Here Be Dragons

When I got married, I thought it would be everything I wanted it to be...all the sex I wanted, affection, attentiveness, loyalty, dedication, etc...My ideas were a little extreme but I knew that at the time but I thought I'd be relatively close.  Unfortunately I was wrong.  First, a little back story...my wife and I met in church and our courtship lasted for about a year.  This was awesome because our common love for the Lord, I thought, would translate nicely into our marriage.  Here's the downside of that, courtship in the church allows for many of the guarantees you'd expect in marriage to go untested.  We had the conversations and she promptly and consistently said all the things I wanted to hear.  I was convinced she was being genuine and I went along with all of it. Things began to unravel almost immediately after we got married.  She didn't want to try this or do that...she would almost immediately tell me that I was her first serious relationship and she was si

I remember the first time I saw two men kiss out in public.  It was many years ago before LGBT became more socially acceptable.  I was at the airport and there were these 2 guy with their arms around each other...I thought they were brothers.  But it did seem a little strange how close they were and how long they stood there with their arm around each other.  Compounding it was the fact that one guy was dressed like a business man, I thought at the time he looked like Captain America.  The other guy had on a leather jacket and looked like he'd just gotten off a motorcycle.  These looked like men with beautiful wives or girlfriends embracing after time apart...or that's what my stereotypical mind could perceive at that moment. Then it happened...they laughed....turned toward each other...looked in to each others eyes....and kissed. And we're not talking about your run of the mill peck, I'm talking day time soap opera kiss...and that moment was forever seared into my cons