The long and short of it

Withing a week of writing my last post on this blog, I got an invitation on a social network site, which was to change the equation with my wife for ever.

She claimed to be 31, married, a mother of a three year old girl, educated and wealthy and asked to be contacted on email. My usual circumspection went out the window and I wrote to her and was promptly rewarded with a delectable photograph showing a decently dressed woman with just a whiff of cleavage showing. She invited me to chat on the messenger. We started chatting and then having regular cyber sex. I had no idea of what it was. But the lady initiated me into it. My wife was away. One thing led to another and we made love on the internet. We got really intimate and I started feeling guilty about keeping my wife in the dark.

I couldn't make up my mind whether this cyber sex was real or unreal. The lady said it was real for her. For me it was more of fantasy, but a very desirable and loveable one at that. For nearly 6 months this affair of sorts went on interspersed with cyber sex sessions at different times of the day, but mostly during office hours.

The whole affair went through tumultuous times. Every now or then the lady would get a bout of insecurity. She was afraid she might lose me. So she would accuse me of treating her as a a plaything and threaten to expose me to my wife. I had made the mistake of revealing my true identity to her. With threats of blackmail I would give in and we would be getting cosy soon as though nothing had happened. Invariably such bouts would occur soon after peak experiences.

I realised the lady was not in sound mental health. I thought of helping her regain her poise. But soon it was clear that this matter needed professional handling, much beyong empathy. I was not happy being subjected to threats over and over again. I introduced this matter sideways to my wife. She is a clever woman alright.

She figured out things from a few instances and I thought it better to confess to her and so told her bit by bit about our affair over the period of a week. What followed my disclosure was totally beyond my imagination! Truth is stranger than fiction.