I think it is fair to say that in our 20 years of marriage we have had a successful relationship. I met my wife, Rachel over 25 years ago. It was soon after University. I was working in an import company and this beautiful 22-year-old lady started working at the office. We hit it off straight away, but I didn't have the courage for asking her out until 3 months after we first met. "I thought you would never ask," was her response when I finally did.
I was 24 at the time and we slowly built up our relationship. We were madly in love, and nothing came between us. We spend all our time together and only a year into our relationship Rachel became pregnant. We made our plans and 4 years into our relationship we had two kids, and we were planning our wedding.
We started our own import company and built that up from scratch. Now, 20 years later we have a successful business, two grown-up kids and find ourselves looking at each other, still in love but with a lot of time on our hand since the kids moved away.
We both worked in our company, Rachel as the financial manager and I was the manager. We had 15 employees, 3 of them in the office with us and the rest in our warehouse and drivers. I was traveling a lot because of business, but Rachel was mostly stuck at the office. She sometimes traveled with me though. We have made a good life for ourselves. We had a great house in a good neighborhood in London, our two kids have now moved out. Our daughter was now married and moved away from London and our son was away in university.
We talked about selling the house and buying ourselves small apartment closer to work but there were so many memories linked to the house that we decided to wait. We didn't need the money from the house, so we were not in a hurry.
Ever since our son moved away the house has been quiet, and we had a lot of time on our hands. I started drinking more and Rachel was a little frustrated with me. She wanted to explore some hobbies. We thought about hiking, running a marathon or some other outdoor activities. In that time, during the first two years alone, we grew apart. She gave up waiting for me and started to run on her own. She was in a group of people, similar in age to us and was running most weekends. Meanwhile I was at home, working on the house with a beer in hand and whiskey when the clock was getting closer to dinner time.
Another thing that I started to explore was online porn. I was getting hooked on it. Our sex life has always been quite good, but vanilla. We have our fantasies and we have been open about them during our years of marriage. We haven't acted on many but tried things. Some that we have liked, but others that we haven't liked. But now, with hours to spare I have been reading stories, looking at videos and visiting chat rooms with adult content. And it has sparked my interest in many new things sexually. Things that I didn't dare share with Rachel.
Things that got my attention mostly was submission. I have always been more submissive than Rachel and when we have played that game, she was always the dominant one. It was mostly just foreplay for us, teasing and talking but I found it very exciting reading about husband submission to his wife and strangely a submission to another man. I had never had any fantasy regarding that, but the idea about being submissive to a stronger man was now a big turn on to me.
Another thing that I found myself looking for was stories and videos of a cheating housewife. I was starting to fantasize about my Rachel to have a lover! That idea has never crossed my mind, just the opposite. I was always worried that she would find another, better man then me. And it scared me more than anything. But now I was jerking off to that idea.
Even though we talked about sex, explored some things I think that our sex life was quite regular. And for the last two years we didn't have sex often. And we were distant to each other.
My mind was a mess. I was having fantasies that I had never had before. I was jerking off more than having sex with my wife. And it was affecting our relationship. But I couldn't talk to her about it, couldn't talk to anyone about it. My only conversation was online, in a chat room with similar minded people. And it took me by surprise the variety of chatrooms, stories, and videos I found with one click on the internet. No matter the kink, there was always a few rooms available to explore.
Four weeks ago, I had to flew out to Netherland because of our business. Rachel stayed behind. I was there for a few days and my days were busy. We were negotiating a deal to expand our import products. We got the deal and when I came back home, we decided to go out and celebrate.
It was Friday and Rachel went out to get her hair done. I had an hour to kill before she would return and decided to check out what was new in my favorite websites. When I was about to start up our home computer, I noticed the light. It was turned on. I was sure that I had turned it off and Rachel never used it. She had her laptop. I moved the mouse over and the screen turned on. In the screen was a white background and one word written in the middle. "INTERESTING"
My heart missed a beat. My face heated up. I sat down and looked at the screen. She had gone to the computer. Why? And what has she seen? I quickly opened the browser and went to history. She had opened everything. She has spent the last two days going through the computer. And she had seen it all. I was in shock. How was I supposed to look her in the eye, knowing that she knows.
When she came back home, I couldn't look at her. I pretended to be busy getting ready and I managed to stay away from her until the taxi arrived and took us to the restaurant. When we finally sat down, in this fancy Italian restaurant I couldn't escape anymore. She looked me straight in the eyes and smiled. "I think we need to talk."
I was embarrassed, I was ashamed and tried to mumble something, but she took my hand in hers and as soon as I felt her presence I stopped. Looked up at her and saw on her face that everything was good between us.
"I must admit, I was surprised when I opened our computer. I forgot my laptop back in the office on Friday and needed to find some documents on our server. But when I was searching for our documents, I stumbled on your folders. It took me quite the time to go through it."
She was interrupted when the waiter came with our red wine. She took the lead, tasted, and accepted the bottle. When the waiter was gone, she continued.
"I must admit that some of the things there were surprising, to say the least. I didn't know you had so many different interests."
I tried to say something, but she stopped me.
"Let me finish dear. Firstly, I think we should talk about this. And if you want, we can explore some of this but that must be on my term. Some of the things that I found are something I am curious about and I want to know more. I am not even sure where to start."
She took her glass and looked at me. It was a que for me to start talking.
"I am so sorry Rachel. I just got hooked and have been exploring. First it was curiosity, and it has grown. I know I should have been more open with you and for that I am sorry. But it is quite embarrassing having these thoughts and honestly, I am not even sure I would do half of this things in real life, but the fantasy and the thoughts are exciting."
I was relieved that we were quite exclusive in the restaurant. We kept our voices down and I was sure that nobody heard our conversation.
Rachel smiled at me. "You are not the only one having thoughts about sex."
This took me by surprise. It shouldn't have, of course women think about sex too.
"But my fantasy or time are not as extreme as yours. But to be fair to you, I have made a list of the thoughts and fantasies that I have had for the last two years."
She handed me a folded paper. "I am going to the lady's room. Read this list while I am gone.
As soon as she stood up, I unfolded the paper and found a handwritten list.
Getting seduced by one of my running mates
Outdoor sex
Servicing a stranger
Being dominant with you
Being submissive to a stranger
Cuckolding you
Being with 2 men at the same time
Shocked is the word that comes to my mind after reading the list. After so many years of vanilla sex, my wife had a darker, more daring fantasies. Just as me.
When she returned, I had put the list in my jacket. She sat down, drank her red wine, and waited for my response.
"I must admit, I am surprised Rachel. I didn't know," I stammered.
"We have had over 20 years together and even though we have talked about it, our sex life has always been quite boring to be honest. Not bad, don't get me wrong, but it has lacked this extra variety that I would have wanted. But at the same time, with our business, our kids and busy social life we haven't had the time to work on that. And frankly, for many years sex wasn't on the top of our to do list."
I nodded my head in agreement.
"I have even thought about stepping out on you. I haven't done it, but the thought has crossed my mind over the years. And I am sure you have had similar feelings and you might even have done something about that?"
I shook my head. "No, I have never cheated on you. But yes, the thought has crossed my mind, I admit that."
Rachel continued. "I wonder what our next step should be. Are we going to act on this or keep it hidden in our fantasy world?"
It was my time to take a big sip on my red wine. I wanted to explore, I wanted to try, I wanted to submit, but I also knew that if we did it, it could change our marriage, for better or worse.
"I am open to suggestion," I said.
Rachel told me to get her note back and write on the back 7 things I would want to try. "Don't look at what I wrote, just do your own list." She handed me a pen, took up her phone and started to browse it, totally ignoring me while I finished the list.