I want to be perfectly clear: I love my wife.

We’ve been married for more than ten years and have a beautiful child. We have many common interests, and she’s my best friend — but our love life isn’t what it used to be because she’s lost interest in sex. She tearfully told me one night that she’d understand if I needed to divorce her, but I wanted no such thing.

Then a few days later, she told me that she had been thinking and said if I wanted to have affairs it was okay with her — with one exception. “Please don’t go to prostitutes,” she begged me.

She had gotten the idea from talking to her friends, who had told her that they’d had fantasies about having no-strings-attached sex with married men, and that a guy with my looks and... Read More