by
sidejump
@ 2008-04-06 - 12:45:40
Rainee asked me in a comment as to what had happened in my marriage to send me along the route of an affair. So I looked back through the 270 plus posts i have written! and found i had never done a post on this. So here it is, how it all began.
When I met my husband I was a virgin, and so was he. I never realised that there was more to sex than what we did. I didn't know of the variety of positions, the joy of oral, nothing. I didn't know that young unmarried couples ould be at it every night, we certainly weren't, and I thought this was normal.
We lived together for a while before marrying, maybe 3 years. Sex was a once a week thing, if I was lucky. My husband never proposed, I did that on a valentines day in a leap year. I proposed cos I was tired of my dad asking when we were going to stop living in sin, not the best reason in hindsight.
We would have big arguments, over petty things. He behaved selfishly from the start, and I always said that it was like having a child, so there was no way I was going to have another.
I gave up the pill quite early in our relationship as i saw the health risks were too great for the amount of times we had sex.
After 3 years of marriage, my boss seduced me. He was about 16 years older than me, and obviously gave me the attention that was lacking at home. He had no better technique than my husband though, and after 2 times, I finished it and swore off adultery for ever more.
Then we moved countries, started a new life in a new land. Had children. Life in a new country, where you don't speak the language, have no back up support system, and a husband out at work all day is hard. My first child was very demanding. But i got on with it, and was happy.
I remember though, when I got pregnant, I was so happy that this meant we could have unprotected sex now, no more condoms. But hubbie was not interested. No sex for 9 months, then longer while I recovered from the birth.
The first child was such a handful that we put off having the second for 3 years. The first was jealous of the baby, and even more difficult. I think I went into a depression of sorts. But received no treatment, no support. I had to help myself over it, and this made me a tough person.
My husband is not given to spontenaiety, no gifts, no surprises. If we do anything romantic then it is for me to organise etc. It became that I organised everything, ran the house and the finances, organised holidays, basically was a mum to 3 and not just 2.
Sex became more and more infrequent, and we drifted more and more apart. The kids never wanted to do trips, it became harder to do things together. Having no support system meant that for a long time we had no babysitters, no us time.
Then i discovered the internet, and on line games. On line I got chatted up by Mark in London ( not his real name). He said he knew how to treat women, we swopped email addresses, we played on line a lot, he was at home, so was I. We swopped stories and emails every day. I fell in love over the internet. I was so starved of love that I trusted myself to a total stranger in effect. We arranged to meet. I was working at that point, had landed a new job with travel. We met in London, in a hotel. I was so nervous I did not sleep the night before. But we went to my room, and he gave me the first oral sex I had ever had. It may not have been magic, but it was the start of a 2.5 year long distance affair, where we met every 3 months or so, and where the sex got better and better. He awoke in my the woman within, the sexy woman with passion that had been surpressed all those years. he showed me new positions, fantasies, spanking. We did things together that he and his wife did not. we learnt together.
He bought me gifts, and planned surprises. We talked every day on the phone, emailed every day, and no one ever suspected a thing.
It ended because Mark moved to Israel. But by then I was hooked.
He told me I needed to find another lover, and so I did. I trusted myself to strangers again, I was angry that I had to do this, that my husband did not care enough about my needs to meet them, but now I have R and I love him.
So my affairs give me the romance and spontenaiety that I need. In my affairs my lover thinks about my needs and desires, and strives to meet them. This is what I love and why they bring me alive.
My husband still had no idea of my secret life. He is not interested in what I blog about on here. He never asks. I have bought several books over the years about putting the romance and passion back into a relationship, he will read none of them, he does not see the need. But give him a book on Java, and there is no putting it down 
He is an engineer, and everything has a reason and logic behind it. He does not believe in the soul. He does not share my spirituality, or my sensuality. he is happiest on a computer, writing code.
I am not sure though if I will have another affair if this one with R ends. I see that it has been a journey for me over the past few years, learning about sexuality and myself that I should have done as a young person. Affairs are risky. They involve lots of lies, and the fallout is very upsetting if a spouse finds out. I don't want to go through that again. I have now reached the stage where I can be more honest, and if I seek a sexual partner, it will be either with my husbands knowledge, or as a free agent, to live how i want to live.