This is the journal of my life and the evolution of my sexual awakening over the past four years. My name is Nina and I am a 40 year old Caucasian woman who is happily married with four wonderful children, a devoted husband, and a good job. I am your average neighbor who lives right down the street, or you see rounding up the kids at school, and you would most likely never guess the fun that I have when I let my hair down. These are the stories of how I got to this point. I hope that you enjoy and by all means, reach out and ask me questions if you ever need some advice.
Chapter 1: Background
We had been married for 15 years, Jim and I. We we married right out of college. Young, stupid, optimistic. I ran to Jim in fact because he represented everything that was normal, steady, safe. You see I grew up in an insanely crazy house and Jim's love and adoration offered me refuge from an abusive father, an alcoholic mother that saw me a meal ticket and a scape goat. Jim is who kept me safe. Safe from my abusive relationships, my bad decisions, from myself in many respects. I was dealing with a lot of things at the time. I drank a lot to forget the STD my dad gave my sister and I in high school and I was scared of men. Jim was the first one who even pierced through the defensive armor that I always used to prevent me from getting to close to people.
Jim was the first person to see me for who I really am. He is the first person that I allowed to see that. He was handsome and athletic and on his way to Law School. I couldn't believe that he wanted to be with me. He made me believe in myself and for that I fell in love with him. It was a romance where he swept me off my feet, but I really made him work for the prize. I had never slept with another guy since my beast of a father raped me, and I could never see myself as beautiful, so I had a hard time understanding what Jim saw in me. I wasn't a slut like the other girls he had dated. I wasn't an easy to get along with, yet Jim chose me.
I made him wait until we were married to sleep with me. And after that the kids came quick. Four kids in four years all while Jim was in Law School. I worked so hard to be the ideal wife for him. I stayed home to take care of the kids and we lived off the student loans. Unfortunately, I buried myself in the raising of the kids and that is how I found my identity. I worked so hard to leave behind my trailer trash life of childhood, that I wanted everything to seem perfect yet under the surface it wasn't. Jim was working long hours to pay off the student loans and try to make a name of himself in the practice. I managed the home front and was often times already asleep when he would come home from the office.
Jim wanted more from me. He would try to tell me about his fetishes, his fantasies, his kinky desires but I wanted nothing to do with it. I don't know if it was because of my fucked up up-bringing or my preoccupation with things being storybook perfect, or my own issues with how I saw myself and sex, but I didn't pay attention to him and during our 8th year of marriage I found out that he was having an affair. I was so pissed. I threw him out. I threatened to take the kids. I was vindictive and trashed his sports car with his own thousand dollar golf clubs. It was a fit of rage.
But then I came to my senses. I realized that he made all the money. Everything was in his name. I wouldn't be able to afford things on my own and there wouldn't be any alimony. He was a lawyer after all who had everything locked up tight. He came back begging to take him back and I thought long and hard about it, prayed about it, and finally decided that it was the best thing for all of us.
Unfortunately I carry a grudge. It was over a year before I would even let him touch me again. And even then when things got to be regular in the bedroom again, it wasn't the same. Our sex life wasn't great before the affair and it was even worse afterwards. After some counseling I new that I had to let him have me every now and then even if I didn't really care if we ever had sex again. But we stayed together for the kids and for the security.
Chapter 2: The Clues in The History
While I was happy to forgo the sexual benefits of marriage Jim wasn't. The marriage counselor was on Jim's side that masturbation was a suitable alternative to sex (either in an affair or with me since I wasn't giving it), the only stipulation was that it couldn't be secretive. I wanted to know that he wasn't having another affair and so therefore I controlled all the passwords, the accounts, and the website histories. From time to time Jim would disappear to "go do some paperwork" and I knew exactly what he was doing. After the kids were in bed he would close and lock the office door and come back 30 minutes later a little more relieved. Wadded up tissues in the waste basket from him cleaning up his mess. We had an unspoken understanding where I didn't bother him and he wouldn't do it in front of me. I didn't want to see it and he didn't want to rub my face in it because he knew I wasn't happy about it.
I hated checking in after him, but I also wasn't going to be naive and get burned again. And over time I watched Jim get more and more sexually frustrated and start dabbling in weirder and weirder shit. First it was humiliation where the women guide him through masturbation, all the while berating him about being pathetic. Then it was a strapon fetish for a bit with videos of the guy being fucked by a Dominatrix, whipped, chained, and tortured. After that it was trannies- transvestites and transexuals. Apparently if he couldn't have me or other women he was now lowering his expectations to men who looked like women when he jerked off. And then the most recent history showed him looking at videos of cuckolded husbands. I actually had to look this one up because sheltered little me didn't know that these things actually existed. I had no idea that some guys fantasize about watching their women get fucked by other men.
Being an armchair psychologist and trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with us it suddenly became obvious to me. He was beating himself up about the affair and doing some sort of self-loathing penance. Instead of being the dominant, strong, type A personality that he lived in not only in the courtroom, but also on the home front all those years, he was now getting off by being submissive... taking his punishment... getting fucked instead of fucking... denying himself instead of taking what he could have. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks - I was going about this in all the wrong way.
He hurt me. And after all the counseling, all the apologies, and all the time that had passed I was still hurting and I wanted him to be hurt as well. Perhaps instead of trying to instill pain on him through denial, maybe it would better for me... him... us... if I turned it around and finally started using this whole sex thing to my advantage. I had always seen sex as something of a punishment, something to be endured, something to be leveraged as power but I refused to let anyone else have that power over me again. But because of all that hurt I wasn't seeing how it could also be used in a healthy way to heal our relationship.
Chapter 3: Testing the Water
After stewing on this for a few days I decided to break the tradition of leaving him be. One night after the kids were tucked in and I was cleaning up from supper, Jim snuck away to his office as was the norm. This time I gave him a few minutes and then barged in with the ruse that I couldn't find my bank card. His pants were around his ankles and he was kneeling on the floor in front of the computer fondling his cock while there was some video of a large black man pounding some young white porn star. I took notice of what he was doing but didn't say anything other than "Have you seen my card, I really need it to buy something online?" He was bewildered that I didn't start screaming at him or fly off the handle (believe me it took everything that I had inside me not to) and only managed a weak "No, Nina. Haven't seen it." and then I turned and left.
Jim emerged from the office very sheepish that night and kept his distance for sure. When we went to bed he crawled into bed after me hoping to avoid a fight. He thought I might be asleep but after about 30 seconds, I very quietly asked him... "Is that what you fantasize about Jim... a big black guy fucking me?". Mr. Preparation in the courtroom, Mr. I Have An Answer For Everything, Mr. Sarcastic Reply stumbled for words. First he tried to pretend like he didn't know what I was talking about. Then he half-heartedly tried to deny it. Then finally, he at least admitted to "well kind of Neen, I mean, you and I hardly fuck anymore. Maybe you might be happier if you had someone else?"
The silence was deadly. I don't think 5 seconds ever took longer in my life. He wasn't sure of what I would say or do and there was sheer terror in his face. He and I didn't talk like this. We didn't talk about sex. Every conversation that we ever had about sex ended in an argument. He wanted things different. I didn't want things at all. We didn't see eye to eye... ever. What was only a few moments seemed like an eternity. Finally, I let the words escape from my mouth that I practiced a hundred times... "How do you know that I don't?" Then I rolled over and turned my back to him. He was stunned.