Affairs and Incomes - Zooted Edition

I was given a Tupperware of "special" choco chip cookies for a New Year's gift from a friend, so of course, my mind is in the cloud right now.

Someone posted something about incomes and affording affairs the other day. It had me thinking. I once had an AP who was a c-suite finance executive. I make a decent salary, but he was making like $400k/yr, something insane. It was interesting because he'd frequently talk about how easy it was for him to have affairs, how he could find people easily, spoil his APs, etc... even though I was always the one that provided the hotels (easier for me because of work travel, he had to go undetected). But he definitely didn't have the time or freedom for an affair. I'd question his availability, but he'd remind me about how much money he makes. Weird, right? It's not like he ever paid for anything.

His wife tracked (and checked) his location, she'd FaceTime him often and randomly, I remember she once called him for an hour conversation about how their cats balls never dropped. He worked from home and she was a SAHM, he couldn't leave the house for too long without good reason. He'd constantly ask me to book hotels that were close to him so he could drop by easily.

I ultimately ended it because the affair was not fulfilling for me. The lack of availability and freedom was something I couldn't work with. Not to mention, I didn't care to listen to how much money he made every few weeks - I think that gave me the ick. He tried to stop me by offering a 3-day vacation (he's always promised me overnights but never delivered) as well as a purse, but I declined.

My current AP and I don't really discuss incomes, but we do work in similar fields in a major city. So we have an idea, but don't care. Our agreement is that we try to split things equally. I miss him a lot right now, we were low contact for holidays, but hoping thing will go back to normal come Monday.

Anyways, cheers to leaving icky APs in the past.