Mother/daughter find their way

[KimAwakened]

A family taboo lesbian 'awakening'.

I'm thinking of a daughter-coming-home-from-uni scenario, as mooted many times elsewhere as a start point. Here, the daughter arrives home and is suddenly impressed by her mother's resourcefulness - the fact that the latter not only holds down a steady job to help supplement the meagre income brought in by her wastrel husband, but also does the vast majority of the housework and organising of day-to-day, practical matters. This has always been the case but the daughter now becomes much more alive to it in a way that teenagers never do, simply having accepted it previously as the norm.

She, the daughter, begins to wake up to her mother's force of personality and on-the-ball-ness.

For her part, the mother finds that the greater independence of uni life has wrought changes in her daughter... a greater self-reliance and willingness to pitch in and help. She has become more interesting as a person, having been exposed to new challenges, attitudes and ways of doing things.

Each finds the other has become more attractive in different ways - the mother has increasingly had to develop a 'smartness régime' consistent with the demands of her new job. The daughter has been learning at uni that the big, wide world calls for adaptability in 'appearance management'. She has become sensitised to the fact that not all situations are tolerant of holes-in-jeans culture - that some call for astute touches here and there. She has developed a growing 'street wisdom' in that respect.

In short, each has been looking at the other through new eyes.

The two are thrown together on the first weekend when father and young teenage son depart to spend time at grandparents. The wine flows. The talk is easy, the two of them sitting together on the living room sofa. The firelight glints on hair tresses and highlights curves...

 

[000zing]

Yes, a good setting and I can't wait to find out how it goes on from there!

It would be good to have the "wastrel" hubby's shortcomings described in detail, so that the mother's turning away from him could be given more weight. Likewise, the daughter could have had a bad boyfriend entanglement at uni. Mutual solace leads to things physical?

 

[Rob_Royale]

Honestly, I think it's a perfect scenario. The first kiss would be just epic. Wine flavored kisses in the flickering light.

I would find it a refreshing change if there wasn't a 'wastrel' husband. Maybe he's as good a man as can be. Yeah, I'm on Team XY Chromosome, but the "inattentive-husband-so-I'm-experimenting" shtick has been done to death. Maybe she's just always had a bi-leaning that she'd never explored. When her daughter mentions that urge she decides to go with it.

 

[KimAwakened]

Honestly, I think it's a perfect scenario. The first kiss would be just epic. Wine flavored kisses in the flickering light.

I would find it a refreshing change if there wasn't a 'wastrel' husband. Maybe he's as good a man as can be. Yeah, I'm on Team XY Chromosome, but the "inattentive-husband-so-I'm-experimenting" shtick has been done to death. Maybe she's just always had a bi-leaning that she'd never explored. When her daughter mentions that urge she decides to go with it.

My guess is that virtually every scenario you could mention has likewise been 'done to death'. The possible variations within a relatively narrow field such as erotic fiction are inevitably finite. Things become hackneyed/clichéd.

I just think there's a reason why the wastrel husband has become a common feature, namely that it lends weight, as OOzing said, to a wife's interest in straying... in whatever direction. She feels less constrained by any sense of loyalty.

But yes, I agree that it could be done (and with considerable piquancy) within a loving, non-wastrel hubby context. Those who like a strong cuckolding leitmotiv would certainly give it the thumbs up.

 

[Rob_Royale]

My guess is that virtually every scenario you could mention has likewise been 'done to death'. The possible variations within a relatively narrow field such as erotic fiction are inevitably finite. Things become hackneyed/clichéd.

I just think there's a reason why the wastrel husband has become a common feature, namely that it lends weight, as OOzing said, to a wife's interest in straying... in whatever direction. She feels less constrained by any sense of loyalty.

But yes, I agree that it could be done (and with considerable piquancy) within a loving, non-wastrel hubby context. Those who like a strong cuckolding leitmotiv would certainly give it the thumbs up.

I cannot fault your logic.

 

[Buffy47]

I agree with alot already discussed, the basic dynamics to the theme has been done many times, do you actually need the husband and son in the story if they leaving to go on a trip?

How about Single mother working 2 jobs and keeping the house running and maybe even in her very short amount of time decorating. She is paying for the daughter to be at university and so the Daughter not only learns her mothers strength to cope after a difficult break up but work so hard and also that she is doing it for the Daughter for her future,

 

[SteelPoint]

Very much like this. I think the husband and son are necessary to provide both background context and "relish". The idea of a mother and daughter establishing what turns out, maybe, to be an ongoing clandestine relationship within the family setting has legs.

I could imagine a situation where this is discovered and a family break-up ensues, the two females going off to set up home together, possibly adopting or the daughter having in vitro.

 

[ultrabann]

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