It is Thursday night and the kids have finally gone to bed. I am sitting in front of the boob tube watching the Los Angeles Lakers in another losing effort. I never did like basketball but there was nothing else on. It was either the Lakers or Jerry Springer reruns. It was a tough choice but this time the Lakers had won out.
My name is Bob Amstrong. I'm 35 years old, married for 14 years, and have two great kids - Vicky 13, and Sandy, 12. My wife Susan is also 35. we live in Anytown, USA.
Susan is out tonight. She didn't tell me and I didn't push it, but I suspect she's out with her married boyfriend, Roy. She doesn't know that I know about Roy. She thinks she is clever but I can read her like a book.
About six months ago, the sex started dropping off. After ten years of marriage, it wasn't that frequent anyway; but now it was almost none existent. It was more than just the absence of sex. It was the body language, not wanting to be hugged; a warm kiss had been replaced by a peck on the check, if that. No matter what I did, I couldn't make her happy. In six months, she had become a stranger.
I wasn't stupid so it didn't take much to plant a couple of voice activated recorders in her car to find out she was having an affair with Roy, a married guy from her work.
I was at a loss in what to do. There was no doubt that she was in love with Roy and no longer had those feelings for me. I also realized that once you fall out of love, love doesn't come back. It was apparent that the only reason Susan had not filed for divorce was because Roy was married and obviously had not committed to leave his wife and kids to run off with her.
So here I am; stuck in a loveless marriage as a cuckold. The trouble is I love my two little girls very much and didn't want to become a weekend dad. If I exposed Roy to his wife, I am sure Susan would divorce me out of spite; and if Roy's wife divorced him, this would provide Susan and Roy and opportunity to hook up and go merrily on their way. If anything, I was a thorn in her side, forcing her to sneak around on me and on Roy's wife. It was not much of a consolation but, at least, it was something.
Watching the Lakers gave me time to reflect on the past and formulate a path for my future. After some thought I reached the conclusion that the affair with Roy would eventually peter out on its own merit. Susan would become disheartened when she finally realized that Roy would not divorce his wife and disrupt his family for a piece of ass that he already had become over-familiar with.
But that would again put me at a crossroads. Would Susan continue to look around to find another lover? She certainly had no love for me. I was merely a meal ticket for her. So I suspect it was just a matter of time before she found her next fuck buddy. However, if the next guy was single, she may be more eager to replace me on a permanent basis.
So here I sit watching my own personal crap shoot. My gut feeling was that this scenario was waiting to happen and she would probably have learned her lesson not to fuck married men if she was burned by Roy. Now, I had become tired of thinking about the various scenarios and decided to go to bed.
Later, I was awakened by the shower running. I looked at the clock; it was 1:30 in the morning. I figured Susan was washing Roy's cum out of her cunt. I rolled over to my side of the bed and went back to sleep. I never felt her get in bed.
At 5:00 AM my alarm clock went off. I got up and wandered to the kitchen to pour myself a cup of coffee. At 6:30 the kids' lunches had been made and they were up and dressed for school. They would catch the bus in ½ hour. Their mother was still asleep but the girls knew to wait out front for the bus at 7:00 AM. I kissed them, told them I love them, and headed out to the garage. I backed my car out of the garage and headed off to work.
My job kept my mind off my marital problems until lunch time. I needed to develop a path forward. I decided that until I could come up with something more concrete, I would do the following: 1) I would never have sex with Susan again; 2) I would be friendly and calm at all times no matter how much I wanted to strangle her; 3) I would spend my spare time with my girls developing the best relationship I could; and 4) I would never confront her about her fuck buddies.
I figured this course of action would not give her an excuse to instigate a divorce. If I could hang in there until the girls were a few years older, the effect of a divorce on the kids would not be as bad. I had to walk on egg shells.
For the next six months, things continued on an even keel. But then in June, something happened. Susan came home from work and had been crying. Her eyes were bloodshot. I knew something was wrong but I could not put my finger on it because she would not talk when I asked her if she was alright. All she did was rush into our bedroom and close the door. Tomorrow I would check the voice recorders to see if I could unravel the mystery.
Sue didn't go to work the next day and sure enough she had several phone conversations with her best friend Helen. I came home from work and we had dinner. The girls stayed up until about 9:00 PM. When the girls' bedtime came around, Susan decided to also call it a day and went to turn in. I waited for about ½ hour and then I pulled out the voice recorder and turned it on. It didn't take more than a few minutes to realize that Roy's wife had caught on and Roy told Susan he had to end their affair. He wasn't sure if his wife was going to divorce him but he could not risk meeting Susan again.
Susan had finally been dumped. Now, it was going to get interesting. What would she do? Would she find a replacement for Roy? Would he be married or single? Would she lay low for awhile? She told Helen that she honestly believed she had successfully pulled off her affair without being caught and felt sooo lucky.
I sat in the dark for awhile thinking how I should react. She was human and if she didn't find a replacement soon, she would want sex to fill a basic biological need. That would present a problem because I could no longer stand to touch her.
Susan remained in a depressed and quiet mood for another month. Slowly she started to come out of her cocoon. However, the girls and I basically went on with our lives and had built a family relationship around each other. Susan was no longer a necessary part of our circle.