Poor, poor Simon Jones. After marrying a woman even though he didn’t really want to, and having a child with her, even though he didn’t really want to, he found himself driven to an affair.
In an article titled “Where Did My Sex Kitten Go?” Jones pulls out the world’s tiniest fiddle and tells us the story of his doomed marriage to a woman name Frances, who won him over with her beauty and ambition. After five years, Frances decides she wants to marry Simon, and though he’s never wanted to marry, he agrees. “For the next couple of years nothing changed,” Jones writes, “Apart from work: Frances was really starting to make a name for herself.”
Jones is then “stunned” when Frances turns down a job offer because she wants to have children- something she’s never expressed interest in before. At first, Jones refuses, but after Frances completely flips out on him, he begrudgingly goes along with it: “She completely lost the plot, screaming that I owed her a child. She admitted she’d lied about not wanting children – she said it was because she loved me and didn’t want to lose me. The next two weeks were dreadful, full of late-night talks and tears. Eventually, against my better judgment, I agreed to go for it.”
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