No. At the time she didn't ask and I didn't volunteer it at the time. It didn't seem important (at the time). It became important much later.
Yes, I did tell her eventually...about 15 years later. We had dated for three years after that first time, got engaged for another year, got married and had our first and only child three years after that. Four years later after our son was born, I discover that she was having an affair with some guy (a grad student) that she rode the bus with.
We were in the middle of our divorce and on this particular day, I had brought our son out to her mom and dad's to do our joint custody exchange.
She had left me and then allowed the guy she had gotten involved with move in with her. In addition to being seven years younger than us and not being a father, there were some issues that my son had revealed to me about his behavior that I thought needed to be addressed. Anyway, I was civil and direct, pointing out that she wouldn't tolerate that kind behavior from me, so there was no reason to allow him to behave that way. And more importantly, I made it clear that I wouldn't tolerate it as our son's father. I wasn't afraid of her boyfriend but he was certainly afraid of me.
Anyway, she got defensive and tried to deflect the whole issue by justifying her life and her infidelity that was right there in front of us and she countered that she felt justified in her behavior because I had gone off and slept with my high school girlfriend (after I graduated from the university some 13 years prior to this conversation)...or at least that is what she thought because, now get this, I came back and we tried out some new sexual position that we had never tried before. Obviously, my former high school girlfriend had taught me a new trick. Moreover, I had been in contact with her since we had been married because I ran into my former girlfriend's mother and father when I was teaching a workshop in Richmond, VA.
Yes, I did see my former high school girlfriend after I graduated as I was trying to locate my brother who failed to show up for my graduation. And I must admit there was still a good deal of closeness between my former girlfriend and I. Everyone knew that and some of that circle of friends probably assumed that we were sexually intimate because we seemed such a good fit. She was witness to another part of my life.
"But I've never, ever slept with her."
My soon to be ex-wife was stunned. "But I thought....as close as you two were and how you felt about her...but your your mom said...."
"You were the first person I ever had sex with. I was a virgin." My wife had a hard time believing that. "You want to call ______ up and ask her? I'll give you the phone number and you can ask her anything you want about what our sex life consisted of." I did give her the phone number so she could call. My wife never did.
"But you were so good, I just though that you and _______ had slept together before we met." That's when we got into how I got "so good."
Cosmopolitan. I still have one of the books that taught me a great deal. And that sexual position she held as proof in her accusation, you guessed it: straight out of Cosmopolitan. My mom had a subscription and while I was searching for my brother, I was at my mom's apartment when I came across and article on sexual positions to spice up your sex life. My soon to be ex-wife had carried this around for a long time.
Of course, my wife asked me why I didn't sleep with someone I cared about so much.
It wasn't for lack of wanting to, I really did want to have her as my first sexual partner. "We would get to a certain point and then all of a sudden she'd just sort of stop and go cold on me. It would all bind up." I was frustrated but I didn't get mad about it. I just didn't understand it.
All my wife could say was "I'm so sorry, I just thought......"
In a lot of ways I was ahead of my time because I've always believed that being sexually involved is a mutual choice and mutual consent and that either one of us could withdraw our consent at anytime and for any reason or no reason at all. My high school girlfriend never gave her consent and it was clear to me that beyond some level of closeness and affection, there was a point she was not willing to pass. My wife, OTOH, wanted to jump my bones when we met. I suspected that we'd become sexually involved but I didn't assume that we would. But when we did, it was marvelous.
Anyway, when I drove away from her mom and dad's I felt, I don't know, relieved? It didn't change that outcome of the divorce, but it did end the accusation of me sleeping with my former girlfriend, or with anyone else.
A few years later after this conversation in my truck, my high school girlfriend explained it to me and it instantly made sense...she loved me, but to be with me in the way that I wanted would have been living a lie. She tried to live that lie with another guy that she met while she was in school because it was expected of her. He walked in on her with another woman and it did not go well. My high school girlfriend then met another wonderful woman and she and her same sex partner have been living together now for 30 years. I eventually shared that little fact with my ex-wife.