jezzabelle -> RE: Hubby is vanilla so i went outside my marriage (4/25/2006 7:47:02 AM)
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It really is a pity that jewel felt the need to run when she didn't receive the "support" it seemed she was looking for when she made her original post. If she had stuck around and read more of the responses here, she might have gained some of the insight she had been seeking. I don't agree that anyone personally attacked her and called her a hussy or even said she was a bad person. I didn't see that once. What I saw were people offering advice (perhaps not always in the best form) telling her that she really should come clean to her husband because continuing down the path she is on will only lead to heartache in the end. I've noticed some here offered her pity because she's not getting what she needs in her marriage, but what about her husband? Why should he suffer so that she can be fulfilled? From her original post it sounds like she loves him very much, that she's not completely unhappy, and that they do still have sex, although just "vanilla" sex. Hell, that's more than a lot of married couples have as Susan pointed out about her marriage. If jewel were still around, I would have asked her how exactly she tried to talk to her husband about her interests. She said she tried to introduce him to it and he was "mildly disgusted". How many times did she try to introduce it? Did she give him time to absorb what she told him, or did she just give up at that point? Sometimes it's all in how it's brought up. Maybe he was disgusted because he doesn't understand. She states that her husband would be devastated if he found out. Well, of course he would, but not because she decided to be in the lifestyle, but because she is cheating on him. I had been where jewel is now, although I didn't go so far as to cheat. I've been with my husband for 13 years now, married 9 years as of tomorrow. I didn't know anything about the lifestyle til about 3 years ago and it explained what I had been feeling for years. So I did research, read everything that I could get my hands on, talked to many online. And when I thought I had a pretty good grasp on things, I talked to my husband about it. At first he really didn't want to participate, but that was only because he didn't understand it. He was under the common misconception that the lifestyle is all about pain and he had no desire to hurt me. He did more reading himself, met others in the lifestyle with me. He is now learning to be my Master (Lordandmaster's best case scenario) and I couldn't be happier. We had discussed Lam's second best case scenario, even met a potential Dominant for me. Meeting him made my husband realize that he didn't want anyone else besides him owning me ([:)] color me happy for that one!!!!). I love him too much to ever hurt him which is why I gave him the benefit of the doubt and talked to him about everything first. It didn't happen overnight, and I didn't drop everything on him at once. I introduced him to things slowly, gave him things to read, let things absorb before I brought something else up. It took a little over two years to get to the point where he decided I was his and his only, but it did happen. Perhaps if jewel had done the same, things might be different for her now, perhaps not. She unfortunately has already taken that choice away from her husband by deciding to have a relationship with a Dom already. I just really hope that her choice doesn't come around to bite her in the ass someday, for all involved.
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