This is my first attempt at a story so all comments, suggestions, and death threats are welcome.
'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'
The Dream Life
It had been four months living with him. They had met online when she was seventeen and they moved in together five months later after she turned eighteen.
It was everything he promised her. Nothing like her previous life, nothing like what all her former friends were living at the moment. She knew that it wasn't proper or right, it wasn't what people would call normal, but she also knew it wasn't wrong. Nothing that felt so wonderful could possibly be so wrong.
The moment she left her suburban house and walked into his residence there was no going back. This is what she had wanted, maybe she had moments where she thought of going back to her past life, to the comforts of the upper middle class, yet the doubts always fade away replaced with the knowing that this is her place in the world and this is what she was born for. There is no going back to the monotony of suburban life, the routine and the mind numbing comfort; her new life would not allow it.
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She had rules now, many, many rules to follow; discipline for non-compliance, severe, humiliating, and painful discipline for disobedience.
There was work, both the housework and the outside, real world work. It wasn't work for money though; it was another way to humiliate her.
She got a job at a McDonalds, a place where she never thought that she would work. It was beneath her, it was a place that a girl who was expected to go to top tier college, Ivy League maybe, was never supposed to end up in.
Her college aspirations have long passed. There was no need for college for her, she was smart, very smart, but higher learning was not in her future plans, at least not the higher learning in the academic sense. He made her work in a fast food joint to reinforce her place in the world, the bottom of society, to emphasize her inferiority to those who used to be her equals, those she even considered her inferiors.