Terry and Tina had been our friends for about two years. We did so much as families and couples. Our children were about the same age. We enjoyed camping, fishing, hiking, walks in the park, and being at home. Terry and Richard enjoyed hunting together. Tina and I talked about everything, or so I thought!

Both our families got stationed to the Northwoods within months of each other, and we lived on the same street. I met Tina almost as soon as we moved to the neighborhood, as we had to go by her house walking our children to elementary school. It wasn’t long that our children were playing, and Tian and I chatted almost daily over coffee, and reviewing our children’s homework. It wasn’t long before family BBQs, or evening card games and a few drinks seemed to be our routine. I was shocked to find out that Richard and Terry worked in the same area, and also knew each other from work! Three times a week Tina and I would go to the gym to work out, sit in the sauna, or swim. Both of us, if I may say so, we fit, and keep our thirty-something bodies in great shape.

It was late fall of our second year of friendship that the guys had gone on their annual deer hunting trip, that always lasted two weeks. Both guys returned with big bucks and in need of showers and clean clothes. Richard seemed as though his thoughts were still deep in the woods, and I really couldn’t place my figure on what was bothering him, not yet anyway! Christmas was fast approaching, and the kids and I were looking to spend time with my parents back east. Richard, however, couldn’t get time off work, as he used his vacation time hunting the month prior. It was a quick week home and the kids, and I were reunited with daddy and my husband!

Another year had flown by, and Richard was now talking about his birthday fast approaching. We had just completed a wonderful night of lovemaking that seemed to last the entire night. Richard was a great lover, and always made sure I had my first orgasm before he started fucking me, that’s what I loved about him, no matter how horny he was, he always ensured my needs were met first. Prior to our marriage, the guys I had dated me would fuck me, and get out of bed and shower or either go straight home…… JERKS!

The next morning, we were sitting drinking coffee, the kids were still asleep, and Richard told me what he REALLY wanted for his birthday. He told me he wanted to have sex with another woman. I was dumbfounded, and asked if he was having an affair, he said NO! What he had really meant was he wanted to swap partners for his birthday. I shouted not only NO, but HELL NO! Before work, after work, in bed constantly he brought up the subject, almost begging me to say yes. I wanted no part of such a behavior, and told him so, but I also found our relationship was drifting apart with this obsession he was having.

Two weeks of his begging requests and a few days from his birthday I finally asked him, where we would even find such a couple. Terry and Tina are swingers, he told me. Oh My, was I ever shocked. Richard said during terry and his last hunting trip, Terry had told him one night, while drink, about their swinger lifestyle. After all these years of knowing Tina, I thought I had known everything about Tina and Terry. Was I wrong? What I did know was now my husband, like the guys before him, was just fucking me, and the lovemaking was gone!

The next morning, we walked the kids to school, in a snowstorm. Damn it was cold! Monday was our gym day, chilled to the bones Tina and I went straight to the sauna. Soon Tina and I were alone, and I was thinking about talking about sex, like we did before when alone. “Liz,” Tina said, your husband texted us this morning and told us that he told you about his birthday wish. Saying I was shocked was an understatement, I told her. I thought I knew everything about you, I said. Tina responded by saying: somethings we just keep very private!

I excused myself, I wasn’t in the mood for working out or swimming that day!

One o’clock there was a knock on my door, and Tina was standing there, dressed for the twenty below zero windchill that we weatherperson said we would have that day! I opened the door, stepped back inside without saying a word, and my best friend followed me into the living room, after removing her winter clothing. I am so sorry, she said. I asked Terry not to say anything, as you and I have become closer than any other couple we have ever known, my girlfriend told me. Richard keeps on insisting, I told her, and I don’t know what to do or say. Let’s say, dinner on Wednesday at our house and we can talk about it as two couples. After a while, I said okay. Richard’s birthday was Friday and I needed to give him an answer. Tina left, and I didn’t see here again until we knocked on the door Wednesday evening. Kids took their pizza and disappeared into the basement, and we sat at their dining room table for a nice spaghetti dinner followed with some great red wine.