A Bad Girl
"I've been bad," I said. His face showed no emotion. "I have been with other men," I said. "Three." The guilt was tearing me apart. I began to cry.
"You going to leave?" he asked.
"I don't want to," I said, tears filling my eyes.
"Did you enjoy it? I mean the sex," he said, like he was asking me about a movie I'd seen.
"No! Yes," I admitted, the guilt tightening around me like a straight jacket. "I am so sorry, David." I only called him David when things were serious.
"Do you love me?" he said calmly, as if he was asking about the weather. I nodded. "Do you love us?" Again I nodded, the tears beginning to flow freely.
"Can you ever have sex with me again and enjoy it?" he asked as if he'd been at fault.
"Of course. I always enjoyed it," I said, as if that made it better.
"Then we're fine," he said as if I had bought the wrong groceries.
"Have you ever?" I asked. "You know, strayed?"
"No. No one ever thought I was sexy enough to want me to," he said casually.
"Your problem is, you're the sexiest fucking woman I know. Everyone wants to fuck you, even women," he said with a smile.
"It's not that I am such a strong paragon of virtue. It's that I am so fucking sexually dull," he said cheerfully.
"How can you forgive me?" I said, feeling a tightness that made it hard to breathe.
"Simple. Because I love you," he said. "Do you want to stay with me?" I nodded.
"Then problem solved," he said. "It would be a tragedy for me if you didn't. Don't beat yourself up over doing what everyone wants to do," he said. "We can't kid ourselves. There is a reason why gossip columns are the rage. Romance novels are about infidelity. Happy, faithful marriages are boring. People thrive on excitement. It's natural."
I didn't say anything. "It was exciting, right?" he said. Tears filled my eyes and ran down my cheeks. "Of course it was," he said. "If we can't overcome this, we don't have a strong marriage, and I think we do. By the way," he said, "I need to make it more exciting for you. That's clear. I promise to try."
I put my arms around him. "I love you," I said.
"Want to make love to me and give me a chance to get back on the team," he said with a grin.
I kissed him. "I don't deserve you," said.
"What sexy thing did they do to you that you'd like me to do as well?" he said.
"I like what you do," I said.
"But what did any one of them do that you really, really liked," he said with a smile, "and you'd like me to do? They had to somethings really well."
I am sure I blushed. Finally I said, "One would suck on my clitoris really, really hard. I did like that."
"Okay, I will do that. What else?"
I thought for a minute. "One always let me be on top," I said.
"Okay, I can do that. I should have done that before. My bad. Anything else?" he asked.
I grinned. "Well, one always did me doggy style. I really liked that," I said, wiping my eyes.
"Okay, I realize the novelty has to be a big part of it. Just the anticipation of somebody new, the adventure of being with someone different had to make it very thrilling. Of course. I can't become someone else, but we can change the location and the situation and the intensity. Now we are getting somewhere," he said.
"The problem wasn't you," he said. "The problem was I wasn't them. The problem was I was just me. Same old uninteresting, average husband kind of guy. How could anyone be expected to resist exciting, new, and insanely wild?
"I am not saying you won't still want those things, but at least we know what they are. Let's try a few of those activities now, just us."
He then began taking off his clothes. He turned to me when he was naked. "Stand up and I'll undress you," he said. I put out my arms and turned so he could unsnap my skirt. I had to laugh at the image. When my skirt dropped to the floor, I kicked it away, then he slipped my panties over my bottom and pulled them down my legs. He removed my top, undid my bra, and tossed it to the side.
He picked me up and carried me to the bed. "You pick," he said cheerfully. "Oral, doggy, or cowgirl?"
"Oral," I said as he put me down on the bed and looked me over.