Feel-good sex after bad news
My husband of 29 years had been dropping email hints for a couple years now he thought I deserved freedom from our somewhat-peculiar marriage. He was always on the road a lot for work, sometimes for weeks at a time. I was the work-from-home mom, raising the kids, taking them to hockey and suchlike.
Then he amped-up the hints just recently, culminating in a "property agreement settlement, pending divorce" which he had delivered to me by certified mail. I was floored - I had been all for trying to make the marriage work, seek counseliing for us, etc.
I found out HE was in the process of buying another house (credit reports can be a wonderful thing) - and wait, there was a vaguely familiar address showing up, too. Didn't we know a woman at that address? I quickly verified. YES. What else could I dig up about her?
At that point, it took a very, very short time to turn up online evidence my beloved husband had been living a double life for several years. Now it all made sense. I was devastated. I called up a friend, almost in shock. My son would be home from work in a few minutes, but the friend insisted on coming over the next day, as soon as my son left for work.
The weather was terrible that day - torrential rain and winds making the hour-plus drive far longer than it should have been. But I was so relieved to see Ian pull up and I opened the garage door to let him in, out of the rain.
We hadn't really seen too much of one another lately (Ian and myself) - neither of us cares for the office much, so we both work from home a lot, chatting on the phone or on Skype most days, as time permits. Ian is the same age as myself (early fifties) and is trapped in a sex-less marriage.
We hugged, we commiserated, we hugged some more and I laid out everything I knew. I really wasn't coping with this double life thing well at all. He had taken HER on all the exotice vacations I had always wanted to go on. He had claimed he was overseas when in fact he was a few towns over, with HER!
I felt almost naked. I wanted Ian to know EVERYTHING - my cheating husband's salary, the size of his tiny dick - everything.
When I took Ian upstairs to show him the extent of my husband's clothing collection, he expressed awe at the size of our (admittedly large) bedroom and master bathroom suite. I stood there, next to the bed and lamented about the lack of physical affection in my now-dead marriage. It had probably been fifteen years since my husband last touched me in a sexual way. I told Ian about how I was well-used to "taking care of myself", whenever the need hit me.
We looked at one another, the tension in the air palpable. "I could take care of you.." Ian ventured, looking from me to the bed and back again, "I would very much like to take care of you - we're both in a situation where we could use that."
He stepped closer, until we were almost toe-to-toe on the beige carpet. He had kicked off his shoes in the foyer before stepping onto the carpeted stairs (so thoughtful!) and I was barefoot. Ian looked me in the eye and positioned his hands on my waist, waiting to see my reaction. I didn't blink, I hesitated maybe five seconds before uttering "yes", in a lot huskier a tone than I had intended.