I Shouldn't Have to Fight

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This is a short story of a couple that are having a conversation at home, a woman wrestling between her feelings for her husband and another man.

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I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FIGHT FOR YOU

"I shouldn't have to fight for you," I said in unbelief as my wife of 26 years was confessing her "love" or "feelings" for another man. That she was conflicted between her love for me and her paramour.

Cheryl and I have been married for 26 years, two children, three grandchildren, and now in one simple conversation she has effectively ended our marriage.

"I was under the belief I was able to stop fighting other men when we said our vows, you remember the phrase, forsaking all others.

"Have I had the chance over the last 26 years to break that vow? You bet I had the chance, but you were in my heart and being in my heart meant there was not room for another woman. Apparently, that isn't the same with you and thus the end of our marriage.

Cheryl looked aghast, "You are going to end our marriage because I have feelings for someone else and you won't even fight for our marriage? You are willing to destroy our family?

"Why should I fight for something that you refused to fight for Cheryl?"

"I'm fighting for it right now!" Cheryl proclaimed loudly.

"Yet you did not fight for it when a scum sucker was going after you or you wouldn't be telling me now that you have feelings for another guy. Did you fight for our marriage the first time he kissed you? The first time he held your hand. The first time he flirted inappropriately with a married woman.

"No, you did not.

"But you're not willing to fight for me now?" Cheryl asked.

"I have been fighting for you and my family for 26 years. I fought for you every day when I got up for work. I fought for you to keep food and clothing on you and the children. I fought for you to discipline my spending and make investments for a nice retirement for us. I fought for you when I was tired and stressed out from the pressure of all that but still, came home and helped with the dishes, cleaning and repairing the house, spending time with you and our children.

"What I didn't fight against was advances by other men towards you as I SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO." I said loudly.

"My duties were to protect and provide. Your duty as you wanted to be a stay-at-home mom was to make the house a home. To protect your heart from the advances of assholes that sought to destroy our home. Yes, he has destroyed our home.

Cheryl had tears streaming down her face now. "I thought I would mean more to you, that's why I wanted this conversation, to tell you I am wrestling with my love for you and him."

"That concisely is why we are no more, if you had guarded your heart, you wouldn't be wrestling with a love between your husband, the father of your children, and your asshole fuck toy.

I noticed after that statement she did not object to having him called a fuck toy.

"Where was this asshole in sickness and in health? Where was he in better and for worse?

"Isn't this the worse and you should be fighting for our marriage and family?" Chery said.

"You have already broken the vows and promises of our marriage when you gave him a home in your heart. When you spread your unfaithful legs for him, you were just doting the I.

Again, silence. "Que tacet consentire videtur" He who is silent is said to consent. This is a legal argument that consensus can be presumed until disagreement becomes evident. Cheryl was quiet each time I alluded to her unfaithfulness.

"Remember when we took the family to Yellowstone and we ran into that wolf on the trail. What did I do?"

"You got between the wolf and me holding our infant son.

"Yah, that was me fighting for you. I would have allowed that wolf to attack me if it meant you and Jason got away safe. That was me fighting for you and my family.

"Remember when we had that tight year at Christmas, we were overwhelmed with medical bills because of Stacy's operation. You suggested getting a job to help, what did I do?

"You actually got a second and third job to pay off the bills and allow us to have a nice Christmas," Cheryl said.

"Yah, that was me fighting for you."

"Remember when that drunk had you pinned against the wall when you came out of the restroom that New Year's Eve?"

"You about got arrested for assault, if it wasn't for the witnesses that said he started it and was trying to assault me."

"Again, that was me fighting for you and our family. At no time did my duties to fight for you ever extend to an affair you freely entered of your own accord.

"But you're willing to destr..."

I cut Cheryl off immediately, "I destroyed nothing Cheryl. I've been faithful and committed to you and our family. Do not give me that line out of the cheater's handbook. You failed to guard your heart, and, in that failure, you allowed a fox in the chicken coop. Thank God our children are adults and have their own families.

"I am sorry that in my effort to provide I became the boring husband to you, allowing a nefarious predator to gain your attention.

"I will be seeing a lawyer first thing Monday. This discussion is over, we can talk again with our lawyers.

I turned and walked out of the house as Cheryl sobbed uncontrollably.

What Cheryl incorrectly thought was that her husband would ride in like the knight in shining armor and help her sort out her feelings. What she did not know was that there are boundaries that one can cross that you can never get back to the course you started out on.

Later in life after the divorce, Cheryl realized that she did not have love for her paramour, it was lust. Any relationship built solely on lust will never last. Now she looks back longingly at her ex-husband and what she gave up.

He has moved on, remarried to a lovely woman that Cheryl, although she tried, could not dislike. She had two children and several grandchildren of her own, so when Jason and Stacy talked to her about their family gatherings she would hold off the tears until they were gone, knowing that could have been her there with them.

Once choices are made, whether right or wrong, we live with the consequences of those decisions.

Relationship expert Stephan Labossiere, "Some people don't realize what they have until it's gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back."

The End.