"Judy kept silent as I continued: "One more thing I should mention, Judy. What if I had sex with someone else and I fell in love with her? What about ...ur relationship after that? What about our marriage Judy, our kids, our family? Don't they count? No, Judy, the risk would just be too great. What about you, Judy? What if let's say you had sex with this Adonis that you said this instructor is. He is way more handsome and muscular than me. What if you had sex with him? Would you want anything to. As far as I was concerned, Joan had already crossed the line. But I was determined to make her back down and drew a new line in the sand that she wouldn't dare cross."Well, it looks to me like you're ready to, uh, what did we call it when we were kids? Cop a feel! Get to second base!" I stated crudely.That snapped Joan out of her pleasurable trance, and her eyes popped open with a questioning, almost pleading stare."What do you think, Joan; think Dave wants to cop a feel?" I asked, sensing. The tabletop surface consisted of wide pine planking sanded to a silky smooth sheen and then coated with dozens of layers of polyurethane.I took a good hard look around as we descended the stairs. Designed to appear humble, at least from a distance, the cabin functioned as a state of the art survival factory with enough solar capacity on the roof to meet the needs of several large households. All the lighting in the cabin utilized LED bulbs. The thousands of icicle lights deployed around the. And you failed. You failed miserably. I’m sorry if I have hurt you. But did you really think I would drop everything and leave with you? Did you really think that?” His wife and mother-in-law abandon him. His heart is broken. A realization slaps him abruptly in the face: he is alone and unloved. Wallowing in sadness, he shoots himself in the heart, a proclamation of the emotional pain he had endured when his mother-in-law, the woman he’d fallen madly in love with, seduced and then left him..