Caught Between Two Brothers in One Forbidden Love

Regardless of who will condemn me after this, I really need to get someone else’s opinion before it drives me nuts.

Johnson, a married man, has been my affair for the last seven months. I am aware that it is not something good to boast, but at that moment he was my better man and no one else. He stood by me, loved me and made me feel important. I told myself that his marriage was already broken, and I was just the woman who made him suffer a little less.

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Life was great until one day when he took me to meet his half-brother Ben. It was such a casual meeting that nothing serious was going on. Johnson only said, “This is my good friend, Efia,” and that was it as far as introductions went.

However, the way Ben looked at me that day should have alerted me to a potential problem. Later that evening he asked for my number “so we can all hang out sometime.” I didn’t pay much attention to it then. But the next morning he called, later he texted, and before long he was inquiring about me every day. I didn’t realize it but he was already asking me out for dinner. I got scared and told Johnson everything, thinking he would be mad or at least warn his brother. But he merely said, “You are grown up. You make the choice.”

That moment destroyed a part of me. Meanwhile, Ben was showering me with the kind of love that I had secretly hoped for from Johnson. He was honest, purposeful, emotionally accessible—all the things Johnson was not. The only issue was that I was still in a relationship with Johnson.

After that, Ben went to another country. My initial thought was the distance will create a gap that would ultimately lead to his forgetting me, but that was not true.

On the third day of his trip, he used the video call to confess his love to me. He proclaimed that he had been in love with me from the very first day and that I was just the type of woman he wanted as a wife. To make things worse, he had even disclosed his feelings to Johnson and had sought his help in "winning" me.

Johnson informed me of this but still did not seem to be impacted the way one would expect. He just kept on saying, "Choose what you like."

Now I am the one who has to deal with the confusion. I believe that dating a married man is a sin, and I know that Johnson is not going to leave his wife for me. Ben appears to be the better alternative; he is single, serious, purposeful, and ready for a future together. However, he is also a brother to Johnson. What if at some point he unearths the whole truth about my affair with Johnson? My life is like a Mexican soap opera.

Please, what should I do? Should I give up on Johnson and take a chance with Ben, or should I simply keep away from both brothers?

I am in dire need of verdict.

—Efia

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