In a previous story (Fun With my First Wife) I wrote about our first time partner swapping with our best friends, Paul and Julia, and how that became a regular thing for a year or more.
After our arrangement with Paul and Julia came to end, I was involved in a bad car accident, later that same year, when I was hitch hiking. The driver as it turns out was drunk. The girl in the other car was killed, I was nearly killed and suffered a whole variety of injuries. I ended up spending over two months in hospital. I will spare you all the details of my injuries but both my ankles were badly broken, and required extensive surgery to repair them, so I wasn't allowed out of bed for six weeks.
My wife Sandra was a woman who loved sex and didn't like going very long without it. So after two or three weeks I asked her how she was coping, and said I hoped she wasn't misbehaving. She said she wasn't. But one day, soon after, I just knew that something had changed. I knew her so well I was certain she'd had sex since I last saw her. I pressed her and eventually she admitted that she had met up with an old boyfriend, Steve, they got a bit drunk and she ended up spending the night with him.
I was a bit upset and we got into a big argument about it.
"Here I am in hospital, bed-bound, and you're off having sex with your old boyfriend. How do you think that makes me feel?"
"Darling I'm sorry, but you know how I am when it comes to sex. I've been without it for over two weeks, the longest I've been without it for ages. It has been driving me crazy!"
"Well I'm not that happy going without myself, you know!" I said, sulkily.
"Sure, but there's not much I can do about that is there? Me going without as well won't change anything. And besides you never minded me going with Paul all those times. Not to mention those other couples we swapped with afterwards. The only difference now is that you aren't around to ask."
"Hmm. I guess you're right," I reluctantly admitted.
"I was desperate and a little bit drunk, I couldn't help myself. You can understand can't you my love?"
I calmed down a bit and accepted that. Our partner swapping activities had been so exciting for both of us, and I was aroused now at the thought of her having sex with another man again. I started to ask her all about it.
"So how did you hook up with him? Was it something planned?"
"No, it wasn't. OK, I was getting desperate for sex, but I have also been really lonely without you. So I went out for a couple of drinks with Sue and Maureen. After I'd got a few drinks inside me I spotted Steve on the other side of the bar, and went and joined him, just to say 'Hi' and catch up. And, well, one thing led to another!"
"Where did you go?"
"Back to his place, which I'd been to plenty of times before of course, when we were going out together."
"Did you spend the whole night there?"
"Yes, sure. I mean three weeks without -- I had a lot of catching up to do!"
I was relaxing now, and we both laughed at that.
"Was it good?"
"Yes, pretty good. I mean I really needed it."
"Was it as good as you remembered it with him?"
"Yes, I guess so. I mean we were only together for about three months or so, but sex was always good between us."
"Is it just the once that you have been with him?"
"Yes, just last night."
"Will you be seeing him again?"
"Yes, I'd like to, unless you are absolutely against it."
"There's no danger that you are going to leave me for him is there?" I asked anxiously.