Well, I read what everyone wrote and I guess there's a lot of truth in it all.
We've obviously continued talking about things as we've been home a lot - she will be seeing him over this weekend as neither of our kids will be anywhere close-by over the holiday weekend as both have plans to be elsewhere. She either wants him to come to our house and she's said that it's been a while since he's been here and she added "and since you were there with us" or that she wants to spend the night at his place.
I wanted to clarify here as I also did with Sue that it is only at times that masturbating is more satisfying or better than having intercourse with her. I don't think that's really a surprise to any guy who has an imagination, but I do agree that she may have taken it, initially, as something implying more - but as we talked I explained that sometimes I can put myself in a place mentally that is very intense. She said she understands and that she feels the same about using her toys sometimes, that sometimes, as she said, she just "needs a womans touch". But she then asked me what I liked to think about and what thoughts really "get you off" and I am sure she heard me hesitate before I told her that they always involved her and her pussy being filled by another guy which made her giggle.
And yes, to the question of whether I am worried about her losing herself with Paul somehow. I am comforted that things do seem to be as she says they are, I don't see signs of excessive communication bewteen them other than a few texts during the week which she makes clear to me (mainly when she giggles and will then tell me "Paul is horny" or something like that). But yes, I also recognize that she doesn't always make herself fully aware of just how she's feeling, especially if she is feeling swept up by things and that sort. I've told her this so it's really of no use since her reply is always "but I don't want that with him, I just want.....".
I told her again though that it hurt to have her come and literally just tell me that this is going to happen and make it like I'm not even being given a choice. Although Peak is also clearly right, I probably would never say no to her, and to Raks sentiments, I probably would keep saying yes even if it's too late - so I am aware of that risk - but also the eventuality that if this is truly something that she wants - and if it's something that doesn't totally freak me out at thinking about, then how could I possibly ever say no to her? I'm not saying that in a bad way but I love her and if she is being honest with me and I see no reason she isn't, then as I said, how could I ever say no to her knowing that it turns me on enough to consider it in the first place.
That is what I was referring to here and elswehwere (PM's and emails) when I said that I think we are seeing things (or at least I am) from a point that is very different than others or even in our own past. The reality that I know is that she's been fucking other guys now for over 9 years. It came up in our conversation that as she put it, it really is something that is kind of now normal for us, "that you like me fucking other guys" and she admits that in the past few years, this idea has settled and come to rest in her too - that she genuinely likes it and has also taken to enjoying cucking-me and knowing what sexual things seem to touch me more deeply. She said that she already knows that as I said, when I didn't flip out about it and be adamant against it, that she says she already knows that my giving her up sexually is a turn-on for me.
I was speechless at what she said but she looked at me and said "tell me it's not true?". She went on to tell me that she knows it's difficult for me to accept and say out loud or even think about too much. But she also said that is why she's changed her tone with me and how she feels and what she wants, because she's come to understand that about me, that she says she knows that this IS something i want even if I won't admit it.
Last night she told me that she remembers how she felt at first when she was with other guys - that she said she remembers needing to hear and know that I wanted it to happen for her - to let herself do it. She said she still has the note I gave her which made me blush to think back to. Thing is she looked at me and said that it's the same for me in some ways that we've traded places and that she feels that if she doesn't push for this, that it's not likely to happen for a longer period of time and she looked at me and said "isn't it easier for you to be okay with when it is me that is wanting it?".
I told her she had my head all turned around and she giggled and said that she was enjoying this time with me and that she was enjoying seeing me having to deal with my thoughts and emotions and fantasies and that she thought it was good thing for me to figure out so that we can know how and what we feel and what we both want.
I continued to tell her though that I wasn't sure this was what I wanted, and the when she looked at me with a question in her eye, I added, okay, or that I wasn't sure "when I would want this" that she said, "it's okay honey, if it's not good between us, then we won't do it" and she turned to me, held my hand and kissed me and said "I meant what I said, we won't do anything you or we aren't ready for" after which she added "but see, we are already talking about it more because of what I finallly said to you".
It seemed like the ice had thawed a bit and she seemed to relax a bit and said that it was very hard for her to tell me what she did but that as she talked to me that she said she saw by my body language and yes, how I responded or didn't respond, that I wasn't horrified by what she was saying and that the more she talked, the easier it became to talk about and for her, to also think about more. She said that she didn't want to do this to hurt me and she even said that she hoped it would turn me on and that we'd be okay while she explored her desires, but she also said that she can't deny how she feels - how she feels it's a good time with Paul - how she feels she's getting older and may not have or want or be able to do this in the future - and lastly - how she said that she feels alive sexually in a way that makes her just seem to love everything so much more. She admitted that when we talked about it being over 9 years that she's been having sex with other guys, that she now says she thinks it's done so much more for her than just having fun, how she's been able to understand herself and her desires and even where or how they originated - and that she truly feels she wants to have this feeling with another guy - that she wants to feel like she is his sexually.
I told her again what I'd said here and elsewhere - that I was scared and hesitant. No I didn't tell her that some of that is surely rooted in how she was with the others and what had happened when she'd felt her own desires. I don't think she would have had a baby with Robert even if she were still able to - I do think that she wanted to be pushed to feel she could have done so and could have made a choice to do so - I'll even say as in enjoying the risk in a way - but I do not believe she ever would have truly done it. Just as I don't believe Don could have truly pushed her to do things she wasn't ready for - and just as I don't believe she truly fell for Brad vs. feeling a new sense of infatuation at enjoying sex in a new way with him. But I kept it that I was scared and hesitant. She did pause and say that she knew what I was feeling and that she smiled and said that " knowing you are okay with it, makes me have none of those feelings baby.... I know what I want...." and she kissed me and she said "it's not going to be bad for us".
No, we didn't talk about how often we would reconnect. I thought about saying it but then thought that it might again seem like I am over thinking things and that maybe she's right - maybe she's pushed us a bit further on this journey and that maybe she's pushed us past another bump in the road by coming out and telling me what she wants vs. asking.
What I keep coming back to is what I want and what I am truly feeling. She struck a nerve when she told me that she knows from how I respond to things that this all turns me on. And she's right. It does turn me on. That one day her body will only be for him does turn me on. I have to say that either she is being truly honest with me and if she is, then how could I really say no to her? Or if she has another motive or goal, that she is being incredibly manipulative and cunning which rightfully scares me - but at the same time - if she is feeling that way, then things aren't good, she is lying and if that's the case - then a part of me actually says fuck-it and go ahead and do it and lets see which is right and which is wrong. But I hate thinking or even having a faint thought about that as I just don't feel that in her. I've long told her that sometimes when we hold hands, that I can feel all of her through her hand and how it feels in mine - and I do feel that - very strongly when she turns to me and holds my hands and reassures me.
I feel like I'm a on a rollercoaster at times, for a while things seem like they are staying the same and at others, it seems like we are careening around a sharp turn or in a sharp dip or a steep rise. I think I keep my emotions in control most of the time but I admitted to her that at times, hearing she wants to give her pussy to Paul puts me into one of those steep drops. The beta part of me isn't scared by this (into the ride) but the other parts of me - what's left of my alpha side, as her husband and as a man - it's just not something you ever think you would want to do or think about. I know from past experience that it's going to be arousing - she's withheld sex from me in the past for a long time, 2 months or more - and I know how it's left me feeling. But now those feelings are more out in the open with her and I also know that it's likely to go for longer and she's right that her pushing a bit has made me more aware and if not yet, soon to be ready to deal with it.
The feelings I have which I haven't shared with her yet - but which sort of also coincide with what she's said about her own desires - is that around the same time that she says she's come to accept her desires with Paul - a year or more ago - that it does seem to coincide with my own mental feelings of accepting using condoms with her as our norm. So I suppose, in a way, it's been since the end of 2014 that I feel I've already ceded her pussy to him. That is what is at the root of it all when I pull on a condom to use with her - it just feels so strange to know that it is true.
And that is the last thing that she is right about, that I surely will need 2 months to sort myself out about all this so she was right to bring it up and force the conversation now if she truly wants this sooner than later. I admit that a part of me wants to cry at times thinking about it, as I said, a part of me feels that as a man I shouldn't want this, but I cannot deny that my tears are falling onto my hard cock.