Our 5th Anniversary

"John!" Kim yelled.

She ran to me, threw her arms around me and hugged me so tight that I could barely breathe.

"Easy Kim, you're cutting off the oxygen. Are you okay sweetie, it looks like you've been crying." I said.

"I was. When we got here and you were gone, I thought you had been serious about leaving me, I was devastated. I thought I'd lost you because I was so stubborn about going out with the girls tonight." Kim said.

"I was just trying to guilt trip you into spending tonight with me instead of with your friends. It obviously didn't work and you went out with them. Which leads perfectly into the question, what are you all doing here?" I asked.

"The girls and I are your anniversary present." Kim said.

The sadness was gone and she was bright and bubbly again.

"I don't understand." I said.

I understood perfectly because of what I'd overheard, but I had to play dumb.

"Kim here has been telling us all how great a lover you are ever since she met you. We all finally said she either had to shut up about it or let us try you for ourselves. She decided to give us to you for your anniversary." Becky said.

"Oh my god. Kim, why would you do something like that? I hope you know that you're more woman than I'll ever need." I said.

"And you're more man than I deserve. These are my closest friends and I can tell them how wonderful you are as a lover, but unless they experience it for themselves they'll never fully understand." Kim said.

"But Kim..." I said.

"John, I know you would never cheat on me, but I've also seen the way you look at all of them. It isn't cheating if I want you to do it, and I want you to do this. I want you to do it for me, for them, and for yourself." Kim said.

"Kim, I don't know, I mean Becky and Sara are both single, but Jenny and Emily have serious boyfriends and Julie, Heather, and Amy are all married, that's 5 relationships that would be on the line, I'm not sure that I'm willing to risk that much." I said.

"We've all weighed the risks John and we're all here because we want to do this." Amy said.

Kim held me close and looked me square in they eye.

"We've been planning this for months John, they've all had plenty of time to think about this and decide whether or not they want to do it. They're all here because they want to do it and because I want them to do it. What do you say we go inside and get started?" Kim asked.

"You're sure this is what you all want?" I asked.

"We're all sure John." Kim said.

I looked deep into Kim's eyes; then I looked around at her friends. I had a potentially life changing decision to make, I had never once thought of having sex with another woman since I'd been with Kim and now she was offering me seven of her closest friends. On top of that she said she wanted me to do it.

Unfortunately she wanted me to do something that I could never do.

"Kim, I'm sure that you thought this would be a gift that no man could possibly refuse, but I'm afraid that I cannot accept this gift you've offered me. When we got married I promised to keep myself only for you until death do us part. I cannot and will not break that promise even if you are the one that set it up and you are 100% okay with it. I just can't do it." I said.

Now before you call me a wimp or a fag or whatever let me say that I know that most men would jump at a chance like that, but you have to understand something about my love for Kim. I love her completely, body, mind, heart, and soul, and when I promised to love her forever and keep myself only for her I meant it. To me it didn't matter that she was offering me her friends, I couldn't do it.

Kim was shocked for a few seconds; it was clear that she had never considered that I would turn down the gift that she wanted to give me.

After a few seconds of looking into my eyes however a smile came across her face the likes of which I had never seen.

"John, I think that is the greatest anniversary gift you could have ever given me. I offered you the chance to have hot wild sex with 7 beautiful women, hell I asked you to do it, told you I wanted you to do it, and still you said no. I would not have been jealous or angry if you had jumped at the chance to have sex with my friends, but you chose to remain faithful to me even when presented with an offer like this. I didn't think it was possible to love you more than I already did, but I was wrong. Ladies, I'm very sorry, I know I promised you the chance to make love to my husband, but it looks like I'll be the only one enjoying him tonight." Kim said.

The other girls were all pretty annoyed that their plans for the evening had gone down the drain, several of them muttered some pretty angry things, but they all left.

I scooped Kim into my arms, carried her into the house, into the bedroom, and made love to her.

The next morning we went down to the beach and spent the entire weekend alternating between getting some sun and making love. We didn't discuss what had happened on the girls' night out before they showed up at our house to find me gone.

Kim still had no idea that I had been outside the window at Becky's and had heard the lesbian orgy taking place. I decided that while we would have to talk about it before the next Thursday came around it could wait until after we got back from our anniversary trip.

We got home from the beach pretty late Sunday night and we went straight to bed, but before we went to sleep we both lay there talking.

"That was some anniversary." I said.

"It was one that I'll never forget. I never even considered that you would turn down the chance to have sex with the girls. It didn't seem like any man would possibly turn down something like that. I've got to know, how close did you come to accepting your gift?" Kim asked.

"I must say that if you'd made me an offer like that when we were dating I'd have taken you up on it in a heartbeat, but I take our wedding vows very seriously so no matter how much fun it might have been I never would have considered accepting a gift like that." I said.

"I guess I had you figured wrong on that. I bet you're the only man in a 1,000 mile radius that would say no to an offer like that. Now do you see why I was so insistent on going out with the girls Thursday night though?" Kim asks.

"Yes now I understand. If you had told me that you had something special planned for our anniversary, and not for your girls' night out, I probably wouldn't have been such a pain in the ass about it, but it was our anniversary and I wanted to spend it with you." I said.

"I wanted to spend our anniversary with you too. I just wanted to give you a gift that you would never forget. I handled the whole thing badly, I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?" Kim asked.

"Of course I can forgive you, I love you. I have got a question for you about Thursday night though." I said.

"What's that?" Kim asked.

"How long have your girls' nights out been lesbian orgies?" I asked.

"What are you talking about?" Kim asked nervously.

"The real reason I wasn't home Thursday night when you got here was because I followed you over to Becky's house. I was hiding in the bushes outside an open window to her living room. I heard you all talking and I heard the sounds of you pleasuring one another. How long has it been that way?" I asked.

Kim had a look of fear mixed with shock on her face. The true nature of the girls' nights out had been discovered. She closed her eyes, and hung her head as single tear rolled down her cheek.

"They've been like that for the past 4 years or so. We haven't really gone out in a long time. We've just been getting together at Becky's house and having sex with each other." Kim said.

"And before your girls' nights out became girls' nights in did the girls' nights out involve sex as well?" I asked.

"Yes." Kim said meekly.

"Was it always with women or did you also have sex with men?" I asked.

"It was mostly men before that. They were guys that one of the girls would pick up at a bar one night and then invite him over on Thursday night. We never saw any of them more than once. I insisted that we stop having men when you and I started trying to have a family. That's when we just started getting together to have sex with each other at Becky's house. John, I swear, I was on the pill every time that I was with another man." Kim said.

"But you admit that you have had sex with other men since we've been married?" I asked.

"Yes." Kim sobbed.

"Do any of the other husbands or boyfriends know about what you do on your girls' nights out?" I asked.

"No. As far as I know none of the men had any idea until you told me you knew just now. Even if you had accepted the gift that I offered you they would have taken you into the bedroom and taken turns. We would have done everything we could to keep from letting the secret out." Kim said.

"Have you and the girls done or planned any gifts like the one you tried to give me for anyone else?" I asked.

"No, none of the other girls think their man is worth that kind of a gift, but they all agreed that you were. John, please don't tell any of the other guys about any of this. Not about what goes on during the girls' nights out, not about the gift I wanted to give you, none of it; the other guys aren't nearly as understanding as you are, several good relationships would be destroyed." Kim said.

"Speaking of relationships, given what I now know I think we should talk about ours. Do you love me?" I asked.

"Of course I love you John. I love you with all my heart." Kim said.

"Do you want to stay married to me?" I asked.

"Of course I do John. I want to grow old with you. It would kill me if I lost you." Kim said.

"If that's true then there will be no more girls' nights out for you." I said.

"John, you can't..." Kim said.

"Yes I can Kim. I have loved you unconditionally and I have done my very best to provide you with a comfortable home and lifestyle. I think I've done a pretty good job of it too. Would you agree?" I asked.

"Yes of course I do John. You've been an excellent provider and I can tell how much you love me each time I look into your eyes." Kim said.

"I think that entitles me to have you to myself; without sharing you with anyone. Am I wrong to think that?" I asked.

"No John, of course not; you have every right to think that." Kim said.

"That's exactly what I thought I had until Thursday night. Since then my world has come crashing down around me. In the past few days I have learned that you have been cheating on me with untold numbers of anonymous men and women once a week since we started dating. Would you agree that is not something you should do to someone you love?" I asked.

"Yes John, what I've done is terrible. I never meant to hurt you." Kim said.

"I know you didn't. I asked you to stop going to your girls' nights out when we got married, but you convinced me that I had nothing to worry about and kept doing it; you did it for another 5 years. My wife going out every Thursday night and having sex with many other men and women seems like it's something that I should have been worried about. Don't you think I had a right to be worried about that? " I asked.

"Yes...John I..." Kim said.

"Even now when I told you that if you wanted to stay married to me you'd have to give up your girls' nights out your immediate reaction was to get defensive. Even after I had discovered that your girls' nights out was just your way of cheating on me once a week for the entire course of our relationship you wanted to defend it; you didn't want to give it up, did you?" I asked.

"No. You're right; I was going to try to defend it, to tell you that you couldn't expect me to give it up. I'm so sorry John. Tell me what I can do to make this right and I'll do it." Kim said.

"To even begin to make this right you have to completely give up your girls' nights out right now. As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't willing to give up your girls' nights out, then you don't really love me and we might as well get divorced tomorrow because now that I know that you have never been faithful to me I can't simply allow it to continue and remain married to you. I can't and won't knowingly share you with anyone else Kim. You say it would kill you to lose me; well it is killing me inside right now to know what you've been doing for all these years." I said.

"John I..." Kim said.

"Before you say anything Kim, let me just say something else. If you will give up the girls' nights out willingly we can stay married and I will go on loving you more and more with each passing day; just as I've done from every day since I met you until last Thursday. I will even forgive you for the years of cheating on me. However, if you are not willing to give up the group then I will not only file for divorce I'll take the whole thing public." I said.

"You wouldn't." Kim said.

"I would. I have loved you unconditionally, and you have repaid that love by cheating on me once a week with both men and women since I met you. If you decide that continuing your affair with your friends is more important to you than I am then the husbands, the boyfriends, the kids, the parents, the friends, and the coworkers of all 8 of you will be informed of what happens on your girls' nights out." I said.

"John...?" Kim asked.

"I know that it would be harsh and vindictive of me to do that, and maybe you don't want to be with a man that would even consider doing such a thing, but I love you with all that I am and I will not willingly share you sexually with anyone; male or female. So now that I know what you have been doing for all these years you have to make a decision Kim; which means more to you the loving husband that you've been cheating on, but is willing to forgive you, or the 7 friends that you've been cheating on me with for all this time." I said.

Kim looked up at me and looked me in the eye. I'm sure she could see the fear and concern in my eyes. She stared into my eyes for what seemed like an eternity before she spoke.

"John, I love you and only you. I never meant to hurt you like this. I was a selfish fool to do what I did for so long. You deserve better than what I've done to you. This dark and vengeful side that has cropped up in you is all my fault, and I'm sorry. Someone as wonderful as you deserves someone that treats you better than I have. You're offering me a chance to remain married to you, it's more than I deserve and more than I have any right to ask for. You have offered me a second chance to do things right and I love you too much not to take it. It will be difficult to adjust to not seeing the girls anymore after all these years, but you mean so much more to me than they ever could so I will manage." Kim said.

"I'm glad that you have finally chosen me over them Kim. I would never ask you to stop being friends with the girls; they been your closest and dearest friends for a very long time, all I require of you is that you stop having sex with them." I said.

"I will never have sex with anyone but you for the rest of my life. I don't know if the girls will still want to be friends with me once I tell them that I will no longer be joining them for the girls' nights out. If that is how they feel it will hurt me to lose them, but losing all of them will not hurt as much as it would hurt to lose you. When you weren't here Thursday night and I thought you'd left me I lost all will to live. When you came around the corner of the fence you breathed the life back into me. I never want to lose you." Kim said.

"You will never have to as long as you promise to respect our wedding vows from now on." I said.

From what she told me the other girls were really pissed when Kim told them that she wasn't going to be part of the girls' nights out anymore; but when she told them that I'd threatened to expose the whole thing if she had chosen them instead of me they were quite relieved that their secret seemed to be safe for the time being.

It's been two years since our 5th anniversary and from what I hear the other girls are still having their girls' nights out every Thursday. Kim still speaks to most of them from time to time, but not as frequently as she used to and she always tells me about the conversation afterwards so that I can be sure she isn't being lured back to them.

My life is happier now than it's ever been and Kim shows no outward signs that she misses the girls' nights out at all, of course she and I are making love so frequently these days that I doubt she really has time to think about the past.