Once again I want to thank ScarlettKisses for her tremendous good editing work.
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First time I met my wife to be was on a guided tour at an old theatre close to a castle outside the capital of the country. It's almost 50 years ago but I remember as it being yesterday.
I was just passing the castle that afternoon when I noticed that there was a guided tour in about half an hour. Always having been curious of the inside of the building I decided to participate.
The group of the tour involved about ten people. Most of them were older couples but there was a good looking young girl, 18 years old (but that I didn't know at that time) dressed in a white blouse and a knee-length skirt. When our eyes met she blushed. Oh god what sweet she was! It was quite self-evident that we walked side by side. I looked furtively at her.
When walking beside her I found that I was only slightly longer than she. Dressed in khaki shirt and jeans I can't have made any lower impression on her. To that came also, though being 19 years old, I had no experience of girls at all. I think she assumed I was just an odd fish. I noticed that she glanced at me every now and then. True to say I hadn't heard much of what the guide told the group. All my interest was occupied by the nice girl strolling by my side.
The guided tour ended as usual with polite applause. I don't know where I got the courage daring to ask her if she would come along with me for something to eat. To my great surprise and happiness she accepted. Her cheeks were blushing red! I wanted to embrace and kiss her, but luckily I was too shy. If I had done it she surely would have screamed and fled.
However I took her hand when we went over to a nearby small restaurant. Her little hand was cool and soft. For me it was like being in heaven allowed to visit a restaurant alone with a girl. The restaurant was a simple pizzeria, the in-thing at those days. I looked at her and said "My name is Thomas. What's your name?"
"Sarah, and I spend my summer with my parents here at a little holiday cottage near the castle. I'm interested in history, but modern literature is my favorite subject. However, that didn't make anyone rich so I'm studying languages. What are you doing?"
I told her that I'm studying psychology at the university. "I'm very interested in the interplay between man and woman."
"Very interesting! And now you will study me?" laughed Sarah cheekily. Her eyes sparkled.
"Yes of course. I found your behavior most unconventional. Just accepting to follow an unfamiliar man without any hesitation? What will happen next?"
"Don't expect anything. You must not see me home or something like that. But if you want ... we can be friends.
We finished our pizzas and strolled to the large park surrounding the castle. She was easy to get on with. Our small talks run as if we had known each other for quite a long time.
"Sorry but I have to leave you now. I have some homework to do for tomorrow" she said apologetically. "I hope to see you again. What about next Saturday?"
"Sure, it will be nice. Perhaps we can find an interesting movie."
I got her phone number. Nothing else, neither kisses nor embracing.
Our dating continued. Sometime at her parents' house but mostly in my rented simple flat in the city. We loved each other but were agreed about to be careful in the bed. No children before marriage. No marriage before we had finished our studies.
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Two years later we could celebrate our passed examinations. She was graduated as a qualified secretary and I got my psychology degree. She got a well paid job as a secretary at a construction company. I got my psychology degree. I found an interesting employment at an institute for psychological investigations.
We had a very great sexual life together when we were able to find some alone time. However there was a fly in the ointment. Sarah started working closer to one of the engineers at the construction company. His name was Oscar. Sarah made no secret of her feelings for Oscar; the problem was that she was too naive to understand his feelings for her. She said that they often joked and laughed together. One day she had felt very childish and would do some sort of a practical joke by hiding behind a pillar outside Oscar's room. The place was a bad choice as she had to climb a high beam.
The fact was that she wasn't able to jump down but was forced to ask Oscar for help, of course he made use of the situation. He was rewarded with getting her stripped and had a complete sexual interlude on the desk in his office.
Sarah was remorseful about her stupidity to say the least when she told me about what had happened. I struggled with my bad feelings and thought for a second that I never could trust on her in the future. However knowing that leaving her now would make me unhappy. I loved her too much and forgave her. The condition was that she quit her job and promised to keep away from Oscar in the future.
Sarah and I got married some months later. We had bought a house in a residential district some miles from the city. Sarah was a very good house wife. She had her full liberty to spend the days as she wanted when I was at the institute. She had taken up her high school language studies. Every afternoon she kissed me as soon as I came inside the door after the day's work. The dinner was always on the table and the nights were often spiced with hot love.
I'd never had such a delightful life.
We had also been good friends with a particular nice couple, Ruth and Arne, who lived in the house next to ours. Sarah and Ruth found that they were more than friends. Sarah discovered that she also was attracted by females. Her lesbian attitude gave her a new dimension of the life. Her visit to a massage institute together with Ruth was a tremendous adventure.
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We always had longed to get away from rush of the city. When we found some acres with an undisturbed bathing beach far away from the capital of the country our dreams seemed to be coming to life. We started to get a house to be built. It was ready to move into the following summer.
However in January that year there were some troubles which could upset all our plans for moving to our new home.
Our marriage was once again hanging on a single thread.
I was away at a conference for a couple of days. Sarah was alone at home. One day when she was in the city for shopping she run across Oscar. As he was on his way to leave the country he wanted to exchange some words with Sarah one last time before he left.
As usual Sarah had some parcels and bags after her shopping round. Oscar offered his services for driving her and the luggage at home. As it was dinner time she had invited him to come in. Oscar was well aware that I was participating in the conference.
The dinner passed off with good food and a bottle of wine. The conversation got away with laughing and joking. They were evermore exhilarated. It was getting late and after having consumed the wine Sarah thought it better that Oscar stayed for the night.
Of course it resulted in a hot night in our bedroom.
When I returned home just before noon the next day Oscar had left. Sarah was out walking our dog. I found the rests of their dinner on the kitchen table and a well used bed in the bed room. When Sarah returned with the dog I raged against her and shouted: "I will never be in that bed anymore!" Then I jumped into my car and streak off.
It's a part of the story that even I'd cheated on my spouse that night. The last night of the conference ended in bed with my female boss Liza. I was deeply remorseful in the morning when I left the conference. I couldn't explain to myself how I could be so stupid.
When I found Sarah's doings at home, my brain just as exploded! I didn't know where to go. I didn't remember where I went or what I did in the afternoon. Later Liza has told me that I had called her. She had found me at the new house completely unaware to take care of myself. She saw to that I got some mental care at the institute's rest houses.
Sarah told me later that as a last alternative to find me she had went to see Liza. Liza had confessed our lovely night together. Sarah had been perplexed at my behavior. All her world collapsed. However Liza took care of Sarah as well and promised that matters for sure will sort themselves out in the end.
It was a very bad spring that year. Both Sarah and I were as birds with clipped wings. Having had long and painful talks about our failings we agreed to leave the old mess behind us and start a new life.
We set up a rule: We were allowed to have sex with other people, but the condition was that we were both present in the same room when it happened. Just as before we shouldn't have any secrets from each other but inform each other if anything felt wrong.
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Late that summer we moved to our new house. It was really a new life. The simple and calm county life healed our wounded souls. Surrounded by the lake and woods the house made it possible to live without clothes, at least during the warmer half of the year. A tremendous feeling which we dealt with only a few guests visiting.
