Discovering Myself

I know you’ll find this ridiculous but there are some things I just can’t do in front of my partner, Mary, and I don’t know why. I really want to please her, but when she suggests something I haven’t done before, I get all shy and insecure. We haven’t been together that long and she’s my first real lover. I told my new neighbor and friend, Julie, this. “That’s terrible, Sophie,” she said. “A pretty girl like you should have no inhibitions.” “I know, that’s what Mary keeps telling me. I don’t know why I’m like this.” The very next Friday night, Julie rang and invited me over to her place for some girl talk. She had a bottle of scotch and we proceeded to get smashed. While we were drinking, she asked me lots of questions about my s*x life with Mary and what else I had done in the past and