magnus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:02 pm
Just a random observation about your situation, the language you use and how it might be making it difficult to move forward.
I've noticed a few times you mentioned your wife's cheating as something she did to you. While it certainly affected you and it's certainly hurtful to you, she didn't do it to you. People don't do things to you they do things for themselves. Your wife cheated for her, for whatever reasons. I really think it's important to focus on that and let go of the belief that this was something she did to you. If you can't get past that I doubt you have a future together.
I also agree with you that the "affair was 100% her fault", however if you feel you played no role in that whatsoever and have zero ownership, again I'm doubtful for your future with your wife.
At some point you're going to have to forgive her and move forward. That doesn't mean you forget, but you decide to forgive and never throw it in her face again, unless there is a recurrence. It sounds like you've punished her and she's punished herself and it's probably time for that to end. There are no guarantees it will never happen again and if you're waiting to get a guarantee you can believe in 100% it isn't going to happen. There are no guarantees of anything in life and sometimes you just have to move forward in as good a faith as you can.
FWIW, I've walked a few miles in your shoes in a very similar situation with a very similar kink dynamic. We had the long nights of emotionally brutal talks and rehashed the issue many times. At some point it had to become a part of the past and I had to make the decision to trust her again and leave the issue to die. Our relationship is better than it's ever been in our 20 years together. I can't say with a 100% certainty it will never happen again. I don't think it will, but there are no guarantees. I choose to live each day for today and right now life is pretty damn sweet.
Magnus, thank you for the post. We agree.
Regarding feeling like something was done to me, it’s specific to her deceit and betrayal of our partnership; not tied to her having sex with another man.
Admittedly, it’s been difficult for me to unpack that emotionally these last four months. I do recognize that one issue I’ve worsened is that my feelings of emotional betrayal were commingled with my feelings of shame for my kink internally and all of that was conflated by her overwhelming shame for all of it.
Bottom line is that I need to help her undo all the shame she feels about sex and disgust she feels for herself right now or *she* won’t be able to heal from this.
As for the blame, it’s all on her, but then what? I don’t get a prize for that. I’ve been eager to move to forgive her this whole time, but she’s kept me at a distance by frequently acting defensive and not remorseful. It’s trapped us in a limbo.
I’m going to do everything I can to push passed this limbo when we return from our vacations. If she stops fighting me, I’d like to move to reconciliation and put the entire affair behind us to see if we can build a new relationship together.
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Separately, we had an interesting text exchange last night. I’ve begun my work of trying to explain to her my kink has nothing to do with devaluing her (into a whore), instead it’s about me feeling like she has such high value—that I think she is so gorgeous and so many other men want her, and how lucky I am to be married to her.
She told me that right now, because of all the shame and disgust she has for herself, she could never imagine having another affair with or without my knowledge, but she hopes the difference now is that *if* something like the spark that happened with her affair partner happened again, she’d feel like she could talk to me about it. To her, even though she was aware of my kink, she never believed I’d be ok with it in reality—she though I would divorce her instantly. So now that I haven’t divorced her, she recognizes I’m serious about the kink.
I’m going to do my best to make her feel comfortable again—help her remove the shame. I’m also going to promote her asking me more questions about my kink so she can hopefully understand it more. And lastly, she said she is open to exploring it however I want now as long as it only involves us, so I need to think of the best way to do that with the primary intent being her gradual acceptance of it.
I think the best step is to share with her some of the things that turn me on most and then ask if she can incorporate the stuff into a dirty talk session—and then be complimentary of whatever she does so she feels good about it. It feels to me that she was never very comfortable about any of this in the past and now she is much more open to it.
Truthfully, I feel like it will be easy to progress to perhaps her masterbating online with another guy in the coming months because she can do that with me from the safety of her own bed. We also can explore more with the cock cage.
I just need to also give her what she needs in being dominated herself—I recognize a few times a month she needs to check that box, so I plan to go all out when we see each other on Thursday—I’ve already told her in detail what I want her to do for me:
- Take a bath to relax, then get dolled up in makeup, sexy lingerie and red high heels. Wait for me.
- when I come in the room, she’s going to give me a BJ fully dressed while I film it—swallow my cum.
- look up at me while gently kissing all over my cock and beg me to please fuck her.
- I’m going to tease her with my fingers for a bit, not letting her cum and listen to her beg for release.
- I’ll then fuck her with her legs up so I can enjoy her heels, then move to a deep and hard missionary so she cums.
- then she’ll take the top and ride my cock until I get close to my second orgasm, at which point she will hop off my dick and lick all her cum off my cock and swallow my second load.
I will try to film it all, but we’ll see how it goes. She is wet just thinking about the experience—so my hope is that if we can push for kinky, fun stuff like this a few times a month, we’ll push her boundaries gradually with the cuckold stuff as well.