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Friend's dh asked me to have a threesome with him and a mistress

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bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 05:12

Really need advice. About a month ago I had an email from my friend's husband, boldly asking me to have an S&M threesome with him and his mistress. He didn't come out with his identity at first... it was a series of emails from an anonymous address. (It was quite out of the blue and I let my dh read along from the start... didn't want it to become something between us, but definitely wanted to find out who was behind the emails!) The background is that this man and I were friends over ten years ago, and had a rather obvious mutual crush, but I was engaged and nothing came of it. I set him up with my wonderful friend, and they got married. It's really a strange twist of fate because, when my husband cheated a few years ago, this man's wife was one of a few confidants that I could count on. She is one of the most thoughtful, non-judgmental, kind people I know and was the perfect person to hold my hand through some gut-wrenching times. During those conversations she said she would forgive her husband if he cheated...she would not want to be divorced if the marriage could be saved. She helped me have the courage to work it out with my own husband, and we are doing well now. So now, I know this horrible thing. I told him his wife needs to know what he's up to, and that being honest with her would be the best thing he could do. He said he would talk to her. But it's been a month and I know she doesn't know. I'm racked with guilt because I've been through this in my own marriage. She deserves to know what's happening... it's her life, too. But he said he will talk to her and I don't want to insert myself if they can work it out on their own. What would you do??

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bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 14:22

Of course the whole thing is weird. But it's not my friend emailing. We are close and she would never play a game that that. If she got the email that I had gotten, she would have junked such a thing immediately. I just spoke to her this week. She's traveling and sounded light and happy. That's when my guilt really kicked in because I know he's home with the kids, and probably trying to figure out a way to see the mistress. It's awful.

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bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 14:24

I don't think she knows anything or that that have any kind of arrangement. I do know she'd been suspicious of a friendship he has with a female coworker. That could be the OW. Anyway, it's not my business now beyond the fact that I need to tell her. I just don't know if I should go to him first with some kind of ultimatum. That seems like the thing to do but I am also wary of engaging him now.

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Ratfinkandbobo · 18/04/2015 14:48

ThePinkOcelot agree with you

Sgtmajormummy · 18/04/2015 14:50

Hmmm? Which one is the "block and ignore" person?
A. A lovely supportive friend with a scumbag husband.
B. Your partner in life who you've decided is a keeper in spite of everything.
C. A fetishist who knows you had a crush on him and is offering you a minor role in a threesome which is aimed at humiliating your respective partners (yours already knows and his presumably suspects).

Or are you writing the 51st Shade of Nonsense?

bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 14:59

It's too bizarre to ask anyone about in RL so I thought mumsnet would be a good place. Not AIBU but Relationships. Thought I might get a bit more support and real advice than all this. It's not as if I have betrayed anyone or had an affair. I made a mistake in replying to an email like that but my friend's h is to blame for putting me in this position.

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blueberrypie0112 · 18/04/2015 15:09

weird. Did this guy truly think you would not tell his wife? After knowing that you too are friends?

AndThus · 18/04/2015 15:13

Are we being asked to review the first draft of your novel OP? I mean, 'tis fiction no?

AndThus · 18/04/2015 15:14

Dead sexy though Wink

RL20 · 18/04/2015 15:18

What have you ended up deciding, OP?

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 18/04/2015 15:34

So you were okay with carrying on by email knowing he was married, but only got stressed over continuing when you found out he was friend's dh?

Pffffffft. You're all a hamburger short of a happy meal. Hmm

ImperialBlether · 18/04/2015 15:41

This isn't just a threesome. This is an S&M threesome.

Isn't that an advert for M&S? Grin

ToYouToMe · 18/04/2015 15:53

Can't believe anyone is taking this seriously

MyArksNotReady · 18/04/2015 16:13

Imperial Grin

Lacoba66 · 18/04/2015 16:54

Imperialblether
"This isn't just a threesome. This is an S&M threesome.

Isn't that an advert for M&S? grin"

They might even get a 'Dine in for two, for a tenner' (obviously someone goes hungry Wink.

ImperialBlether · 18/04/2015 17:06

That's for the voyeur, Lacoba - they can just watch!

Or three for the price of two - or in other words, BOGOF.

blueberrypie0112 · 18/04/2015 17:35

Why not? I didn't think it was a joke when afriend of mine ' s husband asked her other friend if they could do threesome. Of course, my friend knew and agreed along with it (I think they all had a conversation that brought them to this idea)

Sadly my friend ended up divorcing him because he was falling in love with her other friend. .....but even their relationship didn't work out.

Lumobile · 18/04/2015 17:37

This isn't just a threesome. This is an S&M threesome.

Isn't that an advert for M&S? grin

Yes, Imperial. It was the M&S/S&M thing that just popped into my bleary Saturday morning head when I was reading first thing Grin

ImperialBlether · 18/04/2015 17:39

This could be enough for M&S to start a whole new range in gimp masks!

BolshierAyraStark · 18/04/2015 20:18

Fuck me, how weird would you have to be to email the friend of your wife & ask her for a S&M threesome...? Hmm
Possibly as weird as the recipient that found it flattering & a turn on?

hereandtherex · 18/04/2015 20:28

Most non-judgmental person you know?

I bet she'll be very judgmental when she here's this.

I'm a bit confused how you get sent an email like this. Never happened to me. Do you sent signals out by walking around in leather stockings or something. It just seems an extraordinary thing to be asked.

ThenThereWereEight · 18/04/2015 20:35

There are some strange people ont t'internetHmm

FeijoaSundae · 18/04/2015 20:48

Most men hoping to change their arm for some illicit fun with a married person they actually know, would just send an anonymous email suggesting a bog standard hook-up.

But not this guy. Not only does he not settle for that, but he throws in a mistress, turns it into a threesome, and an S&M threesome, at that. All the bells and whistles.

In hindsight and for future plot lines he probably would've stood more chance of a positive reception, if he'd scaled it back slightly to perhaps 'just' the threesome.

bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 21:17

I honestly didn't expect to have to defend myself so much. I'm no freak, and I don't believe I give out any crazy signals. Professional, middle-class, Boden wearing :) lady. Open-minded, definitely, but a good mom and faithful wife. I met this guy at time in my life when I was young and free in many respects but also quite studious and serious about my career...like many people are in their early to mid 20s. The guy that sent the email is quiet, a bit nerdy, very successful professional. After I found out who he was and told him to talk to his wife, he poured his heart about about having just started to discover himself sexually, blah blah. He said he had nobody to talk to about this stuff... and I made it clear his wife was my confidant, not him. And that he needed to talk to his wife.

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bonnieparker · 18/04/2015 21:22

Just because this hasn't happened to you either infidelity or having someone proposition you like this (which I agree is really strange) doesn't mean that I'm a bad person to have had the misfortune for it to happen to me. I think this guy is having a mid-life crisis and has pretty much lost touch with reality. It's like he's on some ego trip now? Though I almost wonder if he WANTS to get caught somehow. Why in the world you would approach your wife's friend is beyond me, unless you somehow want it to come out. Right?

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FenellaFellorick · 18/04/2015 21:33

Either that or you are absolutely convinced she'll be up for it.

Don't envy you the difficult conversation with your friend, hope you are able to be as supportive as possible.

Will you be showing her the emails?