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After my wife's 44th affair, my father was hit in a car accident. When I found the perpetrator, my wife emerged disheveled from the passenger seat.
I stayed by my father's side at the hospital, while she accompanied the perpetrator at the police station during questioning.
When I refused to settle, she grabbed her thermos and smashed it violently against my head.
"He's a lawyer. Do you want to ruin his entire career? What's wrong with you?"
I calmly wiped the blood from my head, watching her panicked face as realization dawned.
This wasn't her first affair, but it was the most serious one.
My mind flashed back to our fifth year of marriage, when she grinned at me and said:
"Don't you get bored sleeping with just one person for the rest of your life? To be fair, I won't care what you do either."
"I give them sex, but I give you love."
Later, I did as she wished and got together with the girl she herself had introduced to me.
Yet she ended up on her knees begging me to come home.

After the Wife's 44th Affair

Genevieve let out a soft sigh, "It's just to liven things up, it won't harm your body. I've asked about it."


"Besides, Fintan uses it often and he's never had any issues. He said that your hormones are out of whack because your physical needs aren't being met, that's why your emotions are so unstable."


I still looked at Genevieve in disbelief, "Do you really not care about my feelings at all? You wouldn't even bat an eye if I slept with other women?"


I tried to detect even the slightest change in her expression.


Genevieve placed her hand on my chest, her face beaming with a smile. Her eyes, brimming with intense love as she looked at me, seemed utterly ironic from my perspective.


"It's okay, honey. I told you, we have an open marriage. Everyone's just having fun. As long as we understand each other and we're still the ones we love most, it's fine. We'll always come back to our family in the end."


Chapter 5