I again woke up before Rachel Wednesday morning. I quickly took another shower, gathered my clothes and made my way downstairs just as she was getting up.
I made myself a cup of coffee and sat at the kitchen table, contemplating what I should do next. There was no way I could go along with this! I had to put my foot down! It's one thing to be naked at home, when it's just the two of us, in fact I was starting to like it. But to allow myself to be exposed in front of our friends was a step too far.
I finished my coffee and started to prepare some breakfast. I rehearsed in my mind what I wanted to say to Rachel when she came down.
I was putting the finishing touches on breakfast when I heard Rachel. "Someone's up early...in more ways than one I see," referring to my half stiff cock.
"Rachel, we need to talk," I immediately said.
Rachel sat down, I served her breakfast as she sipped her coffee and looked right at my cock with a smile. "Sure, what about dear?"
"We need to discuss what we talked about yesterday. The barbacue on Sunday, Mary coming over tonight, all that."
Rachel seemed somewhat confused, "I thought that was all settled?"
"Sweetheart, you can't possibly expect me to expose myself to our friends. Do you have any idea how embarrassing and humiliating that would be for me?"
Rachel sat back in her chair, folded her arms and squinted her eyes. "There you go again! Making it all about what you want! Making it about your feelings! That's what got you in this trouble to begin with! While you were so busy worrying about yourself, did you once consider how I felt? Did you once consider how embarrassing it is for me, to have to punish a grown man because he can't make proper decisions? Have you taken into account the humiliation I feel when my husband resists efforts to make our marriage better? No! You never once thought about how I feel, did you?
I was so stunned by Rachel's rant that I couldn't form words. After just staring at her for several seconds she broke the silence, "Don't you have anything to say?"
I managed to get out my main point, "yes sweetheart, but I'm the one that has to be naked."
Rachel just brushed aside what I said and continued, "And to think I was so proud of you yesterday. The way you seemingly accepted everything, that I even considered inviting more people over to share in our accomplishment."
"You what?!" I exclaimed, almost in terror.
Rachel just kept going. "Wow! I can't believe how ungrateful you are. I am trying to improve our marriage and make you the man I know you CAN be. And this is how you treat me."
This had to be one of the biggest crash and burns in history. I attempted to salvage it but it was futile. "Please Rachel, I didn't mean..."
"I don't want to talk about it anymore Steven!" She said cutting me off. "Honestly, I'm a little hurt right now. I think it's best we end this discussion. I am going to document this in the journel and then go right to work. I suggest you do the same...after cleaning the dishes."
With that, the discussion, argument or whatever you want to call it, was over. And seemingly my hopes of salvaging any of my modesty.
I had a really difficult time concentrating at work. I kept replaying the argument from this morning over in my head. I kept thinking about what was going to happen tonight when I got home. Not to mention, I was waiting for a video call from Rachel, ordering me to do some humiliating and potentially career destroying act in my office. That call, thankfully never came. In fact, no call or text from Rachel came all day. I texted her a few times asking if she was "ok" but never got a response. I knew that was a bad sign.
I tried to stay at work as long as I could but eventually I knew I had to head home. I decided to take the long way home to kill as much time as possible. When I finally made it home, I saw that Mary's car was already parked outside. I pulled into the garage, shut the car off and waited for a few minutes. I thought about just walking in wearing my suit and if Rachel said anything to me, just ignoring her. I knew if I did that however, it would lead to the blow up of all time and likely the end of my marriage.
I got out of the car and again, just stood in the garage, thinking about what I should do. No matter what I did, my life was going to be completely changed. If I walked in naked, it would make Rachel happy but I may never be able to look my friends in the eyes again. Plus, there was a chance everyone in the neighborhood would know exactly how our marriage is run. If I didn't walk in naked, then it would probably over between Rachel and I. I knew I really only had one option.
I slowly took off my suit jacket and hung it up. Next my tie came off and so on. Once I was completely naked, I took a deep breath and walked into the laundry room that led right into the kitchen.
I was a little relieved to see the ladies were not in the kitchen and I could hear them talking in the den. There was absolutely no way to make it to the stairs without walking through the den. I stayed in the kitchen for several minutes, until I heard Rachel's voice get closer as she was talking to Mary. With that Rachel walked into the kitchen.
"Steve! Your home!" She said as she greeted me with a kiss. "Oh I am so glad! I was wondering what was keeping you?"
I started to speak but Rachel talked right over me. "Now dear, any nerves you might have had, just ignore them. I have explained everything to Mary. The journal, Dr. Harnisch, the whole program and she loves it. I even loaned her Dr. Harnisch's book."
Great, I thought. Not only am I about to humiliate myself, I will probably also have an irate friend to deal with later.
Rachel grabbed me by the hand, "come show Mary how you have embraced the program." Rachel led me into the den, where I could see Mary sitting on the couch, drinking a glass of white wine.