Summary: Brenda and her husband Harry, begin an open marriage that veers into the incestuous when Brenda's younger sister Becky comes to town and awakens something in her.
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"An open marriage?" Brenda asked, repeating the words her husband had just said.
"Yes. Though I guess they call it 'polyamory' now? I don't know, it's just this stuff I've been reading online." Harry said, showing her his iPad screen with some web article on it. Brenda took the iPad into her hands and read the headline aloud.
"What the hell is this? 'Could an open relationship spice up your marriage?', what the hell kind of websites have you been looking at?" She gave her husband a stern look, though internally, the thought of it made her... aroused. But still, she was hesitant.
Harry looked nervous. "Look, it's like I said the other night, it's not that I don't love you or anything and when you admitted the same to me I didn't feel 'betrayed' or whatever. We do sometimes think about having sex with other people. And we've had some fun with that. The roleplaying was great, so was the porn but..."
Brenda found herself nodding along, also thinking of the time she was blindfolded. Still, she felt she should feel offended. "But you're sick of having sex with me?" Brenda asked, eyebrow raised.
"No. No. I mean... well, aren't you sick of having sex with me?"
Brenda laughed and them sighed. She looked down at the floor for a moment. "I guess?" she said, eyes returning to her husband. "Kind of? But... not like... not all the time... just... look I know when we were younger, before we even met, I know you were a lot like me, having all kinds of 'adventures', but honey, we're in our forties now. We have two kids... I mean swinging? Really?"
"One of them's in college, the the other has almost finished high school. They're both doing their own thing now, we can let them off the leash a little, start focusing on ourselves a little more." Harry reasoned, placing his hands tenderly on her shoulders. "And yeah we're a little older, but you're still sexy as hell." He added with a smirk.
Brenda was struggling to look pissed. "And you're not too bad yourself." She said, stroking his face gently. "I'm not sure if I want to share you... you really want to share me?"
"I dunno, I don't really see it that way." He said thoughtfully, moving his hands down to his wife's waist. "We still kinda 'belong' to each other, it's just our relationship is bigger than just sex, right?"
She nodded slowly. "Honestly... I want this. I think we should try it at the very least, see how it goes... but..." She sighed, "It's not that I don't trust you but I think we need some rules."
"Rules?"
They spent the rest of the afternoon agreeing on rules, doing the best to respect each others boundaries. Among many other things, they both agreed to keep things quiet, they didn't need everyone to know about their 'arrangement', especially their kids. They both agreed to keep each other informed of who they were seeing. They agreed not to bring dates home. They agreed to use protection. They agreed not to sleep with anyone the couple were too familiar with. And they agreed that every Sunday evening they'd have sex with each other and only each other.
That evening, the two of them felt far more emotionally connected, far more understanding of each others' needs and desires. Before going to sleep they had some of the most impassioned sex of their long relationship.
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It had been well over a year since Brenda and Harry had that conversation. Since then, some of those rules had gone out of the window, though of course, not before they discussed things first. This usually happened after their Sunday love making session. They would hold each other in the dark and talk about a few of the 'adventures' they'd had that week and some of the 'adventures' they wanted to go on. What became clear was that both of them wanted to sleep with people both of them knew and were quite familiar with. Though both had expected to feel more jealous when this open relationship began, the couple found they were far more evolved than they realized.
It had started when Brenda ended up sleeping with Mike from her work. Harry didn't mind this breach of the rules, nor did he mind that the two of them would sleep together quite often. In fact he enjoyed Brenda telling him all about her sessions with Mike. Likewise, Brenda got off on Harry telling her all about how he'd end up sleeping with their son's attractive young English teacher Miss Sharp. This led to the two of them sleeping with people far more familiar. Harry would occasionally visit Stacy, a single mother living a couple doors down. Brenda would regularly have 'brunch' with Edith, her close friend living across the street. Both had been on dates with old flames. The two had also ended up 'partner swapping' with Mindy and Todd, a couple they'd been friends with for years.