Threes

I never thought my marriage to Josh would include his best friend too but it did. Even after so many years of being a couple, we've never gone once without Brad by our side. I've even grown to regard him as my other husband. When Josh goes away on business, it is Brad who looks after me and the kids. Brad was there when Amy was sick with the cold, he was there to watch Jake's first rugby match, he was even in the delivery room with us when the baby was born. We named him Brad Jr of course. It was always just the 3 of us. Brad, Josh and I.
You must wonder how the courtship went and if I ever cheated on Josh with Brad. Well, the courtship went very well and most of the time it was just Josh and I, Brad did have a life outside too, only he much prefered spending time with us. As for falling in love with Brad? That never happened, only because I knew he was too in love with Josh to ever fall in love with me, but I also knew that he cared too much about Josh and about me to ever try to change things the way they are. So that's the way it is, me, Josh and Brad, always.

So I guess you want to know if Josh feels the same way about Brad? Well, he does and he doesn't. He loves Brad very much, Brad is, afterall, Josh's best friend, but at the same time, Josh is afraid of his feelings for Brad. Josh chose to love me I guess to see if he could and finding that he could, he went on to believe it as true. I can hear your disapproval of me and my choices even as I tell you this, but it is the most wonderful relationship ever. I have times when I can just relax knowing that no matter what I will always have someone to watch out for me, and while other women worry about their husbands cheating on them with random strangers, I will always know where Josh is and with who. I have peace of mind that other women will never have and on top of that, I have the love of two very exceptional men who care about me and about each other. Should I not be grateful that Brad is willing to live in the shadows to allow Josh and I a respectable life of our own? Should I not be grateful that when Josh is called away for work, I will always have Brad to look after me and the children and see that I'm loved? No one will ever understand what it's like to love someone as much as Brad loves Josh or I love Josh or Josh loving the both of us. In fact, no one will ever understand how this works for us, but it just does and we're happy this way. This is our happily ever after, and when our children are old enough, we will try to explain it to them as well and hope that they will understand even when many others do not.