I was really enjoying the dinner party tonight at our friend's country house in a remote village in Hampshire. There were four couples, and we were all sitting around a circular table just finishing desert. It was not formal, as we had been friends for about eight or nine years, and we meet up usually twice a year at each other's houses. The host Alan and hostess Lisa for this occasion were making everyone laugh, they were the funny ones. Another couple were 'opposite attracted' to each other were not married but together for four years. Robert was very quiet and introvert and was also a tall black man, whilst Gill liked to be heard, and put her opinions across. Tom and Wendy seem to be perfect for each other. They complimented each other perfectly, and you can tell after eight years together they were still in love, and getting married soon.
Then there was me and my husband Dave who have been married for seven years. Dave had a strong sense of power around him. I am not sure if it was his job, if he grew up with it when he was young, as he was captain of the football team for years, or if he was just naturally gifted. When he spoke, people stopped to listen, and the wonderful bit about him was, that he was never ever arrogant with it. People naturally respected him, wherever he went. In a way, I think that rubbed off on me, and brought out my confidence. I always think in the back of both of our minds, we always wanted to be mentally stronger than the other – especially in the bedroom.
Another bottle of wine was opened, and as Alan and Lisa had no children, and lived in a big house, we decided last month that we all would stay the night. I had lost count of the glasses of wine we had all drank, and Alan and Lisa started talking very crudely about sex, and what they would do to each other later on that night. We all laughed louder and louder. That only made Gill want to talk about it as well, and before long, Gill, Alan and Lisa were comparing stories and positions that they had done since the last time we all saw each other. The whole room was a chorus of laughter as more wine was poured and they also encourage Tom and Wendy to join in as well.
I was getting more and more nervous now. I had spoken about sex before with my friends round the table, but not for a couple of years. I looked at Dave and I could see that he was also getting nervous. He got up and was about to leave for the toilet, when he was stopped in his tracks....
"Come on big man, your turn now. You heard all of our stories, let's hear yours." Dave just looked at me, and there was silence between us.
"Why are you so shy?" Tom exclaimed, he then continued "You two were the most experimental of us all from what I can remember." Dave started murmuring, and then stuttering. He only ever does this when he is nervous, and the more I watched him, the more relaxed I became and the more I enjoyed it. I think tonight justice was finally going to be done.
Gill in typical fashion that shouted out
"Come on, we want to hear everything. What is so secret that you cannot tell us?"
I then piped up. "Tell them Dave! I want you to tell them everything, tell them the whole truth, and make sure you do not miss anything out." Everyone just stared at me, then Dave, back to me and then Dave. "Tell them or I will" I said angrily.
He looked at me, as if I had betrayed him. Then he sat down, sighed, and started speaking as if everything was normal. "Sally and I have not had sex in eleven months."
"Tell them why Dave!" I snapped.
He sighed slowly again, after watching the shock on everybody's face, and sheepishly this time as if he was a wounded animal, he looked down. "Sally and I have not had sex in eleven months......because I ....... slept with one of my clients."
I could see everyone in the room now looking at him amazed, some people smirking, some ashamed but most of all, I think it was a case of shock that someone like Dave would do something like this.
"Fucking hell Sally, Why did you not mention it before?" Gill asked. People then started to look at me.
"Because I am faithful to the man I married," I knew it sounded harsh, and I was pleased it sounded the way it came out. There was some real awkward silence now in the room. Nobody knew what to say, or do, and it was Lisa who eventually broke the tension.
"Eleven months is a long time. How sexually frustrated are you?" Everyone laughed out loud apart from Dave.
"Frustration is not the word Lisa; it is so tight below, that my vibrator has problems getting in." Even I found myself laughing now. I could see this getting worse and worse for Dave, as people were now changing their judgement of him.
I love him so much, and he has already apologised thousands of times. He turned down promotion, moved off the contract with that client, even talked about moving away for a while to get things sorted to get me to forgive me, after all of the yelling and screaming I have directed at him. But this was the first time I had actually opened up about it to anyone, and I needed to let off some steam.
"Don't worry Sally", Lisa said again... "Alan can never satisfy me anymore. You sleep with him, and with your tight hole he will make you feel like a re-born virgin."
Lisa knew how to make everyone laugh. She was so good at it. I found myself crying now with laughter, but also watching Dave. I love him so much; I questioned myself why I was putting him through all this. This is a private matter between us two only, but strangely it was the only way I could cope with it all.
"Seriously Sally, if you want to, Alan will do whatever you want, and to be truthful, I enjoy watching him fucking other women. It is such a turn on." Everyone now looked at Lisa, and she just brushed it away. "Don't tell me none of you have tried that"." She then laughed. "Opppps, sorry Alan, our secret is out," as they giggled once again to each other.
Then I sat there, thinking about it all. "OK, deal. Let's do this!"
Dave got up, and interjected. "Sally wait"
"Shut up Dave" I snapped back, "You do not get a say in this. You threw away all your rights to this when you fucked that bitch on that business trip. If Alan and Lisa want to do this, I am up for it"." Everyone in the room now was looking at Alan and Lisa.
They looked at Dave, "No, we couldn't" Alan finally said.
Dave then stood up. This is why I love him so much, and really need to forgive him for one act of indiscretion. My brave noble husband had said, "Listen, if this is what Sally wants, and if it will help with the forgiving, I will do anything for my marriage. You have my consent,"
