So, they have sex regularly and her husband hopes that she gets pregnant but she knew that nothing is going to happen before the first course of the medicine is complete i.e. before 1 years. I tried to console her that its alright and that its just a matter of 1 year and after that they’ll be able to have a child but she was upset and told me that this is all very emotionally taxing and that she is already 31 and after one year she’ll be 32 and with every passing year pregnancy becomes riskier both for the child and the mother.
After sometime, she started crying and as I too was very emotional at that time, I asked her “may I suggest you something if u don’t mind”. She said ‘yeah sure”. I told her that she can try having sex with some close friend of hers and can have his child if she so desperate and after one year if her husband recovers, plan your 2nd child with him. Initially, she was taken aback by the suggestion and said what are you saying ashu, this is not right and too risky. I suggested that she would have lots of male friends in Mumbai and she would be able to easily find a married guy who would be ready to help her. A married person would not share her secret with anybody. The idea put her to thinking and at that time I was genuinely advising her without any hidden motive. She discussed a few names with me but I, of course, was not aware of any of them so could not help her much and after some more brain storming she looked me into eyes and asked: “Wait a minute, I won’t be able to find a better guy than you Ashu”. Now, it was my turn to get shocked and I immediately said no, I won’t be able to do that.
Whatever may be my equation with my wife but I can’t cheat her, I never did. She said, “You are not cheating her, you are only helping your friend and if you feel that your wife would understand then you can tell her as well”. I told her that my wife will divorce me if she comes to know that I did anything like this. I tried to reason out with her that she should find someone in Mumbai as she might not be able to conceive the first time and she might have to try again. She said “if I find someone appt in Mumbai I’ll try again but since I am with you I would definitely want to give it a try with you. You are very nice person Ashu, you are intelligent, soft hearted and I would love to have your genes in my child. I can’t simply have a child with anybody.”. She was very serious about what she was saying and was in no mood to back down and told me that I was the one who suggested her this idea and now I am backing out myself and how do I expect anybody else to accept the same.
After lots of discussions, I agreed to the proposal but I told her that I am feeling very uncomfortable with the idea as I never had sex with anybody else except my wife and I was virgin at the time of my marriage and was never in a relationship. she said she’ll make me comfortable and that I should think that she is my wife and we are out one honeymoon. She said nobody knows here that you are not my husband and that we should start behaving like husband and wife here itself and by the time we’ll reach the hotel room we would have become comfortable with each other. The idea sounded logical to me but to get the confidence I ordered more drinks.