Not a lot of sex, just enough to get the story told. Think about how you would react; hopefully you'll never have to find out.
I had just finished my beer when I noticed Jim walking through door. Motioning him over to the end of the bar, I called out to the bartender.
"Hank, give me two more will you," as Jim sat on the bar stool next to me.
"Got your message good buddy, what was so damm important that we had to meet in the middle of the afternoon at a bar?" he inquired.
By now, Hank had delivered the beers and I raised my beer to Jim, "to friendship," I said as we touched bottles.
"Jim, I've know you for 18 years and you've been my best friend for 16 of those years," I started. "You're the only person I feel close enough to tell my story," I said looking sadly down at the floor.
"I suppose your wife, Vicki, has told you that Carol and I've been having a lot of problems over the last six months," I said without even looking at Jim. "No matter what I said or did, it was always wrong. Everyone told me that, because she was going through her change in life, her body chemistry was off and not to worry about it; but that's easy to say and hard to do."
"About three months ago we had a real blow up. I wanted to fool around and Carol wasn't interested. I guess I should have let it go, but it'd been weeks since we'd even been close and I was more than a little pissed," I said taking a big swallow. "I told her if she didn't want to fuck me anymore, I'd find someone who would. I know it was a stupid thing to say, and as soon as it came out of my mouth I told her I was talking out my ass but she went nuts."
"If you can find some slut who'll want that small dick of your, go for it you asshole," Carol yelled as she ran upstairs.
I ran after her apologizing but she slammed and locked our bedroom door.
"Carol honey I'm sorry, it was a stupid thing to say, you know I love you," I told her but she just told me to go away. "Shit, I really screwed it up this time," I thought to myself.
I spent the next two nights in the guest room and Carol didn't say a word to me unless she absolutely had to.
"Jim, you have no idea how hard it is to live in a house with someone you love, who refuses to talk to you" I told him.
This went on for about a month when I'd finally had enough. We were sitting at the dining room table having dinner and I put my fork down at looked at her.
"Carol, if you don't talk to me tonight, I'm moving out tomorrow and talking to a lawyer about getting a divorce," I told her hoping my bluff would snap her out of her shity mood or at least get her to yell to me.
When she wouldn't even acknowledge what I said, I stood up, went upstairs packed a few things in a suitcase and walked out.
"Well Jim, we both called each others bluff. I ended up staying at a motel close to work and turned off my cell phone; because I didn't have anything more to say to Carol at that point. I went to work as usual on Thursday, and left my cell phone off until about 2:00 in the afternoon. When I finally turned it on, I had 15 messages from Carol."
"In the first eight, she yelled at me and told me what a shit head I was, and to call her when I got my head out of my ass. In the next six, Carol was a lot more reserved and told me to call her cell phone, so we could talk. The final message, was one with her crying and telling me not to go see an attorney until I talked to her, and to please call her as soon as possible."
I looked at Jim and motioned to Hank to give us another round.
"Shit Ken, I never knew it was that bad between the two of you. Vicki just said you guys were going through a rough patch and that per Carol, you guys were working through it," he said downing the last of his bottle. "Damm it Jim, why didn't you say something to me, you know I'm always there for you," he said giving me a hug.
"Well after work, I went back to my motel and waited until about 6:00 before calling Carol. She answered on the second ring. I asked her if she wanted to talk yet and she sheepishly answered yes. I told her to meet me at Angelo's in an hour and we'd have dinner and talk."
"When we got there she wanted to talk, but I told her to wait until after dinner or the waiter would be interrupting us every 15 minutes. We ate in silence and after bringing us coffee I told the waiter to leave us alone for a while."
"Jim come home, I miss you," Carol said with tears in her eyes. "I know we can work through this because I know you still love me, even after what you said the other night," she said almost crying. "I know I've been a bit out of sorts lately, but I'll work on that, just don't shut me out," she told me.
"Shut you out," I said a little too loudly. "Shut you out, you haven't let me touch you in months," I told her. "And when you did, it was like I was getting pity sex from you. It was like, here I am, let me know when you're finished."
People were now starting to look our way, and the waiter came back to ask if we needed anything else. I told him to bring me a double brandy, because I figured I'd need it before the night was through.
"Carol, I thought when the kids left we now had it all. We could come and go as we pleased and if we wanted to make love on the kitchen table, hell there was no one at home to worry about; but you pulled away from me. Every time I tried to initiate something you always had an excuse. You were too tired, you had a headache, you were too busy or just not in the mood; shit, you were never in the mood," I told her.
Carol looked down at the table because she knew Jim was right. Her hormones were out of whack and she seemed to always be in a bad mood. The only person around now, to vent on, was Jim; and she did just that. If work wasn't going just right, if dinner didn't turn out the way it should or if she thought Jim was pawing at her; she let him have it; which I guess, became almost an every night thing.
"Jim all I can say is that I'm sorry. When we became empty nesters it hit me real hard; it was now, just the two of us for the first time since we first got married. You started acting like a teenager again, wanting sex every night and with my hormones out of balance, I just wasn't in the mood like you. It doesn't mean I loved you any less, I just didn't have your sex drive. I thought you'd get tired of doing it, but the more we did it, the more you wanted it; I couldn't win," she said as her eyes watered up.
"I guess I pulled back because I felt I was being used, like a piece of meat and I didn't like it," she told him. "I got pissed that night because I felt like you didn't care what I thought any longer and you just wanted to get off; sorry about the short dick comment," she said with a smile. "You know after so many years, you and I do fit like a comfortable pair of gloves."
I knew she had made some valid points, and it looked like we were both to blame, because neither one of us wanted to talk about it to the other.
"Carol I love you more than you can imagine, and sometimes I just want to climb inside of you; to be that much closer to you. But I guess I went a little overboard, but I had to bring it to a head or we'd never talk about it." I stood up, went to her side of the table and kissed her. "Let's go home."
"Jim, I'd like to tell you that everything was perfect after that, but I'd be lying. The makeup sex was great, but after a week or two, she started pulling back again. Shit, I wasn't going to go through that mess again so I started dating her."
"What?" Jim asked. "What the hell do you mean, you started dating her?"
"Just that Jim, I started treating her like I did when we first started dating. I now called her to ask how her day was going, I brought home flowers, I took her shopping and even had dinner already prepared when she got home at least three nights a week. Carol looked at me weird for a little while, but after three weeks, she got more comfortable with it and just went with the flow; which brings me to today."
"I decided to take it one step further. I could tell she was a little uneasy this week, and I wasn't exactly sure why, so I planned a honeymoon weekend."
"I took Friday off and told her I had to go out of town for the day but would be home by 10:30 that night. I packed a bag and played it to the hilt. I had breakfast at Denny's and then planned my day. I made reservations at that new French restaurant, I picked up a box of her favorite chocolates and booked the honeymoon suite at the Ritz. I then went to the mall and bought a slinky black dress, Carol's been eyeing for the last month, and shoes to go along with it. I finally went to Victoria Secrets and found a sexy piece of lingerie, not slutty but sexy, if you know what I mean. Shit man, my plan was coming all together."
"I grabbed everything and headed for home to be ready for Carol when she got home. I noticed something wasn't quite right as soon as I walked through the front door. I put everything on the kitchen counter and then I heard it."
"Oh fuck yes, give it to me," I heard the voice say.
"At first I thought Carol had left the TV on a cable channel so I quietly walked upstairs. The voices were coming from our spare room, so I knew something was up. I leaned up against the wall in the hallway and listened."
"I bet your wimp of a husband can't please you like I can," the guys chuckled. "Let me show you what a real man's cock feels like."
"Oh god, you're going to split me apart, oh fuck but it feels so good; don't stop God damm it," I heard her scream.
"I was fucking numb and wanted to run away but my feet wouldn't work. Shit Jim, I wanted to cry, scream but all I could do is just stand there listening."
"When he told her he was going to fuck her virgin ass, I lost it."
"I ran down the stairs and had the front door open before I stopped."
"This was my house, and I wasn't going anywhere; I wasn't the one cheating upstairs. Jim, you remember a couple of years ago when we tried target shooting? Well, I saved that pistol and kept it in my desk in the den. I went in, grabbed it and headed back upstairs."
"Ken, please tell me you didn't do anything stupid," Jim said with a worried look on his face.
