Multiple parts because what I write can get long & overwhelming.
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I know of what I speak. You may say “my wife or girlfriend is so conservative/prudish she will freak the fuck out if I bring this up.” Well my experience should give you hope. I told my wife about my fantasy when I realized I loved her, & her me, & I was planning to ask her to marry me. I was nervous AF but being nervous & scared of the unknown & possible rejection, is far better than not sharing something so important to you & your happiness & then living with that soul draining regret. I promised myself after I was too scared to come clean with a prior GF I loved (who would have obliged had I been courageous enough to share it), that with the next person I fell in love with, I wouldn’t make the same mistake. Going into that conversation with my now wife, looking from the outside, with all available information on hand, it seemed destined to go very poorly.
At the time I met her she:
- Was 34, divorced after a 7 year marriage,
- Had three, maybe 4 sex partners before me & had never had an orgasm.
- Had only dated white guys, none she would describe as well hung, & said she wasn’t attracted to black guys (during the conversation about my fantasy)
- Raised strict Catholic, strict parents who didn’t approve of their daughters dating in high school & weren’t thrilled about the same when they were in college.
- She had never given nor received oral sex, & told me after we started dating she had no intention of that ever changing. I told her straight up it would have to change or we were done. She came around, now she’s good with both.
- Had no interest in, nor any experience with: sex toys, porn, sex talk, role play etc.
- VERY uncomfortable talking about anything sexual out of the bedroom & 90% of the time in the bedroom.
Early in our dating life she asked me if her limited sexual experience was going to be an issue for me. I told her that if she had a positive attitude & was willing to try new things it wasn’t a problem at all. She seemed very relieved & said yes, she was willing to try new things. Well, in reality she lied about that last part. As a matter of fact, the prohibition about oral sex she threw down came AFTER she said she was willing to try new things.
One other reason why sharing my fantasy seemed like a long shot with respect to her receiving it well, I once asked her when we had sex, thinking it was a softball question, “Does my getting turned on & seeing me experience pleasure turn you on?” Her response was “No, not really.” That one was more than a head scratcher, it was deflating.
Anyway, even though I had years to think through how I would bring this up & what I might say, it was still very stressful & not super easy to get out. (Side note about why I had years to perfect my approach: I dated a handful of women in the years between my girlfriend who the fantasy started with & my wife, but because I didn’t love them or form a close emotional connection the fantasy was never in play.) I made it clear, “It would be extremely hot if this happened in real life, but I have no expectations of you doing this for real. BUT it’s my fantasy, turns me on incredibly, and I do want some sex talk & role play around it.”
After I gave my whole spiel, she was kind of quiet, & I looked very closely, carefully at her facial expressions. She was looking at me and just kind of softly smiling, maybe understanding how incredibly difficult it was to tell her something she knew was embarrassing for me, or maybe because she thought my fantasy could have been far worse/more extreme. I said, “That was very tough to share & put myself out there like that, but you mean everything to me & I want to share my life with you, so I felt I needed you to know and if I couldn’t trust you enough to share this with you, that would be pretty sad. Do you think I’m weird?” “No I don’t think you’re weird.” “Do you think it’s disgusting? I was worried about how you would take all of this.”
To my huge relief she said, “No I’m not disgusted. But I just want to be clear, this is your fantasy & not mine. I’m not really attracted to black guys anyway, but even if I was, I’m never going to do this in real life.”
Was her response all I wished it would be? Of course not. But it was finally out there. My wife knew my deepest, darkest secret, and she didn’t run for the hills, didn’t scream, freak out, or want to “take a break.” I think a large part of why she took it in stride, still loved me, still wanted to be close & affectionate with me after this confession, is because of my approach & messaging that I really, really prepared carefully for. Next Part 2: Caveats, prepping yourself for the conversation, etc.
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I know of what I speak. You may say “my wife or girlfriend is so conservative/prudish she will freak the fuck out if I bring this up.” Well my experience should give you hope. I told my wife about my fantasy when I realized I loved her, & her me, & I was planning to ask her to marry me. I was nervous AF but being nervous & scared of the unknown & possible rejection, is far better than not sharing something so important to you & your happiness & then living with that soul draining regret. I promised myself after I was too scared to come clean with a prior GF I loved (who would have obliged had I been courageous enough to share it), that with the next person I fell in love with, I wouldn’t make the same mistake. Going into that conversation with my now wife, looking from the outside, with all available information on hand, it seemed destined to go very poorly.
At the time I met her she:
- Was 34, divorced after a 7 year marriage,
- Had three, maybe 4 sex partners before me & had never had an orgasm.
- Had only dated white guys, none she would describe as well hung, & said she wasn’t attracted to black guys (during the conversation about my fantasy)
- Raised strict Catholic, strict parents who didn’t approve of their daughters dating in high school & weren’t thrilled about the same when they were in college.
- She had never given nor received oral sex, & told me after we started dating she had no intention of that ever changing. I told her straight up it would have to change or we were done. She came around, now she’s good with both.
- Had no interest in, nor any experience with: sex toys, porn, sex talk, role play etc.
- VERY uncomfortable talking about anything sexual out of the bedroom & 90% of the time in the bedroom.
Early in our dating life she asked me if her limited sexual experience was going to be an issue for me. I told her that if she had a positive attitude & was willing to try new things it wasn’t a problem at all. She seemed very relieved & said yes, she was willing to try new things. Well, in reality she lied about that last part. As a matter of fact, the prohibition about oral sex she threw down came AFTER she said she was willing to try new things.
One other reason why sharing my fantasy seemed like a long shot with respect to her receiving it well, I once asked her when we had sex, thinking it was a softball question, “Does my getting turned on & seeing me experience pleasure turn you on?” Her response was “No, not really.” That one was more than a head scratcher, it was deflating.
Anyway, even though I had years to think through how I would bring this up & what I might say, it was still very stressful & not super easy to get out. (Side note about why I had years to perfect my approach: I dated a handful of women in the years between my girlfriend who the fantasy started with & my wife, but because I didn’t love them or form a close emotional connection the fantasy was never in play.) I made it clear, “It would be extremely hot if this happened in real life, but I have no expectations of you doing this for real. BUT it’s my fantasy, turns me on incredibly, and I do want some sex talk & role play around it.”
After I gave my whole spiel, she was kind of quiet, & I looked very closely, carefully at her facial expressions. She was looking at me and just kind of softly smiling, maybe understanding how incredibly difficult it was to tell her something she knew was embarrassing for me, or maybe because she thought my fantasy could have been far worse/more extreme. I said, “That was very tough to share & put myself out there like that, but you mean everything to me & I want to share my life with you, so I felt I needed you to know and if I couldn’t trust you enough to share this with you, that would be pretty sad. Do you think I’m weird?” “No I don’t think you’re weird.” “Do you think it’s disgusting? I was worried about how you would take all of this.”
To my huge relief she said, “No I’m not disgusted. But I just want to be clear, this is your fantasy & not mine. I’m not really attracted to black guys anyway, but even if I was, I’m never going to do this in real life.”
Was her response all I wished it would be? Of course not. But it was finally out there. My wife knew my deepest, darkest secret, and she didn’t run for the hills, didn’t scream, freak out, or want to “take a break.” I think a large part of why she took it in stride, still loved me, still wanted to be close & affectionate with me after this confession, is because of my approach & messaging that I really, really prepared carefully for. Next Part 2: Caveats, prepping yourself for the conversation, etc.