Though I admittedly have a strong-willed streak that makes me stubborn to change and hate being told I'm wrong, in general, for most of my 50 years of life, I worked hard to be a "good girl" and do what I'm "supposed" to do. As a child I tried my best to obey my parents, listen to my teachers, and get straight A's in school. As I grew older I strove to be respectful to those in authority and put others first.
Though those things may be good within a healthy context, I got burnt out and lonely, and last year my world turned on end when a switch flipped inside me drawing me towards things I would have fled from in the past as being bad, selfish, sinful. And now I desire to be a truly "good girl" in a much different way. I'll explain.
You see, less than a year ago I was a different person, living just one life. I knew essentially nothing about BDSM, and the phrase "good girl" to me defined a squeaky clean, well-behaved girl.
As I mentioned above, for most of my life I fulfilled the role of the quintessential "good girl." I avoided all the classic "no-no's," in addition to others -- including no smoking, no drugs, no drinking, no swearing, no dancing, no porn, no erotica, no flirting, and (mostly) no lusting after men I had no right to desire.
I took deadly seriously the marriage vow I made close to 30 years ago to be faithful to my husband "until death do us part" -- faithful in my mind as well as my body. That meant not only no physical sex with anyone besides my husband, but no dwelling on how much I might be attracted to anyone else. If I met a man who aroused feelings of sexual desire inside me, I'd push those feelings aside.
However, this past year my moral compass got hit by a strong magnet, and it spun wildly out of control and has not yet re-centered. And now it's like I've split in two, living two lives -- my regular well-behaved life and my new hidden, sensual life. I look like a normal good girl on the outside, but inside I burn and lust and desire to be my Sir's "good girl."
I in no way blame my choices on anyone but myself, but perhaps you will not judge me so harshly if I explain why I feel the seeds of this dramatic sense of being off kilter began over six years ago on a day I will never forget.
On that day, as the last long rays of the sun shone through the kitchen window on a late summer's evening, my husband told me something that shook my world. Amongst the usual sounds of clanging of pans and clacking dishes as my husband loaded the dishwasher and I prepared dinner, my husband shared that he had come to realize he is a transwoman -- meaning that though born biologically as a man, he feels like a woman inside. I expressed caring and acceptance the best I could. He assured me he wouldn't leave me.
I didn't know then that what he said could potentially mean no sex in the future. My husband still lives, at least outwardly, as a man, but clearly something had changed between us, and as months and then years went by without us having sex, I accepted that my husband wasn't attracted to me sexually any more. I felt I had become resigned to the idea I wouldn't be having sex, perhaps ever again.
However, by the time almost six years had passed, I realized not having sex, or any type of intimate touch, for such a long time, messes with a person's psyche, or at least specifically my psyche, and if the opportunity to have an affair were to occur, I knew I'd be vulnerable.
And I was (and still am), for my interest was piqued when, close to a year ago, a sweet, handsome man sent an encouraging note about a video I had posted on a social media site. Travel back with me, if you will, to that first day as I relive that time of my life in my mind. . .
As I read the note you sent me, it seems innocuous enough, and you've made me smile, but still I feel my guard go up. I wonder if you'll ever write again.
When you send me more notes now and then, I can't quite put my finger on why, but something about the way you write makes me wonder if you have ulterior motives. That in turn makes me laugh at myself for even thinking such a thing because why would anyone want me -- shy, mousy, old me?
Yet I cannot help how my heart lifts each time you write. I enjoy it, feeling certain it won't last as you get to know me more and find out how boring I am, especially as I realize I'm 12 years older than you and you have a longtime girlfriend.
Yet you keep writing. One day you ask me of a video I posted, "Are you trying to be sexy in your video?"