Mom sees a sleepwalking specialist and sparks fly – Part 6

The doctor wanted to know if I’d seen any of Mom’s sleepwalking episodes with the twins. I hadn’t. Dad had told her that he worried most about that. Mom responded to the doctor’s questions but she really had little to offer even from her childhood sleepwalking. Dr. Jaffrey seemed more interested in her childhood episodes, but Mom didn’t remember anything that happened and I knew nothing about that.

So far, the appointment had been nothing but a Q&A and I figured that nothing would happen to help with Mom’s affliction. When Dr. Jaffrey finished writing her notes, she set her pad on her desk and said, “I’m more interested in the sexual elements than the sleepwalking episodes themselves. Sleepwalkers often will perform normal everyday things while they are walking. Having sex isn’t common, but it happens, particularly if the sex life of the walker is non-existent or unsatisfying.” She asked me to go back to the waiting room while she queried Mom on her sex life with Dad. I didn’t need to or want to hear about that. I got up and headed for the door.

Before I opened the door, Dr. Jaffrey Columbo’d me, “By the way, Dex. Do you and your mother have an ongoing sex life other than the sleepwalking episodes you mentioned before?” My eyes went straight to Mom still on the couch. She was pleading with me to lie. My eyes dropped to the floor and then everywhere else in the room. Dr. Jaffrey watched me and then Mom and then said, “I see. We’ll need to talk more about that.” I hadn’t said a word but I didn’t need to. She wasn’t judgmental in the slightest. She was very professional but Mom let a soft groan escape her throat. I opened the door and was glad to escape the inquisition.

Twenty minutes later, I was called back in to the doctor’ office. Mom had been crying and she was now sitting up on the couch with a tissue in her hand. I was offered the same seat as before and I sat down. Dr. Jaffrey looked at Mom and said, “Madelyn, this is what I’ve gleaned from the questions and answers. I want to thank you both for your honest and candid responses. That doesn’t happen very often. Parent/child sex is generally frowned on in this society but it happens way more often than people know. Sometimes, it is coercion and is more often father/daughter sex. That doesn’t appear to be the case here.” I already knew all that.

Dr. Jaffrey went on and said that she wanted to do hypnosis and put Mom into a simulation of her more recent sleepwalking episodes so she would remember them and see if the memory would help her understand why she always resorts to sex when she’s interrupted. If that didn’t work, she wanted to do hypnotic regression on Mom to better understand if something had happened to her as a child sleepwalker that set her on her current path.

I thought she would make another appointment but she got up from behind her desk and sat in a chair beside Mom and motioned for her to lay back on the couch and relax. She explained to Mom what she was going to do which was basically to hypnotize her and have her reenact one of her recent episodes.