For part 1, you have to turn the way-back machine to January 3, 2009. I started blogging in September of 2008, with the original Hubman’s Hangout hosted on Blogger. Around that same time, a series of events lead Veronica to open our marriage and experiment with swinging after 18 years of monogamy. I deleted that original blog after a few months because I felt I was careless and over-shared some personal details about my life and more importantly, about my work. Veronica and I wrote “How we got here” to recap the path we took from 18 years of monogamy to experimenting with and enjoying the swinging lifestyle.
A common question we get from new online friends is “how did you and Veronica decide to have an open marriage?” and I often direct people to that post. However, that only tells part of the story, because up until that time everything we had done was as a couple, there was never any thought of us playing separately.
There are bits and pieces of the story scattered throughout the last 3 years of this blog, so think of this as the Reader’s Digest condensed version of the story.
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I’ve had several opportunities to meet blogging friends during the course of my travels for work. Throughout the spring and summer of 2009 an online friend in the south and I were becoming pretty good friends (and we still are, in fact, I was in touch with her just last week). I knew that she was married but unhappy with her complete lack of a sex life and that she had some extra-marital partners in the past. As we got to know each other better, the sexual chemistry between us became increasingly obvious and we talked about meeting up someday, which was possible because I had an on-going project at a work site in her area.
Veronica knew all about my chats with this woman and I talked with her about possibly taking a little time during a trip to see her. This would, and at the same time would not be, something new. Another online friend of ours was Southern Vixen, whom we’ve written about numerous times (her blog is gone, so no links). Veronica, SoVix and I had a long weekend together in Miami (link to one of my mostest favorite HNT posts) in January 2009, and that spring and early summer I saw SoVix alone a couple of times. Veronica was comfortable with me seeing SoVix alone, because she was her friend too, this wasn’t a relative stranger to her.
In September 2009 I added a personal day to a trip to my friends area and we spent 4 memorable hours trying to fuck each others brains out. It was fantastic! Oh, I just realized, those rotating header images you see at the top of this page? She took one of those that day
A day or two later, my friend emailed Veronica, to thank her for sharing me with her and to say what a great time she had with me.
Veronica LOVED it, she (unexpectedly, I think) found herself getting turned on by her husband satisfying another woman.
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Over the course of the next year, I had the opportunity to meet and play with some other online friends, one relatively local and some others who lived in areas I was traveling to for work. February of 2010 found us in another new situation, I was making a trip for the sole purpose of meeting a friend I knew through twitter. I was going to join her and her husband for their first MFM experience, in fact this would be their first experience having anyone join them in bed.
As an aside, a recent conversation with another friend reminded me of the difference between perception and reality. She suspected that I often traveled to meet up with online friends. The reality is, I’ve made a solo overnight trip just 5 times in the last 2+ years, when the sole purpose of that trip was to spent time with a friend.
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In the summer of 2010 I had to go away for work for 10 weeks. With the experiences and adventures of the last year in mind, Veronica and I decided that we’d each have the freedom to purpose other partners while we were apart, without the usual obligation of keeping each other informed of what was going on, at least not right away. I set up a profile on AFF and met a couple of women, I was very up front about being in an open marriage and having the freedom to play while Veronica and I were apart.
A favorite story, featured as the Wanton Wednesday post It started with a tweet, happened at the end of that trip
That time apart set the stage for my creating an Ashley Madison profile in January 2011, which of course led to my year-long relationship with Katie.
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Veronica continued, and still continues, to get turned on by my playing with others, without her involvement.
So what about her, why doesn’t she play alone you ask? If she wanted too, she absolutely could, I would welcome it if she decided that she wanted to give being a hotwife a try. While I was away for 10 weeks, she was simply too busy/tired/stressed/etc being a single mom to 2 kids and working full time, so she didn’t bother.
Veronica describes herself as “flypaper for freaks”, if there’s an oddball character out there, they’ll find her. She enjoys watching procedural and crime dramas (trivia time- “Veronica” is an alias, she created it when she was active on a website about the TV show Criminal Minds and kept using the name when she started blogging). Couple those 2 facts together, and she’s very reluctant to go out on her own and see someone that she met online.
It’s an admittedly unconventional arrangement, but it works for us.
Will there ever be a part 3 to this tale? Only time will tell.
[I wrote this while Veronica is in NY with the kids, visiting family. She may add her own $0.02 once she returns later today]








