This story involves sexual promiscuity, exhibitionism, a brief threesome, and hunting.
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I am 42, divorced, with a daughter in college. Ted and I married young, and he left me six months ago. We both love each other terribly, and he tried immensely with me, but it turns out he is not bisexual as we thought; he is gay.
Separating was heart wrenching. Why does sex have to come in between two soul companions? Apparently, however, it does. The problems with my own mother do not help. You see, she is suffering from dementia, and the friction of my exhaustion from working and taking care of Mom was the tipping point in what had become a sexless marriage.
I raised our daughter, too. Even though Ted is gay, he is conventional about the woman's role in the marriage. His idea of the woman's role is that I do everything, and he comes home from a hard day at work and relaxes. Maybe this was okay before women were in the labor force, I don't know. But nowadays, it makes no sense at all.
I was looking forward to getting some freedom when my daughter left for college, but my mother has replaced her, and she has done so in spades. At least I don't have to bring Ted his Scotch and water ("Easy on the water, Christina! That Scotch is too good to be diluted!"), cook his dinner, and watch while he falls asleep in front of the TV whilst I wash the dinner dishes.
I'm just doomed. And now I'm all alone, with Ted gone to his lover, and my daughter gone to college and doubtless to her lovers there. All I have left is my job and my demented mother. My father has been gone for over ten years now. I feel so alone.
What happens after divorce is that your well-meaning friends set you up. My friend Mary told me I'm a prize. I looked at her with a genuine look of incredulity.
"Christina, you are pretty, you have a great body for a 42-year-old; you look as if you are in your mid 30s at the oldest! And men love a woman freshly divorced, because they fuck like rabbits," she said.
"Mary!" I cried out. "How can you say such things?"
"Look Christina, how long has it been since you had sex? And how long has it been since you have had good sex?" She had a point.
"Define good sex," I said.
"Well at a minimum, you need to cum, you know? But it should be a memorable experience," Mary answered.
"Okay let me see. It's been a little over a year, maybe a year and a half, since Ted and I had sex. You are aware he has decided that he is definitively gay, right?"
Ignoring my attempts to indulge in self-pity, Mary said, "What about sex that did not include Ted?"
"What do you mean? Masturbation?" I asked.
"I mean other men, of course. I mean an affair or two. Or three." Mary saw how I looked at her. She said, "Oh come on, goody two shoes, you were married to a man who is gay and was not giving you any satisfaction and you never strayed? Not even once?"
"No. No, I didn't," I said. The way Mary was speaking, the tone of her voice, suddenly made me ashamed that I had not committed adultery! This was nuts.
"Shit, girl. You are ready. Every man in the county will want to take you to bed!" Mary remarked.
"That may be. There are not that many men in the county," I joked. We lived in the biggest town in the county, with a whopping big population of 30,000. The entire county had a population of only 50,000 souls. And that 50k counts Ted, my ex, and of course his lover, now called his partner.
Mary was relentless. I agreed to go on a date she planned to set up, "if you can find someone who even wants to take out an old, rejected hag," I said.
Mary smiled. "It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel," she said.
"Don't do that," I rejoined. "I prefer men who are still alive."
I was nervous before my first date. Mary had come over to help me to get dressed. She boosted my confidence, and she even did the impossible: She convinced me I looked pretty and sexy. If only I myself could feel pretty and sexy. I began to realize I had suffered a lot of damage due to Ted.
My first date in some ways was a disaster. The man was nice, and he was respectful, but we had nothing in common. Nothing! It's the woman's duty to keep the conversation going, and it turned out to be a monumental effort. I made a silent vow to learn about hunting, car racing, or lake boating, so I could speak to men from my county. Sports talk was beyond me.
To keep things going, I simply asked him to explain the infield fly rule to me. That changed everything. Men simply love to explain sports to women. Who knew? By the end of the evening he even liked me. He walked me to the door and gave me a goodnight kiss, and I was not expecting it. I blew it. I could not even do that well!
Feeling bad, I invited him in for a nightcap. He happily came in, and I offered him some of Ted's Scotch, the one that was too good to dilute too much. He had three glasses and was getting nicely sloshed. I asked if he wanted to try kissing again.
We kissed, and it felt nice. I was at a loss as to what to do, so I just decided to follow his lead. Soon my dress was unzipped. I stood up and took it off, and sat back down in bra, panties, and pantyhose.
My date, whose name was Kevin, asked if I would remove my pantyhose "like they do in the movies." I of course had no idea what he meant. So, we fired up my computer and he went to a porn site and found a 10-minute-long video of a woman sexily peeling off her hose and then fucking some guy's brains out.
"That's what you want me to do?" I asked, when the 10-minute video ended.
"Yeah. Removing pantyhose is so sexy," Kevin said. He was really sloshed.
I got up. I put my leg on a chair and slowly peeled down one leg. I tried to do it sexily, like the woman had done in the video. Then I peeled off the other leg. Kevin's eyes were wide. I guess he did not expect me to comply so readily. I was at sea here. I had no intuition as to what was expected of me. What was I supposed to do?