Love, Sex and Feng Shui

"Mohanji, remember.I am Martha!" said the familiar voice I had not heard after Martha's second marriage.
"Of course.! What have you been up to?" I asked her.
"Oh.lots of things have been happening. I am planning to buy a shop. I have short listed 3 shops and want you to choose the right one."
"Sure. What do you plan to start?"
"I am starting a Boutique." She said. Her throaty laughter followed.
She had certainly come up in life.
"Thanks to you and Feng Shui," She said and promised to send the floor plans of three different shops.
Martha's is a fascinating story. This is the third time I am writing about her.
The first time she met me, Martha was the wife of an ambitious man. Theirs was a love marriage and she had sacrificed her ambition on the altar of marriage. One child later she became frustrated.

She realized that she was being used. Her husband wanted her to smile winningly and even reveal her cleavage teasingly to win over a financer. She smiled and seduced. Ironically, he didn't like her to meet an old male friend. Martha obeyed. At the same time, her husband was philandering.
Unable to take it anymore, leaving her ten year old with her husband she walked out.
"I don't want to marry again. I want to be my own person. I want name, fame, money, success."she told me. She wanted backing and a solid career.
Feng Shui worked very well for her.
"Feng Shui helped. It was as if someone was holding my hand and leading me to the right places. I found right people, the people who mattered and their response was better. Money started flowing in." she told me six months later.
One of those contacts who have ended up being a pillar of strength was an old friend of her. She bumped into him while on her morning walk. It had been 7 years she had last seen him. He was now a married man.
"I don't see anything wrong with it. I am single and footloose. I owe nothing to his wife. I am not responsible for her life." Martha had become pragmatic and practical and she radiates happiness and confidence.
Harry lived in a posh multistory building with Rennie and their 11-year-old daughter. Like several successful businessmen and unhappy husbands he maintained Martha in a separate flat. He would spend 10-15 nights with her though Rennie would think that he was out of Mumbai on a business trip. It was convenient for Rennie who had a woman friend staying with her when her husband was away.
In the words of Martha, "Harry often felt guilty for being disloyal to his wife though I had already suspected the truth about his marriage. The truth was that his wife was a lesbian. Harry too started suspecting it when I pointed out the obvious but he wanted to be sure. Initially, he wanted to hire a detective agency to get the proof of his wife's infidelity. But I was not in favor of that. We acquired a sophisticated video camera, which was surreptitiously installed in their bedroom. After failing to record anything out of ordinary for twice, we got the dope. Rennie was really a lesbian. Harry is a decent man and he offered her a very generous settlement for a mutual divorce."
"But you didn't want to marry again?" I smiled.
"It is true but I have changed my mind. I believe that Feng Shui has given me a second chance to live normally and happily. I don't want to reject it," grinned the lovely lady.
Harry got a mutual divorce and Martha's relationship became legit.
Note: Names have been changed to protect the identities.