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Chapter Seven -- "I slept with your mother."
"I slept with your mother," he said. "Trudy and I had sex. We had sex. We made love. I had sex with her and she had sex with me," he said while watching and waiting for her reaction to his words.
She looked at him as if he was speaking a foreign language. In the way she was looking at him and by evidence of her reaction to his words, definitely she didn't believe him.
"Ha! Ha! Very funny," she said looking down at her plate of food and paying more attention to her breakfast than to his confession.
When she didn't respond and when her only reaction to his confession was to blankly stare at him, feeling awkwardly uncomfortable as if he was unduly being mean to her, he continued. Not wanting to hurt his wife but just to play a joke on her, he backpedaled with an apology to his confession.
"I'm sorry. Really, I am. With one thing leading to another, it just happened," he said with an uncaring shrug of his broad shoulders. "We had sex. We made love. I stripped your mother naked," he said continuing forward instead of backpedaling while prodding her for more of a reaction to his confession of having sex with her mother.
Expecting the worst possible reaction to his sexual confession of infidelity with her mother, he prepared himself for her rage. She's been known to have a violent temper and to go off on even the littlest things. When she pulled her hands away from his to look at him with shocked surprise before her face surprisingly changed to show relaxed relief instead of rage he prepared himself for the worst. This was it. Finally, he was going to get the reaction he had be waiting to receive. Finally, he was going to get her with his April Fools' joke.
Tense before, as if he had just let the air out of her in the way of a balloon, she suddenly appeared so calm. He thought she'd be angry that he confessed to having sex with her mother. He didn't understand her relaxed reaction to his confession. Why would she be relieved that he had sex with her mother? Why would she look so calm? Why wouldn't she be angry? Of all the reactions he expected to receive, he never expected to receive a reaction without emotion.
"You did?" In the way that he was always trying to read her, she paused to look at him as if trying to read him. "Seriously? You slept with my Mom?"
She asked him with disbelief if he had slept with her Mom as if she was asking him if he had bought more hunting and fishing gear. She gave him a questioning look before looking at him with skepticism.
"I did," he said returning her look of disbelief with his look of seriousness. "Your mother and I had sex. We had sex."
She looked at him with shocked amazement.
"You did not," she said waving a hand of disbelief at him before looking at him with questioning eyes. "Did you really have sex with my mother?"
She stared at him in the way that he stared at her.
"I did. I had sex with your mother," he said nodding his head in the affirmative as if he needed to give her that extra bit of assurance for her to believe that he had sex with her mother.
She looked at him as if she was a cop or a lawyer trying to ascertain if her witness is lying or telling the truth.
"I don't believe you," she said still staring at him as if trying to read him again. She gave him a long, thoughtful look before asking him her question. "Did you really sleep with my Mom?"
Then, as if he had just tickled her instead of shocked her, she laughed. Of all of the possible reactions to him telling her that he had sex with her mother, he never expected her laughing to be one of them. Obviously she didn't believe that he had sex with her mother. His April Fools' joke was unraveling already. She remained silent to look at him as if waiting to see if he was joking or not. With both of them maintaining their silence, she stared at him in the way that he stared at her.
"I did have sex with your mother and I'm very, very sorry," he said nodding his head again. "I promise that it will never, ever happen again."
Only, as soon as he confessed that he had sex with her mother, especially after the sexual fantasy he had only a few hours ago of having sex with her mother, the thought of having sex with her mother sexually aroused him. Certainly, not that dumb of a man, had he really had sex with her mother, he'd never be confessing to his wife, of all people, that he had. Perhaps his confession is where's he's gone wrong with his April Fools' joke. Perhaps his confession is what tells her that he's joking. What husband would confess to his wife that he had sex with her mother? Yet, after he apologized to her and seemingly when she saw that he wasn't joking, obviously by the sorrowful and remorseful look he had on his face, she continued.
"I can't believe it," she said with a strange little laugh while shaking her head. "I can't believe you slept with my Mom." She suddenly and momentarily disappeared within herself before uttering her disbelief. "Wow. That's just so unbelievable. I can't believe you had sex with my mother."
Surprised by her calm demeanor, he was confused. Expecting so much more of a reaction from her, even a violent reaction from his wife, all that she uttered thus far was a laugh and an unexpected reaction of disbelief of 'Wow' to the confession he made of sleeping with her mother. Expecting her to be mad, instead of looking at him with anger and hatred, she looked at him with calm love and supportive understanding. She had such a strange reaction for her to have to his confession of having sex with her mother. What's wrong with this picture? Why isn't she mad?
Seemingly she looked at him with the enlightened sensitivity of a psychologist, a sex therapist, a philosopher with a Ph.D. in philosophy, or an oracle of human nature. Seemingly she looked at him as if she understood his sexual attraction to her mother and his need to have sex with her. An understatement, already with his April Fools' joke unexpectedly backfiring on him, he was surprised by her lack of a reaction to his confession of bedding her Mom.
Expecting her to go off the deep end, he expected her to be ape shit crazy. He expected her to be violently angry. He expected her to call her mother and to yell and scream at her in the way he thought she'd be yelling and screaming at him. Only, she didn't do any of that. She calmly ate her breakfast and drank her coffee.
Already scratching his head in perplexity, what wife would be as understanding when her husband confesses to having a sexual affair and had been cheating on her behind her back? What wife wouldn't feel betrayed enough to violently lash out at her betrayer? In the way she seemingly was now, what wife would understand her husband's need, want, and desire to have sex with her mother of all women? What wife would be as understanding as she seemingly was now after her husband confessed that he went to her mother for sex? What wife wouldn't be angry, hurt, and betrayed that her husband preferred having sex with her mother than with her? An odd conundrum, he waited while expecting more of a reaction from Gwen.
A reaction that he never expected her to have, her calm demeanor and relaxed reaction to him confessing that he had sex with her mother wasn't a normal reaction at all. With his sexual confession more believable that he had sex with her mother, her relaxed reaction to him confessing that he had sex with her mother wasn't believable at all. Sensing that there was something else wrong, he goaded her for more of a reaction while hoping to receive the information why she was so calm about him cheating on her with her mother.
In most marriages, a husband admitting to a sexual affair would be the end to a relationship. In most marriages, having sex with one's mother-in-law would be a big deal and a good reason for a wife to file for divorce. In most marriages a son-in-law having sex with his mother-in-law would be the tipping point and beyond marital reconciliation. In most marriages, the wife would take it personally that her husband would rather have sex with her mother than with her. Only as far as he could surmise, Gwen wasn't even mad that he confessed to having sex with her mother.
"What's not to believe? I had sex with your mother," he said this time with insensitivity and arrogance. "I did it. She did it. We did it," he said admitting his infidelity by verbally taking a giant leap over the line of family impropriety and sexual inappropriateness with his confession.
While still eating her breakfast and drinking her coffee, she stared at him in stunned silence.
"Sorry but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around you having sex with my Mom. I believe you if you say that you did but I just don't see that happening," she said. "Sorry," she apologize to him for not believing him.