A man who feared he could not fulfil one of his wife's final wishes has candidly spoken out about his experience.
As the heartbroken partner explained in a now-removed Reddit post - one that has since been recirculated online - his wife was tragically diagnosed with a 'terminal disease'.
Naturally, he wanted to do his best to support her through her final months and 'grant whatever wish' he could.
But when she shared her hope to sleep with an ex-partner again, he was unsure if he could support her. With 'no one' to tell, it was then that the husband turned to a relationship forum for advice.
He began his post by sharing his response to his wife's diagnosis and explaining she was told she had 'at most 9 months'. "I am of course destroyed. We've been together for a decade. I don’t remember life without her and I don’t know what I’m going to do when she's gone," he wrote.
However, he said he could not understand one of her wishes. "Recently she sat me down and told me that one of the last things she wanted to do was have sex with a previous partner of hers. I of course was shocked and when I asked why the f**k she wants that," his post read.
"So basically she thinks that her most physically compatible satisfying lover was him. She gave a whole monologue about how sex sometimes is just physical and how emotionally fulfilling sex is with me but it was b*****t to get to that point."
The husband continued: "So now I'm left with this, deny my dying wife a wish for my own ego, or let her go f**k another man who she feels was better. Honestly I'm so p****d of and betrayed that she asked this of me. I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to say yes because she's dying."
He concluded by saying he feels 'hurt' and knows how he wants to reply but does not know if he's in the right. "I just hate everything about this."
Unfortunately, commenters disagreed over the best advice to offer.
One person replied: "If your wife is dying that doesn’t give her the right to hurt you and do whatever the hell she wants. This is an appalling thing for her to ask for, and manipulative to use it as some kind of dying wish thing too."
But another said: "I suggest you see a couple's therapist immediately to navigate the tricky waters you are in. Any first thought is: is the illness your wife has degenerating her brain? Any chance of a brain tumor? Any chance this illness is affecting her ability to make decisions?
"Second thought is one of compassion. She is dying, dude. She is probably experiencing all kinds of emotions and grasping for straws at times."
Meanwhile, someone else wrote: "This is dumbfounding and I'm so sorry you have been put in this impossible situation."
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