Guys. I am the wife in my home and I was the one who had an affair.

When I tell my husband I made a mistake, I am not dismissing my choices or decisions. I am owning them and recognizing they are wrong.

I am calling it a "mistake" rather than a "tragic romance" or some such. I am calling a spade a spade. And infidelity is indeed a mistake, a huge ugly mistake.

People do make them. I hope you find it in yourself to forgive your wives guys. If they say it's a mistake, it means they love you and want you to love them again.