"We ended up sleeping together. When we sobered up, we both agreed it was a mistake. The trouble is that we've made more than a dozen "mistakes" in the year since she got married. She recently told me her husband revealed a fantasy of having a threesome with her and another woman, and asked if I would be OK with her suggesting to her husband that I join them. That would solve a lot of problems, but it would be kind of weird."
"But she's still using language to distance herself from the general way that we would describe these activities, which are enabling, cheating, and having an affair. Rich: Right, an affair seems like what it's become. It is absolutely cheating. Although, luckily, the friend has a husband who is not purely monogamous. Still, who knows what he would make of this situation?"
Two nights before a wedding, a narrator and a best friend had a drunken sexual encounter and later called it a "mistake." The pair continued sexual encounters more than a dozen times during the year after the friend married. The friend's husband revealed a fantasy for a threesome with another woman and asked whether the wife would propose the narrator join them. The narrator is weighing whether to accept the invitation despite moral and emotional complications. Commentators identify the ongoing sexual relationship as an affair and cheating, note the husband's apparent openness, and emphasize uncertain consequences.
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