Both around 45, good culture a comfortable social position, married. Estella with another man, Tom with another lady and both with children teenagers or so from their own parterns. They met around 18 years ago in the job place. After that their profesional lives divided them, but it did not prevent them that their relationship first just friendship was transformed in an intimate and intense different thing.
This relationship, that has accompanied Estella and Tom from their youth to their maturity, gets richer and richer, she says . They do not call each other frequently and their encounters are dosaged (a couple of times a month) and exclusively in a private place. These encounters are strong, rich of complicity, irony and excitement of the physical and intellectual pleasure. Simply irresistibly, without ever have pronounced the word "love". Even if in these years it has been a wandering for other people, they have always rediscover themselves again and wrap themselves up.
"You are not the only ones" poeple woud say, but their unity exist exactly because none of them want more than that. It was strange but Estella was so close to her husband, likewise Tom was so close to his own wife. And in the family they were involved with their children as well as their own partner's needs. Theirs were families turned out very well, like a good cake, that show up in the middle of thousand of failures.
"This is the point" would say Estella. "What are we? Are we two very fortunate people or simply free and easy?
Well, fortunate or free and easy both with a pair of partners blind and deaf or dictracted or indifferent. Both very