Travelling Spouses

[Anonymous]

I am the traveling spouse and I’m the woman’s

Yes, I get horny. Healthy adults do. And I take the opportunity while in business trips to read spicy books uninterrupted, have long showers, and take care of my own needs in privacy and with no chance of being interrupted by kids or even spouse.

Healthy adults get horny. Emotionally healthy adults in healthy relationships don’t cheat.

[Anonymous]

My coworker and I always go out to dinner and drinks when on business travel. Lots of flirting and the tension between us is insane, but we never cross the line. I am sure his wife would not approve of our time together even though we never have sex.

[Anonymous]

I travelled for work M-F as a consultant for 10 years with a company with a very “work hard / play hard” frat boy culture. I was a woman in my 20s and most of the managers and senior execs were men.

On any team over 20-30 people, there was usually one guy that was known to be a flirt when drunk or to be “dating” junior women, clients, or in one case the girl from the Avis counter at the small airport we flew into every week. But for the most part, there wasn’t a ton of married men hooking up. The junior women were mostly drinking too much and hooking up with the junior men. What there was instead was a lot of middle aged dads who drank too much and acted like college bros. They always wanted to have team dinners at steak houses, do shots, stay out late, and act like idiots because presumably they had eat healthy and spend their weekends mowing the lawn and going to soccer games. As young single people we thought it was annoying because we wanted to rest and workout during the week so we could act a fool on the weekends. For 19/20 men, heavy drinking and regrettable dancing or karaoke - yes, sex with colleagues and clients - no.