Portrait of a Modern Marriage
Part 8
Old Routines & New Beginnings
The rest of the school term passed without much else happening with regards to Claire and I indulging in our new
lifestyle
. We had a couple more 'swaps' with Lizzie and George but that was it really. Lizzie by that time was really getting into the submissive thing and, whilst I was more than happy to oblige by turning her sexy backside bright red, I was not really into inflicting the sort of pain she seemed to want. She had purchased all sorts of clamps and implements of punishment for us to use but some of them I found more of a turn-off than exciting. She even went so far as to have several piercings done, her nipples and labia all had gold rings through them, and I must admit I did find those
very
erotic.
Paul did eventually ask his young divorcee out, Sandra her name was, and at first things were a little awkward between him and ourselves whenever we met taking the kids to school. Sandra's son was also in the same class as Paul's son William and our Mikey and it was that that led us all to become good friends. The boys used to love to come round to our house to play in the pool and have sleepovers at weekends so it was only natural that we asked Paul and Sandra to stay overnight too. The first time we were all together, the combination of too much wine and Sandra sensing an '
atmosphere'
led us to tell her all about my wife's and her boyfriend's earlier dalliance. Although she was shocked at first, she soon realised that I was totally OK with it and that there was no chance of a repeat and that
she
wouldn't be required to join in with mine and Claire's little deviances. Eventually we all broke down into drunken, hysterical laughter promising not to mention it again.
* * * * * *
One thing that was almost set in stone in those days was our family summer break.
My parents, Robert and Katherine, had retired early in their fifties from running my dad's building firm and a couple of years later had up sticks and moved to Brittany in North West France. They had bought a dilapidated old farmhouse years before on the outskirts of a charming little village called Kerloret near the town of Lorient on the Brest peninsula. It really is a beautiful place, just over 2 kilometres from the gorgeous beaches of Ploemeur and about a half hour or so to the airport.
My parents had spent years taking their holidays and renovating the house there, first of all camping whilst my dad (who was a builder by trade) worked on the farmhouse, until eventually they had a wonderful 4 bedroom home in the French countryside, handy for all amenities and access.
We had started taking our holidays with my mum and dad just after Mikey was born and it had become a tradition that Claire, the kids and myself, together with Claire's parents, would spend the best part of August there every year. To say it was convenient for us would not do the place justice. A total of a little over 5 hours travelling from our Cheshire home and we would be installed in a beautiful, old, countryside farmhouse, complete with a huge outdoor pool and sun-trap patio, all of which was walking distance from wonderful sandy beaches for the kids to play on.
Claire's parents, Michael and Sarah, still worked in those days. Michael was a chartered accountant and partner in a local firm, whilst Sarah had her own little florists on Prestbury high street.
People always say that, if you want to know what your wife will look like when she gets older, you should look at her mother. Well, all I can say is that the indications were 'spectacular'. Sarah had 'dirty blonde' hair like her daughter and granddaughter and, like Claire, had a very pretty face topping a wonderful, slim athletic-looking body with legs that just didn't quit. Was she a GILF?...Oh my god yes!!!... Undoubtedly so.
Michael also kept himself in good shape. He ran early mornings before work several times a week and played golf obsessively - (according to his wife). He was really looking forward to having Mikey play with him when my son got a little older having been disappointed that
his
only child, Claire, had shown absolutely no interest in taking up that 'damn stupid game' β as mother and daughter both described it.
My parents had always had liberal views on public nudity. As kids, my brother and I (he lives in Australia with his family now) had seen the both of them in various stages of undress when we were growing up and, as for long as I can remember, my mother would always sunbathe topless on our family holidays to assorted Mediterranean beach resorts. As a consequence, it was of no surprise to me when, the first time Claire and I holidayed with my parents, my mother spent most of the day wandering around the house wearing just a pair of bikini bottoms or shorts. Claire immediately joined in - (she had always sunbathed topless when we were abroad ourselves early in our relationship and subsequent marriage, also sunbathing nude in our own back garden when the British weather allowed) consequently me and dad were treated to a constant display of beautiful female flesh and my kids grew up to accept it as normal too. We never hid the children from topless beaches whenever we went to the seaside, although we always made sure it was a 'family' beach and there were plenty of other teenagers and younger around for them to play with, We weren't a 'nudist' family as such, just one which had the modern healthy attitude that is prevalent on most continental beaches; that a woman's bare breasts are not necessarily sexual or indecent but are actually quite normal and acceptable and that the human body is just a fact of life, not something to be derided, scorned or laughed at no matter what shape or size it is.
What did surprise me however, (and thrill me a little I must admit) is that the first time Michael and Sarah holidayed with us in France, Sarah joined my mum and my wife in discarding her top almost as soon as they had arrived β Claire had in fact warned her mother what to expect and Sarah was totally OK with the situation, as I'm sure her husband was too.- She also carried on with the established trend of just wearing shorts and no top around the house, together with my wife and mother, something she would have never considered when we were at home in England. I suppose the old saying
'what happens on vacation, stays on vacation'
springs to mind and although many of our holiday photographs from that period showed all three female generations of our family
sans
tops and with their breasts of various shapes and sizes exposed, it was never mentioned (and the pictures
never
showed to anyone outside our family) when we arrived back home. Luckily, digital photography had come into our lives by then, so there was no need to have any film developed and keeping those particular photos private was no problem.
* * *
(
Note from the author :
- I know from a personal experience when I was once inadvertently asked into the back room of our local chemist to collect a large parcel and whilst there saw probably hundreds of topless and nude photos of women pinned up all around the walls on display, that any good holiday snaps were kept as souvenirs by the developers for their own pleasure and amusement... How digital photography must have ruined their fun...)
***
For several years I had been around my own mother, my wife and her mother and occasionally other older female friends of my parents who visited from time to time without any sexual overtones going off in my brain. However that year, the year of mine and my wife's headlong dive into the world of 'open' marriage and sexual liberty, was different somehow. Due to my new-found freedom I had started to look at most women I met as potential sexual partners and found, certainly my mother-in-law and some of the other visiting ladies,
very
sexually attractive. I even noticed consciously for the first time - (honestly,
those
sort of thoughts had never intentionally crossed my mind before) just what a magnificent pair of breasts my own mother had. Yes they were hanging a little lower than she would probably have liked but...
My god they were big!!!...
No wonder our house was so popular amongst my friends when I was growing up.
My new-found sexual attraction to her mother was discovered by Claire during the second week of that particular vacation. I was idly stroking my erect cock whilst watching Sarah and
my