My Husband Had An Emotional Affair
They do exist.
It all started when my husband started suddenly receiving late night and early morning text messages. A lot of them. We’d be lying in bed together at night, and the phone on his nightstand would incessantly light up with notifications.
Bing! Bing! Bing!
“Who is that?” I asked.
“No one,” he answered.
It turned out to be the new wife of a friend of ours. A woman who had moved across the country away from all she knew and her entire support system to be with her new husband.
Only the newly blessed union didn’t seem to be working out as planned. He traveled for work and was away much of the time, leaving her isolated and lonely in an unfamiliar town.
In her own husband’s absence, she was now leaning on my husband for emotional support and comradery, sometimes venting to him about her marriage and sharing intimate details of her life and feelings, which always seemed to be caught up in a flux of one crisis or another.
My husband was all too happy for the opportunity to don his Superman cape. He easily slipped into the role of knight in shining armor for his newfound damsel in distress.
