I came across these two charts while reading an old post on the 'Evolving Your Man' blog and thought someone might find them useful...
Love Is A Choice But Attraction Is Not: It Is Time For You To Reignite Desire And Intimacy
Not that I am fearful of Mistress taking a lover, but at the same time I never want her to feel taken for granted or that our marriage is 'functional'. I also never want her to feel that my attraction to her has diminished, ever! It is something that I feel incredibly strongly about. Perhaps too strongly sometimes.
Yesterday I felt quite emotional for some reason (and this was before I read this article), but that has kind of just reignited it all over again. Of course I could just decide to not read this blog, but no, I'd rather feel too much sometimes than stick my head in the sand.
As Mistress and I discussed yesterday, there are peaks and troughs in any relationship, and thankfully our troughs are fairly shallow. We have very little to worry about, we own our own home, we have no children to fret over or provide for (probably a big part of where marriages can become functional if I'm honest), we are both employed, we are both fairly healthy, etc etc.
We both hate the hot weather so that is an issue at the moment, and we feel limited in what we can do together when it's 28 fucking degrees again at the weekend. We'd love to go out somewhere and be together looking round an old house or something, but it's tough this year. And sleeping apart sucks too. But then the other night it was a bit cooler and I almost suggested we try it, but then in the morning it was clear that Mistress had slept very badly so one of us would have ended up in the spare room anyway.
The thing is... I do sometimes just feel so in love with her, like a teenager with his first girlfriend, quite honestly. I want to touch her all the time, to the point where I feel like I'm being annoying, but I can't help it. And I love that I can still feel that way, but at the same time I feel kind of silly. Like I 'shouldn't' feel that way, not at 56 and 34 years into a relationship.
I try to tell myself, no, it's not you that's wrong. It's wonderful that you still feel this way. Think of all the women in the world who's husbands barely acknowledge them, let alone try to make them feel desired or loved. Which I realise makes me sound like a massive self-congratulatory prick if you take it that way, but that's really not how I meant it.
I still look at her just the same as when we first met. She is so damned sexy. I know very few people ever really believe they are as hot as others see them and it's a real shame. Regardless I feel compelled to try to convince her day after day. I truly want her to feel sexy and powerful, because that's how I see her. Just knowing what she could make me do if she really wanted to leaves me feeling quite... heady!
Honestly all I ever wanted when I was a teenager was to find my 'person', be with them forever and make them feel completely safe and loved. That didn't work out with my first girlfriend for many reasons, but also (in hindsight) I'm pretty sure she wasn't over her previous boyfriend. Despite that initial failure I never really wanted to 'bang chicks', I wanted a special bond with someone truly worth it and I am so thankful that in the end I got exactly what I wanted (and it only took two goes!).
Oh and in case you're wondering, I genuinely don't feel like I missed out on 'sowing my oats' as they say. I think I was way too scared of getting a girl pregnant to go around dispensing my jizz left right and centre (even if there had been a queue of willing receptacles - which I certainly don't recall there being!), and since I've never really drunk much either I was never really the type to throw caution to the wind. I may have regrets about the past but that isn't one of them.
It never occurred to me at the time that forming a deep bond like that was probably the best way to lay the foundation for the kind of sex life I would later crave. Not that I wanted a 'Femdom' life when I was 22 years old, I was happy to have hot vanilla sex, doing the kind of things you do when you're young - banging all night and going to work on two hours sleep. It was great. I wouldn't swap it for what we have now though, honestly.
I wasn't ignorant about Femdom, even then though, I remember seeing some 'German' porn on VHS when I was 15 or 16 and I liked it a lot. I just didn't think that was something people did in real life. It took me several years to bring this idea up to Mistress and after some initial hesitation she was okay with it. It was very much restricted to occasional 'sessions' though and the rest of the time we were pretty much vanilla.
I haven't had masses of male friends over my lifetime, partly because I've been working in the same company since I was sixteen, but the people I have come into contact with just confuse me, honestly. I may have mentioned this before but I was friends with a guy for many years who was very successful in business and kept himself in great shape, but his attitude to his wife sucked. Like I can't remember exactly what it was but for some reason his wife thought she needed to go to an ER (I think she had an eye infection or something) and she was hoping he would drive her there, and he didn't really want to. That wasn't the only memorable instance of his inattention either
And my other friend, who is also my business partner now, he has a wife and three children (he's about ten years younger than me) but even years ago it just sounded like they were already 'functional' (as that post puts it). Sometimes I just want to slap him hard and say 'what are you doing?' Yes it takes two to make a good marriage, but make a fucking effort. But of course I can't. It's not my place to meddle in other people's lives and maybe they are happy co-existing without any deep feelings.
It just confuses me. That's all. This person is supposed to be everything to you, but you don't want to drive them to the ER? Like, are you for real? Mistress would NEVER have to ask me to drive her to the ER, or anywhere. I would want to. I don't want her sitting in a waiting room for hours on her own, what am I gonna do while she's there? Go fishing? No, I'm going to be worrying about her.
Is it me? I don't understand other men. I'm sure there must be lots of decent, intelligent men out there who think the same way as me, but I don't think I've ever met any. Perhaps I should be charitable and think they just don't like to appear that way outwardly, because maybe they think it makes them look 'weak' or something. I don't know.
Whatever, I know I can't solve the rest of the world's problems and I shouldn't worry about it. But I can't help but wonder if the first answer to that blogpost isn't 'take a lover to make you feel desired again', shouldn't be 'men wake the fuck up and do something!', is it that hard, really? Surely the bar is so low that even the smallest effort would be noticed?
Sorry, I didn't mean to bore on about this so long, it just frustrates and annoys me. And I hate that I feel silly because I adore my wonderful Mistress and I want her to feel it every day.
Thank God for Mistress Scarlet's blog, who posts regularly and usually puts a smile on my face.
Her latest post 'Tease and denial is so easy, yet DEVASTATING for the enduringly denied male' is short but sweet. I just love how much she enjoys being cruel and heartless to her husband, if Mistress could feel just a tiny fraction of that I would be so happy. 😊
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I wrote this post on Monday, but I delayed posting it because Mistress was stressing about potentially having a shitty week at work this week and I didn't want her to read this while that was still going on.
In the meantime Literotica have continued to publish my story and the comments have started to become more mixed. I'm surprised it took this long honestly, but as the story has developed and become more 'extreme' so the scores have tapered off a bit and the reactions more mixed.
It makes me second guess my decision to keep pushing the story further and further, especially knowing what's still to come. It also reminds me of Mistress's somewhat negative reaction to the story when she proof read it for me. And I'm left feeling that maybe I have been a bit too open and unguarded when exposing my inner thoughts. Especially when you get comments like this one;
Sissyjackie2008 (on the 13th Aug 2026)
"This story reminds me of the first time I sucked a cock in front of my wife. The emasculation was so humiliating, but erotic as she watched in amusement."
No disrespect to Sissyjackie2008, but it does make you wonder what the actual fuck I wrote and whether I should just keep the crazy shit inside my head inside my head?
I feel like I have retreated into my shell a bit the last few days too, which leaves me feeling a little deflated. On the one hand I want to be open and honest with Mistress about everything because she is my everything, but I can't help feeling that deep down maybe she would prefer it if I didn't.


