I am a teacher at a fairly snooty high school. Today, I was in the photocopying room with another teacher who I am having a discrete relationship with. We are usually very quiet and inconspicuous about our relationship but I couldn't help myself and I started to escalate the situation when we were making out. I lifted her up onto the copier( cliché I know).
As I lifted her up, her skirt got caught in the paper feed and she started panicking and screaming. I made the idiotic decision to cut it off. When I did, she was left standing there in nothing but a g-string and high heels from the waist down. The reality of the situation set in, so did I. She remembered she had a long coat in the staff room so I raced off to get it.
When I returned to the copier room, no-one had found her and she put on the coat and we breathed a huge sigh of relief. We walked out of the copier room and into the office,to my horror her belt got caught and ripped open her coat exposing her bottom half as another teacher who happened to be my wife.
She completely freaked out and launched a tirade of abuse on me and started attacking me. I tried to defend myself and told I was trying to help the other teacher after her skirt got caught in the copier and help her avoid an embarrassing situation but she didn't buy my explanation. She wants me to quit my job and leave our house or she will expose my cheating to our friends and colleagues. I want to stay with my wife but this is a messed up situation. I still have not admitted what happened.
Does anybody have any advice for me to keep my wife and my dignity?