1 post tagged “infidelity”

After 16 years of marriage, I have made the decision to be unfaithful to my wife. Like pretty much anyone attempting pretty much anything in this day and age, my first step is to create a blog about it.  Maybe the blog will help me do it, maybe it will keep me from doing it, I don't know.  I'm hoping that if nothing else, it will keep me honest.

Honesty is a funny thing to promise after I have spent the day planning lies -- and lies about dishonesty at that.  I need, for obvious reasons and some others, to preserve my anonymity, and so anyone who reads this should be aware that I plan to change all of the details.  If I say, for example, "blue eyes, blonde hair", the girl was probably Chinese.  If I say it happened in Oslo, it was probably Cleveland, and vice versa.

But I will try to tell the truth about the important things.  A lot of this, perhaps most of this, is embarrassing, humiliating, but I am going to try to speak as unflinchingly honestly as I can.

Maybe you are offended by the fact of my infidelity to my (let me say this straight out) blameless and virtuous wife.  I cannot disagree with you much.  If this blog were being written by someone else and I were only reading it, I would have to hurrumph something along the lines of, "Sleezeball."  On the other hand, someone wrote "To understand is to forgive, even oneself."  That's probably way too optimistic, but I am going to give it a shot.