I have never done anything like this before and I am nervous in even writing this. However, I would be doing myself an injustice by not telling this story because it marked the beginning of my independence and sexual awakening. I am a 49 year old woman, divorced with one daughter.
My daughter was born when I was sixteen and I dropped out of high school when she was born. I did go back and get a degree when she was a year old. I went through several jobs before I became a nurse when she was ten. I married the father of my daughter when I turned eighteen and remained married to him until 1998.
It had long been a marriage devoid of passion and love. Hell, I don't even think there was the least bit of respect in the relationship. I married him not out of my feelings for him but because I thought my daughter should have a father, her true father. In the summer of 1998, when I was 39, I discovered something I had never known before and it gave me the drive and desire to seek out more than I was at that point. Strangely enough I owe it to my daughter's ex-boyfriend.
They began dating long in their senior year of high school. I chided her on the choice to engage in a long distance relationship; especially with someone from a military town. I never gave the boyfriend, John, the benefit of a doubt and had been extremely hard on him from the moment we met during Christmas of 1993. I personally ruined their New Year's by directly involving myself in their plans throughout his entire stay.
My reasoning for this was to make sure that my daughter was able to graduate high school, college, and get a damn good job without the drama and complications that I had endured. I was critical of any relationship she was in with any boy, but her relationship with John was especially so. Her relationships tended to be very shallow and short-lasting. For her to find a focused interest in this young man, especially several states away, struck me as both odd and inappropriate. From the moment they started dating, she began to talk about things like marriage and children. It worried me that despite everything I had done to discourage this line of thinking; it was the only line of thinking she was following.
After high school, I tried my best to break them up and in her freshmen year I had succeeded by early October, but watched them get back together over the next four years several times. She could never get him very far off her mind and he seemed able to possess her entirely in a way that confused and frustrated me. It was beyond my understanding at that point in my lif, but having experienced him myself I now completely understand. My Beth craved him, mostly sexual, as I would later find out, and every relationship she had between going back to him found her restless and frustrated. Believe me, I understand sexual frustration, I had never had an orgasm during intercouse and definitely never with my husband. She would graduate from the University of Tennessee and he became a manager for a fast food restaurant. He received a transfer to a small town in Virginia and my daughter would follow him, getting a job as a counselor for "troubled" children.
I ignored him during her graduation ceremony and made fun of him behind his back. I even did this in front of my daughter, which I now regret. I was not aware that she had moved there to live with him until thie singular, fateful day in August of 1998, of which I am writing. I guess I was naΓ―ve enough to think that she got her own place to live. She never told me certain aspects of her job and I found them out that very day as well.
My husband and I were supposed to travel to Virginia to spend the week with her. My husband had something come up and had to cancel the trip. He was constantly doing things like this, making plans and then backing out. Especially when they involved me. I figured even if he hasn't going, it would be worth it. I needed to get away from him and his attitude, Plus, I got to see my Beth. I was strongly determined to visit her, especially with John so close to her. She had given us her address months prior to this to send her the rest of her belongings. I figured that I would show up at her apartment and surprise her. I never expected to experience what I did.
First, I pulled up to her apartment. Number one, it really wasn't an apartment. It was an old plantation-styled house split into several so-called apartments. I saw her car there, luckily, but I quickly noticed that John's car was there as well. I decided not to ruin a perfectly good morning by being around him, so I had breakfast at the local Golden Corral and decided I'd wait until he left. I tried calling her but she would never answer. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on, right?
I returned to her apartment around two and saw her car there. John was still there too. His little Metro stood out like a sore thumb to me. Unable to get a hold of her, I decided that I would now interupt their time together, sparking thoughts of what illicit things they were doing. As I parked my car and began to walk up to the door of this house, the rage within me began to build as I tried to block what carnal things they were doing in this building.
I walked up the stairs and knocked on her door. There was no answer. I placed my ear to the door and heard someone moving about on the other side. I began to knock again, more insistantly than before and it wasn't until my knocking became a heavy thud that the door swung open.
My eyes widened as it was not my daughter standing before me but John; drenched from head to toe with nothing but a towel on. The towel, I might add, was hastily wrapped around his waist. The towel was bound by a loose knot and reinforced by his left hand. He had obviously just gotten out of the shower. His slick head of brown hair was further proof of that assumption. His right hand was still on the door knob. He looked confused as he had opened the door, but annoyed as the words "What the fuck!" were probably the next to escape his lips. He probably held his tongue because he saw me. Despite our differences, looking back now, he was always very respectful to me and had never heard him cuss before this day.
Now I had to admit that John was an attractive man. He wasn't a muscle man and he wasn't a tooth pick. He had a bit of a pouch for a belly and had broad shoulders. I had seen him maybe a dozen times before in swimming trunks and paid him no mind, he was far too young for me to be interested in and besides I was married. Beth had always talked about his eyes and his long lashes, both of which drew her in and captivated her. He was nothing special to me, why should I have ever noticed him? Today I would learn how wrong I had been.
"Is Beth home?" I asked him to which he replied no, "Where is she?" I shot back and he told me that she was at work. When I asked him what time she got home and he told me that she'd be back Friday morning, I flipped out. My eyes must've been red as hell. I know my face was. I could feel the heat of my anger taking over. I didn't know, at the time, that there was no central air in this building and that would only add to my overheated condition.
First I was angry because she was on some work related trip for another two days and had not bothered to tell me. If she had answered her phone once in the past week, she would have known I was coming to visit. Second, I was pissed that he was here in her apartment, using her shower and generally making himself at home while she was gone. I just knew that he had not gotten his own apartment and talked her into letting him live with her. That added with the continued drama with my husband had sent me over the edge, finally after 21 years of marriage, I had come to the end of wit with my darling husband's shit. This wasn't helping.
I was so mad. I didn't hesitate to enter the apartment and begin to yell at him, pointing my finger at him, jabbing him in his chest repeatedly. He backed up, the look on his face was one of undeniable shock and confusion. I slammed the door behind me and continued to yell at him for being here in my daughter's apartment and for corrupting her since the first day they started dating. In my mind, I was convinced he was up to no good and abandoned my threatening stance in front of him to check out the rest of the small apartment. The thought of him having another girl here entered my mind. When I saw some thongs on the floor, I picked them up and waved them in his face.
He told me it belonged to Beth and I was insistant that my Beth would not wear such things. She never has. John suggested that maybe I didn't know my daughter as well as I thought, which pissed me off even more. By now, I felt sweat dripping down my forehead. Adrenaline had begun to run through my veins in the hopes that I would be able to finally take this bastard down and villify him enough that Beth would leave him. His cheating would be the icing on that cake.
I returned to the familiar place in front of him and began to poke him again. He had shifted his towel slightly and was trying to retie the knot as I got back in his face. I asked him why he was dressed that way and how dare he just stand there and not get on some decent clothes in my presence. My God, I was being such a bitch.
I caught his eyes looking down at my blouse. The top three buttons were undone and gave a decent glimpse of my chest. Now, I'm not well endowed but I am a 34DD and at 5'7" weighed 120 lbs at the time. I looked down to see what he was gawking at and when I realized it, I slapped him as hard as I could and called him a disrespectful pig. He tried to turn and walked away but I shoved hard into the mantle and got directly in his face. I ignored the increasingly growing and changing demeanor in his face as I continued to back him into a wall.