Switch - I : The Intervention
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My husband and I were worried that our 18-year-old daughter Keri's strong sexual urges were going to lead her into promiscuous, even dangerous, behavior. Our solution: let her seduce her father so that he could provide a safe, secure outlet for those urges. Unfortunately, my husband's focusing all his energies on keeping our libidinous daughter safe left
me
neglected - and
very
unsatisfied. But then I realized - our daughter has a handsome brother, and I thought, "sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose."
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I'm sitting up in bed watching the last few minutes of
"The Tonight Show."
My gorgeous husband is lying here next to me, snoring. His snoring isn't that loud, really, and I find the gentle sound reassuring.
Actually, my "gorgeous husband
"
used to be my gorgeous son. In fact, he still is - both my gorgeous son
and
my "legal" husband. Well, sort of...
It's a long story...
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It all began because I was worried about our daughter, Keri. You see, she's always shown an inordinate interest in her "private parts," even when she was quite young. Then, as she got older and began to "bloom" - about the age of 11 or 12 - she was starting to get a lot of attention from the boys. And I'm not talking about just the 11- and 12-year-old boys here. And not just teenagers. Older men, too - including a few of our adult friends.
I was worried, plain and simple. With her emerging beauty and budding body, combined with her life-long devotion to physical gratification, I was afraid there was the distinct possibility that our beautiful, kind, smart daughter could become a slut. And I don't mean just "fooling around" or getting a bad reputation. I mean the kind who could end up jeopardizing her own health and physical safety with her pleasure-seeking behavior.
And that's why, believe it or not, I got a glimmer of hope when it dawned on me that she had been trying to exhibit herself to her father, my husband, Al.
Okay, yeah, sure - teenage girls aren't supposed to have any physical interest in their fathers (or, if you speak to most parents, any physical interest
whatsoever,
other than soccer, perhaps; but that ship sailed a long time ago). So, if you're going to be militantly practical about it, maybe it's better that Keri focuses her flashing and exhibitionism on her father, who is safe and known and won't ever hurt her.
So I asked my husband about it.
"Al, have you noticed? I mean, how Keri seems to be trying to get you to notice her - physically?" I waited to see if he would pick up on it.
"Not sure what you mean, Hon." Nope, no help there. Guess I'd have to spell it out for him.
"Haven't you noticed little things, like how she doesn't completely close the bathroom door when she showers, or how she uses just a towel instead of her robe when she's going from the shower to her room? Or how she prances around in her shortest, oldest, thinnest T-shirts when she thinks it's just you and her alone in the house, or wearing pajamas that were too small on her
a year ago
?
"Al, she wants you to notice her, and by that I mean she wants you to look at her body."
Now that the issue was out in the open, he was forced to admit it.
"Yeah, I kinda noticed that. I think I've tried to tell myself that it's my imagination, but yeah, now that you spell it out like that - yeah, I think she's trying to flash me."
"The thing is, Al," and I wasn't sure how far to go with this - whether I was right, and if I was, how far I wanted to take the matter. "Al, the thing is - I think that what she wants is, I think she doesn't just want you to see her - I think she wants you...," and I couldn't bring myself to say the rest. But I had to.
"Al, Al,... you know how... you know how much she... she likes to... touch herself... even when she was
really
young..., and Al, what I think is... I think she wants to...
seduce
you..."
"Marie, Hon, that's crazy! There's no way that she's trying to seduce me. I mean, why would she even want
me
when there are so many guys right now who'd...," and then it hit him. Yes, there
are
so many guys
right now
who'd like to... to do
physical things
with our daughter -
his
daughter.
"You understand now, Al? With her looks, and the changes in her body, and the way that boys and... and
others...
look at her. Al, I'm afraid she could become downright...
promiscuous
is the nice way of putting it...," and I watched him as the whole scenario I was describing unfolded for him, and he knew that I wasn't being irrational, and to the contrary, my concerns were entirely
too
realistic.
"So I get everything you're saying, Marie, and I can't disagree with you about any of it. But where does that leave us? I mean, the way you've laid it out, it sounds... almost inevitable, that this is what's gonna happen." I could tell that he understood now, and that he shared - shares - my beliefs, and, consequently, my fears about our daughter and her future.
"So, is there anything we can do about it, Marie? I mean, what can we do...?"