My life was not going the way it was supposed to. Life as a married man with kids was tougher than expected. While my wife and I were both doing what we thought was right, we couldn't agree on a lot of topics regarding education. Constant fighting ensued, our sex life had become anecdotal, and while we still cared for each other, a change was required to attempt for the sake of our children. We therefore decided to separate for a predetermined period of time, and agreed on three months. I took a small furnished apartment not too far from home so I could come and say hi every once in a while. The condition behind this was to remain faithful to each other during that time. At least, that was the intent.
The first couple of weeks went by relatively well, but the regular dates with my right hand were becoming less and less satisfying with each passing day. With porn just not doing it for me, I was missing the contact of a woman's body.
Back then, with Craigslist being a free for all, I initially thought about getting a massage, but I soon found out that all erotic offers by women out there were essentially professional services, which was a complete turn off for me as any satisfying encounter has to be with a like-minded partner, not with someone who gets paid to pretend.
So I decided to post an ad, looking to provide or exchange a free relaxing massage. I wrote about my age and stats very truthfully, which were forty-three years old, nice proportionate body, athletic but not muscular, six feet and 185 lbs, with nice strong yet gentle hands. Other than my ages, that description still stands to this day. I also stated that I wanted to travel as I did not want this to happen at my temporary place where my wife could drop by unannounced. Because of that, I thought my chances of finding a like-minded woman who would be willing to host were next to none... and that was ANY woman, never mind an attractive one! But as I pressed the "post" button, I thought to myself, "who knows?".
I waited a couple of days before I checked my inbox, and saw there was a single response. I opened it and it was both minimalist and intriguing. It went something like: "I'm interested to meet for coffee and see if we click," with the only hint about her description being "height and weight proportional". So we exchanged a few emails, still keeping it to a minimum as I did not want to scare her away, but enough to agree on a time and place, which would be walking distance from her apartment. She told me she'd already be there at the coffee shop, and I'd recognize her as the girl with a blue scarf and curly hair reading a book.
When I got there, I was flabbergasted to discover a cute, early thirties, attractive mixed-race woman with a calm demeanour, warm smile and vivacious eyes. I came over to her table and ordered a coffee. We started chatting, almost like old friends despite our age difference and very different backgrounds. I had read a book from the same author she was reading, we briefly talked about the types of movies we liked, I also was transparent about my marital status, and after maybe twenty minutes, she just asked, "Shall we go?".
I quickly grabbed the bill and while I am considered to be a rather handsome man, I could not believe that this was actually happening. In trying to manage my expectations, I thought to myself, "This will just be a nice massage, I'll get to rub her back and shoulder, maybe get a glimpse of her ass and that should make for some good memories to be used to fantasize about on my next date with my right hand".