She then said the words that changed my life forever."Ted, we need to talk?" She said forcefully."What about," I muttered."You!" What about me?" It's ...ot good for you to sit around here all day wasting your time." What else am I going to do? Go waste my time somewhere else. I can't getany work, I'm...." I got you a job," my wife interjected.I stared at her dumbfound for a second before I was able to ask, "Doingwhat?" Working as a paralegal down at my firm, a spot just opened up," she said."I. It was the same old stuff that he had been hearing ever since he could remember. Mom was berating Dad for a multitude of real and imagined sins, and he was just sitting there taking it. If he ever said anything in his own defense the only thing he accomplished was to lengthen her tirade.He listened for a couple of minutes, knowing that an interruption would just prolong his Dad's agony. "Why can't he stand up for himself and be a man, for God's sake?" Brad thought to himself."... and another. No, that surprise drink, what would you like?”“A cocktail, a strong one please, I think that I’m going to need a strong drink.”“One Ken’s version of a Negroni coming up for the young lady.”“So what’s with the collar and leash?” Ken asked John as he was getting our drinks.“Jade likes being tied up but that wouldn’t be too practical at the moment.”“No,” I added, “and I like to let everyone know who my boss is, who owns me.”“Are you going to show her to all the customers John, there’s a few. I trusted no woman with my feelings. I knew where to go to meet a partner for the night, if I felt the need, a friend with benefits. The women I found usually wanted the same thing as me, some intimate company and “see ya later”.So, ... I became very close with my neighbors in my little gated community I settled in. We were 90 homes in the 200-300K range in Florida, mostly retired or well off enough not to have to work. No young “at home” children for any of us, and we lived privately within.