Confessions & Secrets

After a long relationship, I began seeing Noah, who was ten years younger than me. He introduced me to music I liked, suggested spontaneous late…

At twenty-four, I had been with Ryan for six years. We shared an apartment and talked about marriage. Then I found messages between him and Megan, a…

I stopped at a gas station I rarely use and saw my boyfriend’s mother kissing a man in her car. He was not her husband. She did not notice me, and I…

In my forties, after bereavement and a difficult earlier relationship, I reconnected with a man I had dated in college. Andrew lived in another state.…

She thought I wanted a relationship. I wanted someone to want me.

My husband and I had been married seven years. We had discussed sexual exploration, including encounters together and intimate messages with others.…

I was sitting in the lounge of a brothel, attempting to decide whether being there counted as cheating. It was an impressively narrow question from a…

After a long period of little sexual contact, a wife tells her husband he can sleep with other people. He loves her and misses their earlier intimacy.…

I had been with him for two years and was spending much of my time at his place while dealing with health problems. Then I walked in and found another…

After my wife’s affair came to light, our home became a place for difficult practical arrangements: collecting belongings, deciding when to meet, and…

We had been together three years, and I had thought our marriage was unusually easy to talk about. Three months into my pregnancy, I was still…

In December, I asked my wife about messages with another man. She said they had been chatting and admitted that some conversations were flirtatious.…