Extract STORY EXCERPT FROM "CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED?"
My name is Sue and I`ve been married to my husband, Tom, for 10 years. I always
thought we had a good marriage. But don`t all women? We tend not to look at what
we don`t want to see. Bury our head in the sand. Don`t face facts. Even when the
ugly reality is staring straight at us. Our problems started with little things.
One night out of the clear blue, he refused to handcuff me to the wall. Said he
was "tired", bad day at work. Okay. I tried to deal with that. I`m a
caring person. I understand when someone is tired. But in the back of my mind,
it worried me nevertheless. A man doesn`t just suddenly stop handcuffing his
wife to the wall for no good reason. It`s not normal. I knew our marriage was
headed for serious trouble, but little did I know just how serious.
The next night he refused, just outright refused, to tie me up. He could see by
the look on my face that my feelings were hurt, badly hurt. How is a woman
supposed to deal with this kind of disappointment? It was becoming increasingly
difficult for me to even comprehend the blatant insensitivity of a man who
wouldn`t even tie up his own wife. He`d promised me just last month that we`d
try out some new restraints, but he never bought them. He always had some
excuse or other. The handcuffs he loved using on me were gathering dust,
tossed in a corner.
OH MY GOD, what was happening to my happy marriage? Where had the love gone?
The unmistakable signs of a crumbling, deteriorating relationship were all
around me. Maybe we needed counseling? I opened the Yellow Pages, desperately
looking for anyone, anything that could help us. Surely, there must be someone
out there, a professional, who could open Tom`s eyes to the severe damage he was
doing to ME, to US, to the entire future of our marriage! How selfish he was.
How cruel. Sometimes men are like that. They don`t know how wounding their
actions can be.
A small, thoughtful thing like being handcuffed or tied up and he couldn`t even
take a few minutes out of his busy evening to do that one thing for ME? I took
care of the house all day, cooked, cleaned, kept everything running smoothly. At
the very, very least, I deserved to be spread eagled on the bed, my bra shoved
up, my panties yanked roughly down to my knees while he finger fucked me. At the
very least…...
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