Well, I can say that for those who are saying this is just a continuation of how things have been going all along is that I don't feel that way. This conversation was one of the first times with her where I sensed she understood how I felt regarding exploring just how far my beta desires go. We've tip-toed around it for a long time but last night in bed we talked for a long time, staying up quite late, and I think it's one of the first times that I think I feel that she understands how I'm feeling.
I know a lot of people here say she has this ulterior motive to be with Paul or leave me or whatever, but it sure didn't feel like that last night. She said things to me about how she thinks that it makes me feel - that seemed to really connect with me. She told me that I have always been this way, that I need to really explore and experience things before deciding about how I feel about them. She's known me for 30 years now so some of what she said was revealing including not just some things that we explored before really getting into - like skiing - or other things that we thought we'd be into more but arent - things like scuba diving or going out on my motorcycle. There have been family things too that she's mentioned which related to our kids and how we've felt over time. What she was emphasizing to me was that for me - I need to experience things for a while to learn how I feel about them and that I"m not someone who has overnight or immediate desires and decisions.
I was going to be defensive when she said she's the same way and shared many similar examples. She also said she didn't plan to meet or enjoy Paul as she is, but it is what it is and she put it bluntly that as long as I want to have and experience my life as a beta for her, that she will want him sexually as she's said. Thing was - she just said it as if it were the same as "it's cloudy out" - as just something that "is". And that's where we started to talk about how I felt about things. She told me that it's taken her just as long as me to come to where we are and for her own desires to develop. Say what you want, but she insists that her desires have merely followed my own. I didn't ask her but conjecturing - I suppose if I'd been into group-sex and gang-bangs, that perhaps she may have developed her own desires in that direction. Something we'll never know - but again, as someone who's been in love with their wife - truly in love with her as a person as well as a physical being - that I honestly believe what she's saying. And anyone who's married for a long time will know the same - you just go along with the other person at times at first but over time, you - perhaps reluctantly - develop a liking yourself.
So when she asked me whether I'd truly ever thought about what I wanted to experience, when I asked her in return the same question she said that it's not something she'd have been able to form herself until recently, what her own desires are for the future. She again mentioned the "whole big affair" and she again clarified that she no longer feels the need for the emotional side of that, but now that she is able to say what she thinks she wants, she did say that she would like to explore further with me and she giggled and said "it'll be how it's always been, when it's too much for you, it'll probably be too much for me".
Azsurfer - yes and I think about it what I always think about it, that seeing him in her and seeing her respond to him, now so comfortably, that it's arousing in a much more admiring way than of physical attraction if that makes any sense. I do actually enjoy her letting herself go with him. And no, despite talk I honestly had no illusions about spending the entire night with them. I did not observe them after that until the next morning. In terms of how I felt though - it was far more arousing to me that she'd gone off for a quickie (well, not so quick) with him on Christmas Eve and since than being with them the week before.
As far as what we want and all of that. She's made it quite clear that unless I want to relinquish my beta desires, that we will continue to use condoms indefinitely. She asked me how I felt about that and I as I shared before, I told her that it makes me anxious to think about it as something permanent but that it continued to arouse me as it always has. But there's no secret right now, as far as she wants regarding this and she's clear about that. She says that my giving that up with her - feeling her bare and cumming in her - that it is part of what she wants even more from Paul then and she's clear that it's something she feels strongly about. As we had already talked she reminded me that it's been just a handful of times that we've given in and not used them in the past 2 years. I told her that it was something that made me feel complete when we have sex together - that it just feels right. She looked at me and said "you want me to have that with Paul and not you.... you know.... how it feels together at the end...." she paused and said "it's okay..." and after a moment she said "I know that's hard for you to tell me but I love knowing it's how you feel and what you want". She paused for another moment and she said "it makes me feel really really sexy to share that with Paul.... and I mean really share it".
It was me that told her I was achingly horny thinking about not having her on New Years eve. She held my hand and she said she knew it was and that she wanted to make the night good for me as best as she can. I told her that I wanted to masturbate with them and she told me that she would love it if I could share their moment that way "and you'd still be part of having sex with me this year baby....".
It was when we started to talk about beyond New Years that she said "lets save that".