Unintentional Affair

[Steppenwolf2814]

Basic premise:

Alice has been married to Charlie for a few years. A while back, she dated Bob for a couple of weeks, but they broke up mutually. Despite the break, they've managed to remain good friends (think Benson and Stabler from Law & Order: SVU). Charlie's not one of those "that guy blinked at my woman; I'm gonna kick his ass!" crazy-jealous types; he knows that they're friends, and is fine with it.

Anyway, Bob runs across Alice at some point, and she's obviously distraught. During their conversation, it turns out that she and Charlie had a very epic-scale blowup with each other. They're not splitting up; it was just a fight. Nevertheless, Bob is there for emotional support.

Bob offers to let her crash at his place for the evening, and they end up sleeping together. Neither of them intend for it to happen, but sometimes these things happen. (NOTE: I don't really have the details ironed out; but I know that Bob's not taking advantage of Alice).

A couple of notes:

* This isn't Alice's attempt at a Jealousy Plot to get her husband back; i.e., "If he sees me with another man, he'll admit his real feelings!"
* Bob and Alice both do feel regret about it later on. Perhaps Charlie finds out, and Bob allows him to get a free punch in, or whatever.

But I'm just spitballing here. Any other suggestions/variations?

[Reshbod]

The fight occurs on a Saturday morning. Alice, after the fight, puts on her running shoes and heads to the park to run off her frustration. Bob happens to be there and notices she is upset, so they end up walking and talking. Alice calms down a bit but is not ready to go home, so they go to Bob's house which is on the other side of the park.

He makes her breakfast and they continue to talk. They both regret what happened and avoid each other after.

Alice feels extremely guilty and tries to overcompensate to Charlie. Charlie notices that Alice is acting a little strangely and thinks it is because she and Bob haven't been hanging out anymore for some reason unknown to him. He runs into Bob and convinces him to stop by for dinner to surprise Alice.

They try to act normally but Charlie sees the awkwardness and excuses himself, maybe to go outside and have a cigar, so they can be alone for a moment.

Then it can go a few ways:
They can fall into each others arms and agree to see each other
They can agree it was a mistake and try to forget it happened

[Steppenwolf2814]

I think the second option is probably more likely. Though things were amazing between them the night before, I can't see Bob as the type to destroy a marriage just to get lucky (he ain't Barney Stinson).