The Masters Project - Book One (Ralph and Tanya)

By Robert Lubrican

In his Master's project, Bob interviewed hundreds of couples. In the process he often found out personal information about a couple. Such as the fact that Ralph and Tanya wanted a baby as much as it was possible to want a baby. But an accident had left Ralph unable to father a child. It had the potential to destroy their marriage.

They couldn't afford in vitro fertilization. They didn't want to ask one of their male friends to "help out".

But Bob wasn't a "friend." Not in the sense that it would be weird to ask for a favor like that.

So they did.

And things got very weird after all.

In the end, several questions were raised.
1. Is it cheating if the husband agrees she can have sex with another man?
2. Is it cheating if she tries not to enjoy it and fails?
3. And is it possible for cheating to actually help a couple's marriage get stronger?

Ralph and Tanya found out the answers. And Bob put them in his paper.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Lubrican
• Release date: Nov 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465747495

Robert Lubrican

I grew up in the fifties and sixties, and that is reflected in my books quite often. I spent twenty years in law enforcement, and traveled the world, which also can be seen in my books and stories. While the genre I write in is technically called erotic romance, what I actually write are stories with a plot, which include sexual behavior on the part of the characters. That is because most people's lives include sex and erotic gratification. And, since most people wonder about lifestyles that are sometimes called taboo, or forbidden, I write about them, occasionally too. I believe that two consenting adults know more about their own happiness than anyone else, and that even if they are mistaken, they have the right to make their own choices. I also believe that love is the key to making choices that will not turn out to be mistakes.Many of my ideas involve coming of age, which usually takes place in the early to mid teens. Publishing standards, however, require that all characters in the published version of the book be over 18. That's not realistic, but it's just the way things are. If you purchase one of my books and would like to have the original version, unedited for age, send a copy of your receipt to [e-mail] and I'll happily provide you with a copy of the original at no additional cost. It is not illegal to write or possess such versions. It's just unpopular with certain special interest groups who desire to restrict your freedom.

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The Master’s Project

Book One (Ralph and Tanya)

by Robert Lubrican

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Foreword

In the world of erotica, there have been hundreds, maybe thousands of stories written about cheating. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that the 'average' cheating story generally involves either a wimp husband, with a wife who prefers other men, or the domineering boss who blackmails his employee's wife into cheating. There are other plots, such as the wife/husband who gets drunk and strays, or the gambling situation where hubby loses a bet ane wifey has to pay the debt with sex. The point is that in the vast majority of cheating stories, the cheating is destructive. The reader might be thinking Well duh! at this point. But wait. What I wanted to do was explore the concept that cheating might happen under circumstances that were not destructive ... under circumstances where there might be a rational reason for that behavior to take place. Is it ever possible for cheating to help a marriage?

It is when fiction is involved.

Bob

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CHAPTER ONE

Have you ever noticed that a man and woman who have been married for forty or fifty years have very similar facial features?

It's true! Look in the paper at the people who are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Look at pictures of your great grandparents, or grandparents, assuming they were only married to each other. They look like they might be brother and sister. They look alike.

But it only seems to be true for people who have been married for a really long time. Of course even though they look alike, they are probably as different from each other as it's possible to be. I know you've heard old couples arguing, right? I mean look at Frank and Marie on Everybody Loves Raymond. Married forever and fight like cats and dogs.

Before you write and tell me what a piss poor example they are, let me remind you I know they aren't actually married to each other. That's why they don't look alike. They're just actors. But their lines come from real history. The writers are just remembering what their own parents and grandparents were like. Trust me on that.

Anyway, when I first noticed this phenomenon, I got sort of fascinated by it. And everywhere I looked it was the same. People who were together a long time looked alike.

I developed two possible hypotheses, or questions:

1. Are people who look alike attracted to each other, and because of that they stay together forever?

If true, you could hypothesize that, if two people look like each other, they might be able to make a long lasting marriage.

2. Or, is it that they were they attracted by something else and ended up looking alike because they lived together for so long?

In this case, the looking alike part wouldn't mean anything, except that you could tell who had been married a long time just by looking. Big deal.

So, when I was in college, working on a double Master's in Sociology and Psychology, and had to do a research project, I thought to myself: Self ... why not do some research on that? If I worked it right I could submit the same