Hey all. Wow, so many of you are so concerned.
I actually don't share your concerns. Maybe it's rose-colored glasses that I'm wearing, but this is the first time that she's ever expressed these desires for herself and I have to say, this morning, I am okay with her continuing to experience what she wants.
Sex last night, for me, left no doubt of the connection we have together. What's become more clear for me is that she feels more free to express her desires and more aptly, what she wants in terms of actions and experiences.
Before I explain why I say what I say about last night, I CAN answer a lot of what you have all asked about. I'm going to summarize things because she said a lot of stuff that was all the same few things in the end, just said different ways.
From her perspective and, admittedly, mine too, while we've had tons of crazy experiences, our sex life together has, in some ways, felt obligatory on both parts. She's been saying this to me for a while and it's taken me a while to understand it all. The easiest way to explain it is to go back to when she was with Don or Brad. We had a lot of sex together even when she was seeing them a lot too. Granted, we both wanted it, but a lot of the time - for example - Tuesday night would come around and knowing at the time that she wanted to wait after that to be with one of them, that we felt in a way, obligated to have sex. Like I said, it was almost always good (you know what I mean) but I do sort of have to agree that it sort of felt ****** or planned.
My response was always that because she was "off limits" at times, that was how it felt to BOTH of us, that we needed our time together. And she agreed, but now, with Frank not minding (or even actually enjoying) that she's not always squeaky clean like Don and Brad had liked, that we don't need to feel that same pressure. When I asked her candidly about the reasons for the weekend-hubby statements - she giggled and said "well! it turns you on, right?" and she added "I just would like it to be more spontaneous and not so planned .... and when I'm tired, I don't want to feel so obligated .... but I didn't mean we'd never do it during the week".
I know all of you want me to push this more and probe her psyche for what else all this means, but right now, I just don't think it's the right time to do so. I think I want to give it time to see what happens. I could have easily asked her "why Frank during the week and not me..." - but I have to say that there is a definite eroticness of knowing she IS fucking him and not me at times. She has also, obviously, not kept up the whole panty-denial thing. I knew that wouldn't and couldn't last - and perhaps that is the thing that I understand most without her having to have said it - is that when she does these things - denies me, wears panties all the time teasing me, etc. - that she is doing it to turn me on and build me up in addition to herself. And if the sex last night is any sign of the results of that build-up, then I'll take it and see where this goes.
Seeing her last weekend like that and now the week afterwards being okay and normal, it's taken a bit of the sting out of seeing it happen. Shocking, upsetting in a way at the moment, now, it is an intense memory and feeling to think back and replay it in my head. One that turns me on incredibly. But again, you all aren't here, but there is a marked closeness that seems to flourish after she's/we've had an experience like that. And, Harry, as you well stated - when I take her away and allow her to unleash herself with me away from our lives and cares, I know the passion underneath that comes out. Whether it comes out with me or with Frank, it's okay - the results are a person that I love and who seems to have a calmness around her that I and others can see.
I do have a bit of angst at the wedding plans. I know that it'll be 24-48 hours of what I saw last weekend. How can it not be - a romantic event, the 2 of them dressed to the 9's - dancing the evening away. I know what will follow afterwards and if (when) they stay overnight, I know that Frank will share all of her - sleeping together, if I know Sue, showering together and yes, lots of sex. I know it's a lot to just let happen. But I would also be lying if I said that it didn't excite me. My brain races at thinking of how I will be and how I'll feel while she's away. But we have a lot of time yet, 6 more weeks.
My sense is that she isn't sure what she wants. That this freedom I've given her plus her seeming acceptance of her own desires - I don't know that she's sorted it out yet. But one thing for sure, there is no shortness of talk, open talk here now. It's weird in a way. Just a few years ago we were somewhat inhibited talking about sex to each other. During sex, she used to be reluctant to be very explicit, now she seems to have no such....
More later.