0 comments/ 107408 views/ 24 favorites Suspicion and Paranoia By: Agena I want to thank crisscross2037 for her assistance in writing this story. Her inputs were invaluable. * I'll admit it, I'm just as addicted to cheating wife stories as the rest of you so it comes as no surprise that I sometimes apply my demented paranoia to my own wife and her activities. I'll bet you do the same even if you've been married awhile as I have. We all know there are times in both the husband and wife's married life that they entertain thoughts about trying someone else for sex. I mean its just natural. The thing is that more and more of us are trying it and its making the PIs and Radio Shack rich and I guess I'm no exception as far as electronic gadgets are concerned. I've got a box of stuff in the basement that I keep on hand and use it once in awhile just to keep an eye on what my wife is doing when I'm not around. After 22 years I hadn't picked up on anything suspicious but I still did random checks just to verify her fidelity. It was two weeks ago I picked up something on our hard-line phone that told me our marriage was in trouble. She was talking to her best friend, Joyce: "Hi, what's going on today?" I heard Joyce ask. "Just the usual, laundry, vacuuming and then I have a showing this afternoon." I should explain my wife works part time in a realtor's office and Joyce is a friend from the real estate office where she works. Joyce is about ten years younger than Linda. "How did it go last night?" "Great!" I heard my wife respond enthusiastically. She'd gone to a Tupperware party the night before. Anyway, that's what she'd told me. "Was he good?" HE? Were there guys selling Tupperware now? Was the economy that bad? "Hmmm!! It was everything I was hoping for." "I told you how great a little loving on the side will spice up you life .Are you going to do it again?" What the hell??!! "I think so. Actually, I'm pretty sure we will. He asked me to call when we could get together again." "When is that going to be?" This was becoming bad, real bad.. "Jim is out of town on business next week. I think I'll set something up with him for then." Now I wasn't just concerned, I was getting mad. I'm Jim. "What if Jim finds out?" "I don't want to think about that, but I just hope he doesn't." "Well, watch yourself girl. If my Bill ever finds out about my little affair I'd be out the door pretty quick." "Jim knows I love him and he loves me so I would hope he'd be a little compassionate and forgive me for a little indiscretion. After all, we've been married over 22 years and I'm sure he won't want to lose me now. He hasn't been able to get hard for three months and I just needed a good romp with a hard cock for a change. Jim's tongue is nice but its not filling if you know what I mean." A little indiscretion, SHIT!! While they were talking my breathing was increasing and I could feel my blood pressure starting to soar. I could feel a rage building inside me as they continued to talk. She knew that I was working with a specialist to overcome my impotency. I'll admit her body didn't excite me anymore then mine probably did to her, and that didn't help. The sagging belly, the stretch marks and the sagging boobs didn't do it for me now. Two kids and age will do that for a woman. I could recall that when we first got married she had a real hot body and I couldn't get enough of her, but now it didn't turn me on. It was no excuse though dammit. She's supposed to be faithful and wait until I was back ready for action again or at least talk to me about it. I tried not to think about it but the thought came anyway that her body is the result of giving me two wonderful kids and I should feel grateful to her, but her infidelity drove the thought away. Besides, didn't the stories tell me that I should dump her ass. I listened some more to the recorder as they continued their conversation. "I know what you mean. The secret to keep your husband from finding out though is to keep everything normal between you and make sure you cover your tracks." Joyce told her. "If you think he's beginning to suspect stop any further activity outside your marriage and be his sweet, loving wife for awhile. Its worked for me for the last five years and I plan to continue till I'm too old for that kind of loving." So Joyce was the one to get Linda, my wife, started on this. I'm sure her husband, Bill, will be interested in hearing this recording. Bill traveled a lot for his job and that gave Joyce a lot of time to play around I guess. I wondered if Bill read any of those cheating wife stories. Linda was saying, "I was a little nervous when I got home after doing it but Jim didn't seem to notice. Your right though, I have to act normal at all times. I don't want to do anything to make him suspect something is going on. Anyway, I've got to go now and get some work done before the showing. My ever loving husband is taking me out to dinner tonight to celebrate a promotion he just got so I need to get moving." "OK, keep me posted on your new love life and remember what I told you." "I will, bye." The call had been made a couple of days ago. I remember going out for our celebration dinner then. I just didn't know what all we'd been celebrating. She'd obviously been celebrating making me a cuckold. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Our kids are gone and we live in our "empty nest" supposedly enjoying our freedom without the responsibilities of parenthood. I'd been in love with Linda for close to twenty five years and we'd suffered through childbirth, raising kids, financial difficulties and the stresses associated with those issues. I'd never been unfaithful to her and I didn't think she'd been unfaithful to me before this. I knew I wasn't any great Lothario. Hell, I was way overweight at 240 pounds for my 5' 8" frame, balding, out of shape and at 46 not the same guy I was when I got married at 24 by a long shot. I was taking pills for high blood pressure and cholesterol. Hell, let's face it; I was a fat, ugly slob and no woman in her right mind would find me attractive. The specialist that was treating my impotency told me that losing weight and toning up my body would go a long way toward solving my problem and restoring some virility. Unbeknown to Linda, I'd started to go to a gym an hour a day and had started on a mild exercise program. I worked as a property assessor so I had time in my day to get in the exercise as I worked on a commission basis. I'd also started to reduce my food portion size and initiated a better selection of foods. I had wanted to surprise Linda with a new me but maybe the new me wouldn't be for Linda. I was certain I would continue the program no matter what happened in my marriage. My next wife might benefit from my efforts. The specialist had also suggested that rather than trying to lose a lot of weight in crash diet that I should just try to lose just a couple of pounds or so a week. Doing that, he told me, would allow me to establish new eating habits that I could follow the rest of my life and there would be less chance to 'fall of the wagon' later. He told me that too many people went into a crash diet and lost a lot of weight in a hurry but they soon returned to their old eating habits and put the weight back on again. So I was going at it slowly, but had lost about five pounds so far in the last two weeks that wasn't noticeable yet. My initial goal was to lose fifty pounds and it would take about six months to do it. I figured it would probably be another month before my efforts started to be noticeable, but now I had my doubts that Linda would realize the benefits of my efforts. Maybe she didn't care anymore. The specialist and I had discussed my taking Viagra or a similar medication to overcome my impotency but he wanted to try to assess the results of weight lose and exercise first before resorting to medication. With my weight, age and lack of condition he thought it might put too much strain on my heart. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What to do now? She has obviously cuckolded me and plans to do it again so a confrontation is in order. How? Where? When? I must decide. Should I read a few stories with a similar situation and see how they handled it? Some of my favorite authors usually took a middle road approach depending how flagrant the cheating was. Maybe I should look at a similar approach. Of course there are those that go for a 'kick to the curb' approach for the smallest infraction of the marriage vows. I'd better consider what the best approach for me would be. When I confront her I expect her response will be "It was just sex and I still love you." However, she has disrespected me and our marriage by breaking our wedding vows. A marriage is a contract and she has broken it. Do I consider myself still married? These are issues that are brought up in all the stories I've read and I guess they apply in my case. I have lots of precedence for action based on those stories but what is the best for me? I'd have to play it by ear. I had the recording that documented her infidelity but I didn't think it would be enough in a divorce case if I wanted to pursue adultery as the cause. Next week I was supposed to go on a trip to a seminar for a couple of days and I knew from her telephone call with Joyce that she was going to get back together with her lover while I was gone. There was no doubt that it might be the perfect time to get the proof I needed but it would be better if she did it in our home where I had access. I would have to trust to luck that she did it there. I thought the chances were good because the cost of motels in our area were pretty high and the back seat of a car wasn't too comfortable. The next day was Friday and first thing I did when I got to my office was cancel my trip to the seminar and reserved a room in a local motel, starting Monday, where I would be staying instead of traveling. I wasn't worrying about the cost. I also made an appointment with our lawyer for that afternoon to discuss my options and responsibilities in the event of a divorce. The conversation with my lawyer was as I expected about a divorce. We live in a no-fault state and she would get 50% of our assets and I would have to pay her some alimony as I made more than she did but it was probably worth it to get rid of her cheating ass. Being self-employed I didn't have a retirement plan but I put money in my IRA which she would share. Proof of her adultery wouldn't help much in the divorce court, but I would know for sure she was cuckolding me and maybe get a little revenge that way. A lot of the guys in the stories put pictures of their wives doing it with other guys on the internet. I liked that idea. I went back to my office and finished the day trying to work but it was hard to focus on what I was doing. I'd just received a promotion to senior appraiser and I'd been moved from the bull pen into my own office so I spent some time getting settled. I left work at my usual time and headed home. Linda wasn't there but she'd left a note saying she had a showing and would be home by 6:00. I had an hour or so to wait so I made myself a scotch and water and sat in my favored Lazy-Boy. It gave me time to think as I sipped the whisky. I thought about our 22 years together; having and bringing up our kids and the ups and downs of or marriage. It brought a tear to my eyes as I recalled the high lights of our relationship. The intimacies, the joys and the sorrows. Our two kids were out on their own now. What are they going to say about a divorce. It will probably be hard on them because even after you're on your own you always keep your parents in your mind as a security blanket. I'll have to make sure they understand that even though we're not together we'll still be there for them. I suddenly realized I'd finished my drink but instead of getting another as I usually did I got up and carried the glass out to the kitchen. It was part of my new program to promote my physical well-being. Just then I heard the garage door open and a moment later Linda came in. "Hi," she said as she greeted me with a kiss on the cheek. "Been home long?" "Maybe an hour. Ready to go to dinner now or do you need to change?" We usually went out to dinner on Friday evenings. "No, I'm ready now. I just have to pee and I'll be right with you. We're meeting Joyce and Bill at the restaurant" she told me as she went down the hall to the bathroom. Great! I thought. Now I'm going to have to eat withe two cheating sluts and another cuckold. Well, it'll probably be the last one I have to share with them, but I'll make sure Bill knows he's the other cuckold before this is over. Maybe he already knows and he gets his jollies that way. You never know. Our dinner was a relatively quiet affair; at least where Bill and I were concerned. Linda and Joyce kept up a steady chatter. I'll bet they were dying to talk about their affairs I thought. I'll have to check my recorder when I get home to see if there's anything new going on. After the meal Linda was worried that I hadn't eaten all the food on my plate. I told her I wasn't that hungry and she just looked at me funny and then went back to talking with Joyce. When we got home Linda said she was tired and wanted to go to bed so she took off for the bedroom while I went into my den and shut the door. I pulled up the recording of phone calls for the last few days and listened. There wasn't much of interest until this morning and Linda was talking with Joyce again. Joyce started out. "Hi, can you talk?" Oh yes, he's gone to his office and I don't expect him home till his regular time. Anyway, I've got another showing later this afternoon." "I've been dying to know, what do you have set up while Jim is out of town?" "He's coming over Tuesday afternoon and we'll have the whole day and maybe all night to get together." "Oh, you are a real slut girl, I'm jealous." Joyce laughed. "How about yourself?" Linda asked. "Thursday is girls night out remember. Don't expect me to be there , but cover for me as usual." Linda laughed. "You're calling me a slut?" "OK, OK. When can we go out together for dinner sometime?" Joyce asked, changing the subject. "How about meeting us a Mel's tonight. We usually go there on Fridays." "Sounds good. We'll see you there at 6:30." "OK, gotta run, bye." So there it was. She was going to continue her affair big time when I was supposed to be gone. I guess I'd better start getting ready Sunday for my supposed trip.. Hope I can control my temper over the weekend and act normal. I wondered how she was contacting her lover if she wasn't using the phone. She may have been using her cell phone which I wouldn't necessarily have access to if she was talking away from the house. By now I'd placed a few mini-mikes around inside to listen and a few mini-cams that were motion or sound activated to record activities. I even put a recorder in her car and hid one in the lining of her purse. She wasn't going to be doing much without me knowing about it. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The weekend was uneventful and I just tried to stay away from Linda as much as I could so I wouldn't be tempted to say something. Sunday afternoon I started to pack in anticipation of my supposed trip but I was really packing for a stay at the motel for a couple of days. She wanted a little sex on Sunday evening but I pleaded a headache and Monday morning I was up early and gone before she woke up. I'd taken our digital camera with me and made sure I had an extra memory card and the batteries were charged before I left. After getting to work I thought about going ahead and cancelling credit cards, shifting money around and changing my will and stuff but I decided to wait and see if she were going to back out of the rendezvous with her lover. There was still a chance that she would have moment of conscience and cancel. If she did there was a chance our marriage might survive. So I spent the morning working and then at noon I went over to the motel, checked in and had lunch. I returned to work in the afternoon. I'd instructed the secretary that if anyone called for me to tell them I was out of town at a seminar and that included my wife. She was a savvy old girl and just looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. I canceled my exercise for that day as I didn't want to be spotted by too many people in town. I went back into work again on Tuesday morning deciding to forget exercise again and then went to an early lunch. I told the secretary I'd be gone the rest of the day and probably Wednesday too. After lunch I went to a rental car place nearby and picked out a plain sedan then headed over to our home. Parking down the street I tried to look inconspicuous as I sat watching our house. At 12:50 I saw our garage door go up and stay open, then at 1:05 a car pulled into our driveway and pulled right into our garage. The door closed quickly behind it. The game is on I thought as I waited another half hour before making my move. Taking the camera I got out of the car and walked up the street to our house. Entering the side gate I went to the back patio door and carefully looked inside. I didn't see any activity inside within my sight within my sight so I carefully unlocked the door and quietly slid it open and listened. Hearing nothing I slipped inside and headed back to the bedrooms. As I got near our bedroom I heard the murmuring of voices. Knowing what I was going to find I cautiously peered around the around the corner and saw my wife with her plump thighs wrapped around a large, hairy ass that was pounding a long meaty cock in and out of her cunt. I immediately started taking pictures. My wife happened to be facing the door with her eyes closed and didn't see me or hear the soft clicks of the camera due to the moaning and gasping she was doing. Within a few minutes I had all the pictures I needed so I slipped back out of the house. As I regained the side walk in front of the house I spotted our next door neighbor pruning some bushes in front of his home. Suddenly, I had an idea and went to talk with him. He's a cop and knowing he works shift work I assumed he was home between shifts. "Hey, Harry, got a minute?" "Sure, what do you need Jim?" "I'd like you to look at something with me and let me know what you think." "OK," he told me as he lay down his pruning shears and followed me to our front door. I decided that my wife and her lover wouldn't hear the door opening in the back bedroom, but I opened carefully anyway. Putting my finger to my lips I cautioned him to be quiet and motioned him to follow me. The hall carpet muffled our approach and I stopped at the doorway to our bedroom and silently gestured him to look. What he saw was Linda sucking the cock of her lover as he lay back on the bed with his eyes closed; obviously in ecstacy as she suckled him. Harry was shocked at what he saw as I began taking another series of photos then hollered out. "OK, its over, GET OUT!!" The guys eyes popped open and looked at us as Linda started screaming. "Oh my god!! Oh my god!!. No! No!" He was a big guy, very muscle bound, and I was glad Harry was there as he pushed Linda aside and started to get off the bed and come toward us. Harry calmly reached into his back pocket and pulled out wallet to flip it open and show the badge. The guy immediately stopped heading our way and began gathering his clothes and dressing with slow deliberation. In the mean time Linda had covered herself with the sheet and was sobbing quietly. When her lover finished dressing we stood back from the doorway as he left. After hearing the garage door open and his car leave I turned back to Linda. "Get dressed and come down stairs. We need to talk." Suspicion and Paranoia Harry patted me on the shoulder and finally spoke. "I'm sure sorry about this Jim. I'll let you talk to Linda by yourself. Let me know if I can help in any way." "Thanks Harry. I guess you can attest to the authenticity of my photographs can't you?" "I sure can. See you later." He told me as I followed him to the front door and he left. I heard the shower come on as I went and made myself a drink and sat down to wait for my wife. It was half an hour later that she came, hesitantly, down the stairs, sat in the chair opposite me and then sat staring at the floor. I watched her and waited. Finally: "I'm sorry, so very sorry." "I need some answers to some questions." "I know." She responded quietly with her head still down looking at the carpet. "I guess you're going to tell me you wanted the intercourse I couldn't give you." She didn't say anything but I saw her head nod slightly before she spoke. "I didn't want you to think that what you could give me wasn't enough. I love you with all my heart but visions of going through the rest of my life without sexual fulfillment was too much." "Many married couples exist without sex at all for various reasons. I don't accept that as an excuse. There were other reasons besides that and I think your friend Joyce is the instigating force behind your adultery. It was lust and the excitement of cuckolding me. " Her head jerked up when she heard me say Joyce's name and she stared at me wide-eyed. "You knew?" "Yes, I knew right after your first time. I've been waiting for you to repeat your treacherous behavior so I could catch you at it. It looks like I hit the jackpot." "Does that mean we're finished? Please don't say that. You don't know how sorry I am and we have 22 years invested in our marriage together." "I don't see any payback in the future for that investment now. Our kids are gone and we have nothing of value I can see in this marriage right now. I wouldn't be able to trust you and I'd always be wondering what you were doing if I weren't around. "What are you going to tell the kids?" "I'm going to tell them the truth and if they doubt me I'll show them the pictures I have." "Oh god, please don't do that." "They should know the truth so I don't end up the bad-guy in this. Now tell me who your lover is." He's my trainer at the gym I've been going to. His name is Kurt Benson. I wanted to make my body more appealing to you." . "Gym?" I've been going there about four weeks and I was hoping you would find me more attractive and maybe you could get hard again." I shook my head in disbelief. How would the husbands in the cheating wife stories handle this? They were telling me to throw the slut out but she was my wife and she'd made a mistake. God, she looked so contrite and unhappy. I was supposed to keep my wife through better or worse but she had broken her vow to forsake all others. I was confused as to what I should do as I continued to query her. "But you decided not to wait to see if you could get me hard again?" "I'm sorry, it was just that it had been so long and I was so horny and he was so flattering and wanting that it was just so easy gave in. It all seems so cheap and humiliating now. Please don't say we're through. I'd like to go to a marriage counselor and find out why I did what I did and what I have to do so I never do it again so you can regain your trust." "You hurt me very much you know. I thought we had a good marriage and I could count on your loyalty and faithfulness forever. This has really given my trust and love for you a shock and I don't know whether it can be overcome." "Jim, I'll do anything to keep us together. Please give us a chance to stay together." "I'm still mad at you and can't think about an us right now. I'm going to move out for awhile. Maybe a separation will give this situation a chance to cool down and we can have the time to determine what we want out of a marriage. I'm telling you right now that one of the primary things that I will insist on if we ever get back together is that you rid yourself of Joyce in every way. I won't want you to even think about her and I don't want you near any men again." "I understand." she whispered. With that I turned and went into our bedroom and began packing. Linda followed me, still crying, as I went about gathering my clothes and some other items I would need, including my laptop and printer. She continued to stand near the bed sobbing as I packed. When I finished I began by moving my suitcases down to the garage. Going down the street I moved the rental car into the driveway and packed it as she continued to watch me with tears running down her face. I refused to look at her as I pulled away and headed back to my motel room. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The next day I went over to the bank and took half the money out of our checking and savings and put it in a new account in my name only. I also rented another safe deposit box and put half our CDs in it from our joint box. That's the way the cuckolded husbands did it in the stories so I thought I should do it too. I left my will, investments and insurance alone for now until I saw how things were going to go in our marriage. I called my lawyer and told him about Linda's lover, Kurt, and he thought I might have a case against the gym for sexual harassment especially since I had pictures of the tryst. I told him to go ahead and pursue it and see if I couldn't punish them and Kurt financially for seducing my wife. On Thursday I called her office and found out she was out on a showing so I slipped back home and checked the phone messages. She'd been talking with Joyce again. "Hi, how did it go Tuesday?' Joyce was asking. "Bad, Jim showed up and caught me and him together in our bed." "Oh shit! What happened?" "He's left me and I don't know if he's coming back." Linda sobbed. "Damn! Did he say anything about me?" "I can't see or talk to you again. This will be our last conversation forever if I want a chance to get him back. Somehow he knew you were encouraging me to have an affair." "How the hell did he know that?" "I don't know, but he knew." "He must have your phone bugged. I'm hanging up now before he gets me in trouble with Bill. Have a good life Linda." They hung up and it gave me some satisfaction that Linda had broken her connection to Joyce. I would continue to monitor the situation to see if she kept away from her and also from Kurt and other men. She might suspect about the house phone being bugged but she didn't realize the extent of my monitoring activities and she might slip up. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I began a search for a furnished apartment that I could have on a month to month basis and found one on the other side of town near my work. I didn't want to even see Linda for a few months let alone talk to her. I was hoping a time apart would allow me to assess my marriage and relationship with Linda and allow her time to determine if she really wanted to stay married to me. It would give me time to read the stories for any guidance they could give me. After getting settled into my apartment I decided to do something about that slut, Joyce. I called Bill on the phone and asked him if he could come to my office as I had something for him. I figured my office would be more private than a restaurant (I often wondered why those authors scheduled confrontations and discussions regarding private matters in public places). He agreed to come over that afternoon and when he arrived he had a puzzled look on his face as we shook hands and he sat down as I closed the door then regained my seat at my desk. "What's up Jim? You sounded a little vague on the phone." "I guess I'd better start by telling you that Linda and I have separated." "Oh hell, that's too bad. What's the reason? Did she catch you doing something you shouldn't?" "No, I caught her with a lover." "Damn, that's a bummer. Are you going to divorce her?" "Its on my mind, but I'm going to think about it for awhile first. We've got 22 good years together that has to mean something." "How did you find out?" The conversation was getting to where I wanted it now. "I've always been a little paranoiac and I bug our phones once in awhile." "Was she talking to the guy?" This was it. We were almost there and I began to relish what I was going to reveal to him shortly. "No, she was talking you your wife, Joyce." "Joyce? You're kidding?" "No, do you want to listen to their conversation?" He hesitated for a moment but I knew I had him. "Yeah, sure. I don't know how Joyce got into this." "Just listen and you will find out." I started the recorder on my desk and we listened as Linda and Joyce repeated their conversation of only two weeks ago. When Joyce began to tell Linda about how to keep me from finding out about her affair I saw his face begin to get red. Then when she announced she'd been cuckolding Bill for five years he turned pale and I thought he was going to puke. "That bitch slut." He gasped out. "Damn her to hell. She just told me last week she was pregnant and I was going to be a daddy. What the hell do I do now? If I divorce her she'll probably get custody of my kid and I'll be paying child support and alimony." "I guess that depends on who the father of the child is." I told him. If she has the baby and you find out its not yours you can take her to the cleaners in a divorce action. You could probably get out of it scot free." "Damn!! That sounds good but am I going to have to live with the slut for the next seven months until I find out?" "Think about it now. This little telephone recording is not going to be sufficient proof of a wrong doing in court. However, if you wait and gather proof that can be authenticated you stand a better chance of getting yourself off the hook financially." "What do you mean 'authenticated'?" "Something that will stand up in court such as information and data from a bonded P.I. I took pictures of Linda's indiscretion in our bed and had a neighbor there to say he witnessed what was going on and could verify my pictures. If you can't get them verified you can always use them for revenge later by putting them on the internet." "OK, I get it. So how do I go about getting what I need?" "You're going to have to figure how you're going to get the goods on Joyce but you know from the recording she does it on Thursday nights while she's supposed to be on girl's night out. That should narrow down the field somewhat but I think Joyce will be laying low for awhile until she sees if there's going to be any fall-out from my catching Linda. I believe your wife was instrumental on Linda going astray and I've asked her to stay away from your wife if she ever wants to get back with me." "So that means if I want to catch her and get evidence of her adultery I'm going to have to live with her and pretend I don't know anything. I can't believe she's been doing it for five years and I never caught on. We've only been married twelve years." "I guess you never heard of the seven year itch." "I may have heard of it but never thought it would apply to me." "We're both learning something from all this and I want to make sure I never go through it again." "OK, I want to thank you for what you told me. I guess I could have gone on dumb and happy but I would sure like to know if its my kid she's going to be having. Now, I guess I'll go home tonight and try to act natural. If she's been putting on an act for five years I can put one on for seven months." We said our good byes, shook hands and he left shaking his head. I felt better knowing I'd put some screws into his slut wife. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For the next six months I continued to live alone and stayed away from Linda. I'd gotten a new cell phone number and had an unlisted number for the phone in the apartment. I did allow her to contact me by email if there was an emergency but she knew my desires that she not contact me even at work. I continued to make the mortgage payments on the house and paid for a maintenance including insurance. I had a vested interest in the house I didn't want to lose. I let her take care of the utilities. My idea was to let her stew and think about what we meant to each other while I tried to figure out what my position was going to be when I finally decided whether I wanted to continue our marriage or not. In the meantime I continued to monitor her activities but never caught her doing anything I could call indiscrete. She went out with her mother shopping once a week and continued to work part time at the realtor. I don't know what she told her mother about our separation. I talked with our kids and just told them her mother and I were having a problem and not to worry about it. Our daughter told me that Linda had told her that she had done something bad and was hoping I would forgive her. Our son didn't seem to be worried about it. I guess kids just think infidelity in a marriage is acceptable now. During our separation I kept going to work and included the gym in my daily activities as well as monitoring my calorie intake. Every month I had to take my business suits to the tailor to have them taken in and finally I had to buy mostly new clothing after five months when I got down to two hundred pounds. I was feeling a lot better and was able to back off on my blood pressure medication. The thing that I was really pleased about was that I was starting to wake up with a woody in the mornings and I was needing the five finger salute to relieve myself. The people at work were quite lavish in their praise of the new me but I was determined to gradually lose another twenty pounds before I eased off on my quest. Most of the people had surmised that my wife and I were separated and I was pretty sure a couple of the girls in the office were interested in me but I wasn't sure. It had been so long since I'd been attractive enough to warrant the interest of the opposite sex that I didn't know how to respond. I didn't hear much from Bill for awhile, but one day he called and asked if he could come over to my office and I set aside some time for him. When he got there we shook hands and I motioned him to a seat while I shut the door. He related that he had gone to the expense of hiring a P.I. and had finally gotten a report with pictures that documented her affair with a guy that was married and had two kids. It had been hard a first pretending to act normally around her but he felt that he should get an Oscar for his performance so far but now that he had conclusive proof of her infidelity he was proceeding immediately for a separation until the baby was born. His lawyer told him that he continued to live with her knowing she was fooling around it would look like he was accepting the fact of her cheating and the court could act accordingly. By separating and delaying the divorce until the birthing it would support his case for adultery very much if the baby wasn't his. I wished him luck and since I had in extra bedroom in my apartment I asked him if he wanted to move in and share the rental costs. He'd been living in a motel and was finding that expensive so he jumped on my offer. I gave him the address of my apartment and an extra key I carried and he was off to get packed and move. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Finally, I decided it was time to sit down with Linda and have a talk. Some of my rage had dissipated and I thought we'd both had enough time apart to determine whether we wanted a marriage. I called her at home one evening. "Hello." "Linda, its me. I think we need to get together for a talk." I heard her take a deep breath before responding. "Alright Jim, when do you want to do this?" "How about tomorrow evening at the house?" "Can you come for dinner?" "No, I think we just need to talk, coffee would be nice and I'll be there at seven." "Alright, I'll be waiting..... and Jim?" "Yes?" "I love you." "Thank you Linda. I'll see you tomorrow evening. Bye." "Bye Jim." Well, I had done it. I'd bitten the bullet and I was going to be talking to her after months apart. I wondered what she would say about the new me. Arriving at the house at seven I went up and rang the doorbell. When she came to the door she started to speak. "Jim, why did you ring........" She stopped and stared at me. Jim, is that you?" I couldn't speak for a moment. She had lost a lot of weight herself and she really looked great. She's dressed herself in hip hugging slacks and a blouse with a deep neckline. The slacks showed off her female hips and derriere and the blouse allowed her amplw cleavage to show. She was a different person than when I'd last seen her. "Linda, you're beautiful." I managed to gasp out. She blushed and smiled as she reached down and took my hand to pull me inside. "You're something of a hunk yourself. What happened?" "I guess we need to sit down and bring one another up to date." I said. Before sitting down she asked me if I would like the coffee now and I nodded as she turned and went into the kitchen. It brought back fond memories of when we were younger and were hot for one another to watch her hips sway in a most beguiling way as she moved. I was feeling a small tingling in my groin as I seated myself on the sofa and waited her return. I was beginning to think that maybe my libido was going to determine our upcoming negotiations. When she came back she had two mugs of black coffee, the way we both liked it and handed me one. Sitting at the other end of the sofa she took a sip of her coffee as I asked about her new body. "So, tell me about it. How did you the new you come about?" "I think I mentioned before we parted that I'd started going to a gym but I didn't get a chance to tell you I was also dieting. I've stuck with it and what you see is the result." "Let me tell you again, that you look wonderful." "Thank you, and let me tell you again that I really like the new you too. Tell me about it." "I guess my story is pretty much about the same as yours." Then I related to her what the specialist had me doing and I was planning to surprise her when I discovered her little affair. When I mentioned about her affair she suddenly looked stricken and very sad. "Can you ever forgive me Jim? I've cursed myself for all the time we've been apart for doing it and hurting you. I keep thinking all the things I could have done to solve our problem and I took the worst one just to please myself. It was such a self centered thing to do." "That's what we're here to talk about, Linda. What are we going to do? After the time we've been apart I've had time to think about it and I'm close to a decision, but I need you're input. Do you want us to continue and can I trust you in the future if we do? I am concerned about trust because I gather you really enjoyed yourself immensely with your lover." "Yes, I absolutely want us to continue." she responded decisively, "and as far as trust is concerned that is something I can swear I will never get involved with another man or woman as long as I live. I don't care whether we can have vaginal sex or not; you're too important to me to ever do that again. As far as liking it with Kurt I have to admit it was nice to feel something inside me again, but I can get just as much of a thrill with a dildo and it can never compare to doing it with someone I love." I just stared at her until I could come up with the words to respond. Before I could do that she continued with a hesitant smile on her face. I noticed she was leaning over toward me letting her blouse hang open allowing me to see her breasts. Damn, was she trying to seduce me? Suspicion and Paranoia "Speaking of dildos, you should know that I've found out they can fill the bill pretty good in spite of the fact I'm not doing it with the guy I love. I need you home my darling whether we can make love that way or not. I need you home and I'm so sorry and ashamed about what I did. You're the best thing that ever happened to me and I love you so much, I just can't lose you." she ended with her tear filled eyes looking earnestly at me. Now it was my turn to talk. "Linda, I've decided to come back home." Her smile brightened as I continued. However, I'm still a little mad and disappointed in you and need a little more space to see if I can get over what you did.. Its hard for me to get the sight of you and Kurt screwing and sucking him off out of my brain." "Oh Jim, that will be fine. Just having you back in the house will give me such hope that we can make it and I can show you how much I love you and forget those bad memories. I'm so happy you aren't leaving me. Besides," she said with a little grin, I want to see that buff body of yours again. Do you think it can do the job now?" "I believe it can do the job again and maybe I can get a chance to see that new body of yours too." I responded with a simulated leer. She giggled in response. So I moved back home that weekend. Bill was sad to see me go but he understood and wished me luck. Linda and I had some garbage to sort out in our marriage so I slept in the guest room a few nights, but she used her new body to get me back in bed with her and we coupled like a couple of twenty year olds. We began to go to the gym together after that and I guess we got back to a degree of normalcy that made living together tolerable. Of course, I didn't have the trust in her I had before and continued to monitor her activities quite a bit more than I used to do. I think she knew I was watching her closely because I never had reason to confront or doubt her again. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ About a month after Linda and I got back together Joyce had her baby and two weeks after that Bill filed for divorce. I got a call from him shortly after that asking if we could meet after work for a beer. He was waiting for me when I arrived at the bar. He had a beer waiting for me in a private corner booth. "How are you doing, Bill?" "Pretty good. Yourself?" "I'm doing well. I guess you know that Linda and I are back together." "Yes, and I guess you know that Joyce and I are split." "I heard that. So, how did it all turn out?" "Well, I waited until the slut had the baby and my lawyer got the court to get me a DNA sample which he turned over to a lab. For analysis. It turned out the kid wasn't mine and bingo, no child support and I got a 75%/25% split on our assets and minimal alimony. I made out like a bandit and I owe it all too you. If you hadn't alerted me to what was going on I'd be up shit's creek without a paddle. I owe you big time." "Hell, that's OK. I told you about it because I wanted revenge on your wife for jeopardizing my marriage. I was glad that you gave me that revenge. We're even." So my paranoia after reading the stories did pay off for me. I guess the old saying, "trust but verify" still holds true. So, you guys stay on your toes out there. THE END