To all those always anonymous complainers who don't like this being in the "loving wives" section, or object to what my wife and I did, go somewhere else and read something more to your liking. This is a four part story of how Linda and I converted friends to the swinging lifestyle. It has lots of sex in it, except in part 4, but much more about how this can happen with good friends who may, initially, have not been drawn together by sexual attraction. (But if you had ever met Linda, you would have been hard pressed to have dreamed of a more sexy woman, so how could most men resist it becoming sexual?)
This, like others of my adventures with my wife, Linda, is a true story. If you don't like the way the story progresses, I'm sorry, but as I said it's a true story and you don't change facts to make it more interesting. It happened so long ago that I've had to improvise the dialogue, but it is as close to how it happened and what was said as I can remember. I remember the couple very well even though it happened more than thirty years ago and even better the great times we had together with them and other couples who more or less fell into the swinging lifestyle as a result of our friendship.
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"I don't know if I can do this or not," Laura said softly, pushing me away with both hands as we broke our passionate french kiss. I wasn't surprised at the reluctance, Laura was a new partner for me and one who I thought had been talked into the idea of swinging by her husband, Les.
"We don't have to," I told her, leaving my arm over her shoulder but taking my hand away from her breast. "Like I said before, this is so new to you that you are going to have some misgivings about it, and I won't push."
"But what about Les and Linda?" she asked studying my face carefully. "He expects me to have sex with you and he's already told me he's going to do Linda."
I smiled. "Is that such a terrible thing? I can tell you Linda won't mind, Les doesn't and I certainly don't, so what's the problem?"
"What about you? I'm sure you expected me to have sex with you, and now you say you don't mind...?"
"No, I didn't say I didn't mind. I said I wasn't going to push you into anything you didn't want to do."
Laura looked down at her hands, now in her lap. She wouldn't look at me, and I knew that she was having a severe case of nerves. This was new to her and although Les had been fucking my wife frequently for two months, he hadn't done a very good job of preparing Laura for this.
"I...I just don't know," she said softly. "It sounded so...so..."
"Different?" I finished for her. "Of course it is. How long have you and Les been married."
"It will be ten years in December," she murmured, still not looking at me.
"And in that time have you ever had sex with another man?"
"No, of course not," she said looking at me with an expression of shock. "I would never do that to him."
"And has he ever had sex with another woman?"
"I don't know," she said, looking down at her hands again.
"I think you do," I told her, then let the comment sit.
"I think he may have years ago," she finally admitted, still looking down at her hands in her lap, "but I haven't asked him about it, and I don't think he's had another affair since...until now," she added.
"And how did you find out about him and Linda?" I asked, reaching over and lifting her chin so she had to look at me.
There were tears in her eyes as she mumbled that he had told her and had said that it wasn't a love affair, it was just sex. He then had added that if he hadn't told Laura that Linda had told him she would tell Laura herself. Slowly the entire story came out. Laura told me she had been so hurt that she couldn't talk to her husband for three days, then, frightened because of the possibilities of the affair she had asked her husband if he was planning to divorce her and be with Linda. He had emphasized that it wasn't love, it was purely sex. There was no reason to leave Laura since Linda was married and loved her husband.
That discussion had led to a longer one over the next week. During that time, Les had borrowed my book on polyamory and told Laura to read several chapters he had marked in the book. After reading them, Les and Laura had sat down and discussed the concept of open marriage as well as the explanations in the book that couples could at one time or another have found an attraction to others of the opposite gender and even lived openly with them and their spouse.
"He told me that was the kind of life you and Linda lived," she managed to say as she looked at me, searching for something in my eyes.
"Yes, it is." I admitted. "There are many people who call it by other names - wife swapping, swinging, open marriage, and nastier ones like adultery, and lots of others, but it all amounts to the same thing. For the last ten years, both Linda and I have been having sex with others without losing our love and respect for each other. Linda has even found herself in love with other men and is very open about it. I don't mind, because she says that we have what others don't and so, while she can enjoy making love with another man, she still wants us to maintain our marriage because she loves me most of all. That may seem a little hard to believe, but it works for us."
"And do you still love her even though she's... doing it" she managed to stutter out, "with other men?"
I smiled. "Even more so than ever, and our sex life is fantastic. We've learned so much more from being with other men and women as well as couples that it's never been better." I stopped for a moment and looked at Laura. She was having a problem with this and I needed to reassure her that it was true. "Tell me, haven't you ever met another man and felt like you would like to have sex with him."
"Well, yes," she admitted, "but I could never do that."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm married," she told me. "My vows...our vows...say something about forsaking all others..."
I held up my hand and she stopped. "Who wrote those vows and when?"
She looked confused then admitted she didn't know.
I smiled. "Before you leave tonight, I'm going to give you another book I'd like for you to read. It's about sociology and how so many of these things came about. Some of it's based on the need in our ancient history to prevent all but the most fertile males inseminating the more desirable females. More of is based on the Bible's old testament when the worlds population was numbered in the thousands, rather than the billions, and it was necessary to prevent inbreeding. There are lots more reasons spelled out that may surprise you, and some will even make you angry because it means society assumes you will not use common sense."
"But I'm getting way off the reason we're together tonight. Let me ask you, do you like me?"
Laura blushed, which was a good sign to me. I had known this woman for more than three years. We had exchanged kisses, hugs, and more than once I had been threatened with being slapped if I kept up my groping of her when she seemed the slightest bit receptive - just like any other red-blooded male. But it was always with a smile and I assumed that there was more than a little interest in each other that kept us coming together as opportune times.
Laura certainly wasn't hard to look at. At 35, she was a diminutive five feet tall, with long red hair that curled at her neck. She had sparkling blue eyes and a figure that hadn't failed her over the years. I would have guessed that she was 34-19-34 and I found out weeks later I wasn't that far off. Of course her breasts were nothing like the 42DD's of my wife, but they were definitely a full C cup and she didn't mind wearing clothing that accentuated them as well as the rest of her body, just as my Linda did. She also had those long, curvaceous legs of her early career as a dancer. In short, she was a very beautiful lady.