Need ideas on a tipping point

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I've been doing a complete re-write on my story: "Friends With Benefits"
I've added some banter between them to show the long-standing sexual tension between them:

"Looking around for someone to help, she sees the painter walking nearby. “Jamie!!” she yelled. “Would you give me a black caulk?”
“I don’t have a black one to give you,” he remarked playfully. “Maybe Dwayne could help you with that,” glancing furtively toward the black guy working on the other side of the line."

The Reiki session ignited those smoldering fantasies into white-hot desire, leading to an imaginary encounter in the shower, but ...

I need ideas on a tipping point
What would lead a fairly ordinary, if bored, housewife to think that the potential rewards of actually fulfilling her fantasy might be worth the risks?

 

[sr71plt]

opportunity and seeing something looking especially sexy. Maybe on top of a couple of innocent touching encounters earlier that she had time to fantasize and blow up in her mind.

I usually don't do a lot of dancing around before a look between the two tells each other everything they want to know about possibilities and desires.

 

[slyc_willie]

What would lead a fairly ordinary, if bored, housewife to think that the potential rewards of actually fulfilling her fantasy might be worth the risks?

A couple of ideas spring to mind:

1) The wife has reason to believe that her husband might be turned on by watching her with a black man. This could be clued into the story with further dialogue before the action starts. It could be something as basic and inane as the husband and wife watching a movie that involves an interracial couple, and the husband remarking that the contrast of the black man's dark skin against the woman's pale body is incredibly erotic, etc.

2) The taboo nature is simply too strong for this woman for her to ignore. There is a definite psychological "kick" when someone does something they simply know they should not do. It could be an act of revenge, or maybe a sort of rebellion against always being the "good girl." Women as well as men often feel the need to act against the nature they have portrayed to others. Maybe she's simply seeking attention.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

The answer is there in the question - 'tipping point.' People are often steered away from tipping points because of the nature of the ordinary daily world, it's demands, its worries, and as the OP suggested, the consequences of various actions.

But 'the tipping point' always remains somewhere there behind the surface of the thoughts.

A person's conscious awareness of 'the tipping point' is itself both a reminder to that person about what they are really motivated by, and an excuse to start looking for opportunities and 'excuses,' I guess you might call it.

Give a character every reason to think there will be no negative consequences, give them powerful triggers and signifiers, give them powerful social modifiers and augmenters - certain sorts of music are great triggers for impulsive and even reckless action; that's why there are marching bands and military orchestras.

D.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Discovery and potential ruin is awfully exciting to many women. Sometimes they set their husbands up for ridicule.

I recently got some gossip about a black guy who's obsessed about his white girlfriend fucking white men, the idea makes him paranoid crazy. So I'm thinking his fears can make a great story with a twist at the very end that ices the cake in a very bad way.