My Husband’s Friend Cheated On His Wife—And It Affected Our Marriage

We as a society tend to oversimplify the male psyche and assume that men don’t get wrapped up in complicated feelings as women do.

This is not so. Men can be complicated humans, too. They feel things. They have emotions swirling around in their brains, even if many of them are hesitant to show them.

My husband recently made a friend — a guy friend — and he was pretty stoked about it. He doesn’t have very many male friends in general, and this new friendship was something he felt optimistic about.

Unfortunately, the honeymoon period of this new male bond didn’t last very long.

Soon after my husband had befriended this new male companion, he found out that he had cheated on his wife. His wife was someone my husband had known for years.

This information was unexpected. However, when my husband confided the details surrounding this situation to me, I wasn’t that surprised.