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rsadelleThis is a bit that wouldn't have been in the Tylers househusband story, but I wanted to write it anyway. Anna is made up, so I didn't have a particular player picked out to be her partner. Real life Stars wives and girlfriends also appear in this snippet. Content note: infidelity themes.
They're supposedly having a committee meeting, but from what Tyler has gathered, that's just an excuse they give so they can get together to drink wine and talk.
"What's up with you?" Kelly asks Anna. "You seem down."
Anna looks down into her wine glass, and her lip trembles before she answers. "I think he's cheating on me." She uses her thumb to rub a tear away from the corner of her eye. "Not like the sleeping around on the road. I know most of them do that, and as long as he uses protection with them I can live with it. But now I think he has someone else, someone serious. Here, in Dallas."
"Oh, honey," Kelly says, and most of the other women chorus their own sympathies.
It kicks off a conversation on how to keep a man interested, how to figure out if it's worth waiting it out to see if he'll get over it, and what they all do about the possibility - or, in some cases, known fact - of their husbands and boyfriends sleeping around on the road.
Tyler is out of his depth, the conversation even more foreign to him than the time they exchanged advice on how to keep a man happy even if you didn't want sex. (When one of them asked him what he did, he'd said, shocked into honesty, "Tell him to go jerk off if he really wants to come." More than one of the women had rolled their eyes at him and said he just didn't have enough experience yet.)
Committee meetings - or, more accurately, "committee meetings" - are always held during road trips, and Tyler wakes up when Segs gets home and climbs into bed with him the next night.
Tyler fumbles for Segs' mouth in the dark, kissing him hello, and then he wraps his arms tight around him.
"Don't cheat on me," he says.
Segs is silent for a moment, and then says, "I wasn't planning on it."
"Don't," Tyler says. "If you decide you don't want me anymore, then leave me, but don't cheat on me."
"Okay," Segs says slowly. "I don't think that's going to happen either, but I won't cheat on you. What's this all about?"
Tyler just shakes his head and clings to Segs. He may not be quite up on all the rules that make up being one of the wags, but he's pretty sure he's supposed to be one of them and that part of that means not betraying their confidences to Segs.
They're supposedly having a committee meeting, but from what Tyler has gathered, that's just an excuse they give so they can get together to drink wine and talk.
"What's up with you?" Kelly asks Anna. "You seem down."
Anna looks down into her wine glass, and her lip trembles before she answers. "I think he's cheating on me." She uses her thumb to rub a tear away from the corner of her eye. "Not like the sleeping around on the road. I know most of them do that, and as long as he uses protection with them I can live with it. But now I think he has someone else, someone serious. Here, in Dallas."
"Oh, honey," Kelly says, and most of the other women chorus their own sympathies.
It kicks off a conversation on how to keep a man interested, how to figure out if it's worth waiting it out to see if he'll get over it, and what they all do about the possibility - or, in some cases, known fact - of their husbands and boyfriends sleeping around on the road.
Tyler is out of his depth, the conversation even more foreign to him than the time they exchanged advice on how to keep a man happy even if you didn't want sex. (When one of them asked him what he did, he'd said, shocked into honesty, "Tell him to go jerk off if he really wants to come." More than one of the women had rolled their eyes at him and said he just didn't have enough experience yet.)
Committee meetings - or, more accurately, "committee meetings" - are always held during road trips, and Tyler wakes up when Segs gets home and climbs into bed with him the next night.
Tyler fumbles for Segs' mouth in the dark, kissing him hello, and then he wraps his arms tight around him.
"Don't cheat on me," he says.
Segs is silent for a moment, and then says, "I wasn't planning on it."
"Don't," Tyler says. "If you decide you don't want me anymore, then leave me, but don't cheat on me."
"Okay," Segs says slowly. "I don't think that's going to happen either, but I won't cheat on you. What's this all about?"
Tyler just shakes his head and clings to Segs. He may not be quite up on all the rules that make up being one of the wags, but he's pretty sure he's supposed to be one of them and that part of that means not betraying their confidences to Segs.