Now Sarah and Joe rarely talked. They discussed the children but rarely spent any other time together. They never had date nights and the amount of sex they had in a year could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Sarah had bought the marriage improvement manual in a last ditch attempt to save her marriage. She’d heard of a ‘Submissive Marriage’ on television and on the internet and wanted to further explore this option. This book seemed to best represent her expectations of marriage…a dominant man who sets the tone for his family and a wife who works as an active supporting partner for her husband. The best part of the book for her was that the husband became the sexually dominant partner in the marriage. Sarah had always enjoyed the stories of dominant men who took what they want, when they wanted. Joe had become a man who seemed afraid to ask his wife for sex much less demand it when he wanted it. The introduction to the book made it clear that this was a do-it-yourself manual in which the author expected the reader to follow its instructions one week per chapter with no skipping ahead. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and read the rest of the first chapter. Some of the questions raised by this chapter really struck a chord with her. “Are you frequently resentful of your husband?”
