Rashmi was 40 years with a moderate figure. She was married for last 14 years and was more or less happy with her husband Dip, who is around 50. Their only son, Raj, who was then 13 years old was studying in a residential school.
Rashmi and Dip were both working in two separate companies. Though Dip was a good lover on bed, who could raise Rashmi to a new height in love making, he had sexual drive far below normal. Even immediately after their marriage, the couple never had sex on daily basis. Once in a while, he would make love to vigorously and then for about a week or more he would not ask for physical intimacy.
This frustrated Rashmi as during the initial years she used to long for crazy sex with her husband. But her cravings became lower as within a year she conceived and in the following year gave birth to their son. Slowly Rashmi adjusted herself to the low libido of her husband and intermittent sex they had. After all, whenever they made love, it was wild and vigorous even though sometimes it was after a gap of more than a month too. Though Dip avoided physical proximity, he used to take care of Rashmi in every other matter like a loving husband.
By the time their son was about two years old, Dip became completely cold about sexual matters just in contrast to his wife. Even though intermittently, Rashmi longed for sex with Dip, to be one with him physically and to enjoy vigorous love making sessions with him as the couple had in the past. However, Dip became so disinterested in sexual matter that it hurt the self-esteem of Rashmi to suggest or hint about her desire to be physically united with Dip.
There was no disruption in their relationship except that sex was totally absent. By the time Raj started going to school at 3+ years, both Dip and Rashmi became busy with their careers and bringing up their son. Rashmi too stopped bothering about lack of physical relation between the two of them because except on that count there was nothing to complaint against Dip. He performed his duties well as a responsible father and husband. He regularly kept in touch with his parents and in-laws. Except for the sexual relationship between two of them, he was so dutiful that Rashmi couldn't raise a finger against him.
When she was 38 yrs old, something unexpected shattered her world. The company in which she work had about 70+ staff of various categories. Rashmi was quite close to some of her colleagues, except a junior officer named Satpal, who was around 26 years when he had joined the company. Satpal was junior to Rashmi both in age and service. Though he was always jolly and full of humour, she didn't like him from the beginning due to his flirting nature. She found him to be of cowboy type, an easy go lucky attitude always distinguished him. He never knew to be serious and without bothering about the age of female employees, he flirted with all. Many of Rashmi's female colleagues liked Satpal and there were rumours about some even going to bed with him.
From the beginning, Rashmi never gave Satpal any chance to be closer to her. He tried to flirt with her also even though she was older than him by at least ten years. Finding rather cold treatment from her and finding that she was not charmed by his smart ways of impressing the opposite gender, Satpal avoided gossiping with Rashmi though he never spared a chance to flirt. However, the formal relation of Hi and halo was there as colleagues.
Three years back, during winter, office staff where Rashmi worked had a picnic. It was a office picnic and family members did not join it. Dip was at home. Much to Rashmi's dislike, she had to travel in the same car with Satpal.
Fortunately, Satpal did not start flirting and he looked quite serious. It was very unusual for his nature. After they travelled for about twenty minutes, Rashmi asked him the reason of his being in serious mood. He hesitated and then said, "I don't know if I should share this with you, you might take it otherwise."
"What is it?" Rashmi asked.
"Forgive me, if I'm outstepping my boundary..." Satpal paused few seconds and continued, "As I was coming to office, I decided to fill up the tank and was waiting in the fuel station near your house. As I was coming out of the fuel station, I saw your husband, Mr. Dip driving his car towards home..."
As he paused again, Rashmi asked, "So what?"
"Forgive me," said Satpal, "If I hurt you... there was an elderly lady beside him and the two were sitting very intimately..."
Rashmi smiled at him. It was a favourite trick of Satpal to tease lady colleagues by telling them fake news of having seen their husbands with some other lady. But that day his facial appearance was not in light and joking mood. As Rashmi examined his face to detect signs of mischievous joke, Satpal said in a seriously concerned voice, "This is not my usual method of teasing a lady. There was something between them that made me to inform you about it."
Rashmi didn't believe what Satpal said. It was too far fetched for Dip to have an extramarital affairs. Still she laughingly asked, "Can you describe the woman he had with him?"