He Fucked the Friend and the Marriage in One Night

What to do when your partner breaks all the rules of the game?

Mary Carter
5 min readJust now

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I was at home, relaxing after a long day, when my phone rang. It was one of my best friends. As soon as I picked up, I knew something was wrong. Her voice was choked up.

“Hey, are you okay?” I asked, already feeling a tightness in my chest.

“No, nothing’s okay,” she replied, before bursting into tears.

Gradually, between sobs and broken words, she began to tell me what had happened. She and her husband had decided to try a threesome with a mutual friend. Up to that point, everything was fine.

After all, they’re both adults and have been married for three years. Who am I to judge other people’s sexual choices?

“Wait,” I interrupted. “You guys had talked about this before, right?”

“Yes, for some time now,” she confirmed. “We had set rules, talked about our boundaries. I thought we were on the same page.”

But they weren’t. Far from it.

As she told me the details of the night, my jaw kept dropping. Apparently, her husband had planned everything behind her back, exchanging messages with their friend for weeks. Worse yet, he had told the friend that his wife…

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Mary Carter

I share candid reflections on love, sex, and life's ups and downs, no holds barred and no taboos.