The Evangelical freak professor had given my wife's self-esteem a painful blow. The opposite of what her freedom of choice in solo affairs was intended to provide her. Roger and Larry had restored her confidence of youth and potential so much it was like gilding the lily. Charlie Moffit was such a drastic reversal that Jill was genuinely alarmed by loss far greater than youth - losing her mind. The morning after her debacle she wandered about, her eyes often squinting at mysteries in every corner.
"How could I not see more of what Charles was all about?"
"You just moved too fast."
"I moved fast a lot of times before, and was on target every time." She smiled and cocked her head. "Well, maybe not every time. There were some duds in the old days. But this. Could it be early onset dementia?"
I laughed. "How many fingers on your right hand? What day of the week is today? When is my birthday?"
She regained her composure and humor. But still she was slightly unsettled by what had taken place. We practiced no religion. We had no belief in any desert deity from the Middle East. Nor in any icon housed in a cave in the Orient. Evangelical freaks were in a category of faddish behavior as far removed from our interest as those who surrender half their body skin to hideous tattoos.
Charlie Moffit must have prayed to a disdainful God. A week later he started calling Jill. She ignored the calls. One day, out of curiosity, she answered. He wanted to see her again, with some half baked idea in his head that God would tolerate them having more sex. She countered with her conviction that God wanted her to inform his wife and the three of them join together in prayer sessions. Charlie disappeared, for ever.
The days passed. Jill regained the full bloom of her habitual good humor. But she ceased her slutty games with me. Her erotic communication with me became very subtle and deep with meaning. One night we made love and she said, "You are going to put your big hard cock into me. That is what it means to be a woman. A man's cock entering her." Her words were electrifying. More so the next day when I remembered and thought about them.
"A man's cock entering her" did not fly over my head. The generalization. The universality. The implication that the "meaning" for her was not exclusive to my cock; that it included Roger and Larry Felts, our threesome partners, all of her men before me entering her with their hard cocks. Endorsing the meaning of her being a woman. It was truth. It was definitive.
It defined our combined motive of my sharing her with other men. The shattering, devastating excitement of the "idea" of it was a prerequisite for me, but the first reality proved much stronger and meaningful than any fantasy. Her aura of radiant beauty when I was to the side to watch another man fuck her. Another man fuck my WIFE. But the concept, and the reality, expanded. My wife was a woman as well as my wife, an entity and a mystery apart from my social claim. I saw that at once, but it took a few experiences of progressive understanding to fully realize the meaning of it. And Jill herself was the key to my understanding and realization. She kept in balance her extension of wife to universal woman with honoring and loving me with unfaltering purpose and devotion. That was the key.
I am no dummy. I knew from the beginning she was very ski fully and patiently manipulating my mind to face and accept that blast of discovery of that perverse excitement that sprang up in me. "Many men are like that. They just have that unique internal wiring for it. Similar to the way people are wired to be Gay." But I also knew from the beginning that my "Achilles Heel" held a valuable benefit for her. At first it was her joy in feeding my erotic flame with stories, true and invented. And her joy in feeding my flame made clear that in matters of sex Jill had no sense of guilt or shame at all. Then her joy developed another truth - the enormous thrill of her still having other men while mated for life with me. If only in fantasy. She could have her cake and eat it too.
It was inevitable, maybe ordained by alignment of the stars and internal wiring in both of us, that fantasy led to reality of my bringing a carefully selected man to our bed, and my wife fucking him with no reservations, with positive joy, doing what we both had consciously chosen to do, as I watched. She had her cake and ate it too. It was a piercing, beautiful truth to behold. In time that truth crystallized, and last night, years later, Jill put it into words - "That is what it means to be a woman. A man putting his cock into her." That was the meaning for both of us when I shared her with other men. And in that sharing my wife and I were facilitators and enablers for each other, each giving the other unique individual fulfillment attained only in that way. It was truly a symbiotic experience. And in that was another marvelous mutual benefit.
The symbiosis supporting her fucking other men required and self generated perpetual demonstration of love and devotion and respect. Never did she let slip a word or action that was demeaning of me. Never did I accuse her of greedy self interest. We kept in balance another man's cock entering her, with the sacrosanct meaning of us as husband and wife. We carefully skirted any temptation to engage in common power struggle. She put me on a pedestal to honor and revere after the first time I fucked her. That honor and respect only grew over the years, like the fabled spreading elm tree. My honor and respect of her was set very quickly after meeting and knowing her, and took monumental proportion the first time I watched another man fuck her. The awesome mystery of my wife as universal woman. Seeing her.
"Do you see me?" That was her mantra when we began it all. The discovery of what lay hidden in me. Her need to bring that out into the open and explore the potential for both of us. With no guilt and no shame and no fear. Her guiding me, and herself, into that socially forbidden realm, with pure honesty of feeling, when she told of experiences with previous lovers, when we created fantasies of another man in our bed to have his way with her. "Do you see me? Who I am? What I am? The real me inside of me?"
I saw and knew when the first real man lay naked on her, his cock in her, having that Jill inside of Jill. She held nothing back. She wanted me to see. Her thighs opened wide and her calves clasping his back. Her hands hanging on to his shoulders. Her pelvic hunches meeting and loving his thrusts. The electric currents of bodily pleasure his moving cock generated in her. Her eyes suddenly opening wide and staring into mine, into my heart, into my soul. Her hand reaching out to grip mine. She spoke to me without words. Do you see me? Do you see I have surrendered to the thrill, excitement, intense pleasure of another man fucking me?
I saw. It took me several days to fully understand what I had seen. Intense private thinking. First was the force of perspective from being aside and watching. All the times I had fucked her I had a limited view point, and much of the time my eyes were closed. When our friend joined us to make our fantasies real, I saw my wife, my love, in full perspective of all the details of copulation, sexual intercourse, man and woman fucking. She lay naked on her back on the bed. Legs cocked, knees high. Her arms lifted and her fingers made come to me wiggles to our guest, her smile bright with honest expectancy. His condom sheathed cock high and hard and quivering with masculine imperative in its approach to her. Her putting her hands behind her knees and pulling them back to her breasts and spreading wide to receive him. Wanting to receive him. Experiencing the fulsome thrill of his hard cock enter and take command of the potential space ever waiting for a man to shape and define. That is what I saw with shattering clarity. A man fucking a woman. My wife. My love. All those things I do not clearly see when I fuck her. Sounds I might or might not be aware of when I fuck her were so clear they could have come from the ultimate development of surround sound speaker systems. The smack of skin on skin. The squishy pop sounds of his cock thrusting in her copious flow of lubricating fluid. The scatter of totally involuntary vocal sounds scrambling from deep inside both of them and out through clenched teeth and dilated nostrils. Do you see me?
Seeing, reviewing, analyzing, in intense private thought, I reached understanding. All the erotic electricity of my sharing her with another man was the warp and woof of our combined creation of our private tapestry. But seeing it really happen, I saw the meaning in her Do you see me? The reach of her exposure. Her vulnerability in that reach of her exposure. The risk she must take for me to see her, and then choose to love her still. But I really didn't make a choice. Watching her fully engage with that first man, the full reach of her exposure and vulnerability, all the base sounds and sights of fucking that defy poetic camouflage, the timeless act of sexual union, and the openly exposed orgasmic pleasures she experienced - all distilled into a single all encompassing emotion. A respect for my wife that had over tones of reverence. It wasn't a choice I made. There was really nothing else to consider. I saw her. I saw it. And seeing it made it impossible to see Jill only as an object in a sexual tableau. She was transcendent. And respect for her was the only word that fit. Respect was the carbon molecule of life in my love for her, which grew steadily every day thereafter. Respect that held awe, adoration, devotion, and a love so deep and broad it was sometimes an ache needing even larger room. That respect and love was never spelled out in formal declarations. It was demonstrated in countless thousands of ways in the indissoluble bonds of our marriage. And her respect and love for me was returned in equal measure, every day.
*****
Another year, another opportunity, another man.
His name was Steve Larsen. She picked him up in a bar. Well, not exactly a bar. One of those places with blond oak wood work, glass with frosted designs, potted ferns, that served chi-chi food and alcohol. She didn't exactly pick him up either. The place was over crowded, and he simply, politely, asked if he could share her table for four which she occupied alone.