I'm a forty five year old construction manager for a restaurant chain. Needless to say I have spent a lot of time traveling over the course of my 22 year marriage. I know that my wife has had affairs. I caught her once when I came home early and she also later confided two other affairs to me. I didn't leave her, figuring it was a price of my job. My wife is very attractive and has always attracted looks from other men. Over the years of traveling and eating most of my meals in restaurants I have put on some extra weight, and I never really had the kind of looks that brought women running to me. In fact until the story that I'm about to relate to you that happened tonight, I had never been with another women since our marriage.
I had arrived at my destination in Georgia on Sunday afternoon. I would be there for a week, supervising construction of a new building. After watching the football game in my room I felt like a beer so I headed off to the hotel restaurant and bar. It was surprisingly empty for a Sunday evening during football season. I was the only one at the bar as I drank my beer and watched the recap of that days football games on the TV. It was shaping up to be another fun filled lonely week on the road.
After about thirty minutes a lady came to the bar and sat about two stools away from me. She ordered a draft and sat there looking at nothing really. She looked to be in her mid thirties, not gorgeous by any means, but somewhat attractive. She had shoulder length black hair and just a little bit of a tummy. After a few minutes we started some typical small talk. She was also in town on business, but only for two days. She too was a regular business traveler and we started exchanging war stories about our travels.
We talked for about an hour and we had moved to a table to have dinner. As we finished dinner she asked if I minded a personal question. She wanted to know how my wife dealt with my traveling so much. Her travels were beginning to have an effect on her marriage. Her husband had an affair and she didn't know how to deal with it. I told her about my wife's infidelities and that I figured that it was a price I paid for my job.
She seemed surprised when I told her that I had never been with anyone else other than my wife, even after her affair. I told her about my insecurities over being overweight and that while I considered an affair, it never happened. It turns out that she had married her high school sweetheart. It was a typical jock marrying the cheerleader story. Fifteen years of marriage and her job caused her husband to begin to look elsewhere. Like me, she had not been with anybody other than her husband.
