Festive love
It’ll be pretty much ten years ago now that I first really questioned it.
We’d been in bed, I’d fingered her arsehole a little and she’d moaned in the right way and pressed herself against me more – one of those grunting embraces people do when getting fired up in bed. It ended up with her sucking me off and me coming all over her breasts. I’d said something like: ‘how’s that for a white Christmas?’ and she’d laughed. That’s why I’d said it – to get a laugh – a dirty one.
We’d been together five years and within those five years we’d got progressively closer in a physical way and more distant in all others. I barely fancied her anymore and it was simply because we continued fucking each other in the way we did that kept us together. It was the same for her too. I knew that much from her contentedly behaving exactly the way I did on every single piece of the monotonous. For example we’d make breakfast completely separately – same ingredients, eggs perhaps cooked slightly differently, but I’d cook mine, she’d cook hers and we’d eat them at the same table. Going for walks in public we’d be silent because the only thing we had left was sex and it wouldn’t have been clever to go on about it within earshot of grandmothers and the like.
Anyway, it was seeing my sperm spilled on her breasts this time when it occurred to me. We were fucking and fucking like this all the time to empty ourselves. I don’t think either of us felt as vacant as when we’d orgasmed. The worst of it was that we’d had times in the earlier days – the ones when we didn’t do anal or she wouldn’t swallow, that we’d make love together and feel the opposite – full. Full of love. But, it wasn’t love any more – it was porn and we were the only ones watching.
And it was that moment, when we both looked at each other, like porn stars forced to work together, that we knew we’d be over by Easter at the latest.
We’d been in bed, I’d fingered her arsehole a little and she’d moaned in the right way and pressed herself against me more – one of those grunting embraces people do when getting fired up in bed. It ended up with her sucking me off and me coming all over her breasts. I’d said something like: ‘how’s that for a white Christmas?’ and she’d laughed. That’s why I’d said it – to get a laugh – a dirty one.
We’d been together five years and within those five years we’d got progressively closer in a physical way and more distant in all others. I barely fancied her anymore and it was simply because we continued fucking each other in the way we did that kept us together. It was the same for her too. I knew that much from her contentedly behaving exactly the way I did on every single piece of the monotonous. For example we’d make breakfast completely separately – same ingredients, eggs perhaps cooked slightly differently, but I’d cook mine, she’d cook hers and we’d eat them at the same table. Going for walks in public we’d be silent because the only thing we had left was sex and it wouldn’t have been clever to go on about it within earshot of grandmothers and the like.
Anyway, it was seeing my sperm spilled on her breasts this time when it occurred to me. We were fucking and fucking like this all the time to empty ourselves. I don’t think either of us felt as vacant as when we’d orgasmed. The worst of it was that we’d had times in the earlier days – the ones when we didn’t do anal or she wouldn’t swallow, that we’d make love together and feel the opposite – full. Full of love. But, it wasn’t love any more – it was porn and we were the only ones watching.
And it was that moment, when we both looked at each other, like porn stars forced to work together, that we knew we’d be over by Easter at the latest.
A magnificently explicit no holes barred account of a purely physical, soulless relationship. Perhaps we have all been there before.
I can so relate to being there. But the physical is so much more when there is the emotional connection as well (spoken like a woman, eh???). I love a man where our physical has been nothing short of angels singing in heaven and sometimes I feel us working on that emotional feeling you speak of. The physical comes easy. And overtime, our closeness in other ways just continues to grow.....
'the only thing we had left was sex' Such a sad and poignant tale. I've never been in this situation, but I could feel you anguish. Moving.
wow. as graphic as that was, it really struck home.
love the story. love the bare boned truth of it BUT, man alive, i love the comments even more!!!
I point-blank fail to believe that anybody - however drunk, drugged up, maladjusted or lobotomised - would laugh at "how's that for a white Christmas".
Thanks to all of you for commenting.
April - you're lucky - as I am nowadays, but not then.
Emeralda - that's a great epilogue.
Harvey - wow - exactly what I'm talking about - or an extension of what I mean.
emmak - there wasn't much anquish really - just a dying fish of a relationship.
kate - if my writing is intended to do just one thing it's 'strike home graphically'
cj - love is a cunt does give good comment.
juliet is bleeding - you should get out more! No, seriously, belief is optional.
doktaykay - cheers and it is like a porno bond-quip - I'd like to see a list of those:)
I believe DoktayKay is referring to Bond - having boned a girl named Christmas - saying "I thought Christmas only comes once a year". And she laughs and comes a third time.
But that was quite a good one. If we ignore the fact they probably named her Christmas just to include that joke.
Also - it's Bond. All he has to do is have a wry smile on his face and he can make "your firstborn has cancer" sound a bit funny.
wow sounds like every single one of my relationships. I end them after a few months though. I can't make myself stay in an unfulfilling relationship.
*Waits patiently for a NEW post*
perfect story. perfect in every way.
love the bluntness! :)
i am not judging but most men do not always come to realizations like that. i guess thats because u weren't born with ur hearts on ur sleeves.
but what is love when it passes time? work in progress.
RuK,
Cream of the crop epiphany (all euphemisms intended) bursting with good writing. Whew, I'm spent now... well, at least for a few
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