It was the 2nd Wednesday of the month which can only mean one thing...it's our "date night". After 17 years of marriage its fair to say that things had become stale. Actually things were stale 10 years ago and despite many attempts to bring a little spontaneity into our lives, I've resigned myself to being married to my companion rather than my lover. Claire no longer has any interest in having sex with me. I have no reason to think she's cheating on me but despite my best efforts there is no longer any kind of sexual spark between us. Even in the early years of our relationship I always had a much higher sex drive and whilst the real thing has disappeared from my life, I still use a daily ritual of the internet and masturbation to prevent me from imploding of sexual frustration. The most physical contact we have these days is a peck on the lips when I'm on my way out of the door each day. Notwithstanding the occasional row about something trivial, we still get along well most of the time but we've kind of said everything there is to say to each other and will often sit in silence for an entire evening watching the TV.
The date night was our latest attempt at doing something a bit different every few weeks. Truth is even this had become routine. The same night of the month, the same restaurant, very often the same food! The restaurant was a stylish, intimate Italian place in town. Our starter had come and gone and we were waiting for our main course. As usual we were sat opposite each other in silence looking around the restaurant for some material to start a conversation about when I noticed another couple sat across the other side of the room, slightly to the right and behind where Claire was sat.
He was completely immersed on his phone and she was looking around, occasionally glancing over in my direction. Their body language suggested that they were in the aftermath of an argument and as a result neither really wanted to be there. She was very attractive, in her mid thirties with shoulder length brown hair. She was wearing a low cut black dress which accentuated her very fine breasts and long split at the side showed a long, shapely and very sexy leg.