I was in a brief sexual relationship with an older woman who is now my mother-in-law, about a year before I met my wife.

This is kind of a long story, and I've never told anyone about this.

I was single, 22 years old and on an online dating site for people looking to cheat on their spouses and met a beautiful, older 43-year-old married woman. She said she was on the site because her husband rarely wanted sex with her anymore and never gave her oral sex, which she really craved. She said it had been almost 20 years since he had gone down on her.

Our relationship lasted about 5-6 months and was strictly sexual. She said from the start that she had no intentions of leaving her husband. Even though he didn't meet her sexual needs, she still loved him and didn't intend to change her life with him. During our time together, she did mention having two adult children close to my age, and it was kind of weird for her at first having sex with someone young enough to be her own son. She never gave any details about her kids, and I never asked since it didn't really matter since we were never going to be anything more than sexual partners.

One day, when she came over for her regular sex fix, she broke the news to me that this would be the last time we see each other. Her husband had gotten very suspicious of her and had discovered our text messages on her phone, and she confessed to cheating on him. She said she promised him she would not do it anymore and would never cheat on him again. She said it must have awoken something in him, because they had the best sex with each other they had had in many years the next several nights in a row. She said she just had to come and see me one last time and let me know how much she appreciated what I had done for her the past few months and that it was the best sex in her life. The sex we had that last time was the most intimate we had. Every other time it had always felt like just sex with no real deeper connection. This time felt different. After we were done, we cuddled in bed with her head on my chest. She was crying and said how much she was going to miss this. I told her that if she ever changed her mind, that I was here for her. She told me she was pretty sure she would not change her mind. While it was the best time she had ever had and the most mind-blowing sex in her life, she had let herself go too far against who she was and the good, faithful wife she knows she should be for her husband. This phase of her life was over after that night, but she would never regret having this experience and was glad to have met such a wonderful, respectful man to have experienced it with.

Fast-forward about a year later, and I meet an amazing woman who is a year younger than me. After less than a month together, we both know that we are perfect for each other. We already know we are going to get married, even though we don't say it out loud yet. She said she was ready for me to meet her parents. She already told them that I was special and might just be "the one". We went to her parent's house and as soon as her mom opened the door, we locked eyes and both of us could not speak. My heart felt like it stopped for at least a couple of beats. Standing in front of me was the older woman that I had been fucking just a year before. I don't know how long we stood there without speaking, but my girlfriend, now my wife, finally broke what must have been an awkward silence, by introducing me to her mom. We quickly recovered, and she played it off by saying that she was sorry but for a moment I looked like someone she knew, but was mistaken, and it just threw her off.

We sat in the living room for a while talking. It was your standard questioning you normally get from the parents of the person you are dating, the first time you meet. After an hour or so, her mom says that she would like for me to join her out on the back porch to talk to ask some questions in private. She said if I am in fact as perfect as her daughter claimed, then she had some serious questions she wanted answers to. Her Dad asked if he should join us, and she said that wouldn't be necessary. My girlfriend jokingly asked her mom to please not scare me away. Everyone got a good chuckle out of that.

The walk to the back porch seemed like such a long walk. I was so nervous and worried that she was going to tell me that there was no fucking way she would ever allow me to date her daughter, much less ever marry her. We get outside, and she smiles at me and says, "It's really good to see you again. Small fucking world, huh?". I'm like yeah, tell me about it. What are the fucking odds that I would end up dating your daughter? She tells me that she is completely fine with this, and promises that she will never tell anyone about us, and that she needed me to promise to never tell her daughter. I of course agreed. She asked if I was truly in love with her. I said that I was and would never do or say anything to her that would hurt her in any way. Everything that happened between us was before I even knew her daughter. She said that her knowing would only hurt everyone's relationship with each other. She didn't ever need to know about it. It's not like anyone did anything deceitful, except her mom cheating on her husband, but she confessed that to her husband and they both had moved on from it. No need to reopen old wounds. We agreed to try and not let anything ever be awkward between us. She said that once we go back inside, that we would never discuss with each other what had happened ever again. What was in the past, no matter how good it was, was in the past. She said that she was actually happy for her daughter though. She knows I'm a good and caring man, because of how I had treated her. She has an advantage that most mothers don't get. She knows that she doesn't have to ever worry about if her daughter is getting her needs met in the bedroom. How many women ever get to have that much inside information about the man their daughter ends up with? She gave me her blessing on the spot, that if I ever wanted to marry her daughter, that I had her full approval.

When we left her parent's house, my girlfriend said it was kind of weird that her mom wanted to talk to me in private and wanted to know what we discussed. I just told her that all she really needed to know is that her mom loves her more than anything in the world and didn't want to see her get hurt. She was just really checking into me to determine what kind of person I was and to see what my true intentions were with her daughter.

I've been married to my wife for 10 years now and love her even more than I did the day we got married. Her mother has been the best mother-in-law I could have asked for. No nightmare mother-in-law stories here. LOL. We have kept our promise to never bring up what happened between us, although there have been a couple of awkward moments where things have happened that made us look and smile at each other knowingly.