I fucked up this time. I mean royally fucked up. Fucked up so bad that my life changed forever, all because I didn't close the garage door. One stupid door and my world will never be the same again.
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My wife, Mandy, and I married almost six years ago. We met senior year of high school. Both of us on the nerdy side, we met at a math team meet. We went to rival schools and didn't know each other before that day. And it would have gone on that way if not for a twist of fate.
Toward the end of the meet, the proctor asked an impossible question. I wracked my brain to come up with the solution. I pulled off a buzzer beater, getting everything down on paper at the last moment. Moments later, I pumped my fist in celebration when the answer was revealed. It turned out that Mandy and I were the only ones who answered correctly.
She made the first move by coming over to talk with me after the meet. We talked about how we knew the answer. The conversation possessed an ease that I'd never experienced with a girl. The minutes stretched on for what felt like hours. It ended only when her coach called for all of her students to get on the bus to leave. Mandy handed me a note that she wrote earlier. It turned out to be a math problem. Without much difficulty, I solved it and the answer turned out to be her phone number. I called her that night and we soon became inseparable.
We found out that we'd both decided on the same college to attend that fall. We dated throughout the end of senior year of high school, each taking the other's prom. In what turned out to be a magical night, we took each other's virginity on her prom night.
We stayed together in college, moving in together our junior year. I majored in engineering. Mandy, though gifted at math, always wanted to be a lawyer. She majored in English with a smattering of Pre-Law classes mixed in to her schedule. We graduated in four years and found jobs. We both worked while obtaining a law degree and a Master's degree.
We got married the summer after we finished school and everything seemed to be sailing smoothly. We talked about starting a family, a dream we both held. The night of our fifth anniversary, Mandy told me that it was the right time to start trying. That night she wore a sexy red two-piece lingerie set. Made of red lace, the spaghetti straps hung from her shoulders. They lifted her 40DDD. The top fell covering the slight paunch that was her stomach. The red thong accented the appealing width of her hips. The string portion falling between the cheeks of her ass. Wisps of her untrimmed pubic snuck out from beyond the lace barrier.
Mandy didn't care to work out at the gym. Though she paid for a membership, she only went a handful of times a month She always called herself fat. In reality, she obviously carried a little extra weight, but her height, 5'10", allowed her to carry it well. Despite what she thought, I witnessed men checking out her tits and ass when she passed them.
The night of our anniversary was the sexiest night of my life, outstripping even our wedding night and honeymoon. Neither of us dated anyone else before our chance meeting. Mandy gave me all of my firsts, as I did her. We were each other's one and only experience. This led to mutual exploration and what I considered a satisfying sex life. That night was the first time that I came inside her. Thinking that she could get pregnant made the sex even better.
We weren't disappointed, though, when her period came as it normal. We just started trying and it would happen sooner or later. Frustration soon settled in as each successive month passed without conception. We started going to fertility doctors and getting tested. We sought out any tip or suggestion other struggling couples could give us. We even looked into old wives tales. Desperately, we agreed to do anything to get pregnant.
Without realizing it, we started putting pressure on each other. At specific times each month, we forced ourselves to be intimate, hoping the end result would be a baby. Long day at work, didn't matter, have sex. Big fight between the two of you, didn't matter, have sex. Social plans that pop up for any married couple, didn't matter, have sex. What began as an exciting and titillating adventure turned into, at times, forced intimacy.
Mandy, ever the problem solver, introduced a new rule into our relationship: no masturbating. I admit that throughout my life, I could be considered a frequent masturbator. Not chronic, but frequent. It started in my teens. Until Mandy, I was a kissless, dateless virgin. Finding pleasure in myself introduced me to the benefits of my own sexuality. This continued even when I was no longer kissless, dateless, or a virgin. I saw it as the full encapsulation of my sexual being.
My wife, on the other hand, did not see the benefits of masturbation, her or mine. When we met, she had never masturbated before. I tried to show her the individual joy she could obtain, but she always said it felt dirty and wrong. I introduced her to toys that I persuaded her to use when we were together. This led to the first of many orgasms, but never just her by herself. She said that it wasn't necessary when you married, that you had a willing fuck partner laying right next to you at night. When she found that I still enjoyed alone time, she saw it as a criticism of her. I didn't find her attractive. I liked the women in porn more. I thought she was fat. This, of course, was not the truth.
I explained to her that masturbating led me to a complete sex life. I furthered argued that I never turned her down for sex, even after masturbating earlier. She begrudgingly accepted. This led to occasions when she would walk into the bedroom and catch me entertaining myself. It elicited a disappointing look and her retreat to the furthest corner of the house. I would chase her, explaining my needs. She always seemed to acknowledge that maybe she acted closed minded and would let the whole matter pass.
Though she reluctantly recognized my need, she hated that I watched porn to accomplish my ends. She hated the perceived vulgarity. The one-sided power system. The unrealistic expectations. Without her knowledge or consent, I curated my own expansive collection of porn sites, pictures, movies and stories. It spanned all years, genres, and sources. Interracial porn constituted the largest portion of my collection. Mandy, finding a folder containing this particular flavor, asked why I would like this type of crap. I had no answer. I told her it just did something for me. I got off on the imagined taboo of the scenes.
The matter passed with an unspoken acceptance until we struggled to start a family. Two months ago, she caught me red handed when a movie she was watching in the other room ended sooner than I expected. In tears, she confronted me. She questioned my desire to have a kid. She yelled that all of the poking and prodding she'd undergone was for nothing if I wasted my sperm on my own selfish indulgences. I couldn't contradict anything she said, especially while the tears poured down her face. I sensed an anger reaching a breaking point within her.
She left me alone, my now limp dick still in my hand, with a warning. If she found me jerking off again while we were trying to have a baby, the consequence would be earth shattering to me. I believed her.
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