My grandmother used to tell me, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I never thought this made a lot of sense until recently. Looking back on it, I'm sure there's things I could have done differently but... well that's hindsight.
The story really starts with my wife. Kay is a wonderful, loving, sexy, smart woman and I've never had a day of regret in marrying her. The only problem in our marriage is her health. Specifically, she suffers from terrible migraines. She's often incapacitated for days on end because of them. Neither one of us is happy with the situation but despite thousands of dollars spent on treatments and doctor's visits the problems have only persisted and, in fact, gotten worse. I began to turn to various alternative treatments. At first it, was acupressure and massage. Later, we moved on to deep breathing exercises all without success. Then, one day, a friend of mine suggested hypnotism. When I brought this up to my wife she reacted with surprising vehemence, "You want me to let some stranger mess with my head?"
"It was just a suggestion. Dave said it really worked for his mother and I thought it was something we could try." I told her.
"Well the answer is, 'No!'" she yelled as she stormed off.
I probably should have let it die right there but I can't let things go. I did some more studying on the subject and was eventually directed to the concept of subliminal messages. I'm a techie guy at heart so the idea of subliminal messages appealed to me. I did a little poking on the internet and found lots of less than reputable websites and for-pay offerings. This being the internet era, I was unwilling to settle for anything less than free. So I wrote my own. It was just a little script that popped up some basic messages at random places at random intervals on the computer screen. I kept it simple and specific:
-Headaches are manageable-
-When a headache is coming you relax in response-
-You are relaxed around Jay [me]-
-Relaxation greatly reduces your headaches-
-The pain of headaches is not to be feared-
-You can conquer your headaches-
Like I said, I didn't have a lot of confidence in this working but I was willing to try anything. I loaded up the program on her laptop and promptly forgot all about it. A week went by and then another and another without any real change. About three weeks later Kay hit a particularly good patch and only had two headaches in a week (sad that that's a "good" patch). Our life actually returned to some semblance of normal for a brief period. Our sex life really picked up and we had spontaneous sex four or five times. It was in that post-coital bliss that she said the thing that changed our lives forever. "Honey, my headaches have seemed much better lately. I feel so relaxed around you... I feel like the headaches are completely manageable."
This wasn't verbatim from the program but it was awfully close. It got my mind wandering and the next day I went back to the software for the first time in weeks. I couldn't believe our luck. If this worked it would be great news for us. I figured the program needed a bit of reinforcement though so I decided to add a few more lines of text:
-The computer helps you relax-
-Kay can beat her headaches-
-Migraines can be beaten-
-Relaxing is the weapon to beat Migraines-
Then, for reasons that I can't answer, I added another line:
-Sex with Jay is wonderfully relaxing-
This led me to think, "I need something to prove whether this is actually working or not," and I typed:
-Garter belts and stockings are very sexy and comfortable-
She'd never warmed to garter belts and stockings but I'd never pushed it really hard. I had reasonable confidence that if she wore them it would be because of the subliminals and not some coincidental change of heart.
I compiled the program and set it to auto-run again. Again, I waited a few weeks but this time I was watching for changes. We continued to have great sex, with some fairly great orgasms for both of us. She mentioned how relaxed she felt a lot as well but never in combination with the sex so I wasn't certain if it had worked. One day, about three weeks after the 2nd program change I came home to the house and there was a note on the counter, "Come upstairs". My dick was instantly hard but I'd learned my lesson before and was not going to get over confident. I got upstairs and gave a mock, "Honey, I'm home!" shout out. Or at least I tried to. My wife was lying in bed wearing a garter belt and stockings and nothing else. She was working a vibrator on her clit and smiling up at me with the sexiest look I'd seen in awhile. "You like the look?" she asked. "I was going through the closet today and saw them. I forgot how comfortable they are... and I know you like them too... " she said and then arched her back as waves of pre-orgasm rippled through her.
Needless to say, my clothes were off in a flash. We had a good, quick, athletic fuck and she was quickly flipped onto her hands and knees so I could take her from behind like we both liked. As I pounded her, I marveled at the smooth curve of her hips and how it was accented so wonderfully by the garter belt. We both came hard and I thought to myself, "Damn I'm lucky"
Our life went on like this for some time... but as with everything, all good things must come to an end. A week later, I came home from work to find Kay sitting at the computer. On the screen were a whole host of thumbnails of porn that I recognized from my collection. "Why do you need this shit?" she asked. "Haven't you been getting all the sex you need lately?"
I tried to laugh it off, "Those are really old honey. I haven't downloaded things in months."
"So it's only when I'm not putting out that you stare at this? You know I hate this stuff." she said. We had talked about this before but I hadn't realized it was such a big deal. I decided there was no reason to fight it so I just gave in.
