A few months ago, a married lady of 34 visited me, telling me she’s feeling very guilty for concealing an important fact from her 38-year-old husband. They have been married for 4 years. Her husband a partner of a big company, asked her a year ago to accompany him to a dinner with two foreign executives who were seeking to buy one particular product from his company. For some reason, the two foreign executives thought that the woman (my patient) was an escort girl accompanying their host, and soon during the dinner the two started flirting openly with her, while at the same time talking about striking a very big deal with the company. At the end of the dinner, the two asked their host (the husband) if the woman could accompany and show them around the city at night, and he agreed, telling her in a language not understood by the guests that she should do her best to satisfy them, even if meant going “all the way.”
My patient had a rich history of indulging is sex during her premarital days, never committed to a person, sleeping effortlessly with her dates, and satisfying the two executives was not an issue to her, if her husband did not mind it. She ended sleeping with the two executives, and when she returned home, she did tell her husband that the two guys slept with her, but telling him she did not enjoy it at all, and did it for his sake, while in reality she enjoyed it immensely, reminding her of her premarital days. A big lucrative business deal was struck with her husband’s company the following day. A few months later, the same two executives visited them again, to strike another deal, and they asked her husband, if he can bring along with him “the same escort.”  Again, she slept with them enjoying the sex but telling her hubby that she did not and did it only for him.
Now guilt is seizing her. I asked if her husband wanted to know what took place between them, and he did not. Actually, he did not ask her any questions at all. It was clear he was not concerned that she slept with them, and it meant nothing to him, except for striking two lucrative deals. Her sex life with her hubby is good, and they are both satisfied sexually. I ended telling her, since she has not indulged in any extramarital sex at all, except for those two times, and at his encouragement, then she should drop the guilt feeling.