This is a work of fiction. I make no pretense that they might even exist as real people under other names. All characters in this tale are over the age of 18. Since this is my first effort please give me some benefit of the doubt when it comes to plot and style. With grammar or spelling the floor is yours. If this offends you, exercise your constitutional rights and don't read it
My endless gratitude to Kate B. My editor and I hope still my friend after what I've done to her corrections and suggestions.
Without her insights as a woman this story would not be what it is.
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You know it was a meeting room just as I had expected. Fluorescent lights and folding chairs, a coffee pot in the back of the room that buzzed and gurgled as I guess it should. The ceiling was textured with that sound dampening tiles that spoke of low budget construction. The carpeting was that awful blue commercial stuff with no give underfoot. There was a long folding table placed across the front of the room, you know, those stupid things with the spindly legs and false wood grained paper as its surface.
The lights gave the place a cold impersonal feel. To make matters worse there was a knot of old men gathered around the coffee pot looking much like a convention of homeless bums. Of course, I knew every one of them by their first names, I have been coming here twice a week for almost a month. I've heard most of their stories by now. They are alcoholics and junkies. They were addicts, just like me, on the other hand my addiction is different.
The meeting opened in the usual way, the addicts' serenity prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag, since we were meeting in the hall of a local veteran's group.
My counselor (psychologist), Bill was moderating the meeting tonight and he, of course welcomed all the junkies to home court. Bill introduced me to the gathering of people who all knew me anyway. All the while I was thinking just how yummie Bill look tonight, I wonder if he's getting enough at home? Do you think he'd like oral with me? How big is his cock?
The intro is just a formality, but that's part of what they try to install in us, a sense of normality and stability in our world of emotional quick sand.
I made my way to the head table and approached the stupid podium on the table hands shaking like leafs in a hurricane. My insides were in a total knot. I do hate public speaking. I even had to take it three times in college to get a passing grade.
I looked out over the group noting the faces of all the guys that have been my companions and protectors for the last month. I swallowed my heart and began....."Hi, I'm Marci and I'm an addict." I continued: "My addiction is a little different from yours though, I'm a sex addict." I can't think of anything that I have at least not tried."
My mind shifted gears and I went back trying to recall how this sad state of affairs came to be.
I wasn't always promiscuous. I was just another soccer mom. I really started down this path back in college. I was like all the other girls I guess, and tried out my wings sexually with more than a few boys. That is until I met Don. He wasn't like any of the other guys, at least in my eyes. He treated me like a lady even though I found that I did like sex.....a lot. We were madly in love then and dated exclusively until graduation. Well at least that's what he believed. I was a knock out, at least in his eyes.
I am still 5 feet 4 inches tall, 127 pounds with dirty blonde hair to my shoulders. If you really must know my vitals, I am 36c, 27, 38. I still go to the gym and swim a few times a week to keep my figure even after a couple of kids. And even if I am a couple of pounds overweight I carry them well and hardly ever fail to turn heads when I doll up.
I was the typical stay at home mom, totally faithful to Don and our marriage. Our life was wonderful. That is until last year.