3532734dreamer wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:25 pm
Hi w770 (and Lana).
It's so great that you've been giving us so many answers and updating us so often these past few days. Thank you so much for sharing that much. And it was great to hear from Lana too. Her input can only add to the value of this thread.
In response to Lana:
I am not expecting a reply to this post from you [Lana] as I know this thread is Ws project. However I would still like to convey my thanks to you (whether directly or through W) for sharing your thoughts and feelings on some of the matters that W and random people on the internet are discussing.
I hope you and the baby are well and continue to do well. It is not easy carrying a new life inside yourself with the changes, responsibilities and stress that arise as a result. But from what W tells us you are very driven and dedicated to ready for the next stage.
Some well meaning thoughts from my SO's and I experience with our first together (her second). There is no such thing as perfect. You can try to be as ready as you can but you still won't be (completely). That does not mean you shouldn't still try to be ready, you still need to try to be (which I think you and W are doing). Now you can try to plan everything thing out, to try to make things go a certain way, but in the end things will probably not go the way you expected. So try be the best you can be and don't worry about trying to be perfect.
In that there is also another important person to remember: yourself. It is very easy to forget yourself in all that will be happening and focus just on the beautiful new life you (both of you - but you [Lana] will have done most of the heavy lifting) you have brought into this world and making things work as a family. I can't tell you not to, but try to remember to keep a balance. You have had a transformative year and you may feel you have to give everything up, or not... There is no right way to do it. You have to figure that out as you go. Don't judge yourself by other people's morals. Hold true to your own ethics. Be the best you can be, don't try to be some impossible perfect or end up losing touch with yourself. Make sure W is doing his fair share of the work (it's 2023, not 1953). And I'm sure you will be a great mother. Good luck!
Now, onto the serious business. As I stated in the beginning, I am not writing this with the expectation of a response. So this part should be regarded as more of a provocation to thought. Be forewarned, I will be speculating a bit (or a lot).
By your own admission, you are in love with Shawn. Feelings that I think may have taken less than a month to start (from when you first invited him over while W was walking the dogs). To be fair, I don't think that was the same as what you feel now - and that is going to be an important point I am going to make.
When Shawn left for California, you compartmentalized those feelings. They went in a mental box and stayed there, mostly.. Maybe you would revisit those thoughts and emotions in you own mind, but you didn't let them out, express them. However, those feelings didn't go away. They were still there.
Jump to after the summer and there have been the experiences with the French guy and Adam (and Evan) (and I don't remember right now if there were others)... And then a chance to reconnect with Shawn arises and it is seized upon! Those feelings that were compartmentalized away could finally come out. And did. The fucking and love-making were incredible, and that connection was back. You did activities (other than sex) together, socialized with friends of Shawn together, and engaged in some social activities that included sex with another couple that are friends of Shawn (swapped partners).
So what effect did those (was it Friday night, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and to Tuesday evening?) 4.5(?) days have on your [Lana] feelings for Shawn? Because I don't think you felt the same when you arrived in California as when you left. That connection and those feelings (of love) GREW. To the point where you felt jealousy at seeing Shawn having sex with another woman (and, not irrelevant to note, he felt the same seeing you with another man, but we are focused on you right now). To the point where you two discussed a significant change in your relationship (though Shawn brought it up and it was considered unfeasible, but it was discussed and not outright shot down). And it's not just the confessions of love, it's also the whispering, giggling, kissing, cuddling and the way in which you hold him and pull him tight into you while he's making love to you that also give it away.
After you came back, those feelings were compartmentalized again. Maybe you were also concerned about hurting W more by not keeping them locked away. Shawn, W and you played together on video calls once in a while, but on the whole you focused on you pregnancy and the baby that would be coming (and, to be clear, that is an absolutely acceptable thing to focus on).
But now that Shawn is coming back in a few weeks, those compartmentalized feelings aren't so compartmentalized anymore. And you are becoming more willing to admit those feelings (or finding it harder to hide them?) and discuss them. It probably has also helped a lot that W has overcome his initial shock (and hurt) from witnessing you and Shawn making love and is now aroused by it instead. Making it much easier to discuss without fear of hurting W. And you sound eager to be able to express those feelings again while sharing their sexual personification with Shawn (making love). But this this wouldn't just be a performance, but real too, no? Would I be right in surmising that being able to say you love him [Shawn] while making love makes the love-making better and the orgasms more intense? Is it only as long as W gets pleasure from it? Or if you felt you could be more free in expressing your feelings of love for Shawn, would you do it more? Or differently?
Now to come back around to the point I mentioned earlier that I wanted to make. In all likelihood you [Lana] will be having more sex with Shawn (including love-making) after he arrives than with W. That means you will be connecting sexually more with Shawn in addition to resuming that special connection the two of you have that you can't quite explain. That means opportunities for that connection and those feelings (of love [for Shawn]) to grow. And for closer to 20 days rather than the 4.5 days you were in California. Are you aware of that possibility? Are you aware of that probability? Is W aware?
There is even the idea floating around this thread of W being denied sex while Shawn is here. What kind of influence would that have on the continuing development of your feelings for Shawn? Realistically I don't think W would be able to hold out (sorry W, it's not that I don't believe in you [W], I do, but when it comes to this I think you [W] have a deep need to reconnect with Lana, and there's nothing wrong with that). I figure he [W] would need to reclaim/reconnect with you [Lana] after a few days, a week tops. Will you be loving both of your men in each their own way? Will you only be controlled by the boundaries that are set (though adjustable by W)? Will you have to be
surpressing (
edit: replaces the word 'surprising' which was wrong in this context) some of your feelings? Would that be fair to you?
How do you feel about your connection and feelings of love for Shawn to grow/deepen? Are you ok with it happening? Do you want that, maybe? Ever the reasoner and compartmentalizer, do you think you can prevent it? Or do you think you could still compartmentalize those stronger/deeper feelings? And what happens after, when Shawn goes back, when the connection and feelings are stronger? Do you want it to continue? If things were less complicated with a baby on the way, would you want it to continue? Or would you want something different, something more?
To clarify again, I'm not trying to be offensive, but I am trying to be provocative to generate thought and discussion on the matter. And I feel like I have gone on far too long. So, all the best until next time.
Edit: replaced an wrong word that was wrong in the context of a sentence