gave you in memory of my mother to find fuck-buddies!?"