This happened to me some weeks ago when my marriage was on the verge of a breakup. My name is Maria, and this is my story.
I am twenty-eight years old, and I have been married for five years. I met my husband Paul in college. We started going out in our third year, and soon I was totally in love with him. I loved the fact that he was an easy-going person, had a great sense of humor, was so clever, and shared many beliefs with me.
Once we graduated from college, we decided to move to California as I got a great job opportunity with a bank. Paul had studied education and wanted to become a teacher, so for him, it was not an issue to move as he could find a job easily anywhere.
We lived together for a year, and then he proposed to me. I said, “Yes”, of course. We got married, we both had good jobs, and we were deeply in love, so I guess I believed we were the perfect couple.
However, time passes by, and things change.
Just three years after our wedding, things started to get cold. I mean, our sex life, the passion, all the spice just froze and kind of disappeared. I guess our routines, our jobs, and the monotony of our lives had to do with the new normality. We would have sex once a month or sometimes once every two months.
In the beginning, I didn’t notice how much this was affecting us, especially my husband. Thus, after a while, I noticed how Paul started to change. He became quieter, expressed almost no interest in my things, and some days arrived later than usual. He said he had to stay in his school, the one where he worked, grading his students’ work as he didn’t want to do that at home.
Things went on like that for three months or so until he confessed he had had an affair with a colleague, a teacher called Ashley. I couldn’t believe what was going on. My perfect marriage was falling into pieces, and I just didn’t know what to do. Paul said he felt alone and felt rejected. He said he usually tried to approach me to try to have intimate moments, but I just didn’t seem to be interested. And I guess he was right.
For some reason, my sexual desire had diminished, and I was clueless about what was the right way to change this. Plus, I didn’t know how to deal with my husband’s infidelity. The next weeks were hard. He said he didn’t want to leave me and had totally stopped any kind of contact with her. After some days of thinking and thinking, I decided to forgive him. When the school year finished, I took a month off, and we went together to Mexico. That trip helped us a lot, and our sex life was born again.
This new stage of our marriage lasted for a year or so, but then things just went back to the same state. Lack of sex activity, lack of passion and desire. So, after months and months of almost no contact and no intimacy, my husband said he wanted to get divorced.
We talked a lot about this. I asked him not to give up and proposed to find some external help. He totally refused. He said things could not be fixed, and he just preferred to restart his life.
That’s when I decided to see a psychologist. I had seen Dr. Collins a couple of times since we arrived in California, and he knew certain things about my marriage. We had two sessions, and I ended up realizing I had lost any interest in sex. I couldn’t understand why, but it was clear that part of this conflict was because of me and how I had taken distance from Paul.
Dr. Collins suggested a couple of ideas, but I just didn’t feel it could help. The third time he saw me we spent almost three hours talking about my life and my marriage. When the session was almost over, Dr. Collins looked at me as if he didn’t know what else to say.
“Look… What I am going to propose is something I don’t usually mention to my patients, I only do this if there’s an emergency, and I think this is the case. A friend of mine has a spa… A special spa. This is a place where people can reactivate their sex life, but this implies being open to new things. I think you should have a retreat in this place… A sex retreat.”
“You mean Paul and I, Dr Collins?” I asked.
“No, Maria. This should be you alone without Paul. But as I said… This implies being open to experience new adventures.”
Dr. Collins gave me the card of the owner and asked me to think about it. For the next few days, I just couldn’t sleep, and everything was crumbling into dust. So, after a week, I decided to give it a go. I took an unpaid leave and told Paul I needed to save our marriage, so I was going away for a week or so. I told him to hold on and said I was going to do my best to fix everything.
Day 1
The following Monday, I found myself driving to this spa. I had booked a room there for three days just to see if it could really help me.
When I arrived there, the owner of the place met me and greeted me. He introduced himself as Dr. Thomas Jackson. He took me to my room, told me to make myself at home, and indicated he would meet me in his office in an hour.
Sixty minutes later, I was sitting in front of him. He explained what they did there. The idea was to treat any sexual deficit or issue with sex.
“What do you mean?” I asked, kind of nervously.
“That we can help you by giving you spaces to have sex with our personnel. Only if you want to, of course. We cannot force you to do anything if you are not willing to do so. It’s all up to you.”
Then, he explained some of their methods and spaces and how this could help me save my marriage.
“Sex is something you have to learn to enjoy even if you do this with the same person time after time. We’ll give you the rest of the day to think about it, and if after that you want to leave, that will be fine.”
Before he let me go, he explained some of the rules of the place. These included not making noise after 8 pm, avoiding cell phones, and not making contact with other patients.
I had lunch at the cafeteria, and while I ate, I looked at the other people who were sitting at different tables. Apart from the staff, who were wearing white uniforms, nobody shared a table with other people. There were a couple of girls, but the majority of the guests were men. I saw a good-looking, brown-haired guy and wondered why he was there. He was so cute, so I felt like getting closer to him, but I knew I couldn’t break the rules. We weren’t allowed to talk to other people different from the staff.
I spent the afternoon in my room. I turned on the TV and realized there were a lot of porn channels. I was so surprised. I mean, Paul and I had watched a porn movie once, but that had been it, and I was not so curious to try to search for porn on the internet. But there, alone in that room, I started changing channels and saw different types of scenes. At some point, I was so horny that I began to touch myself, and soon, I found myself fingering my pussy. I decided to get undressed. I felt so relaxed and free. I touched my whole body, and after some minutes, I experienced the first orgasm I had had in a long time.
I spent the next hours watching porn and masturbating. At 6 pm, Dr. Jackson called me and asked me if I had made up my mind. I told him I was willing to give it a try. He said he was happy to hear that and told me he would see me at the cafeteria the next day at breakfast.
Day 2
The next morning, I got up almost at 8, got dressed, and went to the cafeteria. I grabbed my breakfast, sat down, and some minutes later, Dr. Jackson joined me. We talked about different things, and then he told me about my schedule for the day. I had an appointment with him at 9 am and then a massage session at 11 am.