Thank you kenji for your assistance.
***
Eric spotted David in the same corner of the bar as at the last meeting. This time, it was David who had ordered the drinks.
Eric patted him on the shoulder, thanked him for the beer, and toasted him, "It's getting to be our regular bar around here."
"I couldn't think of another place to meet," David replied, "but actually, here fits the bill. Or would you like to sit in an armchair at my office?"
"Like at Sigmund Freud's? No thanks, it's more comfortable to talk here."
"As I'm sure you know," David said, "Hanna had her first session with me. Of course, it's too early to expect anything definite."
"Well, I'm not complaining," Eric beamed, "on the contrary, a lot has already changed for the better with us. I'm just happy that my wife is talking to you."
"What's gotten better with you guys?"
"Oh, there was a thing before, I had suggested something to her then, for the bedroom, you know."
David smirked. "Don't be so squeamish. Your wife tells me quite a lot of intimate things, so you're allowed to get a little out of yourself, too."
"Well, it wasn't anything crazy. Actually, I just wanted us to stroke ourselves in front of each other, while the other one watched. For Hanna, that was anathema, but you wouldn't believe it, after her first session with you, that's exactly what she suggested."
"Oh, glad to hear it."
Eric was thrilled. "That was just insane. I still can't believe now that she was playing with herself with a banana, you know, one of those yellow plastic dildos. Man, it made her come twice." He put his hand on David's shoulder and shook his head. "My Hanna has been transformed."
"Well, that's wonderful. So it makes sense for her to continue with the sessions."
"And how. Keep her coming to you, by all means." Eric considered, then nudged David with his elbow and winked. "She told me she'd practiced it in your office... in front of you."
David marveled. "Your Hanna has guts. It's not natural for a woman to confess such therapy practices to her husband." He became cautious. "Is that a problem for you?"
Eric grinned even wider. "No, on the contrary."
"You have to make me understand that."
"How can I say it, it's been in my head for a long time." Eric tried to explain. "You may think it's grotesque, but at the idea of someone else watching my wife do things like that... I didn't know myself anymore when I confessed to Hanna that I had been imagining it for ages... her with another man..."
David nodded. "I know quite a few clients with the same preference."
"Oh yeah?" groaned Eric with relief, continuing, "I would never have believed that my wife had the same inclination as me, because she liked my coming out. She was about to go for a second round, again with the banana, but this time, she addressed me by your name."
David toasted Eric. "You're both making rapid progress, I'm so pleased." He squeezed Eric's upper arm. "Oh yes, what could become a problem for my client in a situation like this, I want to address it right at the beginning. I've never stolen a client's wife before, and that goes for you, too, of course."
Eric nodded. "We haven't thought about anything like that at all, I'm not worried about that. On the contrary, we suddenly feel so open. Somehow, we've become close again, like at the beginning of our relationship. Anyway, Hanna is moving forward with therapy, and I want you to know that she has my blessing."
They toasted each other amicably, and since there was no baseball on the bar's TV, they turned their attention to the unholy war between Democrats and Republicans for the rest of the meeting.
***
When David opened the door, a beaming woman stood before him. Eric had not exaggerated; Hanna was transformed. He invited her in, greeted her with kisses and helped her out of her jacket. Even as he escorted her into the practice room, and asked how she and Eric were doing, it began to bubble out of her.
She sat down in her chair and smiled. "We've been in such a good mood since we talked, it's like a hundredweight load has been lifted off us. Somehow, this knot in my throat has loosened, and Eric, too, is more at ease than he has been in a long time."
"Then your relationship has brightened?"
"And how! He carries me in his hands, is even more attentive than usual, we feel like twenty-somethings."
She announced, "I told Eric all about my first session with you that very evening, and our exercise... you know."
David nodded. "Yes, he told me at the last meeting."
Hanna sighed with relief. "He didn't get jealous at all, on the contrary. I had no idea that he had the same wishes as me. He never told me about it before." She giggled. "We repeated the same thing with the banana that same evening, with the mirrors, the cameras and so on. Eric edited the footage and I watch it on his laptop almost every day."
Hanna took a breath. "In the meantime, I'm really enjoying our intimate life again. We even tried some new things." She smiled proudly, and added, "Without a therapist."
David nodded. "That's the goal."
Hanna clenched her fingers in the arms of the chair. "I'm still kind of scared."
"Why?"
"I feel like a door has opened inside me since the first session. Everything comes out, including fantasies that frighten me."
David suggested, "Let's try to put some order into your thoughts."
"I'm so ashamed. Eric is a wonderful thing, but whatever else is going through my head... I'm a housewife and a mother and I don't want to end up a slut."
"I've told you this before," David smiled, "the bitch only exists in your mind."
Hanna sat up. "Can you put your hands on my knees? This makes it easier for me to talk."
She leaned back and closed her eyes. David complied with her request and there was two minutes of silence in the practice room. He thought to himself that Hanna's fears couldn't be that overwhelming because she hadn't kept her legs convulsively closed like she had in the first session. He could see between her slightly parted thighs that she was wearing red-lace panties to match the short black ones, which this time were interspersed with red stripes. New additions were mid-high black stockings.
Hanna opened her eyes and began, "Yes, I now admit that I enjoy watching. Actually, I always suspected it, which is probably why I was so reserved with Eric. I always thought he would be shocked if he knew what was going through my head."
"So how did you find out you enjoy watching?"
"After I discovered the videos on Eric's laptop, I kept watching the video with the banana, and then other indecent films on the Internet."
"What kind of?"
"Oh, a colorful mess, just porn."
"Are there any videos you remember?"
Hanna coughed. "It's strange, I'm not a lesbian, but in films like this, I can find a woman beautiful and desirable. So I watch videos with women every now and then."
"There are a lot of different things. Which, shall we say, genre?"
Hanna's voice faltered. "I don't know if it's sick, it's usually women my age who are with a young girl and do things like that."
"And the girls are about the same age as your daughter?"
"Yes. Then I stop the film and watch something else."
"What?"
"Preferably couples who make love. There's still someone there, sometimes a woman, sometimes a man, watching." Hanna sighed. "Some films are really strange and I try to forget them quickly. Then there are some that get stuck in my head and I can't get rid of them."
"Which one?"
"There is a married couple on the couch, they are caressing each other and taking off their clothes. Her daughter is hiding behind the door and can see everything. When they discover the daughter, they are completely ashamed, especially when the daughter sits down next to them. They talk to each other for a long time and the daughter complains to the mother that she had never really seen her dad naked before."
David asked, "Was the mother horrified by her daughter's request?"
"No," Hanna gasped, "I was horrified because it felt like I was in her place. The mother pulled out her husband's erection and showed it to her daughter until she closed her mouth around the head of his cock." Hanna snorted. "I stand by the fact that I enjoy watching my husband play around with himself. But it's not acceptable for a mother to watch her daughter being with her father."
David interrupted her. "That is the privilege of the imagination, that you can imagine the most impossible things, for example the parents who are caught making love by their daughter."
"Do you think so?" Hanna asked hesitantly, "but the girl was wearing the same light-blue pleated skirt as our Julia, and in other ways, she looked exactly like her. Eric also thought the girl could be Julia."
"So that I understand it," David explained, "you and Eric have found a healthy relationship and no longer have to hide your fantasies from each other."
Hanna murmured, "Eric also gets very restless when we watch this film. We'll look at something else then."
"What?"
"It's always the same video, a couple making love. Eric says the woman looks like me. Yes, she is actually similar to me. My husband told me he would... believe it or not, he would like to watch me be with someone else."
"And what did you answer?"
"That's the crazy thing. Before, when Eric was on top of me, I would first have to imagine a man in the room watching us in order for me to have an orgasm."
"And how did you stay?"
Hanna became sheepish. "We were thinking about you. You are our therapist, our friend, we trust you."
David reflected, "Well, if you're both home alone, I could stop by your place and..."
"No," Hanna interrupted him, "I don't want Eric to find out about it yet."
"And you would tell him everything later?"