Not long after Elise and I met I said, "I like being submissive to a strong woman."
I told her that if, for example, she wanted a sandwich, all she had to do was tell me. She could say, "make me all sandwich," and I'd make her a sandwich.
This was not something Elise would naturally do.
A year after we met we moved in together. I realized that even if she was exhausted after a long morning of cleaning the house, she would still march into the kitchen and make her own sandwich while I sat in a chair watching a game.
Eventually I became her husband. She was never comfortable giving me a command.
The idea of submitting to a woman had been a life long fantasy of mine. So when I told Elise about this fantasy I was telling her something essential about myself that I had feared telling every other woman in my life.
I added this: I said, "you don't have to dress in leather boots or carry a whip though that would be hot if you wanted to, at least at times. Just be confident enough to say, 'make me a sandwich,' without the "please" or the 'would you mind making me a sandwich.''
When I told Elise this she paused and then said, "I think I could do that."
When she said this I think she was describing a wish of her own. That she wanted to be genuine and more direct, that she was tired of being the giver and wanted something else, particularly from the man in her life.
But, on another day, when we were sitting in the kitchen and she was eating a blueberry muffin I had made her she said, "If you were really submissive I wouldn't respect you." When she said this a blueberry lodged itself in a corner of her lips in such a way that I knew she couldn't tell it was there. I got a napkin, held it before her and asked if I could wipe away the blueberry stain. She allowed me to.
Elise agreed to play the role of Mistress in my life but it was difficult to know if she did so for me or for herself. One time, after she laid out the clothes she expected me to wear to a dinner party, I said, "I think you're a natural Mistress."
"No." She said. "You just want me to be. I want you to look nice when we go out together."
As part of my submissive fantasy I told her I'd stay in chastity: no orgasms without her permission. I felt kind of proud about committing to this because in past relationships I'd been a secret chronic masturbator, and had my own private collection of favorite porn videos that I'd jerk off to five of six times a week.
I hoped Elise took my chastity, as a sign of my commitment to her. I guess I wanted some kudos for this from her. But when I told her she said "that's fine," as if it didn't matter.
Occasionally she'd tease me. She'd say, "I bet you would like to cum tonight wouldn't you?" And sometimes when I was hard in the morning and pressed against her thigh she'd wrap her fingers around the base of my cock and pull up and down, long slow hard strokes that brought me right to the edge. Then she'd stop and say, "now be a good boy and go make me some coffee and maybe I'll let you cum when you bring it to me."
I once wrote her a poem about her vagina that I called, "Raising My Flagpole." I thought the poem was cute and funny. It made her smile. I wrote her many poems like this, one a month. Sometimes I look back on them and wince, embarrassed at my mawkish purple prose. Too much sexual romanticism can feel insincere. I knew I walked a fine line.
Just after we met Elise got her vagina waxed so that it was completely bare, and baby soft. She came home that night pulled her leggings and panties off and lay spread legged in front of me and plucked out little pieces of wax from the area around her clit. When I came near she smirked and said, "No touching me for a day darling." Her vagina apparently needed a full day to heal from the trauma of the wax.
She became more comfortable in her role as my Mistress but not real comfortable. She reminded me that she wanted me to be an ordinary husband, plan a trip to the beach. make the bed, surprise her with a night out at the state fair, even be a little rough and unreasonable with her at times so she could complain about me like women do who love their husbands.
She enjoyed how quickly her Mistress words could cause me to get an erection. But one day, after I'd responded to a request she made by saying "yes Mistress," she stamped her foot and said, "I'm not your Mistress."
The shame I felt when she said this was sharp and wounding. I blamed myself. I felt as if I was pressing the subject. Lately, her dominatrix voice had gone quiet. She stopped the playful Mistress texts. It might have been boredom, but I suspected it was due to our growing intimacy. We couldn't knock against each so casually as we did at first. We were in love. We were a couple. I'd had long conversations with her father. It was as if the closer we became the more sensitive she was to the idea of being my Mistress. For example, when we first met I often licked her pussy and sometimes my tongue slipped down and into her asshole. I loved the submissive feeling I got by doing this. But in the last six months she'd squirmed away, self conscious, when I tried to do it. You'd think familiarity would breed a kind of openness but that was not our case. There was more to lose, more threads that bound us, that might get cut, were our perverse play like my tonguing her sweet butthole to drive us into a ditch.
This upset me.
I had an idea that I asked her about a few days later.
I thought a consultation with a professional Dominatrix would be enlightening. We rarely spoke of our erotic life to others. I thought talking to another woman who liked dominating men might empower Elise, give her more internal permission to be a Mistress, so that the whole idea of dominating her husband would feel more acceptable.
It took me a while to get up the nerve but one evening I called Mistress M. She's a dominatrix in our city who had an ad on a website called Back Pages. She said she "consults" with couples to help them establish a female led relationship.
Elise shrugged and said, "I'll learn a few things." when I told her I was going to make the appointment.
We arrived at noon on a Saturday in mid July and knocked on the door of a red brick house on a corner lot in a treeless suburb.
M opened the door. She stepped back welcoming us with one hand signaling us to come in, the other hand shading her eyes from the sunlight. Built like a woman in a Rubens painting, her mouth was full, her hips thick and wide. We paused in the foyer. A large living room lay before us punctuated by a vast array of blue silk pillows sitting on light chocolate colored leather furniture. A small red wool sofa sat in front of the white brick fireplace.
M stepped between Elise and I.
"Why don't you go sit in the car and wait." She said.
She stared at me. The chin of her cherubic face rose slowly, lifting her nose. She stood blocking me from Elise and cocked her head to the right sinking into a stance that said "there's nothing else to discuss."
Elise looked girlish, thinner and slightly pale, overexposed in the light that poured in from a skylight. Her grin filled her face, her eyes sparkling like little crystal chips of joy as if she'd been freed of some burden. "You wanted this" her look said, "do as you're told."
"Okay," I said.
I walked back to the car. The heat of the shadeless concrete street was suffocating. Normally I'd go for a long walk if I had to wait for Elise, even in the heat, but M's words touched off a sense of trepidation. I'd best be sitting in the car when Elise came out.
I waited. An hour passed which was the amount of time I'd purchased for our consultation.