All Comments on 'Something... Talk About in Tx Ch. 02'

Anyone siding with her should put themselves in his place and ask if they would stay with their cheating spouse after all that...

Better than the original story.

Great story 5*

Not bad tx . And who knows;in time maybe they can get back together.. prenup though;trust her maybe 90%of the time;but chk her out 4 awhile . Anyway; on ward with all your other ideas 4 story's.. and thkxs

Nope. One year is not enough penance for the self serving slut. At this point she is just giving lip service that she did wrong.

If she was honest, which may be impossible, she would admit getting the ex back is secondary. She only wants to get back what she lost with her kids and the house.

When she accepts the penalty for what she did, and accepts she doesn't deserve to be taken back, that is when she will have enough humility to be considered for a second chance.

I liked it & deserved a higher rating than I gave it, but... it was sooo draaawwnnn out! 2 chapters & not even a finish?

---> Did she suffer enough? Personally, the premise of what both went through's preposterous- being spat on, abused in places of business, not getting a doctor's appointment... the list goes on. Granted, some was caused by those wanting to do some damage, so to speak, but an entire town? So unrealistic it's laughable.

---> Next is hubby's actions. His wife tells him of her actions with this guy who becomes her lover, & she won't stop. After taking some action, not having sex with her until she stops seeing the guy, nothing happens. He should be recording their conversations (haven't seen where he is) & eventually give an ultimatum to her. She can't be with the guy & still say she loves her husband. One or the other. She doesn't decide, he'll then do it. There's a time limit on that ultimatum- 48 hrs max.

---> Did she suffer enough? Toward the end of the story (I skipped a couple pages), she's doing whatever it takes- I suppose- to get her husband back. After what she put HIM through, he shouldn't accept her; she's had enough time to return to her husband full time. Outside of the husband, who suffered because he let things drag on much too long, was the reader, with the story that also dragged on much too long. 3 stars, because 2 would be too harsh. Bob

A truly tragic story, but she cannot be trusted and does not deserve another chance.

Ed

Abysmal. Good times makes for weak men. It is stunning just how modern men are changing and accepting of the new order. Amazing how authors like this advocate for men to have no self respect, to forego any self esteem and just accept such behavior. How is it possible to pay the price due for her actions. One year of total disrespect and she should expect all to be fine. Only in wimp land, but we are moving in that direction.

There was no way to stay married to her. He and the old.guys worked out a plan to keep her and Rich apart (she was still banging him a the start if this chapter). They pulled it off. She did suffer a lot.esepcially when Rich committed suicide, her husband divorced and her she lost primary custody of the kids. The town humiliation stuff is minor in comparison. But what she did and how she rubbed it in the face of the MC in the original story was so beyond, that it is clear she is both delusional and mentally diseased, and was willing to do anything to be with Rich. Remember how the story started. She was using divorce and the kids as a means to subjugate her husband into doing what she wanted. There is no recovery for that. I know the author left this open ended, claiming to be a hopeless romantic. Wish the author had applied that to "A Town with No Honor". Left us hanging with no ending and apparently no reconciliation when it was absolutely warranted given the revelation how the asshole Fred has drugged and raped and blackmailed Beth, both the first time and on subsequent occasions. Sadly unfinished. Vastly better story than working off the original.of this arc.

Good, but your history is so different from original. Let's grams begin new campaign.

Once a cheater, always a cheater. Even after she thought things were better, when the house went up for sale, and he gave her the divorce papers, when she had. nowhere to go;

Jonathan asked where she would go and she said she would go back to Slime all Rich because he loved her... if he were to take her back it's proof that he had forgotten the old adage, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

A great story. The only question, ......would YOU take that level of disrespect.? Personally, i would have gone to jail. sad, but true.

Your a great author, I like a lot of your tales. This one , not so much. Yes , she cheated gor a whole year, and she played being the righteous one. BUT, there are some exceptions , especially with small kids. I’m not one for 2nd chances, but when small kids are involved, there are no rules. He placed his future all on a bunch of old geezers, But they did. her wrong too. She got nothing out f the divorce, they cheated her but giving Jonathan a cash job to cut his income in the courts eyes, that’s a No No. if he knew he as going to BTB at the end of the day, ne should have never given her false hope, That’s not only mean, it’s nasty. People fuk up, but a lifetime sentence when kids are involved, sorry, I can agree that BTB was right. He could have hung on to her at least until the kids went to university. Don’t get me wrong, Iv tossed women for less, a few cheats and they were history, so I’m not sympathetic to whore wives…. But I love kids a lot. Depriving them of a mother after he taught her a lesson, cheating her out of the house etc… Exceptions my friend….. But hey, your the author, so burn her at the stake, as long as you get a great rating and lots of stars… I just draw the li e when kids development are involved………Really, you are a good author, But-not every cheating situation deserves her … I’m a dad too, I had a cheating slut wife, but I couldn’t have raised 4 kids myself, and nothing is like a real mother….. ..

Re AllenDavid. There are no second chances when the wife has been slutting for a year, rubs it in your face and is unrepentant by saying she's going to continue, and threatens to destroy you if you don't get with her program. In that case you burn her to the ground. She's an unfit mother, too.

Excellent comment, AlanDavid

She told him she loved another man.....the kids need to know that.

Yeah the burn was indeed harsh. But the author inherited a story that had a massive betrayal. Not only that she was telling him that he would accept her continued relationship with Rich or else she would take the kids and make his life miserable. He got help via his grandfather from multiple old guy of influence in town and extricated himself from a really disastrous position. Small kids or not, being forced to just accept it and live with it, and her with no remorse, is just insane. And she was clearly and unfit mother, being so keyed on Rich and herself. Ignoring the elaborate BTB on Rich, he made a call to get out of the marriage with his kids. My only quibble is the cash only low paying job woukd be a red flag for the courts. But then again she didn't maybe have the wherewithal to pursue it. I don't feel sorry for her one iota. Her betrayal was enormous. And she still thought of Rich as a fall back guy. The use of the town to exit pressure and strain her relationship with Rich the asshole was quite intricate and creative. I feel sorry for the kids but she gets visitation when she wants and you reap what you so. If he had just divorced her and left, the kids would have suffered as bad or worse.

👎🏿👎🏿 yuck! *sounds of vomiting* Just kick the whore to the curb. Divorce? Of course! The battle plan was sheer genius. Why is he comforting her? Why hug the lying, cheating slag that tried to cut off his balls? This was two chapters of whiny, cuck, weak-assed bullshit?

She's unrepentant, so there's no call for reconciliation. She's sorry, big whoop.

querias BTB, aquí tienes un BTB.

sabes, realmente lo configuraste para que fuera EL BTB, bastardo suicidado, perra destruida mentalmente.... es decir, aun tiene la ilusión de que la pueden perdonar... MC con sus hijos, familia y potencial nueva esposa.

una EXCELENTE novela, 100% ficción, como toda novela ...

gracias y un abrazo autor

Brilliant. Five glorious stars shinigng bright.

Lots of interesting comments for an interesting tale. Of course the oldies being so influential could only happen in a small town or more likely - fiction, but an interesting theme none the less.

A two year affair and her giving the "knuckle under or I'll destroy you, absolutely is the jerrycan of petrol for a badly burned bitch. The irony is, her character as written seems terminally stupid rather than evil and I could see ultimately someone just might write a semi-believable reconciliation after a protracted period. Of course the writer did say he had left that door ajar.

I'm kind of with Alan David in terms of the kids, they are always of prime importance though I do subscribe to the notion that kids are often better served by a loving single parent than in a house at war.

Nah, Susan was too far gone to get her ex-husband back.

She never understood monogamy.

She never understood being faithful.

She never understood her marital vows.

She still thinks she could love two men and have two marriages at the same time.

She thinks she's right and the whole world is wrong.

She never admitted that line of thinking was wrong.

She never recanted from that belief.

That makes her totally untrustworthy until she corrects that massive error in judgement.

Very good.

Like you, I am a romantic also. She will always have that motherly bond with her kids. 8 would like to see them eventually get back together. A third chapter is warranted. Either get back together or Jonathan needs to move on completely and find a new wife and mother to his kids.

She's too stupid to make babies with.

Ridiculous to contemplate a true reconciliation, but any jackass can write a RAAC. Just use the old "medical emergency " trope or another of the shop worn, unrealistic devices found in poorly written LW stories.

I agree with AllenDavid's comments.

I loved the story, gave it a 5. As far as the ending goes, I say he never gets back together with the slut. And Alan David’s comments- Families break up all the time, due to divorce. This man had ample reason to dump her cheating azz. The kids were actually in a better family environment, at the farm. Not sure what qualifies you to be a child psychologist, but to quote a line from the movie Erin Brockovich- “ You suck at it”!

5 stars for a well written and paced tale. Now to comment on other comments. To David Allen and those who agree... I fought tooth and nail. And won the house, the children and no alimony for the cheating slut known as my former wife. I think I did well raising them on my own. They are all well adjusted, intelligent members of society. 1 Nutritionist, 1 H/VAC tech and a Federal Marshall. DMW aka

TX you're one of the best authors here on my list. That being said, this particular piece was below you're creative standards.

"You cheated on me for a year and insisted i accept it. i'm not made that way." Why put yourself through all that trouble of separating the lovers, re-wooing the wife, making her get a job and getting the lawyer to commit suicide just to tell her this? The MC is sort of trying to pull off a jerkyll and hyde here confusing the audience. He's telling his grandfather he wants her to pay, later he's opening wine bottles and romancing her in the bedroom! Really!

@David you're contradicting yourself here. You say you love kids and at this age they cant do without their mommy but really what is she going to teach them! That it's ok for women to love two men? Or that it's ok for little Cindy to threaten her husband with divorce if he doesnt accept her affairs! Do you really want your children(especially the little girls) growing up raised a woman with such beliefs? I'm not saying he should take them away from her but for God's sake she's leaving them at her mother's to go and have sex with her boyfriend. They'll soon be telling him how mommy said Cinderella married two princes.

Regardless of all that, great story.

Why did the husband have to be such a wimp, his wife was a whore but you still kept on about how he loved her. What!!! He would feel that she was 100% spoiled, dirty and evil. And why did you ignore that courts give care for children to those who are best suited. The wife hadnt been caring for a year, dumping the kids on her mother. Its getting old that wives always get the kids.

Hmmm, you asked what I/we think of your ending but you really didn't end it, did you? What I think is that it's unfinished and since it's your story I'll leave it there and just wonder how it ends. Anyway, well-written and quite engaging. Thanks for an enjoyable read.

He was a hard, calculating bastard to her, no more than what she deserved. I can't believe some readers view him as a wimp when it was clear that he was playing a long game to break her completely and that he had no intent of ever getting back with her.

I don't think he should take her back. Even when he served her with divorce papers she was still thinking her lover would help her. When he told her he forgave her she was still thinking that what she had done with her lover was helping her relationship with her husband. He was fucking a whore not making love to her yet she couldn't tell the difference.

Although he was giving her mixed signals by having sex with her, telling her he forgave her and still loved her despite her constant threats and disrespect. I just don't see how they could overcome the betrayal, threats of taking everything including his kids and never allowing him or his mother access to the children and that she never apologized for breaking their marriage or her betrayal. She could never be trusted and he should never forget the disrespect, betrayal and threats. So romantic or not this isn't a relationship that would survive. Those that overcome these circumstances usually start with the betrayer admitting and accepting fault then apologizing and proving they are remorseful. She never was. JMO

Overall, disappointing. 2 chapters, 7- 8 pages, & you left the story unfinished. The amount of pages was too much for the story, Personally, I think he shouldn't come anywhere near taking her back. 1yr of seeing & having sex with this guy, then another after telling her husband that she's going to continue no matter how he feels, he'd be a total wimp & idiot to do that.

She's asking for his understanding but still going over to Rich. At the end, she still wanted him when things were going bad instead of trying to work on her marriage. But truthfully, it was probably too late by then.

All the stuff done to Rich was beyond mean. Especially when he wanted medical attention. That was totally off the scales. Likewise, all the people doing their share against Susan, especially in the Dunkin Donuts place is reprehensible. I can't imagine a business owner actually laughing hardy at a customer being mistreated.

All this leads me to my 2star rating for this 2-part story. Very disappointing. Bob

One of the few stories where I didn't feel slighted with the ending not being finished.

Very well done!!

Possibly the saddest story I have read on this site. Everyone destroying themselves. Thank you for sharing this.

Lots of people write continuations to other people stories and I've read quite a few, but this one was really, really good. Now that we have this excellent BTB version done and dusted, are you going to show us the reconciliation one? I'm dying to see how that is even possible. Total 5/5 for me.

It's a lot better than hers

The story didn't reach it's end. Nothing about what happened between Susan, her grandmother, and her friends. As stated below, this after 2 chapters and 8 pages!

As bad as her actions with Rich was, what the elders did was not only unbelievable, but at times reprehensible. Just as some of Johnathan's actions were unbelievable. It would've shortened the story greatly (not a bad thing in my eyes) if he told her to give up Richard or risk divorce. No real man would agree to sharing his wife, especially when it's thrown at him & was happening for over a year. (I'm leaving open those open marriages, though I don't see that. But still them doing this for months on end....)

Instead of giving her body, Susan should've told him to get psychriatric help, while being with him to talk it out. That his doctor wouldn't see him on an emergency basis or direct him to the hospital (at the very least). along with everything else, was enough for a 1star review from me.

Terribly disappointed; there's the want of making both pay, & pay dearly (CindyTV, Saddletramp1956, among a few others as an example) but make it plausable, even with this being a fictional story. This author, by & large, did not. The treatment of Richard with the pictures, phone calls portraying his wife burning in the car, the police's and again the psych doctor's treatment was despicable & sickening. gsr

Well, it’s been almost 11 years since these two installments were written, and there hasn’t been a follow up - so I’m assuming that stasis was achieved and any efforts Susan expended were for naught (as they should be).

Good story; lots of emotion. Thanks for putting quill to paper.

Hope your well and will come back again some day to entertain us again.

Always astounded @ the stupidity of cheaters to think that they will be able to get to eat cake & have it too! Ending was a lil open in its options left in play but considering the story there are a lot of courses to take. She can not live in the town after this & her only course is to move in with kids @ ranch "to be with her kids" & try to temp him with a "free use" deal to get him interested in her as an option instead of a "new" girl & then she has to offer to share him with a new gal that is leading the gang of new gals. Idk it sounds good fer a bit anyway! Keep it up I have enjoyed your writing a lot!

I'm a romantic but Jonathon deserves romance not a used curb girl.

Let her redeem herself with another person who has affair behind their partners back and then throws it into their face like it's something noble.

That later regrets it after all the harm is done.

Creative way to set up the possibility of her getting him back with help from the girl gang. What she did was horrible, but him leading her on was equally shitty. I would like to have read the sequel of them getting back together, with contracts and controls in place. It would actually be a fun read.

Not sure it is possible to write a way for them back together that is digestible, but it would be a fun read.

From experience, the kids don't hold them together. 44 years ago I got the daughter, 5 1/2 at the time and I am the father. The girl and I moved on with our lives, and yes it was a bit of a struggle but it was one of the blessings of my life. I learned to adapt and overcome the obstacles. The Bio Mother still hangs around but she is a dud. I buried her successor in 2022 after 37 years 30 days of a great marriage. The cheat dosen't know how close she came to meeting her maker. I would have accepted her back for 18 months after it went south but have come to realize that the damage was so great I would not have been successful.

I would not find reconciliation possible here. She betrayed him and enjoy the power trip. He has seen something dark inside of her and he wants no part of it.

i'm almost surprised the author didn't have her at least make a suicide attempt .

Fun story to read. A little over the top....the receptionist blocking Rich from seeing his doctor and getting his meds refilled. A step too far. I don't think reconcilliation is possible, but.... Who knows what the future might hold? I hope not. Very good author.

Wow imagine tanking your credit rating and all those years of equity just to get back at a wife you took for granted and neglected for so many years that she was forced to find solace elsewhere.

5* for the complete lack of taking responsibility for his role in this debacle.

Nice fanciful tale of a baby throwing his toys out of the pram.

Great story of a man who neglected his wife and family and the consequences of doing so.

The way the guy spotted the crack in the marriage and worked his way in like water until the marriage was broken in two.

The wife was clearly conflicted, wanted her cake and to eat it, but none of this would have happened if the MC had kept his eye on the ball and prioritised what was truly important.

If the MC had said, no I'm not buying a new house because we can't afford it and I don't want to waste my life working every hour of the day because I won't get to see you or the kids. But no, his weakness, greed or plain stupidity cause the downfall of that marriage.

Sure we can lay all the blame on the cheating wife, but people have needs and a relationship is about making sure that both persons needs are met.

I had pegged Rich as a predatory scumbag who used his accident and wife's death as a tool to gain sympathy and into the knickers of a married woman.

I'd put the first suicide attempt down a pure cynical manipulation, having him even attempt and succeed a second time made me wonder if he really was such a bad guy after all. Sure he shouldn't have gone after a married woman, but she was there, she befriended him and from friendships love often follows.

Really it was quite a sad story of a neglected woman finding solace in an unlikely place and a husband who failed and then failed again because he couldn't see the wood for the trees.