C-2322 Adultery, and Then… 003: Continuing Married Woman Affair Trip #179

In the case of Fumika, a married woman aged 33. It is her eighth year of marriage. A girl who had long been captivated by the beauty of wedding dresses naturally went on to work in the design and sales of wedding dresses after graduating from junior college. At age 25, she married a man two years older whom she had met through a friend’s introduction, and wore a carefully chosen in-house dress for the ceremony. With a kind husband who respected and prioritized her, and a fulfilling career, she was at the height of happiness… until trouble suddenly arose, and she set out on a journey… (Married Woman Affair Trip #179)

These past four months have been very long and painful…

They met again for the first time in four months at the place where they had parted before. The married woman, now noticeably thinner than before, began to talk about the hardships she had faced over the past few months. She said that she had spoken with her husband the night she returned from the trip, but… he told her there was no way to start over. Stunned by the shock, she could not accept the reality of divorce, and time alone kept passing. Unable even to resent the husband who no longer came home, she set out on a second journey, as if trying to escape the painful reality…