Okay - some time since I'm sure what I posted above will generate more conspiracy theories, and I'm sure what I'm about to write will get me flamed too but here goes.
Sue and I both talked as I'd mentioned - and we both recognize this is a very pivotal moment for us. When we talked over the weekend she told me how she felt about many things and she encouraged me to talk to her as openly as I could so we could do what's good for both of us. As I mentioned above, one of the things she asked me and we talked about was whether I actually wanted her to do this with Paul and whether it was something that, even despite my anxiety and misgivings, whether I wanted her to do it. As I indicated above she asked me as part of a bigger discussion, one that was suggested to me in a PM. We actually started this specific line of discussion by me asking her if she was comfortable now taking the "alpha role" in things with both Paul and I. She giggled and said that she'd recognized this too but hadn't realized that's what she should call it other than her feeling like she was controlling things more. As part of us talking she said that she was enjoying herself a lot and after I'd told her that I was also enjoying her taking the lead with more things sexual, she surprised me and said that she wasn't sure but she "... can't remember feeling this horny in general since before we got married.... you know..." and I did know what she meant - as I've long posted here, she was enjoying quite a promiscuous streak when we first met. I told her that I do sense some of that same "... desire for pleasure..." as I'd seen back then and she giggled a little at that and said that she hadn't realized that was an alpha thing. It led to us, eventually, openly discussing how she felt as an alpha now. It took her a moment to understand what I was saying but then she seemed to get it and she said that she hoped what she was going to say wasn't going to hurt me ".... but I guess as a beta, you probably want to hear it then....". And she proceeded to tell me how her atitude and desire for sex with both me and Paul had changed and how now that she could see how I framed it, that she only then said she began to realize how she had become the alpha. She told me that she likes controlling what she does sexually - and then said it - also what I do and enjoy sexually. She told me that these past 2 years have been really eye opening for her and that she now realizes she can truly enjoy a sexual relationship with Paul.
It was then that she looked at me and asked "Did you know this is how I would feel when you told me you wanted to be the beta guy?". I didn't know what she was talking about but then she continued to talk to me and she said that in the past 2 years or so, yes since starting with Paul but also coinciding with my easy acceptance of him as well as my continued acceptance as things escalated - and then my coming out as the beta (and I do feel it is very much like a gay person coming-out too - in that I am finally accepting what I think I've been feeling for a long time). What she was saying is that her desire for this full-blown-affair never really went away - but as she explained it - and can now put a label to it as her being the alpha, that she says that it's sort of extinguished part of what she'd wanted to feel earlier - that feeling of emotional attachment to her lover. Now she says that "as the alpha" she knows and wants to fulfill the physical parts of that earlier desire. And so she jokingly asked if I'd plotted to become the beta to lead to this change in her desire? I laughed and said I couldn't have possibly know that would happen.
It let to us rehashing a lot of what she'd told me several years ago - of her desire to feel that kind of sexuality and sexual desire again. She said again how she's feeling older and now that we're even talking about retirement at some point as well as her parents frailty that is all weighing on her. I listened and tried to be supportive but it was also pretty clear that after harboring this desire now for so many years, that I wasn't going to really be able to chang her mind on it. She told me quite openly as I'd already said about how she felt sharing herself so easily and freely with him that when I realized how I'd responded to her about that stuff, that it was also signaling her that I was likely going to feel the same about this. At point she said that it wasn't easy for her - and I know I've shared that thought here before but she said more this time, that is makes her uneasy to know she feels this way and that while she knows it does turn me on, that she also knows what she is asking for is very well likely beyond what I had or would find arousing. She looked at me and asked me if would be willing to indulge her. It was part of this talk that led to our discussing what I already also shared about safeguards. I told her that i wasn't totally convinced yet and that I still had concerns and that was when she asked about us doing a monthly check-in with each other to talk openly like we were then.
I should have added above and will add now that she said "I'm not saying we're going to have sex then...." and she proceeded to say that's the exact thing she doesn't want to feel - that obligation or scheduling of what she will have to be intimate with me. She assured me that it will happen (and I realize now that it may happen as it did yesterday, as something perhaps when Paul is away or busy) but that she didn't want to feel that it was something she had to think ahead of time about.
The way she explained it to me - once we'd started to talk more openly was that she said something she'd said back when she wanted the whole big affair, that she wants to feel as though she "should be having sex with Paul" and that she wants to feel that it's something unexpected and a surprise if it happens with me. I asked her how she felt when we do have sex together and that's when she came out with the "confused" comment - which she explained to me that she always seems to orgasm when we have sex and she knows that's a good thing and she readily admits that to this day, she still thinks my cock fits in her best - but at the same time - she is almost infatuated with wanting sex with Paul and that "it is now just as good as with you baby" in all ways save for how I think my overall thick cock still makes her feel the best. She said that it was the hardest thing for her to do to ask me to abstain with her but she said that Paul and I feel different and make her feel different and when she's really getting into it with him, that when she's with me and I pull her in a different direction, that she says she feels like it's not the right thing to do and that once she is really into it with him after September, that as she said long ago, that she wants to feel almost as if she's cheating on Paul if she has sex with me.
We talked a bit more about that and she asked me how that made me feel to know she might be thinking that way. I told her that it turned me on and she took the moment to tell me "that's how the beta part of you feels" and she asked me if that was what I wanted and if I still wanted to be the beta.
We took an interesting change of direction at that point when I asked her what she wanted as the alpha. She giggled and said that she'd not really thought about it and she in turn looked at me and asked the same thing. She then reminded me of what I'd said I'd wanted "remember, you told me you wanted me to look to Paul for my sexual desires..... is that still true now?". We went back and forth as I asked her how she felt now as the alpha and what she felt she wanted. And over the next 30-40 minutes I guess, we both sort of opened up about things. She told me that she likes it very much when I'm with her and Paul while they're having sex and she said that part of the reason she loves that is that she knows it turns me on but more so that she likes the feeling of having me watching her and her knowing that's all I"m doing. She admitted that her alpha-mind as she began to call it enjoys denying me - she admitted that it started out because she knew it turned me on, but now she admits that denying me in general turns her on very much at times and that now that I was bringing it all out in the open, she said that she didn't want to always feel that she was walking on eggshells around me and having to worry about upsetting me or hurting my feelings if she didn't want to have sex with me. It was quite frank but also long overdue. She told me that in many ways I had no one to blame but myself for some of what I was feeling if I didn't like it. That between all I'd asked her to do and made clear that I enjoyed her doing plus "you wanting to be the beta" that she asked me again what I expected was going to happen other than to fuel her desires again.
Now, it wasn't all cold at all - far from it in fact. Part of her thoughts she shared with me was that she didn't feel this was dangerous to us at all. "If you minded not fucking me, it'd be one thing, but you don't mind it.... I know that.... " and she said again how her feeling the alpha role had let her understand that just because I enjoyed her fucking Paul so much, that it didn't mean anything else - she looked at me and said "I know you don't want to lose me or me to leave you" and she added "I hope you know I feel the same way.... that just as you want me to enjoy this, I want you to". She again told me how "it's not going to last forever with Paul" but admitted that it could be something she wants to feel with him for a longer period of time. I asked her what that meant and she said that she wasn't sure how long she was going to want this period with Paul. "Surely a few months....." and I knew there was more and she added "but if it's working for both of us, then I don' t know baby....". So again, it made it easy to reinforce the need for us to talk very openly - again at that 4 week mark.
Of course the tide turned back to me and I knew it was my turn to fess up about how I felt and what I wanted as the beta. Just as she'd told me so much that I'd heard in other ways I too seemed to have the same things to share. I told her how scared I was when I first admitted to my emerging feelings but then made her smile with how I said I felt afterwards and how it seemed to make me a lot more at ease. She agreed and said that not long afterwards that she too felt a change in me. I told her that I felt a growing ease of accepting that I was going to be playing a diminishing role for her sexually and that it turned me on. We talked very openly about condoms and she asked me how I felt about them. I think I surprised her by saying that it now felt right for me to use them and it wasn't easy for me to tell her that I couldn't be sure that even if she offered me to go bare with her whether I would want to. I told her that it makes me crazy with desire to know that's the only way I will have her now and I made her smile broadly when I told her that I loved the feeling of using them with her and I admitted that it really tweaked my beta-needs to know that 'm not cumming in her and that I am deliberately and intentionally doing it so that only Paul gets to cum in her. I knew she would ask me how that made me feel and it took me a moment to collect my thoughts. I told her as a beta that I enjoyed her sexuality, maybe even more, by watching and being there vicariously rather than actually participating. Yes I repeated what caused so much flaming a few weeks ago when I told her again that there were times when I preferred masturbating to having sex with her. I told her that while I wasn't prepared to lose her, that I was incredibly aroused at the thought of Paul taking possession of her sexually.
I was honest though, i told her that I had times and moments and thoughts where I still felt I had some of my alpha desires and needs. She was very close and held me and told me she understood - she said that she too felt points where she wasn't sure of things. I told her how I still had thoughts and feelings that this isn't what a real-man wants and that I shouldn't be so cavalier about everything and that sometimes it got me very concerned about not having sex with her. She giggled and said what I've seen other say "is it really so important for you to cum while you're in me?" and she said she knew that there was a lot of feelings in all of this for me but that she really needed to understand if it's something more physical where I truly need to feel her vagina when I orgasm - or whether it's more in my head. I told her as best as I could that sometimes, yes, my hand was wonderfully satisfying but I also told her that I didn't think it was going to be good for us if we never fucked again or if it was a long time.
As has happened before when we've talked like this, she held my hand and promised me that it wasn't going to be that long and that she was sure I was going to be okay and she said "I know baby, it's not good for either of us to go too long" and as we talked she said that she thought that no matter what, after a few weeks that she too was going to need to be with me. As she put it "no matter what baby, I still need you". When I pushed her a bit we actually both talked about how long a "long time" was. I told her that as we've started to talk and as "it starts to get closer" that I'd been thinking that at least once every 6 weeks or so that it was going to be something we had to do for ourselves. She was honest and she said that we can talk at 4 weeks as we agreed to and we can talk then about whether it'll be at 6 weeks. I looked at her and she said that she was thinking more like 8 weeks or so and she smiled and said "that would mean we'd be together for New Years Eve too honey". I told her that it made me scared to think that way, that we may only have sex like 2 times after September gets here. She held my hands and asked me what scared me about that and I went right back to how I didn't think it was how I should feel or what a man should want. But she looked at me and asked me "but baby, is it what you want?". I told her honestly that it scared me to say yes and I told her that it scared me to think of maybe only making love to her maybe 5 or 6 times in total next year.
That was when she surprised me and said "I honestly don't think it's going to last that long baby!" and she was emphatic when she said to me that "I just want to feel what it's like baby" and that she couldn't think herself of it lasting more than a few months into 2017.