We haven’t hit bottom yet. I don’t know if we will or not. There’s still some time to go before Lion’s first paycheck. There’s actually a lot of time before his start date. We still have to keep the creditors at bay. But we’ve made it this far and we’re not about to give up. Last night Lion insisted he was broken again. If he doesn’t get hard immediately he thinks he’s broken. If he isn’t interested in sex he thinks he’s broken. He’s not. It took a bit, but I got him hard. It was short-lived. He really isn’t interested yet. He will be. He just needs to get used to the idea that things are looking up.

Lion gets his orgasm in a few days. To get him ready for it, I’ve packed the Njoy butt plug and the new vibrator. A few nights of intensive play and he’ll be putty in my hands. He may even be begging for release. I love that.

This was a week from hell. I’m glad it’s over. I’m glad Lion has a job. And I’m glad I get to spend another weekend away with my favorite person. Mostly I’m glad that I get to spend the rest of my life with my favorite person. Yes, we are sappy. Yes, we are stumbling along through life. But we are doing it together.

That’s it! We’re done! No more bad news. No more trouble. I hereby declare a moratorium on problems. Between finances, interviews, waiting for news about jobs, my mother being sick, issues at work, and a delayed paycheck I am fed up. I’ve had it! It has to get better.

Last night Lion was not up to playing. I didn’t think he would be. There was yet another delay in his hearing about one of the jobs. He was worried about an interview today. Everything added up to a non-horny Lion. Completely understandable, but I unlocked him and massaged his naughty bits for a while anyway. I figured nothing bad ever came from a nice cock and ball massage. And I love touching him. He then started talking about his post about some women not liking penises. I told him he was very lucky I like his. He agreed.

I guess it’s like anything else. Some people don’t like raisins (Lion) and some people don’t like sushi (me). So I can see some women not liking penises. I’m glad I’m not one of them. Lion is too. I can’t imagine not wanting to touch it. I don’t mind touching any part of Lion. I guess I can even understand women who won’t do oral, or even those who do oral but won’t swallow. It’s just not their cup of tea. Personally, I think if I’m going to do all that work I better get some reward out of it. Lion cum is a nice treat for me. He doesn’t like eating it. That just means there’s more for me.

Last night Lion also mentioned that I could leave him wild so that I would always have easy access to him. I told him that was a very thoughtful suggestion. And then I handed him his cock ring to put back on. As I said yesterday, I may come up with some Lion wild time in the future, but last night was not it. He’ll be unlocked tonight for our trip and then caged again on Tuesday when we get home. It’s our last trip and his last scheduled wild time. I confess to being confused though. Sometimes he likes to be wild and sometimes he doesn’t. I’ll have to work on deciphering the difference.

I’m determined to have a good weekend. We’re leaving the troubles behind. We’ll have some fun. We’ll snuggle together in the chilly nights. And we’ll come home to good news. And I don’t want to hear anyone say otherwise.

I hate roller coasters. Not surprisingly, Lion loves them. I’m not afraid of them. I’ll go on them with him if he wants me to. I just don’t like the ups and downs and sudden turns. I don’t like the roller coaster nature of our existence lately either. And now my mother has jumped on one. She has so many doctors with so many different theories, she goes from death’s door one day to being on the mend the next. Emotionally it’s very draining. Am I making an emergency trip to see her? Am I waiting for the inevitable? Am I going to get good news? It’s worse on my sister. She gets all the calls from all the doctors and, since she lives closer, runs to the hospital every other day hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Today we got good news. She is stable again. We’re hoping for good news on the job front too. Lion should hear later today if a job offer will come through for at least one of his prospects. Fingers crossed.

We didn’t play last night. Lion wasn’t interested. He’s nervous about the jobs. With all the craziness with my mother, I wasn’t really interested either. Tonight we will play. It’s important to keep myself on the every other day schedule at the very least. Whether Lion is horny or not, I will unlock him and give him some attention. I’m still not to the point that I will insist he get hard so I can edge him. Forcing him is not on my agenda. Will it be at some point? Perhaps. I can’t see into the future. It depends on the circumstances. It’s difficult to insist when we’re both under so much stress. On the other hand, we can’t give up altogether. That’s why, no matter what, he will be unlocked and given the opportunity tonight. No pressure. The last thing either of us needs is more pressure.

We’re just playing it by ear. Lion will be wild for our last trip of the season this weekend. When we get home he will be locked safely away again. I haven’t decided if he will get any regular opportunities to be wild as he has this summer. There was a certain necessity for his being wild in the trailer. At home he has no such need. Does that mean he doesn’t deserve a wild weekend now and then? I haven’t decided. Sometimes he sees being wild as a reward and other times he doesn’t like being wild. It’s difficult to know how he will react if I announce that he will be wild for a certain length of time. I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Lion has always maintained that a vibrator would not work on him. I was surprised when he wanted to try one. It arrived yesterday and I decided we needed to take it on a test run.

Not knowing what I was doing, we tried it with the cage on. Lion guided me until I found the spot that worked. He was instantly hard in his cage. When I unlocked him he was very hard. Perhaps the hardest I’ve ever seen him. But how can this be? Vibrators don’t work on Lion.

Clearly Lion hadn’t used the correct vibrator in the past. This Magic Wand is very effective. Once he calmed down so he could get his ring off, I started in with the vibrator again. I’m not sure why it surprised me that he got so hard so quickly. And once I found that spot again he had an orgasm within a minute or two.

We were both surprised that he came so quickly. He said he had given me fair warning. I was just experimenting with my new toy. I’m not sorry he came. How can I know the effects of the vibrator if I don’t experiment? How do I know how far to push him if I don’t push him too far? I had it all under control. Besides, vibrators don’t work on Lion.

I’ve been thinking about Lion’s post for a while, trying to come up with why things got boring to me and why they’re different now. Without sounding sanctimonious, I think I realized it’s not all about me. Yes, it may have started out with his inability to initiate and he wasn’t doing anything for me so I wasn’t going to do anything for him. The WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) was a big problem. Eventually I didn’t care about sex at all. Once we started chastity and worked through the WIIFM I came to my aha moment. Withholding sex was childish. In my mind I hadn’t really considered it withholding sex anyway. It was more of a quid pro quo thing. Wasn’t Lion withholding sex from me by not initiating? Therefore, I was clearly in the right by not initiating with him. Yup. Childish.

The bottom line is that I love Lion more than anything. Why would I want to hurt him by withholding sex? Why wouldn’t I want to do everything I can to make him happy? What difference does it make that I don’t want sex for myself? If he needs something and I can do it, then I will do it. There are things I may not like to do, so I won’t do them often. There may be things that I don’t want to do at all. There has to be some compromise. That’s what adults do.

I may lapse back into childhood from time to time. Lion does too. He has his toddler moments. But overall I think we’ve grown up a lot since starting enforced chastity. I think that’s why it’s not boring.

[Lion — I still feel very guilty that I can’t get Mrs. Lion’s motor running again. Maybe my inability to initiate all this time hurt her permanently. I love giving her orgasms and I feel very sad she can’t enjoy them.]