“Can I tell you something weird?” Frank begins. He shuffles a little on his chair. “Well, I don’t really know how to say this, but my wife… you know, Angela… is having an affair …” He coughs nervously a few times as he says this. Then he seems relieved that the word is out. I try to gauge how he is doing, given that his wife is seeing someone else. After all, Frank does not make a gloomy impression, nor does he seem angry. “Okay, and how do you feel about that?” I ask probingly.
“Well, so that’s the weird thing…” Frank coughs again and then starts his story. “I actually think it’s kind of exciting. Because you know, Angela is several years younger then I am and has always looked up to me. She’s mostly very sweet and caring, but this… this affair, is something very new for her.”
I nod understandingly. “It’s a side of her you didn’t know yet,” I add. “Yes!” He immediately agrees. “A side that I actually find very exciting.” His deep exhale is followed by a short silence. “I know, it’s really quite strange, isn’t it?” Now he is the one looking at me appraisingly.
“You know Frank, I don’t find things strange very quickly. But tell me, how did you find out she was having an affair and does Angela know by now that you know?” He shares how he saw a suggestive text message while his wife was showering. How he decided not to say anything about it because he didn’t know anything for sure at the time. In the following weeks, he secretly monitored her cell phone and a very exciting story began to unfold, in which his wife played the lead role. To his surprise, he noticed that it really turned him on.
