About 3 weeks ago my wife caught me snuggling up to a neighbor at one of our street parties. I had had much too much to drink and in my drunken foolishness, after first trying to ignore the most blatant "come on and fuck me" comments she was making to me, I finally gave in and tried to fuck our neighbour, Lorraine, behind the garage where my wife just happened to find us.
After several days of no conversation, a lot of tension and definitely no sex, she announced that she had decided that it was her turn. Needless to say I was not too keen on the idea and I knew I was going to try my best to talk her out of it. If I couldn't however, I figured I had it coming, so I would grin and bear it and accept that she was going to fuck another guy.
It had occurred to me that I should have mentioned to Sally that I actually didn't fuck Lorraine because when it came right to it, I couldn't get it up, but that was a technicality. I went there with the intention of fucking her and that's what I'm about to be punished for.
"Sal, I know that being drunk is no excuse but it isn't like I was stone cold sober and planning on screwing around behind your back."
"Maybe so, however I'm still going to play this out and given your behavior with Lorraine Parr, I don't see how you can fairly object. In fact, I insist, and if you ask me not to, I'm asking you for a divorce!"
I saw Sal's eyes blink at her use of the "D" word and under any other circumstance I think I would have called her bluff but there was something that kept me from it. Besides, I had screwed up and I owed it to Sally to do what I could to help her deal with this and put it behind us.
"Sal," I began, "I screwed up and I know it and I don't want a divorce, but isn't there some other way I could make this up to you. I was wrong and I know it and I want to make it up to you but I can't see how another wrong will make things right."
"I don't think so. You fucked around and now I feel I should. If I don't do it this way, I'll go on for the rest of my life knowing how far you tried to go to get your rocks off with someone else and now I need to know how far you'll go to try to repair the damage. This is what I want or we call off the marriage now!"
I could see she had become more forceful, but only after I had admitted I didn't want a divorce. So with great reluctance I asked. "Are you sure this will help or will it drive us further apart. I love you and I'm going to try to go along with it but I'd like you to tell me you really believe this will help mend things between us."
She looked at me as if trying to make up her mind then said. "I want things to be better between us too and that's what I'll try to do while being convinced you'll go the distance to save our marriage, but I
WILL
get my satisfaction from this. For one thing, I need to see that you actually go along with it and that you fall in line when I decide it's done."
She continued her lecture, "I'm going to plan out how it will happen and what the rules will be and I will give you all that information before I actually do it. If you want out, then you can go before I follow through."
Again there was something, a tiny hesitation in her voice, a blink of her eyes. She was bluffing but I wasn't sure enough to dare call her on it.
She didn't say anymore for the rest of the week and through to the following Wednesday when she called me at work to tell me that her plans were made and that she would be telling me that night after dinner.
I was prepared for her to be in a good mood and ready to hurt and humiliate me and get her revenge, but she was the reverse. Her tone was sharp and she appeared to be angry.
"I'm upset that your lack of trustworthiness and your decision to get your own rocks off behind my back has brought us to this, but make no mistake I AM going to do this." Then she proceeded to lay down the rules.
"Unlike you, I am not going to do this out where anyone can discover it. I'm going to keep it private and do it here. I . . ."
I interrupted her, "Stop Sally. If you have decided that what I did deserves knowing you fucked another guy in our house and in our bed, then I'm telling you that by doing what I did, I ruined our marriage and that it's irreparable. You're going too far."
She started at me for a few moments then continued. "I am planning on fucking a man in private and in the granny suite."
We bought this house with the thought of my parents living with us in the granny suite at the back of it, but they are still on their own and the suite has pretty much been a storage area until we had recently considered renting it out. Sally had started to fix it up a bit.
"Also, you will not know who the man is until I decide to tell you, IF I decide to tell you. You will remain in this house while I am with him and you will see him pass the front windows and know he's going to fuck me and I hope you'll consider what would happen if you ever did anything like that to me again."
"No one else, save him, will know about this. Unlike me, you will not be humiliated in public. This is a private issue between you and I, and it will go no further than you and I, unless you screw up! I will have him as many times as I decide. If you don't like it then leave."
"I think that not to know who it is will drive me crazy and to agree to stand by while you carry this on as long as you want would be more than I can bear." I answered almost in tears.
There was a long pause while Sal thought this over. "I will not agree to let you know who it is until I am ready, but I will agree that either I will not carry this on beyond Sunday or. . . . I will let you know it is not working for me and I will leave you."
"Sunday?"
"Yes Sunday. This is going to happen this weekend."
I could not keep the tears away but as soon as I had them under some control I said, "I love you Sally. I have no idea why I let myself get into that foolishness with Lorraine but I did and I will abide by your rules and if I cannot I will leave on my own knowing that it was me who screwed up our marriage."
Once again I'm sure I saw that flicker of fear when I said I would leave on my own but Sal covered it and no more was said.
When I came down from the guestroom Thursday morning, Sal was in a bad mood and, everything she said and did, showed it. I ate my breakfast in silence and went to work. Her mood was no better that evening so I went to what had become my room and tried to read.
There was something else troubling me!
When we had thought my folks were going to live there, I had installed the wiring for surveillance cameras thinking it would help us to keep track of them and help when we were needed. The impulse to attach a camera was great but I knew I couldn't actually watch them fucking, but I would at least know who it was.
I decided that, if I got caught, it just might push Sal to leave me so I didn't do it.
The next morning, Friday, Sal was in no better mood.
Friday's dinner was eaten in silence. When we were done I began to clean up behind us, something I had noticed that she did like, when she said, "I'm going out to pick him up. I don't want his car or anything else to connect him to us here."
And with that she went up to her room. I could hear the shower running and then about 45 minutes later at about 7:45 she came out of the room looking really good. She was not dressed in a slutty way, but she sure looked great.
"I'd ask you how I look," she said, still in an angry mood, "but the truth is, I don't care too much what you think just now. I'll be back in about an hour or an hour and a quarter. If I don't see you at the window, I'll knock until you appear, then he and I will go to the suite."
"I'll knock again when we leave. Do you understand? When I get home, if I want to talk to you at all, I'll come to your room. Otherwise, I don't expect to see you until tomorrow morning."
She was still in that angry mood and when I nodded my agreement, she left.
About 65 minutes later I was startled by a knock at the window. I looked up to see her scowl and that there was someone else with her wearing a heavy coat, collars up and a hat pulled down so I could not see who it was.
It was almost midnight when they finally broke it up!
I was almost distraught. I didn't think anyone could feel as bad as I did!
Is this how Sal felt when she caught Lorraine and I?
I was listening for them and had been since about 10:00 and had heard the apartment door close before she knocked on the window. I wiped away the tears as best I could and dutifully appeared at the window when they went by.
I was in my room when I heard her return about 1:00 AM where I was waiting and hoping that she would come to see that I was totally repentant and that this need go no further but after I heard her bedroom door close there was not another sound that night.
I don't think I slept at all.
After dressing and putting on some coffee, I was ready to make whatever breakfast she wanted when she came down. I was clinging to the hope that she would tell me it was over.
I was NOT prepared for what did happen.
"Good morning." She said in a quiet voice, all traces of her angry mood from the past two days, gone. Her already good mood expanded when I offered to make breakfast and for the next hour, I puttered around "sucking up", actually making the promised breakfast and cleaning up, waiting for whatever news she would give me.
There was none.
She began to clean and vacuum and do laundry, humming and singing all the while. I didn't think I could be any lower than I had been the day before, but I was. Whatever happened with him last night, it certainly put her into a good mood.
By suppertime I was exhausted and down more than ever and beginning to realize that my marriage was over. There was one brief moment when Sal came to my room, apparently to drop off some clean towels from the wash, when my appearance must have taken her back, but as I looked at her, I could see the look on her face harden.