Is it cheating if it involves time travel?

[Brandnewbuddy]

Woman finds out that her husband is sexually unfulfilled as of late when she checks his browsing history and finds he made an anonymous Reddit post comparing her to his first lover, an middle aged woman who taught him everything about sex.

Wife is distraught, especially seeing as husband was her first and he kept silent about any past lovers. Acting rashly, she changes her look, buys some lingerie and makes a reservation for a cabin in the woods, planning on showing her husband that she can be just as vivacious if not more so than their honeymoon. Of course, hubby has a business trip and doesn’t even stop by their home before going.

Wife heads off on the trip anyway, figuring she’ll get some alone time. The first night there’s a huge storm and she hears a knock on the door: it’s some guy who is heading back home from college and got really lost. Wife invites him inside and she’s amused by how he can’t keep his eyes from exploring all over her body. He’s also really cute…though he’s also a virgin as he reluctantly admits.

Stressed out over her husband and intrigued by this young man that is in utter awe of her, wife tells him to go take a shower and not worry about a change of clothes. As he showers, she slips on her lingerie and waits on the bed, ready to make him a man

…but wait, this seems oddly familiar. His car is an old model but it looks almost new. And his cellphone looks like 3G at best. His name was different but it could have been a lie or a nick name. Could it be?

So essentially wife is or at least thinks she is, about to seduce her husband’s past self. Is this a stable time loop (husband may have even known and reluctantly made the Reddit post so things would play out the same), or does wife try to change things so they go better next time (like tell him to be more communicative with what he wants or pass a message to her when they eventually meet), or is wife wrong and she’s really just fucking a young man who sort of resembles a younger version of her husband?

Also, what if hubby got an injury later in life that prevented him from having kids, but a few months after the cabin, wife is now carrying his past self’s baby?

 

[AlinaX]

I love when people think 3G (etc.) is prehistoric.

 

[LupusDei]

I love when people think 3G (etc.) is prehistoric.

Yeah, the cellphone in modern pocket format for masses was about since, I would say 1994, give or take a year for specific settings, and that would be dumb-phone, like, it's really just phone without as much as inbuilt clock, not speaking about anything else. Before then it's almost only car installations and brick setups carried around by a bodyguard, certainly nothing a college student might have. That gives ~25 years by now, a fully workable timeframe. The first recognizable smartphone, the iPhone come out in 2007, less than 15 years ago. So for the younger version to have that generation phone the couple either isn't together all that long, or the "now" part happens in future.

 

[Hypoxia]

Think of a Mad Scientist (call him Mark) devising time travel, who repeatedly jumps back in time and impregnates (while they're young and hot) his present-day GF's mother, then her grandmother, then great-grandma, ad infinitum. So his GF is really his sister, or closer because DNA buildup.

For fun, it turns out that Mark's worst enemy, another Mad Scientist (call him Ned) with time-travel chops, has ventured past to impregnate Mark's mother, grandma, great-grandma, ad nauseum, so Mark is a near-clone of Ned. Does hilarity ensue when the truth emerges? Do Mark and Ned become a couple?

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

3G has been around since 2002 so setting it in 2021 wife a wife in her 30s would be plenty of time for her to find it odd.

Though I don’t want the thread devolving into a tech discussion since that’s a small part of the story.

Another idea I had is that husband calls during them having sex and realizes part way through what’s going on and has to either keep the timeline stable or try to change things.

With the “just a weird coincidence” version, guy is confused why this older woman is calling him a different name but takes her up on the offer for a summer of fucking, not knowing she thinks he’s her husband’s past self. While wife only figures it out when she finally checks his wallet.

 

[LupusDei]

With the “just a weird coincidence” version, guy is confused why this older woman is calling him a different name but takes her up on the offer for a summer of fucking, not knowing she thinks he’s her husband’s past self. While wife only figures it out when she finally checks his wallet.

I have this tiny thing (Siemens C25, 1999) in working order and with a new replacement battery (with is holding in wait mode for over two weeks, I believe) as my backup-backup phone and was using it for over a week last summer. I also have loaned it for some relatives sometimes, including my nephew at one time, less than two years ago, for several weeks. Modern SIM card works with an adapter (one could in principle make by hand from a piece of appropriate plastic or cardboard, all that's needed is accurate positioning).

https://live.staticflickr.com/216/496415252_3ead502cfb_z.jpg

Just saying, it might indeed happen a young man sports ancient phone in extraordinary circumstances.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, the cellphone in modern pocket format for masses was about since, I would say 1994, give or take a year for specific settings, and that would be dumb-phone, like, it's really just phone without as much as inbuilt clock, not speaking about anything else. Before then it's almost only car installations and brick setups carried around by a bodyguard, certainly nothing a college student might have. That gives ~25 years by now, a fully workable timeframe. The first recognizable smartphone, the iPhone come out in 2007, less than 15 years ago. So for the younger version to have that generation phone the couple either isn't together all that long, or the "now" part happens in future.

The concept of "flip phones" was first introduced by StarTAC's predecessor, called the MicroTAC, in 1989. The StarTAC was introduced in 1996. The first handheld phone was in the 80s called the "Brick" and would definitely not fit in a pocket.

The MircoTAC...

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The StarTAC...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F01%2Fmotorola_startac.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

 

[LupusDei]

The MircoTAC...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.nst.com.my%2Fimages%2Farticles%2Fmicrotac.jpg_1502773087.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

I briefly used a phone that was very similar to Motorola micro tac but wasn't quite that, I think, in 1996 as my very first mobile. If I remember it right it didn't have the flipping part square, but kind of only the microphone folding out from the side, but I have tried and failed to find what it could have been recently. Maybe it indeed was micro tac, just my memory had shaped it weird, or it was some kind of strange copycat. Anyways, the thing was long worn out before I got it, handled down to me by sister's fiance of all people.

Just saying, I'm not ignorant such existed, and was more talking about when they became mainstream between casual folks like college students.

 

[Hypoxia]

Back to theme: What reveals the fellow as not-of-this-time is his political talk, as well as his collection of CDs. And he only knows Amazon as a bookseller.