At first and for the year before they got married Jodi was the picture of the romantic suitor as she followed the courtship protocol to a tee. She made life fun; they laughed a lot. She’d opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for the sheltered heiress. Pretty soon she’d swept Tina off her feet with her sweetness making Tina think she was the luckiest woman in the world. Tina was flabbergasted at the thought that she a ‘loser’ in the love department had finally won the big prize.

She could hardly believe that she was the reason the legendary Jodi Lerner wanted to change her ways; she was why Jodi had a change of heart from a woman who didn’t do relationships, was not monogamous and admittedly didn’t like or want children to one that promised monogamy; proposed marriage and even offered to carry their children should Tina have problems taking a fetus to term. If she’d only known the price she would pay for believing a leopard could change its spots Tina would never have chosen this path to find the happiness that always seemed to elude her. Once Tina said ‘I do’ Jodi’s true nature started to surface as she systematically went about taking power and control of the relationship. She’d succeeded in getting Tina to fully trust her with everything including her life.

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Jodi’s lack of consideration and attentiveness to Tina’s needs on the honeymoon didn’t just relate to their activities it also extended to the bedroom. Jodi was Tina’s first and only female lover so she didn’t have anything to compare but she knew enough to feel like there was something missing. There was no romanticism in Jodi’s sexual repertoire; she simply fucked never taking the time to do the things that differentiated fucking from romantic love making. Jodi was a selfish partner; her only goal being sexual gratification and achieving orgasmic bliss. As a lover she had the technical skills; she knew how to satisfy a woman’s sexual needs but she lacked the desire or ability to connect with them on a deeper level.

Tina being an emotive creature craved the sexual intimacies as much as the sex acts themselves and though her body responded to the physical release she was left wanting for that special emotional connection that she’d felt with other lovers. It had been like that since the first time they had sex but she kept thinking that once they got married and got to know each other better things would change; now two months into the marriage they seemed even more disconnected and she blamed herself for not voicing her concerns sooner.