I feel the need to sublimate some of my spicier urges via fiction. I'm happily married, & I've had my share of whirlwind romances and flings and casual sex. I am finding myself a bit nostalgic about this, but not enough to jeopardize my reality. Time to live vicariously through the lens of fantasy as a healthy coping mechanism! Can you point me towards any fictional works - especially novels - featuring these specific concepts or tropes?
I require stories centring around steamy, dramatic affairs that a protagonist has with...
a) A person of a different gender than their spouse
b) An ex lover after coming into contact again several years down the road, say a decade or so
I realize those are actually rather oddly specific and revealing, but I've got a burgeoning case of seven year itch here! I'm a partnered woman approaching 30, and naturally, I am currently filled with all kinds of ennui and boredom as a stay at home parent. I mean, I was used to my life being a bit like this before the recent pandemic situation! With above average levels of isolation, a recent move to a small town, plus simply the time of year that it is, my feelings are certainly being magnified. However, I have full intent to continue living this faithful, predictable, monogamous life we've lovingly built together. A healthy outlet feels very important to me right now. Please, recommend me something to escape into during quiet moments, from the comfort of my sofa!
Big bonus points for woman protagonists.
Very big bonus points for either healthy and positive portrayals of parent/child interactions, or omission thereof.
Tragedies welcome, but please, spare me anything where a child being harmed or killed is central to the plot.
English or perhaps French language.
Any time period.
Erotica driven fiction is preferred. Spare me absolutely no ripped bodices!
I'd also be grateful for other suggestions, like say, a biography or live action film that features these plot points.
Things in the romance/erotica vein that tend to make me cringe, sorry but I just can't help it :
Outlander, Twilight, Fifty Shades, most fanfiction, anything referencing incest, American crime dramas
Things that have appealed to me, I might like to read more like this :
The Time Traveller's Wife, Alice Munro, Anne Rice, vintage Harlequin novels (but like minus the toxic gender role type stuff? cowboys ok), Wuthering Heights (but less sad maybe?), Watchmen comic
Most themes would be welcome though, I enjoy reading any genre or subject matter from supernatural to historical, from trashy paperback fiction to intellectual works of art. Thank you! |
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