Dear Suzy,
You've done nothing wrong.
You were born into a society that sometimes places heavy and impossible expectations on people.
You were also born into a society that places heavy and pressurizing stereotypes on females.
There are societies on the earth where the path you chose might not be everyone's path, but many would say "good for you, you were brave enough to satisfy your curiosity and sense of adventure, and it really isn't the public's business."
Unfortunately you were born into a society that is one of the most shaming and judgmental about sexuality and especially women's sexuality.
You were born and taught to adhere to a conformity, and now, sadly, you will be encouraged and forced back into a "good little girl" box of "reformed conformity."
I highly encourage you to seek out and read the many great feminist books on female sexuality and the sex positive revolution that is out there.
Society wants you to think you are sick; you aren't. Society is.
You now have two choices...do the whole "reformed" bit. OR be a revolutionary...and proclaim that you wanted to rebel and experience new things and be your real inner self -- express your sexuality the way you wanted.
You can be a voice for the (responsibly) sex positive.
Or, you can be talked back into the box of repressed ways...and believe all that claptrap about being a good girl and conforming to a role...
My fear is if you go backwards...you'll end up destroying yourself, you'll go mad.
Better off to explore why you (perhaps rightfully) rebelled and flew your freedom flag and expanded your palette of your erotic experiences.
The choices are...you can apologize for the rest of your life...or maybe realize that you broke out and pursued your freedom and that that felt good...the only part that did not feel good was having your trust betrayed and getting "caught."
In a 100 years your story will be consider "really, that made headlines???"
Tell your story from your heart...all those pressures and boxes and loss made you long for...your words...and so you pursued your adventures...
...I don't for a minute believe that you did all this just because of depression...a natural, healthy part of you wanted to freely express your sexual and sensual nature to it's most exciting potentials.
Not everyone's choice.
But an enlightened society would celebrate your freedom to have your adventures.
Don't buy into America's shaming morality.
Yes, a part of you may have wanted escape, but a natural healthy part of you wanted that excitement...the alternative was Repression.
Be free girl, and tho your choices may not be everyone's...this stuff is nothing new...Freedom.
Women of royalty in ancient Pompeii used to sneak out and do the same things for pay and excitement.
You are in good historical company.
Read some good feminist psych history and theory books... Get out of someplace as repressed as Wisconsin.
Get to more free thinking climes...you can find them.
And kudo's to your husband for his patience.
To other readers "Eyes Wide Shut" wasn't just a movie. Open sexuality has been around longer than repressed sexuality.