I very much appreciate everyone’s comments and advice. Just to give some background. We did start as swingers, though from the beginning Kristen preferred to play solo with single males. Initially, I was periodically included in her play via threesomes, watching and through such means as calling me and letting me listen, etc.
About a year into the lifestyle (LS) our swapping activities began to give way to Kristen’s solo play--- and my involvement began to wane. Threesomes became less common and she began to hook up with men that did not want me involved. Notwithstanding, we did have occasional couples play and I was still involved with her singles play both on-site and at home (phone calls, tease and denial play, etc.).
Time passed and one day I realized that “our” involvement in the LS had become exclusively Kristen’s play with single males. I decided to seek ways I could fit into this new direction. I presented Kris with a written “Hall Pass” giving her permission to play alone and a “Cuckold Contract” spelling out the rules of our LS activities. She took the Hall Pass but never paid any attention to the contract. From there I periodically suggested to her that I could be involved in her outside play in a number of ways: we could go back to occasional threesomes, she could let me watch and/or listen, I was willing to explore more extreme cuckoldry practices including FemDom-Sub play, and so on. All these suggestions fell on deaf ears.
Still I was involved enough to be getting something out of our LS relationship by helping her get ready for her dates, hearing the details of the play and even learning to enjoy clean up duty. In fact, Kristen dated one guy that liked to wait to have his orgasm until right before she came home--- and I began to look forward to the “fresh” creampies this man left inside her. Sometimes she’d let me have sloppy seconds and then clean both loads out afterwards.
About a year ago though, Kris settled into a routine that involved 2 outside lovers--- neither one of which were interested in cuckold play. In fact, Kris told me outright that she would be embarrassed if her BFs learned about my desire to watch, listen, etc. and that they were not interested in threesome play. She greatly curtailed the details of the play and stopped automatically having me clean her pussy after her dates--- I had to ask, and sometimes the answer was no.
I didn’t really realize just how much things had changed until about 6 months ago when I reviewed my “Diary” of Kristen’s activities and was abruptly made aware that I had been methodically phased out over the past two years. The big change came last summer when we met a couple and I was treated to a rare couples swap. I recognized immediately that the wife was a true “hot wife”--- anklet and all. We played with this couple two times and I enjoyed the wife, who was attractive and very sensual.
But in the course of our conversations with this couple, it was disclosed that she played with several younger single males and that they were looking for a female for the husband (Mark) to play with alone. Soon after Kristen came to me and asked if it was okay to play with Mark alone and I agreed. That was the last time his wife was interested in my company and since then Mark has been Kristen’s steady fuck. And, as noted above, Mark is one of the guys that is not interested in threesome or cuckold play. Since Kris became nearly exclusive with Mark there has been no further couples play and my involvement in any of her outside activities has been completely stopped.
I quickly note that Kris has organized and participated in a couple of “cuckold” sessions last year for my benefit where I was allowed to watch her fuck other men. These sessions came after I began to complain about being left out. But the status quo is that she has two lovers, one of which is “steady”, and I am left out of the play.
My prevailing feeling has been that Kristen is “lazy” and she just doesn’t want to go to the trouble of including me in her “private” liaisons. But I think Ballspanking has hit on the real cause posting: “from what I have observed, it is frequent in habits of humiliation, for women to lose regard for their husbands (who willingly offer the wife to the gods of the phallus), and also lose interest of his needs, as an equal partner. Physically, emotionally, and spiritually, she is bonding with the man that touches her most deeply, that makes her feel most as a Woman!”
Having been a student of cuckoldry (as I wrote in my very first post here) I recognize the truth and reality for some cuckolds in the phenomenon Ballspanking concisely summarized above. The risk a husband takes in giving permission to his wife to have outside lovers is that she may lose respect for him as a man. And, this can move the relationship down a number of different roads. Once this happens the wife may stop having sex with her husband, she may chose to further humiliate him or feminize him, or she may simply select to leave him out of her play.
Worse case, she may fall in love with her lover and either leave her husband--- or perhaps even worse, she may stay with her resources man, but give all her loving and sexual attention to her ex par lover. (At this point some wives may even desire to get pregnant by their lovers--- in my case Kristen is “fixed” and can not get pregnant).
Aside from how she treats me in LS matters, Kris is a loving and devoted wife, and our domestic relationship is fairly normal. I love her and want to work to address this situation. However, I fear that things have gone on so long that it will take willingness from both of us to sit down and address the issue in a calm, civilized manner.
One additional force playing into all this is the force of “love”. I think Kristen is “in love” with Mark---- if what I have read about the chemistry and physiology of love is true. This doesn’t mean she’s planning to run off with him. It is just part of the phenomenon discussed above: “Physically, emotionally, and spiritually, she is bonding with the man that touches her most deeply, that makes her feel most as a Woman”. However, what it does mean is that her love for Mark is probably clouding her objectivity in this matter.
Thanks everyone again. Will keep you posted.
CuckoldMick