Unfidelity

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Pregnancy is a sensitive time.

A couple can fall even more deeply in love during the experience and yet there are factors that often come between the two people. There can be a profound closeness as well as an intense loneliness. Mistakes can be made in the spaces, those absences. Painful. Mistakes.

Today, I’m here to confess and let you in. I made a mistake.

And beyond all that, beyond all the apologies and regret I could regale you with, there is only one thing you need to know: Enjoyment in the moment isn’t always enjoyment in the long run.

I had an impulse and I made the wrong choice.

Some have said that to err is to be human. They may have been talking about the spouse or significant other of a pregnant woman. I have erred. For the past month I was intimate while my wife wasn’t around. You may have seen her post on Instagram. It’s all true.

I stole her pregnancy pillow.

And we slept together. Intimate, snuggling relations. I know it’s not my pillow, and to be honest, I used to sleep with her last pregnancy pillowy friend back in 2009. I thought I had changed but I was overcome. We shared a closeness that my wife used to share with me. To make matters worse when Avara found out about my tryst with her pregnancy pillow, I really screwed up and asked about an open marriage with the pillow.

That was a bad idea.

I’m hoping that being this forthcoming about my mistakes with Avara’s pregnancy pillow will help others. Don’t steal your pregnant wive’s or girlfriend’s pregnancy pillow. Seriously. You’ll be in the dog house.

Don’t fall victim to the seductive powers of your partner’s pregnancy pillow. You may never live it down.

15 Comments

  • Rebecca says:

    My husband asked to steal my pregnancy pillow all the time! He knew better though 🙂

  • Jill C says:

    You could get your own pillow. They’re only about $10 or $15 bucks at Wal-mart.

  • Jo says:

    BUSTED!!! Dirty dawg! 😉

  • Steve says:

    You did a GREAT job at scaring us during the first few paragraphs…

  • MaryAnn says:

    Ha! BTW: I agree with Jill; why don’t you get your own pregnancy pillow? That way Avara doesn’t have to go without and you don’t have to feel guilt. 🙂

  • Ambershawn says:

    My husband STILL uses my pregnancy pillow, and our youngest child is now 3. It lives on his side of the bed, and it hasn’t been mine since about 10 days after our youngest was born.

  • Desiree says:

    I was all worried about the Facebook politics of being friends with both in a couple when one cheated… been there – it’s awful. And then I found out that it was with the pillow.

    Thankfully, I’m not friends with the pillow on Facebook. That would have made it even more awkward.

  • Kate says:

    My husband says terrible things about my pillow. Things like, “Stupid pillow”, “It takes up too much room”, “I hate this pillow”, and “I hate this stupid pillow, it takes up too much room.” Sometimes he throws it on the floor.

    And then he SLEEPS WITH MY PILLOW BEHIND MY BACK.

    I can’t trust either of them to be there for me any more.

  • Seth says:

    While I did not steal my wife’s pillow, our cat acted like he had gotten a new bed. I mean who wouldn’t want to be wrapped up in a warm cocoon?

  • Amy says:

    I always suspected there was something horribly wrong about you. Perv. #Confirmation

  • Morgan says:

    My husband had a deep hatred for my pregnancy pillow until he used it one night and then I had to get him his own so he would stop taking mine. Best decision ever. Haha

  • Tess says:

    As I type this, I am reclining on two pillows. One is a regular pillow, and the other is a folded pregnancy pillow.

    The same pregnancy pillow my mom used when she was pregnant with my brother 19 years ago. It looks its age, but somehow it became my security blanket-thing and I refuse to toss it.

    Recently, if the pillow is folded on the bed, my dog has taken to lying in the middle of it. Even if my head is on it.

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