She called at night. I took the phone as if I was expecting the call. She told me that her husband had been unfaithful. Again? “When, how, why?” I asked.

I knew about the first time, a year or two ago. Now she told me that when she was pregnant, he took her to a swingers’ club. She didn’t like it, she told me. He did. She felt used. Then, when she gave birth and was feeling insecure about her own body and sex appeal, he began having another affair. He didn’t even hide it. Openly, at work, he'd touch "this other woman," although she would be present. They worked at the same place.