Serena was putting on her earrings, the final part of her preparations for as her husband’s company Christmas party. “Hi honey,” she replied to Christian’s greeting. She tried to sound as bright and cheerful as she could, knowing how important the party was for her husband. The truth was she would have rather stayed home and watched some trashy late afternoon TV movie. Not being particularly gregarious by nature, she never felt too comfortable at parties unless she was in the company of people she knew well. This Christmas party was going to be very testing for her since the only person there she would know was her husband.<br/><br/>(https://www.babepedia.com/user-uploads-thumbs/India%20Summers_thumb.jpg)<br/><br/>Since their move to D.C. Serena had felt increasingly isolated. At first, things were not too bad since she kept in touch with her friends and family in Florida by phone, text and video chat. But as the weeks passed the occasions they contacted each other became less and less frequent. Recently the only people Serena was talking to regularly was the person on the checkout at the local grocery store and a few people in the congregation at the church she attended every Sunday.<br/><br/>As Serena walked out of the bathroom Christian was half way through dressing for the party. She smiled seeing his bare torso. He still looked attractive but had gained a few pounds in recent months. She then sighed wistfully, remembering that is was the long hours that her husband had been working that was the cause of Christian’s weight gain and also the reason why they were spending less and less time together.<br/><br/>A sudden memory entered Serena’s head. It was of when they were first married. She had to practically fight off her husband’s constant advances for lovemaking. He seemed to be aroused all the time and couldn’t keep his hands off her. At the time Serena had protested, saying it was undignified behavior, but secretly she had enjoyed the attention. Serena was from a second generation Italian family and had been brought up to have strong Catholic morals and always felt guilty about making love just for pleasure. But it seemed her husband's ardor had cooled in the last few years. He was still loving but the spontaneity had disappeared.<br/><br/>Serena’s religious beliefs did uncover a sad fact. Being Catholic she didn’t believe in contraception and therefore expected to become pregnant early in their marriage, but after eighteen months of trying to start a family, it was found out that Serena was unable to become pregnant. This might have put sufficient strain on the marriage to end it but if anything it made the bond between husband and wife even stronger.<br/><br/>Christian’s apology about the party brought a smile to Serena’s lips. She thought how lucky she was to have such a caring husband. “Oh nonsense,...It will be fine...But let’s not stay too long eh?... Maybe stay till about 10:00?”<br/>