So - yes, she is hooked on Paul. I'd read Raks comments earlier yesterday but hadn't seen Peak's till later yesterday afternoon.
So, hooked on Paul, it was pushed in my face yesterday when she was a bit moody and when I asked why she said that Paul was going to a SuperBowl pre-party and wasn't going to be coming by yesterday. I told her that I was a little surprised that she wanted to see him after the fun we'd had together and she said that she was hoping for a quickie with him if nothing else.
I admit that it was a little hard to hear but that in some ways I knew it was happening. But when she said to me that she wanted to have sex with him yesterday and I asked her why after the night before with me, she said that while it had been good, that she still wanted to have some fun with him. When I pushed her a bit more she did come out and say it - that after all this time, that after all of my desires and us acting on them, that she said to me that she wants it more with him than me right now. She said that she's really gotten into how it feels with him and that right now she enjoyed sex with him a lot.
I know - I know - warning and danger and all of that - and yes, what everyone here predicted. But no, it's not all gloom and doom. We talked more and she said the sex with me was good and even "great" but that she also felt she had to admit that she really enjoyed it with Paul. I asked her honestly if it was that he cums in her and I don't. She said "that's part of it" and admitted that feeling that with Paul now for so long has been something she's come to look forward to very much. I offered to do her without a condom and she said "no, that's not it" and it led into a bigger discussion.
We talked about a lot of stuff. She said to me that she knows that my using a condom with her gives me the feelings that I've wanted to feel. She was the one who said to me "it makes it feel edgy for you" and then she said it.... "and I know it turns you on that Paul gets something with me that you don't and that really turns you on". Then she looked at me and said "but it's more than that, isn't it?" and she asked me if I was truly happy with the beta-thing that I'd started. She held my hands and she looked at me and said that it's okay if it turns me on and she said that she understands that peoples desires and turn-on's change over time. She smiled and said to me that "mine have changed too baby but it's okay". It was a little awkward at first but I did tell her that it still turned me on to be taking a beta-role with her. She asked me what that meant and I said that what I think I've come to feel is that I enjoy her being in control and that I still enjoy taking a "second place" with her sexually. But before she could answer anything I told her (again) what someone here had posted - that it's being a beta-sexually that I am into but not being a beta-emotionally. She was quiet at that and I continued and said that while I enjoyed the torment of being denied her sexually, that I didn't want to feel I was taking a back-seat emotionally and I told her that some of how she's acting lately had me questioning this.
For a bit - the conversation devolved into her professing that it's only sexual and physical with Paul but as we talked she did admit that she has feelings for him. Not love by any means and she proceeded to tell me how she feels little to no interest in his family life or anything else going on in his life - and said "that's different for me" and admitted that she had felt much more emotional about Robert and at other times before then with Brad coming up in her discussion. And she came out and said to me that "it's just a lot of fun between us" and then said "you saw that when we were away didn't you?". I told her that sometimes it was hard for me to not feel enough emotionally from her and at the same time see and know she's with Paul and I suppose, isn't thinking of me at all then.
She asked me why I'd gotten so upset after the ski weekend and asked me again if things hadn't been okay that weekend. She told me that "you got to see me do everything we normally do together" and then asked "why are you so concerned all of a sudden?". It wasn't accusatory but more trying to understand. I told her that going from the extreme of the ski weekend and then not having "us time" had made it seem like things were out of control for me and that wasn't part of what I had wanted to feel and that I guessed I just needed some alone time with her. She apologized for being too insensitive about that and agreed as she'd already said, that she was sorry for missing that. Our talk weaved back to my beta-desires and us using condoms. She asked me pointedly "do you miss cumming in me?". And before I asked her she said that she knew it turned me on to use condoms with her but that she wanted me to try to explain to her whether the pleasure I got from using them was better than cumming in her. I told her that I did miss it but then I told her that most of the time when we have sex, that for me when we use condoms now, that it's really very satisfying for me. I tried to explain to her how it made me feel good to deny myself that pleasure and how I couldn't explain it any more than that. I guess I was pretty emotional because at one point she handed me a tissue and I realized my eyes had teared-up.
I told her how I loved feeling as if i wanted her even more by denying myself. She kissed me and asked me how it felt to not have cum in her (except for those few times) now in over a year. I told her honestly that it scared me a lot but at the same time it was something that really turned me on and I told her that while it did kill me inside a bit, that at the same time it made me feel exhilarated to think about it. She said she could tell and that she could tell how it made me feel and that she says she can feel how intense it is for me when we do have sex. She said she can feel how my body feels and how I respond when I cum and she looked at me and said "I know how it makes you feel". As we talked she told me in the most loving way I could imagine was that "it's okay baby, I understand". She said that it was hard to figure out at first but over the past few months she said some of what she'd said in the past - that she didn't want to change how I felt if it was truly how I felt but that she wanted to know how to make it better for me and she said she now understood a lot more about it and that she apologized for not seeing it and not realizing how hard the ski-weekend might have been for me. I told her that it wasn't that the weekend was so hard but that it left me wanting her and I'd thought she'd wanted that too.
Well, it was her turn to say some things that I wasn't fully ready for. She said that she always wanted me and never wanted to share her life with another man but she can't say that about her sexuality any more and that like it or not, my beta-desires and all the years of her enjoying other men have changed her desires. She told me that if anything she loves me more in so many ways (not sexual) that I've let her find this part of herself. She admitted that she'd long felt reluctance to enjoy herself with other men and admitted to feeling conflicted for a long time in her feeling like she was enjoying herself for her own desires than just because it turned me on. But she said that starting with how I changed when she was seeing Robert - that was when she felt herself changing. She looked at me and said that "you did change when I was seeing Robert" and she told me that it wasn't just how I behaved, it was how I responded to the things she'd told me. She also said that she thought I did much better with all of this when I wasn't there with them. She told me that she's felt so much of what she feels with Paul now that she'd felt with Robert. She looked at me and said "sweetie, do you remember at one point I told you I'd seriously thought about whether I could have another baby" and she said that even though it wasn't something that could happen, she said she remembered being surprised at how I'd responded at the time and she said that it was something she'd remembered.
She told me again what she's told me before. That she's come to enjoy and want sex with Paul now and that she's letting herself go with what I've said I've wanted, that she should look to him for her sexual satisfaction and she asked me if I still felt that I wanted that "is that still what you want to feel as the beta?". I didn't answer her but instead said that I wanted her to look to me for her emotional satisfaction. She smiled and hugged me and said she understood that and she promised me that she would be much more aware. But she asked me again, is that still what you want though? I asked her how it made her feel if i were to say yes. She smiled and said "I think you want to say yes but that you are scared to". I nodded and told her she was right. She was very close to me as we talked and she said "baby, it's just sex - it's not my love for you that we're talking about, it's just sex". I told her that it wasn't just sex and that she shouldn't kid herself either. She was quiet for a few moments and then said "you're right". And what followed was her taking a few minutes to express to me how she feels now being able to let herself go and really enjoy sex with Paul without having to worry about what I was thinking or what I wanted. She said that she loved that when she was with him, that she'd now accepted that what I wanted was for her to truly give all of herself to him for that time together. She looked at me and said "isn't that what you want?". It wasn't as hard as I thought to nod my head yes. She looked at me and said that I will just have to believe her that she's aware of what she's doing and that she hasn't changed anything in how she's thinking recently, again pointing back to her with Robert as when her thinking seemed to change.
She looked at me and said "what about the other things that we talked about?" and she proceeded to ask me "we talked at one point about letting things go further with Paul for a little while?" and I knew what she'd meant and I just said "yeah" and then I said "I think it's just a lot all at once". I told her that all of that was really still based on it still feeling good and right between us and she totally agreed with that and said that she would limit her time with Paul until we got all of this sorted out. I guess I raised my eyebrows or whatever because she replied and said "he understands we are having a bit of a rough patch" and then she added "you didn't expect me to stop seeing him, did you?". I guess that would have been unrealistic so I just kind of shook my head no and that I guess that is really a change in her that shes' quite forceful about. And the reality is, I don't mind - I didn't mind if he'd wanted to stop by for a quickie with her. In a way, a quickie would be easier in some ways right now. But I didn't say that because she continued to tell me that she'd really begun to enjoy sex a lot with Paul "not that it wasn't good before...." she giggled but said that recently she'd really found herself feeling comfortable with him - largely starting that fateful weekend here at our house. She proceeded to tell me that she wasn't sure if she's ever felt this sexually alive and horny before. The teasing and denial that we are practicing, she says, really makes the time with Paul that much more intense for her. And she told me very pointedly that him being the only one to cum in her now for so long has really made sex with him something that feels markedly different than anything else. At one point I could tell she was in a serious place when she told me that it turned her on to know that as a woman, only her lover has truly had her intimately for so long now. She asked me how that made me feel to know she felt that way - that she hasn't felt that intimacy with me (well, not as much she did clarify). I told her just what I'd said above and before - that as long as I felt I wasn't losing her emotionally - and I hesitated as I said this and she knew it - I told her that as long as I felt confident and comfortable emotionally, that I was scared to admit that it turned me on to think about it. She asked me if that was part of what made me feel fulfilled, knowing that I've given that up to Paul. I told her I was scared to say yes. She hugged me and said that she understood and that I didn't have to say it if I didn't want to but that she understood it was something that scared me as well as turned me on. She told me that it gave her a wicked and erotic feeling to know what she/we are doing and she admitted that the taboo-ness of it turned her on even more sometimes. "Knowing I'm giving it to Paul and that you won't have me sometimes turns me on a lot" and she turned to me and said that it scares her too sometimes - but she immediately added "but knowing you are there for me" somehow makes it okay.
I know we didn't get anywhere in terms of conclusions and that I was distracted a bit once the game started last night, and even though we didn't have sex yesterday - neither of us were in the mood after talking so much - we both admitted in bed last night as we cuddled up that we needed to talk and communicate even more and I admitted that I should be more forceful when I'm not feeling comfortable. She snuggled into me and said again how sorry she was that she had stopped seeing all of me and she giggled and said "I need to remember there's more to you than just this guy" and she reached behind her to cup my now hard cock. She turned her head to me and said if I needed to masturbate that I could if I wanted but I told her no, that I wanted to wait and she smiled and as she snuggled back into me she admitted that she liked feeling it hard against her knowing I was horny about her.
I'm sure that it still seems like we're out of control to Peak and Raks - but it doesn't to me. While we didn't reach any conclusions and there's still more she said at other times, all the same - I know that I felt genuine love and concern as we talked and seeming like a genuine awareness of maybe something that's been lacking between us recently. Only time will tell how she feels and whether this was all for real or just lip-service. One thing, she is becoming the aggressor and more dominant one between us. She's said this before that she is enjoying feeling more control. I didn't tell her (yet) that her control seems to be spreading to more than just sex but that is sure to come.
She did again tell me that she's going to limit time with Paul until we get this sorted out.