The End of All Beginnings 1

Six years ago when her husband told her he was leaving her, Anita Ridley had been shocked.  But as time went by she adjusted to her changed circumstances and began enjoying being free to date men. She still believed that the good life meant one man joined faithfully to one woman. Even as she searched for new relationships on the internet and gave herself to some men after carefully eliminating others, she still believed she was searching for mister right and ready to make another marriage. The father of Ursula and Rachel, Upton Ridley, had lived up fully to the standards she used to judge men both by his successful behavior among other men in business and by his performance with her in their bedroom. Upton had fallen in love with Marya Buttridge, a twenty-six- year-old married beauty. Marya fired Anita with hatred and jealousy but in the end she understood her husband’s actions. Upton Ridley attracted women and Anita had reasoned finally that the same quality in Upton that had aroused her love had made a beautiful young woman yield to him and there had been little Upton could do but also yield. He provided income regularly for her and their daughters and she was often in contact with him making plans and decisions regarding Ursula and Rachel’s  future. Upton’s masculinity remained the standard she used to judge the men she began dating and accepted into her bed. She was a church member who sang in a choral group at her church but the life of excitement and pleasures that Upton had released her to enjoy did not trouble her morally. She had been a faithful wife and  had fully enjoyed the pleasures of marriage. She had no moral problem seeking the same pleasures with new men that Marya Buttridge, a twenty-six-year-old beauty, had taken from her. The main thing was that she was always still looking for mister right even though in the six years that she had been divorced, she had been intimate with four men.

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