Inspired by the success of two of her friends in turning around their marriages to overbearing husbands, Corinne Beswick looks back on the events that changed the life of both herself and her own overbearing partner, Robin. Life had not always been so good. So, Corinne Beswick mused, as she relaxed on the sofa lapped in indolence; her every reasonable and achievable desire catered to by the handsome older man on the carpet before her. A handsome man whose attention was concentrated on the slender foot resting in his lap, its unblemished and smooth whiteness standing out starkly against the navy apron she insisted he wear when performing his chores. His eyes seldom rising above calf level as he squatted on his haunches and prepared to provide her with the kind of meticulous pedicure she insisted upon and he had been trained to deliver