Feel-good sex after bad news
My husband of 29 years had been dropping email hints for a couple years now he thought I deserved freedom from our somewhat-peculiar marriage. He was always on the road a lot for work, sometimes for weeks at a time. I was the work-from-home mom, raising the kids, taking them to hockey and suchlike.
Then he amped-up the hints just recently, culminating in a "property agreement settlement, pending divorce" which he had delivered to me by certified mail. I was floored - I had been all for trying to make the marriage work, seek counseliing for us, etc.
I found out HE was in the process of buying another house (credit reports can be a wonderful thing) - and wait, there was a vaguely familiar address showing up, too. Didn't we know a woman at that address? I quickly verified. YES. What else could I dig up about her?
At that point, it took a very, very short time to turn up online evidence my beloved husband had been living a double life for several years. Now it all made sense. I was devastated. I called up a friend, almost in shock. My son would be home from work in a few minutes, but the friend insisted on coming over the next day, as soon as my son left for work.
The weather was terrible that day - torrential rain and winds making the hour-plus drive far longer than it should have been. But I was so relieved to see Ian pull up and I opened the garage door to let him in, out of the rain.
We hadn't really seen too much of one another lately (Ian and myself) - neither of us cares for the office much, so we both work from home a lot, chatting on the phone or on Skype most days, as time permits. Ian is the same age as myself (early fifties) and is trapped in a sex-less marriage.
We hugged, we commiserated, we hugged some more and I laid out everything I knew. I really wasn't coping with this double life thing well at all. He had taken HER on all the exotice vacations I had always wanted to go on. He had claimed he was overseas when in fact he was a few towns over, with HER!