ROE-057 Reuniting with the first love after 30 years—. Like reclaiming student days, drowning in an affair named youth… Hiraoka Rieko

Married for 22 years, my husband is a high-ranking executive at a major corporation and we live a life of abundance. As our married life extended, I began to feel some dissatisfaction with the mundane and unexciting days. One day, I reconnected with my first love from student days on social media, and despite thinking it was wrong, I ended up meeting him again after 30 years. It felt like I was back in my student days, and that initial feeling of first love stirred once more. And so, I found myself drowning in this belated affair named youth…