The scene unfolds on a sweltering summer Friday evening in the couple's living room, where the sun still streams through the windows and the air hangs hot and still. Marry and Chris sit together on the couch before the television, which plays a forgettable gameshow, more background noise than entertainment. After a long, busy week, the atmosphere carries the comfortable lethargy of a routine evening.

Marry has spent the past few days researching something she has been nervous to share, and this moment feels heavy with unspoken intention. She fidgets with the hem of her oversized hoodie. She wanted to find something, that makes her us-time better, that makes it thrilling. She found stuff about being dominant in a gentle way. She never liked the hardcore stuff, but the gentle-femdom-stuff made her curiose. She researched and couldn't stop.

And now she has to take her courage to say it to you, her beloved husband.