Different Assumptions

[SEVERUSMAX]

I had this idea for a story, but don't know when I'll get the chance to write about it. Basically, a man marries a woman from a different culture or background. She assumes that both of them are still free to fuck other people during marriage, and that he is doing so, so she continues to do so herself. He assumes that they are both obliged to be monogamous in every sense of the word. He catches her with another man, but doesn't tell her. Instead, he fucks another woman for revenge. She catches him, not knowing that it's supposed to be for revenge. Instead of getting hurt or wondering why or knowing that it is revenge, she acts very casual about it, making the husband wonder why. Naturally, being excited and evidently not having to deal with an angry spat yet, he finishes with his other woman first.

Then he questions his wife about the whole deal, you know, why she fucked the other guy and didn't act upset about his revenge fling. She is now upset, but only because he did the other girl to get back at her and hurt her. She doesn't mind the fucking, just his motive. He says that he was upset about her lover. She tells him that she did that and wasn't mad about his girlfriend because she assumed that their marriage wasn't exclusive. He is stunned to hear that she had fucked others for a long time and thought that he was doing so too, as well as the fact that she was cool with him having others. And that she didn't seek to hurt or humiliate him. She is quite distraught that he even felt humiliated or angry, in fact, since that wasn't her intent.

When she realizes that he was expecting that they would be exclusive and he knows that she thought otherwise, they talk about whether or not to be exclusive in the future. She apologizes for hurting him and he for setting out to hurt her. They agree that her assumption makes more sense than his, and she then surprises him by asking if she can help his lover service him. Naturally, he doesn't object. So, what starts out as anger and betrayal turns out to be a simple misunderstanding about different assumptions, and the comedy and tragedy give way to hot sex.

I thinking a sci-fi background, where the woman is an ET from a very gorgeous alien species and the man is a human from, say, England.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Another thought is that they are simply humans from different countries. Or people in a fantasy setting.

Another possibility for an outcome is that they agree to follow his rules among his people and her rules among hers.

Here's another scenario that I've considered. Everything is the same for story up to the point of who is actually caught first. He is either seduced at his wife's request by her friend, caught in bed with another woman doing what he feels guilty about as cheating (thus providing her with an argument for why they should try it how her culture prefers) and thus feels relief when his wife is not angry, or actually wakes up with another woman in a set-up that his wife has arranged during his sleep. Thus, he wonders how he could have bedded another woman, until his wife enters the room and both women start laughing about it. Then he knows that he was set-up, but is relieved that he hasn't done anything wrong. Naturally, he is most willing to accept his wife's gift.

Or....he starts getting worried about other men and confronts his wife or catches her and confronts her, only to find out the truth....and have his wife promptly find a girl for him to prove that she is telling the truth.

Or his wife tells him at some point during their honeymoon or wedding night....which jolts him, to say the least. Especially when he finds out that spouses are expected to learn things from their other partners and then try them out with their spouses.

Or it's set up on the wife's planet as something assumed, a swap that is just expected on the first night there of their return....and he doesn't know that he has actually reserved a room with another man's wife, while that man has reserved it with his....

....just some thoughts.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I thinking a sci-fi background, where the woman is an ET from a very gorgeous alien species and the man is a human from, say, England.

Were you to go along with this bent on the storyline, keep in mind a sci-fi angle gives you ample space for deux ex machina type plot twists and resolutions. Which may be either positive or negative. Sometimes more negative if you over-rely on an active imagination to cover up ill-groundings in the reality part of the story.

For example, if the female character is an ET, you could explain her "betrayal" away as a biological need significant to her species. Or make her a fluctuating absolute androgyne.

Whichever way you'll take it, I'm sure it'll be a good read.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Were you to go along with this bent on the storyline, keep in mind a sci-fi angle gives you ample space for deux ex machina type plot twists and resolutions. Which may be either positive or negative. Sometimes more negative if you over-rely on an active imagination to cover up ill-groundings in the reality part of the story.

For example, if the female character is an ET, you could explain her "betrayal" away as a biological need significant to her species. Or make her a fluctuating absolute androgyne.

Whichever way you'll take it, I'm sure it'll be a good read.

Thanks for the input. Of course, others can use the ideas and take them where they please. It's the whole point of the Story Ideas section, after all.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Oh, and maybe her culture is genetically engineered to weed out jealousy, having found it a dangerous emotion, so it doesn't even occur to her to discuss other partners or ruling them out....she just assumes that they will have them. Only after discussing it with his friends or reading up on his culture does she discover that humans are capable of jealousy and that his culture has some religions that preach monogamy and/or fidelity as concepts. Maybe then she arranges some kind of incident to ensure that the subject comes up, such as finding a woman to bed him and seeing if he really wants to follow the accepted social conventions of his world or not. If he bites (which, of course, he does) she will know that he will be more likely to accept the news that her culture is more polyamorous. Mind you, she thus finds out that the matter is an issue of controversy on Earth, which she naturally uses to convince him to side with her on that matter. Not out of cultural chauvinism, but because she knows that he is less invested in his planet's traditional values than she is in hers.