Any guy who has kids knows not to expect too much from their wives sexually while they are pregnant. Of course there are women who have no problem making love almost to the end. But even then, it isn't as often or anywhere near as energetic as when they aren't pregnant. For example, my wife and I normally bang the headboard three or four times a week, spending at least an hour between foreplay and other activities. When she was pregnant with our son though, it dropped to once, sometimes twice a week, and we never fucked hard enough to even make the springs squeak. So, when my wife got pregnant with our daughter, I was already prepared for the slowdown in our sex life.
However, neither one of us were prepared for what happened this time around. That is, that this pregnancy was not going to be as easy as the first one, and that we would have to give up sex completely for the entire time. No, there weren't any major complications, my wife wasn't bedridden, and she didn't have any infections. She was just nauseous way more often than the first time, had occasional cramps, and her body was overly sensitive to any kind of stimulation. All these together made any kind of sex uncomfortable, and sometimes even painful. We tried to wait out the initial morning sickness, and other things, but by the end of the third month, it was plain that her whole pregnancy was going to be like this. And, by that time, I'd also reached the point where I definitely needed some kind of sexual relief.
Naturally, I resorted to doing what men always do when they can't have sex. I started masturbating, which believe it or not, pissed my wife off. The first time that happened was when I did it one night in bed, after she was asleep. The shaking of the bed from my hand movements had woken her up, and she asked me not to do it again because it made her feel sick when I did. The next time was a couple of weeks later when she woke up in the middle of the night and I wasn't in bed. Because she'd said doing it in bed had made her sick, I'd taken to locking myself in our computer room and doing it there. Well, first she wanted to know why I had locked the door, then got pissed when she found out what I'd been doing. You'd figure she'd understand because of the lack of sex, but she just repeated what she'd said in the bedroom about me masturbating making her sick. Only now I understood that it wasn't that my shaking the bed had made her physically ill, it was that the whole idea of me masturbating was sick to her.
Naturally, I got a little pissed off myself when she said that, and told her she was fucking nuts if she thought I was going to go 9 months without some kind of sex. She surprised me then by actually being surprised that I'd gotten mad about what she'd said. Then she asked me where I got the idea that she expected me to go without sex, of course she didn't expect that. She just didn't want me to masturbate, and that had nothing to do with sex. So I asked her what I was supposed to do for sex if I didn't masturbate, and she looked at me like I was an idiot before saying I should just go get some sex, what else?. When I replied that I couldn't cheat on her like that, she said it wasn't cheating if I wasn't getting what I needed from her, it was my right as a man. When I told her it was still cheating, she said that if I still thought that after she told me I had the right to do it, that was up to me. But, she wasn't going to let me spend the next 6 months just playing with myself.
By a week later, I'd pretty much forgotten the conversation my wife and I had, when something happened to start it all over again. One of my wife's friends in the building we live in is a woman named Esme. She's a divorcee about 5 years older than my wife, and while she's not as beautiful as my wife, she's definitely fuckable. And I'd be a liar if I didn't admit to having had a few fantasies of doing just that, fucking her. Anyway, she lives 2 floors above us, and we just happened to be in the elevator together one day. Nothing happened, besides the normal hello how are you type of stuff, until the elevator stopped at our floor. Then, as I was getting out, she took hold of my hand, and told me that if there was anything she could help me with, anything at all, I knew where she lived. The words themselves sounded innocent enough, but the way she was holding my hand, and the way she was looking at me were not. I've never had a more obvious invitation to fuck, except maybe from my wife. However, while I was caught completely off guard, I was still able to act as if it were an innocent offer. I just thanked her, and got out of the elevator, and didn't really think about it until I was inside our apartment.
I don't believe in keeping secrets from my wife, even though sometimes I probably should. So, once I was sure that I hadn't imagined the whole thing, I went and told her about it. Her response shouldn't have surprised me, considering the talk we'd had the week before. But, as I said, I'd forgotten all about it by then. Anyway, she asked me what I'd said when Esme made her offer, and when were we planning to let together. When I told her I hadn't done anything, except thank her for her offer, my wife asked why, was she too old or too ugly for me? When I told her that wasn't the case, she asked again why I hadn't done anything. Esme was divorced, so I didn't have to worry about a husband getting mad at me. She couldn't have kids anymore, so I didn't have to worry about getting her pregnant. And, she obviously wanted me to fuck her, so what was the problem? Something else was also obvious now, and that's that my wife had something to do with what had happened. And when I told her I knew that, she just said so, and again asked what the problem was.
I repeated what I'd told her many times before, about not wanting to cheat on her. Then I said that even if I did, doing it with Esme wouldn't be a good idea, because she lived in the same building. I mean, suppose I did use her to take care of my needs while she was pregnant. What would happen after the baby was born? It would be cruel to just say thanks for all the sex, but I don't need you anymore. I could maybe do that with someone I didn't know very well, but not someone who we saw all the time. My wife just started laughing when I said that, then asked if that was the only problem. When I said it was the biggest problem, she said it wasn't a problem at all then. Of course Esme would want me to keep visiting her, and she would have no problem with me doing that once a month or so after the baby was born. I just replied that I still didn't think it was a good idea, and my wife threw her hands in the air in frustration, and dropped the subject.
Well, I found out a few days later, that my wife hadn't quite dropped the subject, she'd just decided that talking to me about it was a waste of time. Instead, she took action to ensure the subject got settled the way she wanted it settled. So, when I got home from the gym at 10 on Friday, like I did three nights a week, my wife wasn't home, which was extremely unusual. There was only a letter, addressed to me, sitting on the kitchen table. I say letter, because a note is short, and this was fully two pages long. It told me that she and my son would be spending the night at our old neighbor's house, and wouldn't be back until sometime the next afternoon. Then it went on to say a lot of things that my wife would never have said in person, either because she'd be too shy, or because they'd make me mad or hurt me.
She started by saying she understood that I didn't want to cheat on her, and she loved me for that. But, she also refused to let me go without sex until the baby was born. Maybe that's the way things worked in America, but after living in this country for more than 20 years, I should know they didn't work that way here. In Turkey, if a wife wouldn't or couldn't take care of her husband's sexual needs, it was perfectly acceptable for a man to get a mistress. She was glad that I hadn't felt the need for one so far, but things had changed. She was no longer able to give me what I needed, and wouldn't be able to for at least the next six months. And, while it might not seem important to me, it was very important to her that my needs get taken care of. Plus, if any of her friends ever found out that she hadn't done something to make sure I was taken care of, they'd never stop reminding her of what a bad wife she was.
That's why Esme was more than willing to sleep with me. Not only would she get the sex she wanted, and maybe even needed, she'd also be helping her be a good wife. And, while people might say bad things about her if Esme started bringing men to her apartment or going to theirs, no one would say anything about her doing this. Being a mistress for a man who's wife wasn't taking care of him, or a temporary lover in cases like ours were perfectly acceptable in Turkish society. True, in our situation, the sex should stop when we were able to make love again. But, no one would complain if it didn't as long as it started for the right reasons.
Then my wife went on to say that if that wasn't reason enough for me, she was going to give me one that might change my mind. While it was acceptable for a man to have a mistress, it wasn't really acceptable for a married woman to have sex with other men. Yet, that's all I talked about when we were making love, how much I wanted her to fuck other men. And, when she protested that she couldn't cheat on me, I'd always tell her it wasn't cheating if she had my permission to do it. But, what had I just told her when she said the same thing to me, that I had the right to be with other women. I'd told her it would still be cheating, even with her permission. So, which one was the truth, and which one was the lie? Was it cheating if you had permission or not? If it was cheating, why would I tell her it wasn't when I wanted her to do it? And if it wasn't cheating, why would I say it was when she said it? Or was saying that just an excuse because I wasn't man enough to make love to another woman?