An account of what you should never do, have sex with your ex.
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It was odd really; well I found it odd and sometimes wondered whether others would as well. However, they couldn't, for I didn't tell them, I didn't tell anyone, I didn't share that part of my life with another soul.
I was married to Kevin for thirteen years and was with him in total for almost sixteen. We had an intensely sexual relationship. Looking back, I sometimes wondered whether that was all we had, but I didn't think so. In our ways we loved each other; it's just that those ways were not sufficient for the relationship to survive. Then, c'est la vie, it happens to all sorts.
I never really thought about sex much whilst I was with him. It was just something that was there on tap all day, every day. I can hardly remember a time in our marriage when we were getting on ok, that either party turned down the other's advances and I never had to feign an orgasm. I did not even learn how to until after the break up! We were both, it seemed, always up for it.
So, I drifted through marriage and motherhood in a daze of sexual satisfaction without querying anything really. Well not until I caught him out having an affair, then another one. It was then that I had my nine-month affair.
It was in an effort to save my marriage, that I did other things with and for Kevin. Like wife swapping a couple of times and then having sex with Jenny, an aspiring actress, while he looked on.
I was terrified of being alone and having to bring up my daughter without the husband and father I had always assumed would be there. I had become terribly depressed and had lost nearly twenty pounds, great for the figure but havoc with your bra sizes.
The third time I caught him out he was fucking a twenty one year old secretary at the business we had built together and jointly owned. That was, I felt, rubbing my face in it just a little too much. Play away, if you have to but don't piss on your own doorstep.
So we parted. A year later we divorced.
Now this is what I meant when I said, it is odd really. Since my divorce, I have hardly stopped thinking about sex. It's on my mind all the time. I continually have sexual feelings and thoughts. I fantasise about different forms of sex, with different combinations of people and I look at both men and women with lust in my mind.
In that period between parting and the divorce, I did not date and did not have sex with anyone. I did not feel that it would be right for Sara. The only good thing that was emerging from the sham of a marriage we were ending was how we were both totally intent on shielding her from the influences of the divorce, as much as was possible. That even meant me attending school events and other functions with Kevin.
In that year I did find chat rooms, though. At first, I went into straight ones for divorced women, but of course, it was not long before I was in romance and adult rooms. It wasn't that much longer before I was losing my inhibitions and chatting quite openly and easily about sex with numerous men. Soon that extended to exchanging e-mails and to developing role-plays, some of which were acted out in the chat rooms, with the inevitable outcome.
I suppose from the first time I said, "Yellow" to one of the pervy guys in chat who asked, "What colour are you wearing?" I was on the slippery slope. Probably from when I told a guy about my sex life I was on my way and certainly once I started messing around with role-plays there was no escape.
The first time I masturbated as I chatted to a guy was amazing when it was happening, but very guilt ridden afterwards. I got used to it, however, and there was a period in that year I waited for my divorce when masturbating, as I exchanged written messages and later voice, became my prime sexual outlet. I can't say I was pleased with myself though. I mean to find myself sprawled back in my big leather chair, my tee shirt pulled up and my boobs out of my bra with my trackie trousers and panties round my knees as a guy told me what to do, is rather on the sordid side isn't it? Equally, having my mobile on loudspeaker as I listened to strangers telling me that they were wanking over my photo, wasn't exactly that subtle was it? It equally wasn't that modest to hear a guy I would have chatted to a few times telling me that he was shoving his big, hard cock right up my cunt and fucking me hard. Similarly I wasn't that inhibited any more and it wasn't really that lady-like to be saying to a guy that I was imagining having his cock in my mouth and sucking it. Or it wasn't that refined really that as he told he was cumming to say. "Cum on my tits or cum on my face." No it wasn't any of those things, but they were massively arousing and incredibly stimulating things all the same.
This was the start of the oddness that came about between my married and unmarried years. In the former there was loads of sex, but it didn't seem that important, whereas in the latter, sex was the dominant thought and feeling practically all the time, yet there was little real sex, well with partners that is.
As I got through the first year waiting for the divorce, celibate I hasten to add, my attention turned to dating. I did not really know what to do. It was quite frightening to be with a guy not knowing the latest form. Did mid-thirties women screw on the first date? Had society moved on so much that what used to be a protocol of kissing on the first, touching boobs on the second, hand up the skirt on the third and then a good old-fashioned shag on the fourth, well sometimes third, was now out of date? Did women really ask men out and suggest that they have sex? Was everything so different? I just didn't know.
So for a couple of years as a divorcee I tried to find out. I dated numerous men. I had flings, affairs and one-night stands. I fucked in cars and in the open air. I did everything, well everything I was asked to do and probably would have done more if requested. I also reacquainted myself with women, something that I had been quite into at uni and had dabbled with a couple of times since. Actually, reading this back it all sounds pretty awful and could make me appear somewhat of a slut. In fact, there were only five or six men in that over two-year period that I have written about in more detail in my Literotica submission, "Those Fucking Years."
Gradually though, the gloss wore off, the madness went away, my need to find out what I had been missing diminished. I found that sex without any emotional involvement was just not worth the trauma, guilt and remorse I went through afterwards. Therefore, I needed to make an emotional commitment, or at least have some involvement other than sex with the guys. But I couldn't. I felt I rather owed it to my daughter not to become involved, entangled or dependent on a guy until she was "of age" at least. Something had to give. Therefore, I became celibate.
Chapter 2
Kevin and I, despite all the trials and tribulations of the acrimonious divorce brought about by his continual philandering, managed to fulfill the vow we made when the divorce became inevitable. We protected our twelve-year-old daughter from it as much as we could.
This meant that he had rather more access than most "guilty" parties had and that when Sara wanted I would always let them meet more frequently than the court had ruled. It also meant that we saw more of each other than many, or most, divorced couples and that there were many family and other functions that we both attended. In addition, the demands of the private school she attended required considerable parents' involvement and Sara's tennis career, brought him and I into frequent contact.
At first, I found that difficult. Whenever Sara was not around, I did not look at him and tried as much as possible to avoid talking to him. Inevitably, I suppose, things did get easier and after, probably a year or so from the divorce, there was an ease between us and we found our way of relating to each other.
It was then that Kevin started becoming more and more friendly. Then, especially when Sara was with us, that he would hold my elbow or slip his arm round me when we crossed the road or when he stood to one side to open a door. It was then, that for the first time since that night I kicked him out, he kissed me. It was just a light peck on the cheek, almost more of a gesture than an embrace, the sort that even strangers exchange, but it was a kiss.
The second time he went to kiss me, Sara wasn't there and I moved out of the way,
"Sorry," he mumbled.
It started happening each time we met and parted. Most times, I moved away and he missed, as it were. However, that would have been too obvious in front of Sara, so when she was there I couldn't duck or bob out of the way. So then, his lips would graze my cheek, each time it seemed going nearer and nearer to my lips. Then, his hand would rest on my hip or waist or, as time progressed, would slide around my side to my back brushing, unintentionally of course as so many other men do, the side of my breast. And it was then that I found to my abject frustration that I was enjoying it.
Chapter 3
"It was the most stupid thing I ever did."
"What was?"
"Letting you push the divorce through."
We were at a family party. It was summertime and very warm so the party was in the grounds of his mother's large house. We were standing close together off to one side from most of the guests. We were both slightly drunk.
"You had no choice."
"I should have fought harder, I've regretted that ever since."
"I haven't and no matter how hard you fought I would never have taken you back."
"I guess you're right, but I should still have tried more to stop you."
"Kevin, you'd been fucking that cow for three months and God knows how many more before her, there was no alternative."
"You know they meant nothing."
"So, what's that got to do with it, you still cheated on me."
"Yes I know, but I still loved you, and still do."
He moved closer and took my hand in his.
