Real Life Stories - June 2012

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I have a very short fuse and there are times when I simply want him out of my site and I convert the "Thinking Room" into what is really a cell. When I put him in the cell, the chair is removed and he has to stand in the room. It is not high enough for him to stand upright so it can be a uncomfortable experience as I made him put a concrete and stony floor in there making sitting most uncomfortable. He can spend an hour or two in there or, on some occasions when he has come home late from his office without phoning me first etc. and he might spend the whole night incarcerated. It has become a wonderful place to put him when I have my weekly women's night. I put him in there before they arrive and he stays there until they leave, or until the next morning if I feel like it. I also keep an assortment of homemade whips and canes in there suspended under the stairs. (He has made all of them to meet my specific needs.) It is a safe place to store them and he knows he is sharing the room with them when he is in there and, when released, might be told to bring one to my room.

Elise, I want you to be assured of one important point. I never leave the house when he is in the "Thinking Room" unless I have given him the means to unlock the door from the inside. When I do this I put a seal across the outside so if he did leave the room for anything but an emergency I would know when I returned. He did that just once about two years ago and I know he will never do it again.