Almost four years ago, I fell in love for the first time--twenty-five years too late--and began an affair. Over the years, Kevin and I have met several times a week and email several times a day. I have kept almost all of the emails that I sent to him and that he sent to me. Along the way, there has been laughter and tenderness and heat...and heartache.

This blog is the posting of our daily emails. It chronicles the lives of two people over a four year period so far, and tells the story of our burgeoning love against the backdrop of New York City.

The names and addresses have been changed to protect the innocent; the rest is 100% real.

The daily update structure helps keep the blog as authentic as possible as well as living up to its title. It also strives to provide the reader with the kind of pleasure that a soap opera offers--a daily dose of voyeuristic fun.

Please begin at the beginning, otherwise, little will make sense.

Enjoy.




Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Sex Education

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Good morning,

I haven't heard from him yet.  Not sure what that means.  Time will tell.  Have a great day.

Me
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

Hi:

I hope everything will work out with your boss.

I'm writing this because I believe it's better to communicate than not. I'm afraid I didn't have a very good time yesterday, and I'm afraid that the disparity in our physical satisfaction has become a pattern as opposed to a fluke. It's not that I'm incapable of being satisfied, or you incapable of satisfying me. You did the first two times we met. But it was also newer and so extremely exciting, that could've been a factor. However, even since the first time, I feel I have to prompt you to things to me. It makes me feel you don't want to, that you don't care. I simply don't understand why there is such a gap between your words and actions, unless you don't mean them, and are hoping pretty words will mollify me enough to please you and go about my business. Men selfishly using women in bed for their own satisfaction is certainly prevalent.  I'm hoping there is something besides apathy that you can explain to me. Sure, I can show you where is sensitive and how to touch me or go down on me or fuck me, but I can't make it matter to you, I can't make it be a sense of responsibility as a partner, a source of pride and satisfaction to satisfy your woman.  To me that's a real man, not someone who simply pays for the hotel room. That's a client.

You simply can't have a woman as sexual as me who doesn't care about her own physical satisfaction. That's fantasy not reality. The only women like that in reality pretend they're sexual and get paid for pretending. Then yes, nobody cares if they come or not, including them. But I'm not in that business.

I think there is something very wrong when a person goes home after being with her lover all afternoon dissatisfied. I know I was bitchy and brittle. I just felt you weren't into it and that would inhibit me so much that the whole thing would be a lost cause. So, it made me angry, perhaps because I'm not one of those people who could think, who cares if it's work for him, I'll make him do it until I come, but I'm not built that way. Satisfying your partner in bed is like a gift. It has to be given freely and joyfully. If the person has to ask for it, it isn't the same. I have no problem experimenting or practicing, but I feel there is a lack of initiative and interest on your part.

I've learned you can't change people, but I'm just hoping it's not that you don't have it in you, or don't want to, but that something, a misconception, a way you imagine things should be which isn't how good sex actually is, etc. that has made things how they are. I feel pleasing my lover is my responsibility; I take pride and great satisfaction in it. I need a lover who feels the same way. Maybe you have issues with the female body or sex in general, I don't know. I hope not.

I'm so attracted to you. I love being with you, I love turning you on and satisfying you more than you know, but there is a big piece missing, and I don't see us going on without it. I'm just hoping this is a phase in our relationship not the beginning of the end.

I love you.

R.
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

I am very sorry.  You are a beautiful woman.  Sex with you is extraordinary. You deserve all the best. 

I don't claim to be a real man, just a man, an unremarkable ordinary guy trying to get through life without making anyone else's life worse. I am amazed that I was able to catch your attention and not at all surprised that it is fading.
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

I am very sorry.  You are a beautiful woman.  Sex with you is extraordinary. 
Do you want me to feel the same way? That sex with you is extraordinary? If so, what do you think you can do to make it so?

I don't claim to be a real man, just a man, an unremarkable ordinary guy trying to get through life without making anyone else's life worse.
What's a real man? You are remarkable. I don't need extraordinary, just a man who cares to please me too.

I am amazed that I was able to catch your attention and not at all surprised that it is fading.
What a passive woe is me bunch of bull. You're just going to throw up your hands and walk? As if it's something unattainable? Of course, if I'm supposed to service you and go about my business, yes, it has lasted longer than it should've, but that's not what I thought is going on between us. A smart man like you can't figure out how to please his partner in bed? Especially if that partner is willing to explain? Unless you think it's unmanly to please your lover. When we first met, you told me that I didn't believe I'm attractive. You made me believe it. This isn't that different. Where do we go from here is your choice. If you're telling me to just accept and be satisfied with similar encounters as yesterday, then I'm afraid we aren't going anywhere, (as difficult and heartbreaking as it would be for me) but if you're saying let's talk about it, let's get our expectations and signals straight, let's play, explore, enjoy, then I say, when? : )
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:14 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Woe is not me.   I am still the luckiest guy on earth.

I need some time to think.  This can't happen again. 
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:23 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

What can't happen again?
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Questions about my "manliness".  This is our second go round on this subject.  The first time I was insulted.  This time I am embarrassed.  Either way, this isn't healthy for either of us. 
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:11 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

I'm not trying to insult or embarrass you. If I have, I'm sorry. There isn't anything to be embarrassed about. At least, not from where I'm standing. I'm just trying to figure you out. You aren't easy to figure out. I don't understand why you don't take initiative with me in bed like I take with you. I don't know whether you're shy, afraid, disinterested, lazy, just don't know how it's supposed to work? I'm just in the dark. Only you can tell me. Any reason is fine with me as long as it's honest. I hope you can figure it out, because I do love you. I think I show it, I just would like you to love me back. If you loving me isn't just lip service (now that's funny) then show me. "manliness" and "womanliness" and all that stuff is bullshit. We're just two people who are trying to connect in the most fulfilling way.

R.
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:57 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

You wrote to me:

I miss you too.  I like the way you think.  Let's work on that orgasm together.  It will be the perfect way for us to reconnect.

I love kissing you, going down on you, and generally rubbing our bodies together. 

I want to focus on going down on you.  You have to give me precise instructions.  I am eager to provide maximum pleasure.  It really turns me on.  I want you to come in my face. 

Then there was the one where you say,

I've been thinking of going down on you and I've decided I don't like you on top, but on your back because that gives me more freedom.

I'm leaving for Boston now to pick up the kids. Will be back around 3 in the morning.

If you need dates on these, I'll be happy to provide : )

I love you Kevin.
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Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:31 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Don't need dates.  Drive safely, it just started to rain.

 

 

 

 

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