All Comments on 'House of Cards Ch. 10'

I loved every word writen.......Rich

Of my all time favorites, but it would have never happened to me. She acted like she had two husbands, one for sex and the other for the rest and her total disrespect and her disreguard for her husband and family would have been too much to try and get over. Also the boyfriend would have been delt with most harshly, but thats just me. Still didn't keep me from enjoying this great story and being thankful nothing close to this has ever happened to me. I don't think I would recover.

The entire premise of the 8 month affair from the wife's point of vew is that her marriage came first. But it did NOT. <b>When the husband started getting suspicous the wife did NOT stop the affair and she actually INCREASED her lying... betryal... and deceit. </b>

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Letting her lover use her husband pet name... turning down her husband for sex on the anniversary... 8 months long... her refusal apologize.

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But what really Kills this story is Tom's stunning idiocy. First Marriane's inexplicable grasp what what her 8 month ffair meant to Tom. Surely she must of been able to see the difference between a 1 night stand and 8 months ? Yet she refused to come clean at any point even at the risk of marriage!!

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Tom is the one that has to do ALL the work even though SHE cheated.

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SECOND point is Tom's refusal to see that Marianne developed a whole SECOND life/husband. At one point TOM asks <i> "Why did you lie and lie and lie? Why did you lie shamelessly to my face? </i>..... what he REALLY asking WHY did you put me #2?

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Marianne's assertion that she had to lie to have an affair

says NOTHING. That isnt what Tom is asking. Tom does not see it that way which is why the reconciliation is absurd.

The ending is a Total Failure.... because of the reasons stated by Anonymous poster dated 6/19/07. At 103+ posts in this final chapter alone there is NO need to re-hash the events.

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The scene where TOM has his wife and himself wrote down how the other person feels thinks etc is very interesting

and significant... but NOT in the way the author intended.

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Tom spends all this time effort and energy getting Marianne to "see" what she has done.<b>But Tom never spends ANY time thinking about what Marianne's actions MEANS ...<u>what is the SIGNIFICANCE of her actions words and Behavior.</u> </b>

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In every instance the other guy came 1st and Tom was 2nd.

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The author gets away with this by having Tom engage in a pretend affair... and everyone is focused on THAT morally questionable act. Tom is busying trying to get Teach Marianne a lesson EMOTIONALLY.

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THAT is why the ending fails. Tom's fake affair idea keeps Tom and all the readers from thinking about what Marianne's actions REALLY meant.

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<b>By they way if you have to spend all this time to get get your wife to see WHY a 8 month long emotional and sexual affair is a BIG deal...

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then the god dam marriage isnt worth saving. </b>

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HARRY

ps I never posted on the ending of this story which is probably the most popular story EVER written in LW genre here at lit.

Thius said it all. And in essance this is what literotica is all about. writing fantasies and fiction. Maybe even getting into character in a way that helps us be better people and better partners. Thank you

"The people who say that dealing with a cheating wife is simple"just throw her ass out!"are full of shit. They have probably never been there, and they don't know what it is like from the inside. Sixteen years of love, happiness and trust, two kids we both adorethose are not nothing. Pure rage can feel great, the adrenalin rush of it, and I certainly knew that. But maybe two months later you're living in a small furnished apartment, staring at the walls, lonely and depressed and wondering why you're so far from the people who matter most to you."

can't believe theyre still together. 8 months is a very long time to be committing adultery and worse, with the same guy. The husband is a wimp and a timid one at that. this story did not bring me on one iota.

Good writing, bullshit premise.

The unresolved issue is when her *next* affair happens. After cheating for most of a year, quite egregiously, there's nothing she really did to make up for it. Lesson: it was OK.

Which is really too bad, for what's otherwise a well-presented story.

Most of the story was well written, but was longer than necessary; it would have benefited from some editing to make it more concise. The last few chapters in particular I found boring. You know what would have been more interesting in the final chapter than having his increased surveillance turn up no evidence that she was cheating again? ANYTHING!! Still, this was better than many of your stories (such as "Brisket", or "Christmas, Counseling, and Cell Phones"), that include little or no character development, and violent reactions with no consequences for the husband.

This is the second time that I have read this story and it is probably one of the "best" reconciliation stories around.

You have taken the time and effort to explain all the feelings and emotions of the betrayal along with how the husband overcame them one by one. You have written that she is still loving, faithful, and extremely penitent to the end. You have covered just about every base you could to bring this couple back together. I admire you for having convinced me that a couple can overcome what one spouse contemptfully shows the other when they cheat, passively or overtly. Normally I would say reconciliation only works to keep the family intact for whatever reason and there are many including financial or family. In fact, that is what generally occurs in life. But, face it, the previous love they both felt for each other is lost forever. The fact is- The act of cheating in itself is a physical demonstration and/or passive declaration that a loved spouse does not love her/his spouse as much as they should or ever did. Too, cheating by its nature is an obvious emotional demonstration that there is no respect for the marriage, marriage vows, or the spouse being cheated on, etc. What was once only felt for the cheated party is now freely and willingly given to another person. The cheater is now only selfishly thinking of what they want, their own feelings and that they no longer respect their spouse's feelings. You have accurately covered all this in your story and even mentioned how the cheater tries to separate the two lives they now live with lies and deception. The truth is they know what they are doing and thus lie and deceive deliberately. Yet they continue to hang on to the marriage because they fear that loss of family and stability in their lives. They don't wish to give up that familiarity they have worked so hard for. Once caught they feel shame and guilt and strive to get back everything they risked, what they have worked so hard for... I can hopefully envision that they can "possibly" learn to love each other again, if starting from scratch. In reality, there is very little to work with as the cheater has already demonstrated how little they cared about the other spouse's feelings, pride, marriage vows and most important-the other spouses love for them!

So, realizing that this is a romantic fiction story as well as a cheating wives story, I will be convinced that they fully fell back in love with each other again because I wanted them to... What most commenters will not generally accept is how that is possible when this cheater worked for eight months to demonstrate that she did not love or respect her husband or her marriage vows. That he worked through all of that lack of love and is trying again with her really only indicate that he just can't give her up no matter what she did to him! I can say this I guess because I have done much of the same thing in my life! Thank You for a wonderful fiction story though... Hope is forever Eternal they say!

I really appreciate the outstanding writing that went into this story, although it seems like it was stretched out too long (maybe to make the reader forget what started all of the problems). But, the reconciliation is just too sickening. I realize that things like this probably happen all too often in real life, but if one of my friends went through this and reconciled, I would be talking about what a poor decision they had made. To listen to your spouse rave about their lover, use terms of endearment, and put their lover above the spouse, then to listen to your spouse describe the circumstances of their affair to you, would be too much. I can't picture the wife ending up with any respect for her husband after getting over the initial relief of reconciliation. So, in spite of the great writing, this story just leaves me disgusted with the ending, and for me, the ending of the story is too important.

I first read this story a few years back and just happened to re-read it just now. I usually like reconciliation stories but this time it seemed like the ending was just too unbelieveable. It would have been a better story if the husband just cut his losses and walked away. The wife's cheating was pretty hardcore. I don't know how a man could ever be able to get past the evidence and the confessions. The reconciliation might have played better if it had occurred sometime a few years in the future after a separation or a divorce. The wife needs time to grow up and deal with her demons. Until then, her husband would be better off away from her.

a story wrapped around a wimp trying to talk himself out a a bad situation..... he is still a wimp

a discredit to married people

8 months and the continuing lies from her. the recording devices and such, what about the use of throw away phones. she may have stopped, but trust? those lingering questions and what is she doing? the reason for visitation was for them, where a twinge that does not go away. leave, should have

. . . the worse it gets.

Ohio,

From each of us is a different point of view, emotion, thoughts.....me 32 yrs of faithful marriage 100+ days of travel a year in 5 plus states (incl. Ohio) and no betrayal.

Young people have only their past to look forward to and after 30+ yrs we have a happiness to look back on. Your charactor had only 16 yrs and it was enough for him. Works for me! Great story so well told.

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Dear Ohio

Let me thank you for the marvelous moments I had, reading your fine story which has all it needs: Drama. in-depth psychology, fluent et beauteful choice of words and sentences, but it is also higly tense, while, we the readers, never know, up to the end, what the issue will be. You succed to make all the actors sympathic, and you story is one of them where the "cheater" is not in he hospital at the end. Therefore your hero remains a gentleman and the story remains esthetically perfect. The present and of course (the mean) Mr. Gronier - which has a different target - are by far the best of the stories of this kind I ever read. Thank you for the pleasure!.

Johann Schwarz, from Germany. info@traduire.de

I have never read a story as infantile, and as intellectually vapid as this one. Even the emotionally based actions of the characters, particularly the husband, were so underdeveloped that they were laughable.

The husband spent most of the story ruminating about what he was going to do because he did not have the maturity to think critically or to react with strong emotional conviction. His wife spent a year fucking another self-absorbed asswipe; said he was better than her husband; he heard it all and said he still loved her. Jeeze!!!

To write this absolutely moronic crap, the author has to be as retarded as the husband in the story. I even feel intellectually diminished for having been fool enough to read the whole thing, especially after the point at which he discovered her infidelity and still professed to love her.

Gosh, sometimes we do stupid things, don't we?

YOUR SICK anybody in real time that would take back a spouse after this is a sicko or retarded. Knowing this is a story doesn't change the fact and i mean fact that you can not have sex with someone for nearly a year and still be going strong, until caught and then have numerous chapters with him eating and talking about it with her a story has to be based on believable events and this is just a waste of time, mine for reading it and more so your for writing such crap.

comments the other way. Fems write the praising and males write the other way. I do admit amongst those fems are a few bisexual and homosexual and metrosexual males. Up to 99% of all these 'loving wife' stories are written by fems so it's quite natural for fems to write praising comments for their stories.

it is well written but painful, in a good way. Few, if any, can make the reader feel emotions the way Ohio does. You are the man.

I thought it was thoughtful and insightful and fairly knowledgeable about the psychology of grieving.

Another reason I know it's good is that it only drew a minimum of ubiquitous, anonymous, spineless, misogynist, immature, Wimp Nazis that come crawling out of the woodwork when a cheated on spouse dares to try to save his marriage and particularly if he succeeds.

So kudos to you for you well-conceived and well written story - as well as your ability to, for the most part, silence those idiots.

just a fairytale

His fictional and her real affair, and she was upset? For the children perhaps, but the ability to have trust adequate for him. She already proved herself deceitful/and there is visitation and other means to deal with it all

I know a couple who had a similar experience about 20 years ago and now they are a still happily married so I know that this kind of thing can happen in the real world even if it is rare.

It kills me to read some comments where it is obvious they didn't pay attention to the story. She never got mad at him when he confessed his affair was fictional because he never told her. If you will read the story he was only imagining her reactions, which included anger and he decided no point in stirring up trouble just when things seems to be finally going well. So he didn't tell her and glory be they lived happily ever after, maybe? I think part of what makes a good story, even if you don't like the subject matter is an authors ability to keep the "angst" factor going, always wondering, whats next. Honestly Ohio, I sometimes think you are perverse enough to get us all on board with the idea all will be well and then dash all the hopeless romantics on the rocks of treachery and deceit. I was getting fearful when our hero started getting paranoid in the final stages and just knew you were going to invent more lies and infidelity from the wife. I haven't counted but it does seem most of your stories end in utter and complete disaster for the marriage so I don't think my fear was unreasonable. But all ended on a hopeful note and so I being one of those hopeless romantics am smiling. Another good story, thanks , jim

this long piece of crap was. God! Dump the cheating bitch and go on with your life.

Just a little tale to tantalize us all with the effects of infidelity and miscommunication. Could it happen this way in real life - maybe. That's the whole point, suspension of disbelief. Its all fiction...as someone else mentioned earlier...'just a fairytale'.

All in all, not a horrible story, but one that should give us all pause to reflect on our own life situation, draw any parallels and make any adjustments we might think necessary.

I for one plan to invest in those companies that make all of those recording devices...according to the tales of woe on the Lit site, it seems to be a growing market segment! LOL.

i need a bit of clarification here: if the cunt loved her husband so much why did she fuck the other asshole for 8 months????

but the ending is not. The wife carried on an affair that was not simply physical but also emotional, for eight months.

It's not the just the physical affair, but the emotional attachment to her lover coupled with the total disrespect toward a loving, caring husband that would be unacceptable. The ability of the wife to live in two totally different worlds with no regard for her spouse borders on disturbed. Her ability to lie and cheat, then try to convince the husband that the lies were all for his own good is an insight into how she operates. Despite all of the therapy, all of the turmoil, all of the effort, in a few years she will cheat again. When the image of the consequences fade, as she becomes more comfortable, and as their marriage becomes more settled, she'll have another lover. The husband will face a lifetime of suspicion of and doubt about his wife's fidelity. Better to simply end the marriage, and get on with his own life. The "new marriage" is a distorted ghost of the old marriage. There will be another Eddie.

sometimes reconcillation is not an option.

Marianne is just doing a better job of concealing her affairs. They do deserve the cards they were dealt.

What bothers me about this story is Mariannes total lack of understanding on her own of what she did to Tom.

Even after the blowup, she only looked at what she felt like.

"I am suffering, because he doesn't talk to me ..."

Her "List" was a joke. What he wrote about his feelings should have been on her list, not his. Hers was a testament to her cluelessness/selfishness.

And that was never addressed by him. That lack of REAL regret. (I never had at this point the feeling that she regretted what she did to him. She only regretted the consequences it brought to her)

There were layers to her betrayal:

1.) Sex

2.) Intimacy

3.) Lying when caught WHILE STILL seeing Eddie.

4.) Utter lack of regret.

He never addressed the last. BUT this is the most severe, because when there is no Insight into ones wrongdoing its only a matter of time before it is repeated.

The reconciliation fails because Tom spends all this time trying to get his wife to see how her 8 momth affair it hurts him.

That is all well and good but Tom spends NO time on thinking what the wife's actions words and behavior "means".

8 month is LOOOOONG time. Repeatedly she chooses the "other guy" over Tom even thoug the wife claims Tom is #1

Good post Harry.

and yes I also agree with other point as well. Tom spending all this time getting his wife to realize why her 8 month long affair is so wrong... shows that there e isnt much worth saving.

I felt sick as I read this story and the conclusion became more and more obvious.

Call me a fool, but I liked your story. It seemed to me to realisticly tell the story of a marriage in crisis and the path taken to back to happiness. Don't worry about all the negative comments. Everyone is a critic now. Most of these people are either: 1. hopelessly bitter and jaded on love and marriage (for whom I feel great pity), 2. sadly people who have never experienced the things the people in your story have gone through. The mark of a good story is to touch on something that others have experienced and can relate to. And you, in my opinion, have done that in spades. Great story!

When I read comments that either show people failed to read what they are complaining about or, as said by the last comment, have clearly never actually dealt with the same issues in a truly deep relationship.

All four of the issue raised by an earlier comment were dealt with - she did deeply regret what she did and that become more evident as she began to better understand exactly what it was.

The author also dealt with the issue of how long it went on and how she left him to second place while Eddie got the first place honors - she had not truly understood how it could affect him because she truly never expected to need to contend with that reality. It never seemed calculating or deliberate for her, she never wanted it to interfere (consciously) with the marriage or his "rights", she never compromised their home or went with him on the anniversary. In spite of all the things she failed to think through she did manage to prevent most of the little insults to him - excepting the pet name of course.

Lastly for the "kill the biotch" crowd it is never that simple with children involved - they come before the parents wants, likes or comfort - IMHO no negotiation there.

A very good story well written and developed whether you agree with the outcome or not -

My only comment is the way he handled Eddie. I think he let him off way too easy. I think he should have at least taken a baseball bat to his balls, or busted his legs, or at least broken a few ribs then maybe his anger to his wife would have been a little less. Then he could always look back ind see Eddie in a puddle of blood or know that he had to have his balls surgically removed, now to me thats closure .

you wrote some very good stories and now, not so much so.

Tom is such a sweet lovable cucky!!

Can the slut really give up strange cock?

A sequel would be nice

You wrote a terrific story there. I spend an afternoon reading it, unable to let go. The characters are very well defined, the story line leading to wanting to know more. Wow! I wish I could write as well as you do.

Tom decides he doesn't want to tell that his affair is fictional. Why would he be afraid about Marianne's reaction? She doesn't have any right to get angry, and isn't affair by definition is illicit and secretive? How could it be secretive if told your wife everything you do on your affair? If anything, it shows Tom's better character to his wife and could make her be more resolved in her fidelity. Although he did have a two night stand and two wrong doesn't make a right, it's still understandable if he were to seek comfort from other women. A quite illogical portion of the ending to an otherwise good story. Then again, people doesn't always act logically.

good read, this is a romance novel, lol....I like your writing but I hate the type of men you write about. Their weak and to quick to forgive and foget.

Read until the end kinda hoping that he would leave & find Kirsten. Could I forgive her, no,maybe without the tapes , but with them not a chance.

This really went on for about 8 chapter too many. His wife had a prolonged affair and when given a chance to come clean she still denied that it occured and the husbands response it to like his lips at the thought of the gooey creampie he is soon to be eating an takes the wife back without any reservations as soon as he could

There was eddie for how many months and her admitted enjoyment of the same? In those words to him, the endearments were present, and of course she's sorry for what she did. Forgive her and give her the chance to pursue what makes her happy. The living with the listening to recordings and checking on her, worth it for him? Does that ever go away? No. best thing to wish her well, be civilized in settlement, agreement with children and go on without her.

You get a low score for a low quality story.

I've struggled all my life with issues of hurt, rejection, revenge, and retribution. I felt inspired by the way these characters moved past the hurt without getting sidetracked into things even more harmful.

......after some beautifully written Chapters - the cheat got away with it !!

Basically,she had 8 months of wonderful sex,free from ANY guilt feelings,

and got her Life & Marriage back again.

I am not convinced that she TRULY understood what she had done or destroyed irrevocably.

In real life - this WILL come back on her, and him,in the years ahead.

Very well written,but.......................

Just another sick author's tale of a slut wife who is forgiven by a wimp husband. In reality, he should of burnt her ass in a divorce, making sure family and all know what a whore she is.

Wonderfully written with a lot of passion and sorrow. Very true to life and yet a sad story.

It would take a lot of trying to make a marriage as they have to work.

Thanks for the read.

Do you have a standard story saved and then you just change details occasionally? even skipping through your stories, they're all the SAME!!! come up with something different instead of writing to a formula! It's about time you gave these husbands some balls and for the wives to get whats coming to them, I don't care how long they've been married or what excuses and the excuse she used that her father was a cheater her whole life til he got older, what a heap of SHIT!!!

after so much talking the cuck just takes her back. fucking spineless moron. the slut has very clearly stated that Eddie does her the best, even then he takes her back. no shred of self-respect. very weak asshole!! a true jpb disciple

enjoyed the story as a hole, but ending went a little limp in the last few paragraphs. the way you let them stay married keep your interest in the story line but not sure manny men could pull that off.. i know i did not when it happened to me,,,,

pour acid down the slut's cunt, simple.

you don't always deserve what you get, but you generally get what you deserve. He deserves to continue being the unwitting cuckold.

By the way, "absence of evidence IS evidence of absence". Ask any forensics tech. I think what you meant was "absence of PROOF is not proof of absence".

maybe you can get a better hand. TK U MLJ LV NV

WHAT A CRAPPY ENDING, SHE BLEW THE MARRIAGE AND HE FORGIVES HER WHAT A UNPROBABLE ENDING.. 8 MONTH OF CHEATING 3 TIMES A WEEK . ANOTHER WIMP STORY..

Having read the entire story arc, this is looking like reconciliation at all costs. Given the extend of her betrayal – a full blown affair and not a single indiscretion coupled with the nature and level of disrespect she showed with the particulars of the affair - divorce should have been his only course: his wife cheated on him for eight months. Even near their anniversary she first had to fuck her lover in way that she and her husband couldn’t properly “celebrate” their wedding anniversary later on. She gave him sloppy seconds multiple times after having been with her lover. She demonstrated a lack of remorse and utter disrespect with her affair that is truly unforgivable.

He should have kicked her out right away. Reconciliation may be appropriate at times and in certain circumstances but this is not one of them. The betrayal is just too big and the lost trust will never come back. Trust is a priceless commodity. Once broken it cannot be repaired. Distrust will fester and grow. He’ll always be looking behind his back to see whether she’ll stray again.

She has a whole hearted long term affair, and the best he could do was fake an affair. Then like a moron he takes her back. It should be called a house for a fool.

OHIO!!!!!!!

I have to agree with some of the other comments. The emotional commitment she invested with Eddie for all those months; even though you really didn't go there is the killer. No way back from that. I'm afraid even with children it would have been better to walk away. It makes the husband look extremely weak and selfish to just role over to have his so called security of HOME?? What the fuck is home after what happened. There is none. 'NUFF SAID!

Love this one and the blue minivan as well

Not nearly enough real revenge sex to restore balance

I held off making any comments until I had completed the entire series. I was very impressed with the writing. You have a wonderful talent and writing style. It's easily as good as any professional writer I've enjoyed. Your ability to draw up characters and make them believable and people we can be empathetic with is very good, and this is something a great many writers struggle with.

Now as to the actions of the husband and wife in this story, I must admit that I'm very much conflicted. In real life I've been on both sides of this quandry. My first wife cheated on me, resulting in a very bitter divorce. I had a very brief affair years ago while married to my present wife, for which she fortunately forgave me. I think this gives me some reason to have some insight into the whole business of marital infidelity.

As the husband in this story wisely stated, there is no hard and set handbook for dealing with a cheating spouse. The whole "once a cheater, always a cheater" line is simply not always true as most general statements turn out to be. I made a mistake, learned from it, and determined never to place my marriage in danger again. I realized that the hurt I put my wife through, as well as the terrible guilt I had to live with, was simply not worth the small amount of pleasure I recieved from the illicit sex I had with my lover. It is up to the injured spouse to determine whether he or she can live with the damaged relationship. This does not make one a "wimp", it simply means that the injured party places the love of the offending party valuable enough to give them a second chance.

As others have stated, my concern if I were this husband is the sheer length of this affair. This was no slip up or casual fling. On the other hand, there was a traumatic element in the wife's childhood that must be considered. Above all, the wife did make a herculean effort to make the situation right. It was clear that she regretted her actions and she did seem to love her husband, although she exercised some damn poor judgement. In the end, the husband made the decision to give her another chance. By all that we read toward the end of the story, it appears as though they are going to make it.

I once again commend your obvious talent and writing style. I look forward to reading more of your work. You are easily in my top five writers on this site.

never read such a story about a pathetic emasculated man. the slut continued to fuck around even when faced with the husband's suspicion and accepted that she would have continued for few more months till the novelty wore off! she is an old slut and did all the fucking knowingly and the wimp still got back with her, PATHETIC !!!

I would have prefered a scorched earth policy against the cheating wife, but even without that you are a good author and I enjoyed reading your story.

and that is pathetic at best.

Please stop it. It might have some value if there was some slight degree of critical thought involved. But there isn't. If the wife cheats, even if it's just once, the husband is a wimp if he does not exact some sort of excruciating revenge culminating in divorce. Preferably leaving her destitute and on the street. If the author does this then you vote him 5 and say it's a great story. If there's reconciliation, he gets a 1 and it's a horrible story. This story was extremely well written, even if some don't like the plot. Why not comment on that?

I personally dislike the stories where the husband enjoys watching his wife screw other men. I generally don't read them and don't comment on them. But if I did comment, I would try to comment about the ability of the author as a writer. One such story I did read and thought was extremely well written and erotic was "3 days of watching my wife fuck." I generally despise this type of story and I can't say I loved this one. Nevertheless, it was erotic and interesting. Perhaps in the same way a train wreck is interesting, but still. So if you can stand this type of story, at least this one deserves you attention.

Love the way you show the emotional scars and how they overcome them

What a great idea! This surely will last a long time; like Donald & Ivana, Brad & Jennifer........

One which involves the relationships of the people who comment on them.

Ohio stories are plausible to me because I've been wed for many years. There is an emotional, fiscal, and familial calculus to making the decision to 'dump the bitch', one which requires some very deep thinking.

In no way am I suggesting that one should never dump an unfaithful spouse. Far from it. Let's take the hypothetical of a 'one night stand'. A wife who went out with friends, got drunk, and 'accidentally' wound up in cheating situation is a lot different then a practically sober wife who had a one time stand with a co-worker at, say, a Christmas party. The one is a mistake, the other has a lot more burden of disrespect.

But one who states a 'one and done' policy either haven't been in love (at least in a way that I would recognize), or aren't particularly thoughtful about what 'ever after' might look like. One wonders how much self respect brightens up that dingy two bedroom apartment on the wrong side of the tracks in the cold bed.

But is a well used pussy such as Marianne's worth forgiveness? Is it plausible for her to 'make up for it' because, as stated, it was EIGHT FUCKING MONTHS! And the big thing was the emotional bond, but that is really much more common for the women...and what kills their marriage. Unfortunately, with a very small tweak to her character, I could see her NOT telling her anything about Eddy to defend him, because she DID care about him.

One aspect I found in the story giving it short shrift (but not unforgivably so) was how stupid the wife was to get suckered in by this guy, nor the forgiving attitude of the husband toward Eddie. Eddie KNEW he was shitting on the husband. That needs some serious attitude adjustment. He is no innocent. And if his wife didn't realize she was being seduced and suckered, she was ripe for the next guy. This is not to forgive her. But her first indiscretion was the only semi justifiable one. After that, she was chased...and not even recognizing it made her susceptible.

But this was a wonderful story with real emotion and a (in my mind) realistic analysis of a marriage.

This writer is a spam writer , pity he can't be reported for writing a pathetic willing cuckold story, and he has been this creature for 20 years, how sad must this writers life be. For 20 years he has known that has never satisfied his wife like others can and he will always be weak and pathetic cuckold. No need to read this writers stories, 1 star is always given.

I can not say I am particularly happy about how it all went down but then again, I am a male and as such once Tab A entered Slot B there is no real possibility of a happy end left. Maybe some sort of compromise but no happy end. But as far as reconcilliation stories go it was a good one.

I suppose he still drives a Hudson Hornet because he can't believe the factory abandoned him in 1957.

Love the writing and storytelling. Didn't like the outcome. Way too much cheating and intimacy by her for too long for him to let it go. Any man would have dumped the bitch. Maybe he would have done the talking and discovery, but her story is too much for a normal man. He is setting himself up for her to do it again. Kind of disappointing. But very well written.

Getting drunk, planned or just a slip up it really doesn't matter. One and done is the best policy. And as far as not loving the spouse because of this belief is crazy, I would venture to say they loved the spouse more. It basicly kills them to think of their spouse with another person. She cheated for a long time, it wasn't a one time or a one hudred time affair. She cheated just like she was breathing air or going to the bathroom. His response made no sense, lets look at the other side. If it was him would we even be having this dicussion. I think not, fry him and try to understand her. Cheating is cheating not matter how you explain it.

Another good one. Great story line, great development. To work well, bringing in Kristen and the character Carrie was a great touch but, the part about the young engineer giving the paper and the insensitive boor of an older, pompous engineer was a great touch. Really enjoyed this story.

very nice reading as always but.......my friend marriage is built on love, trust, and respect, although love can mean alot and although you wanted to say in your story that different people deal with different situations differently but how long do you think a man like this can go on with half trust in his heart regarding his wife, and i know that many people in western cultures try to emphasize that sex outside marriage is no big deal and male ego should not stand in the way of love or raising the children together but still, how can a man get it up with his wife...the mother of his children... after knowing that she has been with someone else,,,not once,,,not twice,,,but for months,,and what kind of marriage they have after the double affairs, is correcting a mistake by another mistake should make it right??? i am sorry but as a man i cant say that i understand the reasoning behind the story and it seems as there are not only two genders as males and females but there is a third and that is....however, thanks for sharing a nice reading.

This was a good story, but also total BULLSHIT. EIGHT months of being a cheating whore slut--give me a break. I would have dumped the slut. Once a cheater always a fucking cheater. She is a nut case.

I don't know why, but the current Broadwell/Patraeus affair has fascinated me. I've read a lot of Literotica over the years, but these last weeks have been about female infidelity. Been married since 1969, but I just never thought about it. I asked my wife if she ever did anything or even thought about it. He reply was instantaneous, she said, "Since we got married I never even looked at another man." I thought about what she said, and it made me feel so good. I wonder about the above mentioned affair; what would Paula's reaction be if they separated? I imagine there'd be women lined up arouund the block to get a shot at Scott. On that level he'd be fine. As for her, I imagine regardless of their marital outcome somebody like Fox News would pick her as a talking head. I'm sure millions of men would watch just to get an occasional nipple shot. Now that would be a story, if you wrote it, I'd like to read. Why don't you change some names, alter some titles, and go for it?

Having read this – well written - story arc, I conclude that there should NEVER have been any forgiveness or reconciliation in this story. I don’t object to reconciliation when the circumstances are right but given the magnitude of her betrayal and its consequences of lack of trust, humiliation and anger, divorce should have been the only viable option. After all, as it wasn’t a one slip but a long term relationship with all its facets (both sexual and emotional). Thus the betrayal was just too big :

- She had an affair for nearly a year and even stayed in her lover’s apartment and bed during Tom’s business travels (btw where were their children at that time?) so they could have more bed time together. She had thrice weekly sexual dates with her lover which makes it very clear it was more than an accident but a regularly scheduled experience.

- She even preferred sex with her lover to their 16th marriage anniversary. Although she refused sex on the day itself, (her lover requested it), she obliged him a day earlier and so much, that even a day later she couldn’t sit or have sex with her husband. This simple fact alone says enough about her priorities: her lover came first, her husband last.

- She even planned to give her husband sloppy seconds!

- Then when cornered time after time she shamelessly lied to try to keep her husband from finding the truth. Even when given the opportunity to fess up, she didn’t but spun a bigger and bigger web of lies. When he found her panties, her reaction was not to stop the affair, but to try to plot better so she could continue it to her sexual gratification. Even later when talking with her husband she kept on lying: she said she lied to protect him, which is baloney: the truth is the facts show she lied in order to keep continuing her affair.

Given these simple facts, no man in his right mind should ever even consider the reconciliation option. Besides how could he ever trust her again? Without trust, there is no marriage. After all she herself said that the affair was already cooling off and stalling and wouldn’t have lasted a couple of months longer… but now she has developed a taste for the thrill of extramarital sex and who says what she’ll do when she meets the next toyboy who gets her panties in a twist. Given this history – consciously or not – he’ll be always looking over his shoulder and wondering if she’s at it again.

And, despite positive comments posted, Ohio normally paints a husband as a weak spine person with no courage or fortitude to be a man.

I can't see any sensible man staying with her.

EIGHT months is long enough to prove that she wasn't infatuated - she constantly engaged in sex two or three times a week - and as you wrote Ohio,there MUST have been a lessening of the emotional bond between husband and wife over that period.

Nothing you wrote about her convinced me - Sorry.

Sorry as a professional I don't see it. If I was her psychologist my advice would be divorce. The nightmares that you the author write for Tom are all to real and unfortunately they don't fade the way you have them doing. She cheated and lied for eight months and to some that might matter, to most doing it once would be enough. It is why the divorce rate is so high. You never dealt with the fact that she had unprotected sex with him. That she tried to have sex with Tom on the same days she fucked Eddie. Or that she used her parents to help her fuck her husband over. In the end Tom is a cuck and a willing one for going back to her after nothing has changed. She only stopped because she got caught. This story after the RAAC started about chapter five went from a ***** to a *.

ten chapters of cuckie.

You,re such a wimp

It couldn't be anything but the ramblings of an idiot. It ain't fiction,, it's stupid.

I was right a feminist cunt did kill Ohio and try to write a story about a man= long winded tale about no one and nothing.

He must be braindead to take the slut back. Another wimp story.

Amazing writing and an immersive story. There's really nothing to say except top marks.

"People say 'once a cheater, always a cheater'. I don't know if that's true."

You fucking right its true. 'Marianne' WILL cheat again. They always do. Just remember the things she did with 'Eddie' and how she looked at it and talked about it.

Once a cheater, always a cheater. Dump the skanky cunt.

How someone can take their spouse back after they've been having an affair foe almost a yr. . ..... .

I'm going to be sick! Does this really happen in the real world when one spouse has been such an absolute cheater?

Ten chapters from Ms Ohio to get to the point where the cuckold wimp hubby says "Hey babe no harm no foul."

I liked it. A long painful journey. To all you BTBers, yes this does happen. No offence to those who cannot continue but, some people can get past it. Some cheaters do learn their lessons

The only things cheaters learn is tone better at cheating and only a wimp thinks they can change.

Creampie lovers cucks and wimps will love this story.

a typical ohio male.

I get tired of the false machismo burn-the-bitch stories. I appreciate that not everyone throws away their investment in a relationship when they find their partner is remorseful. It's a lot easier to throw things away than replace them, but it's the mark of a mature man to not act too impulsively or imprudently. Your job is not to make yourself look macho in front of your friends, but rather to figure out whether you really want the person and they give you some reason to believe that being with them is going to be better than being apart from them.