Why I Cheated Despite Having a Perfect Marriage

Her husband asks one quiet question across the kitchen table: why. Twelve good years of marriage, and she has no answer that will satisfy him.

Cheating is choice

The hardest question my husband asked me was also the simplest.

“Why?”

He sat across from me at our kitchen table, his hands clasped so tightly that his knuckles had turned pale. The room where we had shared countless breakfasts, paid bills, and helped our children with homework suddenly felt unfamiliar.

I had expected anger. I had prepared myself for shouting, accusations, perhaps even the sound of a door slamming behind him. Instead, he asked that one quiet question.

Why?

There was no answer I could give that would make sense to him. There was no hidden problem in our marriage that I could point to. He had not ignored me, mistreated me, or made me feel unwanted. We had not spent years living like strangers beneath the same roof.

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Her husband asks one quiet question across the kitchen table: why. Twelve good years of marriage, and she has no answer that will satisfy him.

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