This is the first chapter of the adventures of a 1950s housewife. I'd love to read any feedback you may have after you've read it
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Jane looked around her home. It was a nice middle-class home that contained all the state of the art appliances a 1950s housewife could want. She had a husband she loved very much and practically everything she could ask for, but she just wasn't happy. As good as her life was, it wasn't perfect, so she decided to do something about it.
When her husband came home from work that night, Jane was in heels and a pretty dress, she had dinner on the table and a plan in her head.
She waited till Michael was about half way through his dinner and 15 minutes into "how was your day conversation" before she changed the topic.
"Honey. I've been thinking." she told him, making the best doe eyes she could muster.
"Mmmmph?" he asked, still chewing on some meatloaf.
"You're not being fair to me. As a husband I mean."
Michael looked up at her, quizzically.
"How do you mean?" he asked, wiping his mouth with his napkin.
"Well, when we got married, I thought you'd be the ideal husband. That you'd take out the trash on garbage night, you'd mow the lawn on Sundays, and you'd clean the leaves out in the fall. I assumed you would act like a husband. But you hardly ever do any of that. And never without me nagging at you."
Michael thought about what she was saying. "You're right, I've neglected my duties"
That caught Jane off guard, she had expected him to be much more defensive.
"I'll tell you what. I'll do a better job of my husbandly duties, but in return, you'll have to stop neglecting your wifely duties."
"My wifely...? I have a clean house and cook dinner for you every night!" She snapped.
"Of course you do, and you do a wonderful job at the basic things. Just like I think I do. I work full-time, so we can have this house and that Bel Air in the driveway, not to mention all the newest gadgets you use, like that semi-automatic washing machine!"
"...but I try so hard to make you happy. " she told him, desperately.
"And you do. I guess we've just been a bit lax about communicating with each other. Thank you for correcting that. I'll make sure I take the trash out tonight. And Sat morning, I'll mow the lawn, first thing. How does that sound?" he asked.
"That sounds wonderful. But whatever are these wifely duties you are talking about?" she asked.
"Why, fellatio of course." he told her.
"Fellatio?!" she repeated.
"Yes dear, fellatio." he told her.
"But I've never...We've never.." she was flabbergasted.
"Of course not." He said. "I never pressed you while we were courting, had we broken up I didn't want you to have gotten a reputation as one of those kinds of girls, but now that we're married, well a man has needs that need to be taken care of."
"How...how often would I be expected to, um, do that?" she hesitantly asked.
"Oh, once or twice a week would suffice, I should think. No need to go overboard." he said.
Twice a week! She thought. If that was realistic, as he was suggesting, what would going overboard entail?
"When would I, umm," she struggled for words.
"Perform fellatio? I wouldn't dream of telling you when that would be appropriate." he continued.
Perform! He actually used the word "perform" as if she was some sort of lewd dancer!
This was too much. All she wanted was the husband she thought she was getting when they married 2 years before! Wasn't it right for her to get the husband she had always wanted? Wasn't she justified in having certain expectations of what a husband would be?
Yes, yes it was. She decided.
And now that she thought about it, maybe he was fair that he had certain expectations of what a wife would be.
But fellatio?