Every Woman's Dream by Mary Monroe

Author:Mary Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Joan

2012

IT WAS HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT I WAS NOW THIRTY YEARS OLD. It was even harder for me to believe that I was still with Reed.

Even though I was still a young woman, I felt old. Life was passing me by and I didn’t like it. I was not going to wait too much longer before I did something about it. Years ago I had considered having an affair. But I’d put if off because I hadn’t been able to find the right man in the bars, parties, and other social gatherings I’d attended back then. I’d even flirted with a bank teller at Citibank until he invited me to have lunch with him. When I told him over Whoppers and fries in the Burger King across the street from the bank that I was married to a dentist, all he suddenly wanted to talk about was his financial problems. He was so brazen, he had the nerve to tell me he hoped I’d be able to help him out from time to time. “Just a few dollars now and then, baby.” I had no desire to be some broke-ass man’s sugar mama back then, or now. I started going to a different branch of Citibank to do our banking, but I kept looking for the right man.

A few days later, a handsome dude in a suit approached me on a busy street downtown. I told him I was married, but he still insisted on giving me his telephone number and told me he wanted to get to know me. When I called his number that night to see when he wanted to get together, a woman answered. Thinking she was his mother or some other female relative, I told her the reason for my call. She cut me off in the middle of a sentence, cussing and threatening to kill me if she ever caught me with her husband. I couldn’t get another word in edgewise, so I abruptly hung up.

After that fiasco with the lonely hearts club, I had no desire to get involved with another woman’s husband. I kept looking and it took a couple more months before I came across another man I liked enough to cheat on Reed with. He was the son of one of my stepfather’s friends. Before we could get together alone, I found out he was addicted to crack cocaine and had just come out of rehab for the second time in the same year. I wasted no time scratching him off my list.

I gave up on finding a lover and my life went on, more miserable than ever.

Despite everything I had, I was too unhappy for words. I was so bored and dissatisfied with Reed I wanted to scream. Our marriage had gradually become so stale, I could barely stand it. We hardly ever went out anymore, and some days we went for hours without speaking to one another. We had so little in common with each

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