Author's note: I'd like to thank MasterBaiter for his assistance in editing and reviewing this story. It's the first one I've written in this category, and his help was much appreciated.
This is a story about a woman whose husband and his doctor are using hypnosis to manipulate her sexually. It's not a story about magical, instant, complete mind-control. It's also something that's clearly unethical and nothing I'd condone in real life. But I do hope it makes for a good yarn.
Thanks
Belle
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It all started when we won the lottery. I mean, Dean bought the ticket, so technically he won. But we'd been married for six years, so it was community property or whatever. That was a year and a half ago, and I have to write this down because I can't believe what all has changed. I'm afraid if I don't write it now I won't remember to. Or I won't care. There has to be some record. Someone needs to know what happened to me; why I'm so different. Why I quit the job I loved, and why I never hang out with my friends. Why I'm so forgetful. Why none of that matters to me any more.
I don't think all this happened because of the lottery. But it couldn't have happened if we hadn't won. Dean told the doctor about having all that money, and the doctor realized we could afford his special treatments.
I watched the videos; I read some of the notes. Sitting in that office, with the two of them watching me, expecting some kind of reaction. All I can think is, who was that? Who was that opinionated, assertive woman in the beginning? Was she really me?
We just got home. He said he'd leave me alone. He said he knew I needed time to sort through things. He said they have a way to make it better. Not fix it, I don't think. But maybe make me less upset by the changes. How many times have I said that to delusional people? That the meds won't make them stop believing what they believe, they'll just be less annoyed that other people don't.
He said that the final decision would be mine. But I'm not sure that's true. I'm not sure I can make any decision he doesn't want me to make.
Hold on.
I just found the diary that I'd started when we got married. My sister had given me the first one as a birthday present years and years ago; one of those gratitude journal things where you write a little each day. By the time I met Dean it was a ritual; every evening sometime between dinner and bed, I'd spend ten minutes writing about my day. When we got married I'd switched to an electronic version; just a document that I password protected. My last entry is from three months ago.
I'm going to copy some of what I'd written before, then add to it. I may send this to my sister. Or maybe my friend Breanne. I don't know what they'll do with it. Maybe they won't even believe it.
Or maybe I'll just keep this to remind myself who I was. It's so confusing now. It's so hard to think. God I'm so horny. Bastard.
I'm including this for background:
21 June 2012:
I'm writing this on my first night as a married woman. Yep, Dean and I just got married! It's so wonderful. I can't believe my luck. I never thought I'd find someone who'd accept me for who I am, flaws and all. I remember that first night we met (back when I was still doing crisis intervention and was in the emergency room all the time), I thought he was kind of an asshole. Ha ha. He's not though. He just knows what he wants, and I can't blame him for that, I'm the same way. Anyway, I'm not going to write for long. I've got better things to be doing. Wink, wink. But I had to write something. I'm so giddy and happy. I can't stop smiling. He's so handsome, so smart, so funny. All newly married women should think this about their husbands. But I really do. Well, that's enough. More later.
I met Dean ten years ago. He's an emergency room doctor, and I am (or was) a clinical social worker. At the time I was working for the local mental health agency, and I'd be in the ER doing evaluations on people, to see if they needed psychiatric treatment. I did think he was an asshole at first.
He was typical of some doctors in that he thought his time was wasted examining mentally ill people. Since the problem seemed obvious, why did he need to examine them, argue with them about blood work, put up with the disruption? I remember the first time I really let him have it, after he made a snide remark to one of the nurses about a guy I'd just finished talking to. What surprised me was after I stopped ranting he asked to get coffee.
When we talked he apologized. He said it was hard for him to understand the people with mental illnesses: the delusions, hallucinations, the odd behavior. He said "give me something I can see on an x-ray or shows up in bloodwork. That I know how to fix." I talked about how frustrating it was to see someone ignored, just because they were acting weird.