Hi all, I'm obviously a little out of habit coming here. I posted and then forgot to check in

But happy to see there is some interest in our journey, even if it isn't the high octane sex fests of some of the more popular threads on here.
I'm going back in my memory here, as I believe Pierre was coming out in March, early March. I remember shaving L's pussy the day of the meeting and that she looked stunning. There is something erotic about shaving your wives pussy for the benefit of another man. I dropped her off in the city and then apart from a few check in messages, didn't hear much from her until after work the next day. A lot of guys on here talk about being consumed with angst and finding it difficult to concerntrate when they know their wive is with another man. Of being consumed with crazy thoughts about what they are up to and what she might be doing. I don't really feel much of that at all. I don't know if it's my ability to compartmentalise different things, or what it might be. Any ideas?
The next night after I came home from work she gave me the low down and we had reclamation sex. We're still not at the point yet where we go through every dirty little detail, we're still practicing that. She told me that they fucked immediately after I dropped her off at the hotel. She took her vibrator with her as she wanted to make sure she came this time. Something she struggled to do the first few times they hooked up. Then they went out to eat and had a date, dinner and a walk. Just enjoying each others company I guess. They didn't fuck again that night, but did have sex one more time in the morning before they said their goodbyes.
Our lives went on as normal for a bit. L and Pierre kept in regular contact and seemed to get closer to some extent. I'm not exactly sure how close, I don't tend to pry, and L likes to have some privacy in her conversations with him. That way she can be more free to talk without having the constant worry about what I may think about what she is saying. She does share some things with me though, she mentioned giving him some advice on his marriage. Pierre is in a sexless marriage and while he claims to love his wife deeply, he looks to fulfill his physical needs elsewhere. Fair enough, some might say. He mentioned to L when they first met that he has his wife's blessing to play outside however, based on some of the advice she was giving him, we're not so sure that's true.
During this time L was planning another trip over to Australia, primarily to see some friends, but she would also be spending several days in Melbourne. She opted not to tell Pierre about this and instead re-engaged with the Fireman. He seemed keen to meet her again and she wanted another go with him, he is an Adonis of a man, I'd let him carry me out of a burning building, so I don't blame her for that. Especially as their last meeting didn't end up with them in bed, even though L gave him a blowjob he never pushed further than that.
Then two things happened at once, at least from my perspective looking back. Fireman stopped replying to L and Pierre sent this strange message, which (maybe because of his English) was a little difficult to decipher. However, my understanding of it went along the lines of this, "I think that we're having fun, but we
(or implying, you) are getting too emotionally attached and that some separation of feelings should be maintained." After showing me the message and considering it L responded with essentially, "I'm sorry if I've led you to believe this is something that it's not, if you feel that way then that's fine let's just enjoy our memories. I won't be contactable for a while." I think Pierre sent some kind of damage control message after that, but I honestly can't remember what it was. L blocked him and removed him from everywhere they had connected.
This all happened, probably three weeks to a month before L was due for her trip out, and what followed was a month of pure depression for her. I don't know if it was just the "breakup" or the combination of Fireman also not responding to her messages, but it really affected her deeply. To the point where we were seriously looking at getting her into therapy. It really triggered a lot of things from her childhood traumas, mainly feelings of abandonment. Supporting her through this was strange. Equal parts empathy at her childhood triggers being reopened, and frustration that she was being this affected by another man no longer being in her life. She even considered cancelling the trip to see her friends, something I was firmly against. I was convinced that time away from her day-to-day life and reconnecting with people that loved her would be the best thing for her.
In the end she went and happily she had the best time with them. She told them about her breakup and her friends really took amazing care of her. When she came back she was the same little ball of positive energy and vitality that I fell in love with. About a week after she got back Fireman got back in touch, saying how sorry he was for missing her trip and how much of an idiot he felt for forgetting to reply to her, etc, etc. Now I suspect that he wasn't that interested in L, but just didn't have the balls to tell her. This is a man that obviously does very well for himself in the hotwife scene and has a long line of women that will do anything he wants. Maybe he just didn't want the slower pace of a new hotwife like L that is just learning to open up sexually. At any rate, I have no respect for a guy that can't just openly say he isn't interested. And it's a testament to how much healing that L had done that this didn't phase her in the slightest. We discussed it and decided that as a hotwife, we wouldn't waste her time on anyone that wasn't 100% openly enthusiastic about meeting her. She took this journey to improve her confidence and wouldn't waste time on chasing men, they should be chasing her. Easy decision, blocked.
That was a couple of months ago now and all has been quiet on the hotwifing front. We've spent much more time focusing on our relationship, time and energy well spent. We're closer than ever. L always engages in dirty talk during sex, she talks about how much she wants to be fucked by other men and how she likes making me jealous, those sorts of things

And even outside of the bedroom she is completely comfortable in her knowledge that she can fuck and experiment if she wants to, she has really taken it to heart now. I think she will always be a hotwife in her heart. Most, if not all, of the verified hotwives on this site say "Once a woman makes the change in the way she views herself and her sexual freedom, there isn't really going back on it because it changes the way they see themselves at a fundamental level." I believe that now to be 100% accurate, L has completely changed the way she sees her sexual freedom.
Currently we're not actively engaging with anybody, though aren't against it. Nobody has presented themselves in L's life that would make her interested in exploring anything with them. However this certainly isn't the end of our journey, it's definitely the beginning. We have both learned some lessons about emotional intimacy and the levels to which we're comfortable engaging. I don't expect, or at least I hope, the next guy she decides to hook up with will trigger such a deep emotional response at the end of the relationship. I hope she keeps her feelings on a little bit more of a tight rein. I certainly don't want her falling into such a deep depression again over something that can be avoided, but maybe that's part of the game we play?
This has been a pretty long update, so I'll leave it there. More than happy to hear any advice or feedback from those that have any and sorry it's not the high octane sexual erotica that I know gets the blood pumping
