It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It really was. Dickens said it best. Though I am sure he didn’t have this story in mind when he wrote that. So many girls, so many confusing moments and too much of a coward to say what really needed to be said at that point of my life.
I was young man back then. This is back in 93 it must have been. I was married. I had been married for about 4 years and I hated my life. I was Reserve Deputy Sheriff and worked part time security at the local mall. You had to be a real cop to work that security job so it was a blast. Great friends, amazing women in ever store. The temptations were all around me.
At first I had not given in to the temptations. I was married and though not happy, cheating, well, it wasn’t my thing. Though almost every other cop that worked with me had a girlfriend at the mall on the side. It was so easy to score but I never did. I knew my marriage needed work and so I worked at it. I worked hard at it. It just seemed that at the time my wife wasn’t.
My wife was book smart, she was a teacher and we had one kid together. What a great kid he was. And, still is actually. Now about ready to graduate from high school. How time flies. I had came out and told the wife that I wasn’t happy and that I felt things needed to change. Basically, I needed sex. We had it a lot before we got married and then we get married and almost overnight my lovely wife turned in to her mother. It was so stereotypical it wasn’t even funny.
Once my son was born the sex almost completely stopped. I tried so many times to tell her that we needed to spend some quality time together. She would cry and promise it would change. But, it never did. For years and years it was like that. So many times we would have this talk and the very same night we would head to bed and I make my move for sex and she wouldn’t be interested. I went to bed pissed off every night for years.
One spring day, I decided I wanted to go see a movie and have a nice dinner. I asked the wife if she was up for it. She again shot me down. It was at this point that something clicked in my mind. It was in that instance that she said no, that I stopped giving a shit about the relationship. I never tried again.
Later that day, at work at the mall, I was taking a break at the pizza place there. One of the girls who worked one of the amusement rides we had at either end of the mall. A little train that went around a large track on one side and Ferris wheel at the other side. She asked if she could sit down with me, I said sure, thinking nothing of it.
We get to talking, I never said much to her before, she was younger than me by a few years, I was 23 at the time. She was younger, in college. So cute, amazing smile. We laughed and talked and she confessed that she had a crush on me. How cool was that?! I told her right up front. “Look, I am married; I am going through a bad time right now. But, there’s a theater at the mall, if you want to catch a movie after work, I am all for it.” This is how it started.
We saw a few movies over the next few days and before I knew it were having great sex. Constantly having sex. This girl, really seemed to like me. She wanted to have sex; she wanted it as much as I did. I was amazed. I had thought it was me. The wife had really messed with my head. Over the next few months we did it all the time. We had sex about every time we saw each other. At the mall, during work, after work, before work. We got along really well too. We talked about stuff and it was pretty damn cool.
It was at this time, a buddy of mine brought a girlfriend of his with him down to the mall to meet me. I had realized that the girl I was seeing was a little too young for me. She was in college, but she graduated early. I didn’t know that. I couldn’t stay in the relationship so I had been backing out if it. She was really hurt but understood.
In comes Laura. Now Laura isn’t her real name but for the purpose of this story, that name works fine. Laura was the most sexy, beautiful women I had ever known. She was 19, so amazingly hot. I mean she wasn’t perfect looking but she just reeked of sexy appeal. We didn’t really hit it off that well, but for some reason she decided to go out with me. After a few dates, we were in love. It happened that fast. I would tell her everything. For months it was great.
My life at home sucked but I found time to sneak away to see Laura all the time. I felt guilty at home at but I had tried. My wife never put in the effort. She had been suspecting that I was cheating, and it wasn’t until a neighbor saw me and Laura out in public that it all turned to shit. My neighbor went to my house and told my wife. I couldn’t believe it. I came home to all my shit on the front steps.
I grabbed my stuff and walked in. I wasn’t about to go get a room or stay with a friend. This was my house; I am not getting kicked out of my own house. We talked all night. But, I denied everything. I didn’t think I would. I was going to admit to it all. But, I didn’t. For some reason, seeing her crying, I lost all my strength and I became a coward. I lied to her.
Let me take this moment to say that if you’re cheating, you’re a coward. I will go on to explain why later.
Things didn’t get better with the wife but I was staying in my house and she once again had said that she would try. She never did. But, whatever, I wasn’t about to stop seeing Laura anyways.
Over the next year or so I was getting pressure nonstop from Laura to leave my wife. I would tell her things, like “It’s not that easy.” “We have kids, I can’t leave just yet.” There were so many excuses. So many reasons why, but not one of them really mattered. A man would have left. A real man would have moved out. I didn’t.
At one point, I was having so much fun fucking everyone I could. Laura and I were serious but as long the options were on the table I was gonna hit every hot women that said yes. My best and worst day came when the young girl I had been seeing first wanted to talk. I went over to her house. We made love on the living room floor of her parent’s house. It was amazing sex! I went home and took a shower. I get a call from Laura, she wanted to see me. I head over to her house. We made love on her couch. It was incredible. It was sex like you see in movies. All that passion, everything happened so flawlessly. I leave because now I have to go to work. I run home and shower again.
After work a few of us head down to a local cop bar. We have fun, and I meet this amazingly beautiful blonde lady. She was so fine. She was older than me, I guessed maybe 35 or 36. Tall, tan, perfect sized tits and amazing face, absolutely perfect. We keep talking and this bar is about to close and everyone wants to go to Denny’s. She rides with me, on the way there she gives me a hummer. It was fantastic. I told her I was about to cum. I’m a nice guy. I give the ladies the heads up when I am about to blow my load. No surprises for them. I know, I am a gentleman.
We have fun at Denny’s and from their head back to her place. She’s married but her husband is out of town. We fuck like mad but I cum real quick. But so did she. She was a moaner. I mean from the moment I slid it inside her, she starts to moan. That honest moan. It was so intense. We did it like three times, each time she came before I did and I came fast each time.
Now it’s like 4 am. I have to get home so I can take a shower and get an hour of sleep before I have to get up and head back to work. As I arrive home, I jump in the shower. I get out and crawl in to bed. To my surprise, my wife is in the mood. Now, it had been nearly a year since we had sex. Now she wants it. I am so damn tired, but, I can’t help myself. We have sex. In one day, I did 4 different women.
The next day, I was amazed. It dawned on me what I had done. 4 girls, one day, I was king stud of the world!
Eventually, the wife and I split. I broke her heart. I broke my heart. That one time, we had sex. She wasn’t on the pill. She tells me a few months later that she’s pregnant. I never felt more trapped in my life. I couldn’t leave now. I had to stay. But, it was bad. Finally she kicked me out again when my daughter was just over year old. I never realized how bad I would miss the kids.
I got my own apartment and soon Laura had moved in with me. There were no other girls. I loved Laura, she loved me. But damn if I didn’t miss the shit out of my kids. I kept hearing voiced telling me to stay married, cheat forever so you can keep your kids. I really considered that. I almost went that route. The wife and I hooked up once after the split and had sex. It was really good, she seemed to actually like. I came over to her apartment a few times a week for a month or two. We had only had sex that once as I recall. I had told Laura I was going to see the kids. That was true, but there was more to it and I was too much of a coward to tell Laura the confusion I had felt. I didn’t want to scare her away. I didn’t want to lose her. But, I wasn’t ready to give up my kids.
As it turns out, I didn’t have a choice. I had to stay with Laura, it’s what I wanted I loved her. But, in the process, I hurt Laura when she found out that I had slept with the ex-wife. I had hurt the wife again when she thought we were getting back together and really were not. I couldn’t have handled the situation any worse than I did.
All the excuses I had to stay married. For the kids, it’s the worse excuse of them all. Staying in a bad marriage does nothing for the kids. The kids may not understand that mom and dad are staying together for them. They just think this is the way it is supposed to be. They grow up to do the same things you do. It’s a never ending cycle and it has to stop. So I can say with confidence, if you’re cheating right now and don’t want to stop. You need to get divorced or separate. You are eventually gonna get caught and you’re gonna break her heart. Be a man, or be woman and break up. Take some time off and get your shit together. And, if you have kids, it’s even more important that you break up.
Laura was heartbroken when she discovered that I had cheated on her with the ex-wife. I had hurt the two women I loved the most and I had hurt my kids by not being there. I fucked up pretty damn good.
Laura at one point, in tears, told me that she hopes I know what it’s like to one day have the person you love, betray you. Laura and I had stayed together for total time of almost three years. We were engaged when the break up finally happened. After I lost her. I went through the worst pain of my life as far as relationships go. I wasn’t seeing my kids anymore because I was a loser and the ex said it was best that I stay away so I did. I missed my kids and it hurt a lot. But, the pain of losing Laura, well that would just pretty much make me numb all the time.
I started drinking after work. Never became an alcoholic or anything though I would spend every waking minute that I wasn’t at work, at the bar. I would be there from open to close. Never wanting to go home because I knew as I got home alone, I would curl up in bed and start to cry from missing my Laura and missing my kids. No matter what I did I was fucked and it was all my doing.
Since then I have had only a few serious relations ships. Oddly enough, all of them have been with married women. I have never again cheated. I could never do that again. I have been tested a few times, I just can’t do it. However, seeking the comfort of a married women, as long as you don’t fall in love with her, is a good place to be. You get to have sex a few times a month and then go about your business. No questions, do what you want, it’s actually great.
However, if you fall in love with them as I did, twice. You’re heading for heartbreak. The first girl was married to a Mexican christian dude who was a real fuckwad. This guy treated her like shit, she wouldn’t leave. She finally does leave him after more than a year of me being the shoulder for her to cry on, she calls me up one day and say’s she can’t see me anymore. She’s got all this new found freedom and it’s only fair that she explores it. I had been there, I understood, but it still hurt.
A few years later I start dating a girl at the supermarket. She’s married, to a born again Mexican dude. He’s treating her like shit. Driving her to drink. For a while it was good though. She worked a block away. She would come over day she worked and blow me. I didn’t ask for it, she just loved it. How could I complain? But, also, how can you not fall in love with that. We both eventually exchanged the I love you’s. She denied that she could ever leave him. I knew that it was just a matter of time.
We were in love, she would talk of moving in with me, she would clean my house every time she came over, she said my place just felt like home. We kissed and talked a lot. A very intimate relationship. I had fallen so hard for her. I was amazed and never thought I would feel that way about someone again. We went through so much. Her husband even raped her. She cried on my shoulder. We were so close, no secrets.
But, she was drinking a lot. One night she shows up at my place completely wasted. She’s mumbling then falls asleep on the floor in front of the TV. I cover her with a blanket and watch over her from my desk in the corner of the room. She wakes up briefly about an hour later. Still out of it. But, she mumbles, I kissed the tattoo guy. Then she falls back asleep.
She had been getting tattoos, I am not a big fan of them and she was going through a rough time and this was not the time to be getting inked up. But, she kept getting little ones here and there. But, when she said she kissed the tattoo it all made sense to me now. She had been seeing someone else. So she’s married, seeing me, seeing the tattoo guy and going home to hubby at the end of the day.
Later she wakes up and confesses all to me. I ask her to leave and not to call me again unless she is ready to commit to me. She calls me constantly. Not wanting to commit. Just wanting to come over and have sex. At first I said no. But, then a few weeks go by with no sex and you really start to miss those blowjobs. I let her come over. She’s still saying she loves me. She’s not talking about the tattoo guy but I don’t ask questions. It’s just good to spend time with her. I try not to think about other men she may be seeing. And, when her amazing lips are wrapped around my throbbing cock, well, it’s easy to not think about anything at all.
Eventually I start to think all of our time spent together means something; she still says she loves me. I had started saying it back. And then I find out she never stopped seeing the other dude. I couldn’t believe it. I had trusted her again. Something had clicked in me like it did way back on that fateful day when my wife refused to go out to dinner and movie that last time.
Whatever it was that clicked, I just knew, I would never fall in love again. Not, that I wasn’t going to let myself, but rather, because something in me died. Whatever that love gene is, it was gone. This was now 5 or 6 years ago. I haven’t had a serious relationship since then. Though I am still seeing a married chick. But, this time it’s safe. We went to high school together and had thing just after high school. She’s great and I like her a lot. But, we don’t see each other that much. Maybe once a month. Maybe more, sometimes less.
But, it’s a good thing. Neither of us are capable of any more than what we have to give each other. I don’t think either wants more from the other. Or maybe we do, but both have been hurt enough to know not to ask for it. Because honestly, I don’t think I could keep a straight face if a girl ever told me she loved me again. Seriously, after the past 11 years, it would seem that Laura’s curse is still in effect. Any time I get close to someone, she will eventually cheat on me. She will hurt me somehow.
I don’t complain about it. I was coward back then. I hurt a lot of women back in the day and well, to be honest. I know I don’t deserve to find or have true love. And, as much as I would like to have someone to share my life with, being alone is pretty cool. I do what I when I want. I want to leave for Laughlin for the weekend. I do it! I want to go for a drive for hours and hours just because I got a new Dean Koontz book on CD and want to listen to it. I start the car and go. Too much freedom to give up. But, in the end, it’s safer this way. Sure I miss the intimacy but it’s just not worth the pain of the loss. I am hard guy to love. It’s better this way. It’s not great. But, it could be a whole lot worse. So, I will sit here and live with this curse I earned probably till the day I die. I deserve much worse for the coward I once was.
Sometimes we learn valuable lessons in life at just the right time. Sometimes, we learn them a day too late and the damage is done.