Becoming Aphrodite

Looking for some paper to write a few chores to be remembered, I saw a note pad on the side of the bed and took it. I was surprised to discover her private diary as I did not know she was keeping one. I wouldn't have read it if only things had been better between us but I needed to find some explanations about the way our relationship was evolving. Perhaps I was doing something wrong and needed to change it in order to save our marriage. As she wasn't communicating enough, my only way was to open the damn thing and to find out by myself. It was a very bad idea...

She talked about her growing sexual desires for strangers, about her craving for the excitement of the "first times". She had been to bars with some female friends and she had enjoyed being approached by guys. She had been faithful to me but with difficulties. The temptation was overwhelming. A poem she wrote and that I published here in the poem category will show a lot about her state of mind. I hope this website will let you read it in the bulk of this story as it is an essential key to understand her personality:

Aphrodite

"Having been held under for so long, she emerges.
Her beauty is strong and shameless. She looks men in the eyes and they shudder.
The room is dark and warm and lusty, the underbelly of some sweating beast.
Words come easily. A glass of wine and a black dress. Crowded.
Feeling the closeness of the man. His lips at her ear, fingertips on her backbone, his thigh pushing in, his muscles moving and tightening underneath. So close.
A tingling, a letting go, anticipation.
The beautiful man. Beautiful and full of need. Searching eyes, nervous laughter, limbs that cannot stop twitching.
Drawn to her: the ideal, the archetype, the femme fatale, the goddess. Again and again, searching for perfection.
A senseless desire to merge. Everything else a distraction: ambition, career, family, relationships, goals, tomorrow. No, just this.
All she wants -- the sole thing -- is to have him in her mouth. To touch. To taste. To hear the sounds. To feel it melting on the tongue.
Oh, the body!
So she arrives and will not be ignored."