(This started off as a way for my wife and I to share our perspectives with each other after a pretty wild experience, but we decided to share and it kinda morphed into this behemoth that is just slightly too big for a single post. Part 1 is mostly background. The real action is in [Part 2](https://old.reddit.com/r/gonewildstories/comments/bi15y6/swinger_friends_mf_convince_us_mf_to_join_them/?).)
I’ve been friends with Tom for about 20 years now, so I was naturally invited when he married a cute blonde girl named Ashley a few years ago. Their relationship always seemed to have an adventurous bent to it; honeymoon abroad, camping, hiking, mud runs. They were always doing something, but otherwise their relationship seemed to be relatively normal for a couple in their prime. I also knew that Ashley had something of a wild side to her during her college years, based on some stories Tom told during our irregular get-togethers. That side of her seemed to bleed over to him as well, given that they started doing things like going to nude beaches and attending invite-only “poker parties” where Ashley would serve drinks to the guys in attendance, wearing skimpy clothing and sitting in the laps of anybody willing to tip her with enough poker chips, all with Tom’s blessing.