Mr.
and Mrs. Desmond were a lovely couple. They had paid their dues through work
life and had risen professionally to the peak of their careers. Parenthood was quite
successful because the two daughters they have were almost through with
university education. However, home had become a regimented routine of early
dash-outs to work, late arrivals, frequent travels, light meals, almost no
television, brief conversations, and little sleep.
After
years of slowly grinding their used-to-be romantic love life into a mechanical
and fractious cohabitation, sex had become quite alien to them and they were
growing used to not having regular passionate sex. Though in her mid-forties,
Mrs. Desmond was still attractive with firm skin and a frame that mirrored her
youthful self.
