All Comments on 'Home Early'

Metaphysical. To be able to rise above BTB, enough to consider the well being and growth of the kids emotions and minds. Mercy supersedes Karma?

Reconciliation is a stage before being ready to divorce. If she has already cheated you in her mind, she has already left you and you will never trust her again. Unless you like making your marriage into a surveillance state, escape is the best option.

Excellent story but have to admit I was looking for a reconciliation here. Her journals was so honest yet painful. So heartfelt. MC manipulated her psychologically to get the girls but really damaged his ex. She had some mental issues. James was a predator. She was so conflicted between guilt and subservience. MC was clueless. Amazing how the tenor of the story changed. In reality it is probably more honest to both that they were not the best fit. She found Mark and he found his match with someone else. MC sounded a bit atrogant and high maintenance. Still so sad. 5 stars.

The ONE time in 100's of LW stories that, after all the dust settled, I would have taken her back.

I am absolutely not a RAAC proponent. In fact, just the opposite: BTB, because in my experience cheaters are not sorry for what they did, just the bad outcome. Most would simply try to figure out a way to do it "better".

But in this case, I come off feeling bad for the cheater and not liking the MC as being a heartless SOB who was more interested in $$$ regardless of his speeches about professed mercy. As to Judy "blooming", that was not her new "tether" but her hard-learned life lesson.

A cute quote from Shakespeare concerning God, but the author forgets Romans: "the penalty for sin is DEATH."

It is this possibility that makes women think that it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

I think if people like Judy were forced to wear an "A" instead of instead of "sure, it's fine you ripped the heart out of 3 people whose only sin was loving you" that there would be A WHOLE LOT LESS cheaters in the world.

In the sense you are using the word "mercy", it means to NOT get a punishment you actually deserve.

You see it all the time in courts where people are pleading for mercy for the bad thing they did and not receive a long sentence.

"But here's the thing about failing to give mercy, it keeps you bound to the person or the problem." B.S.

You can VERY easily forget about the assholes who do you wrong, just as easily as any other unfortunate issue.

All we're required to do is give forgiveness, and only if there's repentance.

You don't owe your rapist lunch, or worse yet, a bottle of champagne for what they did.

Five stars, and would rate it six if I could. A well-told tale, Well written and constructed. Grammar good. Tenses consistent with circumstances. Characters not confused. WELL DONE, and I'm not normally a fan of forgiving stories. Will be looking for other stories by this author. Just read in comments below of the passing of this author - it is sad.

It is so sad that this author died so young. He was very talented. I am thankful we still have his stories to enjoy.

I enjoyed this story. 5 stars,

I like this story. It was well written. I've read more of your stories as well,I hope that you can continue to grace us with more.

Judy had serious mental issues. Sad. She wasn't just submissive. She was like a programmable doll who let asswipe do whatever he wanted to her, while belittling her husband. She had serious problems as based on her diaries. Why those took so many years to surface is bewildering. She had zero self respect and self reliance. She acted like James' servant or slave. Somehow it started off with pleasing him fornthe sake of her job? Who cares. Suspect it runs deeper in that when ordered she had to please. Even though the sex was demeaning, unsatisfactory and degrading. Her psyche was deeply scarred.

This story is an example of fine writing at every level, which is why the score isn't higher. There are far too many simian intellects here searching for brainless, degenerate cuck and simple minded stories of the usually lw types. It is especially impressive that he began with a well worn lw trope and turned it into a profoundly insightful tale with well developed characters. Unfortunately, the young young author died some years ago.

The story had its ups and downs but overall a good story.

Not a particularly enjoyable story. I don't understand the need to make everyone a broken toy for the sake of "plot kicking in"

There was too much focus on morality when it wasn't necessary. The ex-father-in-law lecturing Matt was a running jump before a stretch, and the passive ways in which both Matt and Judy dealt with the fallout of their "marriage" (and I use that word lightly) was pretty repellant. The ending proved that they weren't right for each other at all, and that's the saddest part of this entire story. All the build-up for....nothing?

Yeah, I'm not really sure how to rate this one, but I think a 2 is fair

And you know she just might not fuck another man as Marks wife.

Mind you, nothing says I love and respect you like having a clandestine affair.

This entire story’s premise was idiotic beyond belief. The further it went, the stupider it got. Nobody FORCED her to marry the prick. I don’t understand the dumbass Captain blaming the ex-husband for her problems, either. Just plain moronic

I lived in Midland for 33 years…oil business. Further, some of the issues in your story could be about my marriage. I hope not….my name is James…..

So she needs someone to make her decisions for her....the whole ex wife's psyche is something I can't comprehend..... And I'm a psychologist

She cheated. Destroyed his life. Destroy hers and then move on.

Always liked most of his stories but this one not so much.

A shame, this writer would have become an excellent novelist had he not died in an accident in his mere 20’s. Needed polishing but a professional editor would have had entertaining novels from him in less than a decade from this point. Excellent ability to enter his main character’s interior ……would have expanded that talent to the supporting characters very shortly from this point. R.H.

Tough story. At first it looks cut and dried. But as it goes along there are more nuances. Clearly Judy broke the marriage compact. Exposed to string sexual harassment, she simply caved being more subservient than either she or the MC ever realized. She clearly had mental issues. Regardless of their confrontation that night when the MC was filled with righteous fury and she was clearly ill-prepared, she never stopped loving Matt, and she never really loved James at all. She used it to justify why she was suffering from this weird Stockholm Syndrome with James, a predator who is 22 years older than her, with a massive ego, a terrible lover, and a real assholr who shows his insecurities by abusing women. Again Judy had serious mental issues. She carried a lot of shame and guilt and was waiting for her white knight to save her. But he never noticed putting her on a pedestal. The MC has his own issues. He also has a big ego as he admits later on. He did nothing to watch his marriage or to protect, being oblivious. Some of the signs about the Friday schedules were a strong tell. Especially the last several months as the "flights" got shifted back more and more. He also didn't know much about his wife's personality. She was subservient to Matt on EVERY decision. This would always make her vulnerable. Moreover, he forced her into a marriage with a 50 year old man that he knew woukd hurt her but turned out to be woefully toxic, putting her on the brink of suicide. Not sure btw how he got the kids except how he manipulated the situation with he getting married and getting his father-in-law to aid him in that revenge. The MC has some darkness in his soul. That being said, can see why he cannot take her back, despite reading her journals and seeing her severe remorse and how she still thinks of Matt as her husband. The betrayal was too severe. But the reasoning for why he couldn't take her back is lame. He can't be bothered having to protect or watch out for his wife. He needs someone on a pedestal? Too much work? Again I get why he can't take her back but his own rationalization was stupid. Instead of disconnecting after her divorce from James would have liked to see him get her into counseling. See if a therapist can help her with her mental issues. Help her get her feet under her. Then she meets Mark and she gets a new shot at happiness. Be coparents together. I get the not being friends because too painful, but total avoidance and lack of information that she is pregnant, etc? In a small town? That shows his inability to forgive or have compassion. She had real mental issues and was vulnerable to a predator. Yes she ultimately bears responsibility but she was so conflicted (see the diary passage) that she was not mentally equipped to defend herself from her predator boss. She needed her husband to save her. He was clueless, she was ashamed, making things somewhat obvious ("Cum down time?"), and instead he pushes her into a toxic marriage with the predator, beacuse he always could convince her of what to do. He is by no means a saint. And she was a vulnerable nutjob. Well written. Good but sad.

5 stars. OUCH! Damn good story, but heart wrenching. Strange to see it here in Literotica. Don't know where I would say it belongs, but it really tore at my guts. But as I said, damn good story.

Good story. Can't help but to agree with ErotFan regarding the main character forgetting his own oaths. LP

A fantastic complicated story that keeps to the thread of the tale & follows easily. Good 5 stars.

Bill S.

Our moral main character forgot his own oath. "For better or worse, in sickness and in health 'til death do us part." They are called "oaths" not promises. Just because his wife failed in her oath does not abrogate his oath. But then we wouldn't have a story would we? 8^ )

The author was a talent taken from life far too soon. It would have been a joy to observe him mature as a writer and as a student of the human condition. RIP, Joesephus. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.

Awesome! Thank You for all these stories I can read and immerse my self in! (I escape into well written stories) LAB

Sorry, I do not buy the leash thing. If someone needs a leash, he is not worth the trust. Nobody is a slave and every person is free to do his choices.

Here we got to the extreme, Judy was abused. What if this part did not happen? She married her lover who cheated on her. She would live miserable life, end of story.

I am sorry to learn she has passed. This story was very good, well told and had very few typos (a whole lot less than most of the anon readers here would have, including me). So RIP and we all miss you. :(

Completely overblown emotionally, as unrealistic as it is long. This reads like something out of the 19th century, with ridiculous, overblown speeches and excruciating emotional tirades. Let us not forget the passionate declarations by the wife that she will endure all of the mistreatment given to her, as she surely deserves it and more. How ridiculous is that? No one does that, especially a woman with children to care for, unless she is truly insane. I’ve known plenty of women in my life, and I’ve never met, or even heard of any one remotely like that.

It’s hard to manage a ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ when every paragraph causes me to involuntarily exclaim, “bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!”

2 Stars. I gave you an extra, as credit for your spelling and grammar.

⭐⭐ 1/2

What I great author, how sad we lost her so early. Her skill at putting a story together is bettered by no one. However, I HATED it. What a disgustingly horrible man, he much preferred 'Dancing with the devil' and gaining revenge at any cost. The welfare of his twin daughters meant nothing to him, his supposed love and respect for 'The Captain' meant nothing,. Saving his marriage to a women whom he pretended to love deeply meant nothing. It didn't take long to realise the only person he loved was himself, success had gone to his head.

First, do better editing. Typos and misspelled words stop the flow. The story was good. But why did Judy feel she had to have sex with the boss? He threatened her job? Her husband was already a successful architect and moving up. She didn’t need a job. What did she do?

A pseudo moralistic tale about a husband who knows his wife is weak and easily manipulated and gets his revenge by pushing her into marrying a vile, brutal man who has already preyed on her weakness. Rambling and incoherent in places and the reactions of her father and their children are barely credible.

Even more ridiculous us that the writer makes the husband out to be some sort of noble, righteous character who eventually bestows mercy on the woman he's abused by proxy, rather than showing him as the vindictive, sanctimonious, hypocritical prick that he really is.

I find there is something very sick about the whole premise of this story. Beat the bitch if you must, but have the balls to do it yourself and don't delude yourself that your revenge is anything 'nobler' than the desire to hurt someone who's hurt you.

LA

This story frustred me, It felt a little to messy and all over the place, there was a good theme and the plot moved along nicely, but Judy got off way to easy in the bringing, the fact that she got a standup husband and twins when she couldn’t have kids, just felt like it flew in the face of the rest of the story.

Lastly, It almost felt missing the rise of our MC, we get a single position about her got married and had twin boys but what was the story of meeting Judy’s friend, I felt like it could have been much more.

Touching and thoughtful story exploring the motions that come with discovering infidelity. I especially liked the exploration of the aspects of mercy. Thank you for writing this.

It is these ultra feminist writers like Jodypuss who have started the hallmark trend of coming up with excuses for all the shit that females do...including blatant in ur face affairs !!

It’s always some issue with hormones...or something else...but the butch is never at fault! It’s someone else’s fault! Fuck this...

While the author may secretly love wearing panties ..most normal males do not!

Females have the same capacity to think reasonable and are as responsible fOr their actions as any man!!

Else how do we have Margaret Thatcher, Gilda Meir, Hillary,Indira Gandhi etc etc?

How do we have CEOs and CFOs as females? If u can’t trust their ability to think rationally?

So in reality the reasons that writers like Jodypus give excuses to females and want to forgive them their trespasses is only because of their own insecurities in real life OR having been raised in a female led household where females are allowed to have affairs without any blame being assigned!!

too much "moralizing" ? good thoughts though.

Judy was a slut! What more can be said?

Pretty good story, but tough to read. Of course there are no winners in a divorce and this story illustrates that very well. It did have a sort of semi-happy ending but there was a lot of pain along the way. And then you get the peanut gallery, the naysayers and the nitpickers who obviously know more about the story than the author did. It’s a wonder any author even wants to post stories here at all. But it does lead me to understand why some good writers here have shut off the “Comments” section of their stories.

Not sure what the author had in mind when writing this story the beginning is confusing. Firstly, Matt appears to know that Judy is cheating on him but has some sort of romantic evening planned for them. He has a bowl f rose petals to scatter on the bed and a bottle of champagne. The author doesn't explain why. Judy arrives home earlier than Matt expected knowing she was supposed to be flying in from somewhere he had the flight details on the computer screen.

When Judy gets home Matt tries to get his hand in her panties we assume to check if she has semen in her vagina. Judy tries to fight him off and in doing so finally admits that she is having an affair. Judy's reaction to Matt comes across as she does love him and doesn't want to hurt him. Judy's whole attitude towards Matt seems that of someone in love with him.

As we get further into the story Matt's character definitely has some serious mental issues the way the author has written his thought processes is someone who is deeply emotionally disturbed. Matt pushes Judy into marriage with her lover, which is really odd behaviour.

Judy appears to be a submissive who has been dominated by her boss and seemingly forced into an affair with him. Her confusion over whether she is in love with her boss or with her husband Matt does suggest that she is torn between the dominance of both men.

At the end I didn't like the story. The author hasn't explored Judy's perspective. It doesn't make sense that Matt hadn't confronted Judy about his suspicions of her affair earlier. If you skim the story it's an ok story but if you look deeper it's not really that good there's a lot of holes that the author doesn't address.

3 stars.

Not my kind of story. Violence in any form is never acceptable. There are many people who suffer from a mental illness that through no fault of their own, for want of a better term, I refer to them as 'SUBS'. People who use BDSM to get themselves off, search the world over trying to find 'SUBS', so they can abuse them for their own enjoyment. Personally, I would put every one of those 'perps' in a hole in the ground - no matter who they are - without taking a second to think abut it. I have experienced too many angry relatives and friends in my life and even though I am a military veteran, I abhor any kind of violence. I have stepped between angry couples and stopped any possible violence, more times than I can count. So a story like this, just shines a light on memories I would rather keep in the dark. Although I like your stories, I'll be more careful about reading any future material that contains violence.

Well I enjoyed the story, where as it is not one of my favorites it was well written.

Read it again an dit still sucks the sweat of my ballticular area.

The premise is literally one of the dumbest that I have seen in LW and thats a low bar.

I didn't finish reading this. I got sick of the premise that her situation was the ex-husband's fault. She cheated, period. Nobody made her marry and stay with the douche.

I liked this story, but you made the same mistake that many of the authors here make. You assume that humans are basically good and that you only feel better when that side comes out, when it is actually just the opposite. Civilized behavior is a very thin veneer over the savage that we all are inside. We all have to fight every day to not let our true nature show.

What a crock of horseshit.

How is this in any way the husbands fault? He didn’t “lead her”? It sounds like she had no moral foundation, and that she was an empty vessel that you had to pour a person into.

I think the author is extremely lazy in that there was never even an inkling of background as to why this cunt cheated.

I keep reading this story every year or so. Great story. I know I'm writing to author who has died, but it was real good

I read it again and I still think it's a terrific story!

Fuck you captain! Had you raise your daughter proper, she wouldn't have turn into a whoring slut!

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Author is putting too much blame on the ex-husband. Blamed him for working too much, pushing his ex-wife into an affair. Then blamed him for the violence towards the ex-wife, because he pushed her into marrying that douchebag. Throughout, husband always share the blame for the broken family.

But when it's time for her to take the blame, psychobabble evasive maneuver. That kind of gullible wife described is an Japanese NTR porn cliché. Instead of making me sympathize with her, it only make her look pathetically stupid. She is the captain's daughter.

Thankfully, their twins knows who deserve the blame.

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This is a good read. Nevertheless, I disagree with the story.

RIP author.

A cheating slut doesn’t deserve a happy ending under any circumstances.

Sorry I am a Vet and If My wife ever did half of what this Lady did I would Burn Her to the Ground and then Capote would have Had a slow Death and I do mean it would last for more than Day's I am part Scottish and Cree on My Fathers side and Swedish and Choctaw on My Mothers side Both Tribes are well known how to Make Death Come slow and Painful that would have been His fate. One of the Things Booth My Native American Tribes had in common was the concept of when a Person such as the wife Brother or any Relative would wrong the Tribe it was a living death of Being Never Spoken to Never Heard or acknowledge their Existence after the act had been done it is called The death of Life No one would Speak to them or even acknowledge them Being present .It would start with the Ritual of the turning of the Back to them and from that time on they would never have their Name spoken or They Being acknowledged again .They would be allowed to travel with the Tribe but No one would Speak to them Give them Food Shelter or allow them the warmth of the fire others had made To Use that would be a Fate worst than Death to be Made a Outcast while still around .

Reading again . Great story, although I really hate to see a cheating bitch end up with a happy life. At least Capote didn't fare well.

Not at all happy with the outcome of this story and I think the author has missed opportunities in the storyline. Matt made Judy sound like she could be easily manipulated and Capote turned out to be an abuser and a control freak so did he manipulate Judy into the affair and into continuing it. It sounded like she didn't know her own mind and Matt realised that she couldn't make decisions so he often took control and made all the decisions. Matt should have considered this as a possibility.

It also sounds like they had a typical failing marriage where Matt was working al the time at the expense of spending time with the family. It also sounds like Matt and Judy didn't discuss their problems. Matt didn't even discuss the affair with her or her reasons for starting the affair.

I think that Matt should have fought for to keep Judy and not pushed her away into Capote's arms it really sounds like Matt no longer loved her and it was an easy way out of the marriage for him.

Definitive 5 star.

Another five star story

We miss you quality of work.

RIP

Definitely mental issues for everyone involved. They all should be in therapy.

Really don't like stories with sad endings there's enough shit in the world without reading it in the fantasy world. Would have really liked a proper happy ending.

I COULDN,T FINISH READING THIS SO PAINFUL TALE. MISERY PILED UPON MISERY PILED UPON MISERY. WHY DO AUTHORS TORTURE THEIR READERS WITH THIS DREADFUL DIATRIBE. GOOD NIGHT.

Thanks for your legacy of tales!!!

So what, she turned into a fucking whore.

Nothing happens , slow and mellow

Bla bla bla bla. Who fucking cares. I have gone through almost every story in LW. Anything over 4.40 is a variation. Anything over 5 pages is a slog at least 70% of the time. I know this author passed away. For their family I am sorry. That doesn't change the fact that this story is unoriginal, largely boring, largely padded.

Its not very good. Don't worry, I will be moving along soon.

I have mixed emotions about this one. Don't know how I feel about why her cheating happened and how he dealt with it. Then I felt he was going to take her back and I wouldn't have minded that as I think they did love each other but in the end they both seemed happy so alls well that ends well. A well written story that elicited an emotional reaction so 5 stars.

The whole forcing her to marry him was pure ridiculous BS, dont know where the story went from there but I walked away from that idiocy.

5*

Hey Timriv, so when you kicked your cheating wife to the curb, that wasn't "till death do us part"?

Save your self-righteous, sanctimonious bullshit for another day.

Hubby was really, in my opinion, a guy who was totally self righteous. He was married to her and it was “till death do us part”. Divorce is irrelevant just because the state deems to marriage over, God and the Church didn’t. Yes he helped her but reluctantly, only when his father in law begged him. He would have otherwise stood by and watch Capote best her to death. To me he was a prideful, ego driven man who expected his wife to be the “VirginMary”, She did mess up the marriage but a real man would have forgiven her and been there for her with prodding. That’s my opinion the author I guess felt different.

I am a woman. I have no issue at all with the general consensus

A very weak woman, although married lets herself be seduced by a womanising greasy lethario, then lets herself be forced into a marriage she didn't want..Then we have the husband who professed his love for everyone, when in truth the only person he cared for was himself

I hope her third choice husband, was better than her first two.

I am in the minority, maybe because i'm a woman. Great Story well written, but with an awful ending. What an hard hearted bastard he was, only cared for himself. The first consideration should have been for his daughters. says he loved them, rubbish he loved himself. in the begining everything that he did was spot on, they both deserved everything that they got. But after the beating, after reading the journals, it was obviously he had lots of love for her,the finest thing would have been forgiveness even if only for his daughters who would have given anything for their parents to remarry. But his selfish ego wouldn't let him, I hope his second wife tired of his love for himself and did what Judy did, its all he deserved.

@joesephus Hey man....

Sry if my English have a lot of mistake..... Hope make my point to you.....

You know I read a lit if LW storys....... But only a few author really now or in phylisphical term(they know more, find out they have a lot doesn't know , and aware that alot of ignorance they have..... Make them decent, humble,) .... So many reactions or temper act would be reduced..... There's a lot of dark side angle that they didn't see the problem, issue, any object.......

Unfortunately we find out this blindess after a fucking fucked up situation in this case family issue, and with a how much COST ?!,..... I mean not financially...... Of course that's a lot of fucked up loss........ But COST , i mean in people behavior.... Especially children..... Themselfs..... Insecurities..... The time of years..... And etc.....

So I like that, tge authors like you , finding the blind spot and trying to including in literature...... Ot course we all know it might be technically not quite right, but qfter experience I think you made that great..... Believe me don't imagine this works just fun, or entertainment..... I'm sure they're a lot of treatment and drugs and solution for future forseen problem in relationship , and if the partners read this kibd of experience , already find out the hints of the future fucked up problem, so so soon mad them communicate each other...... And imagine how many deaaster for children s parents family prevented...... How many happiness family could you make happens....Such a great immortality for you guys.....

There's a another subject , but don't want to make you headache already with my writing.... Maybe another time.....

Mir

P. S: I'm from Iran... Believe me all of these problem have a lot lot in our stupid government country...... In familys......

He was MAN enough to stay divorced and not reconcile!!! Everyone was happier in the end...

Great story, even if I find Julie's character more than a little weak. Hubby was great and the Captain even better. The twin daughters pummeling Mommy was classic. Hubby did the right thing. I'm glad he found happiness in the end. Thanks for sharing.

The female protagonist is weak, not submissive.

Hard to feel any sympathy for her, but you recognize her plight.

The male protagonist is more believable; flawed, embittered, angry, hard-hearted. These are believable responses.

That he became so manipulative as a form of vengeance is also true to form.

Ultimately, this is a story of closure being necessary in order to move on.

Author you tried, but failed to make something out of nothing. But failed, she is still just another cheating whore. She deserves absolutely nothing. No happiness, just eternal guilt. AT LEAST SHE HAS SOMETHING...she deserved it

He had revenge

Dichotomy loved her with all and then loved next more

It best back in '06, short and simple without drama. I don't have much love for his state but I do respect and love his writing, the comment and his stories. Joesephus will be continue to be missed. Signed: BTW

It was a sad story on many levels, but just a pleasure to read. Josephus is very much missed. He was so good at this writing thing and not many could match him.

"...high risk personal loan business." I love that line!!! Great story about a sad woman who got a second chance.

Excellent writing! Very insightful, moving, and thought provoking.

Great job.

I read 2 pages and knew what was coming. Your "protagonist" is an ass-wipe and a disgusting wimp!

I concur with Ohio's opinion. He knows a good story when he sees one; and he knows how to write one.

Well written

He put her on pedestal no person should be on one especially spouse

Walk together side by side

She cheated

He googling mercy come on had children should have learned

4 stars

Just don't get how its always the guys fault. All her insecurities, its his fault. It was utter trash, that he got blamed for her getting beat up. The first part was written by the man, the second was not. It was nicely written story that was utter garbage.

Really enjoyed the story. I guess some people want perfection from a free story but I liked how you set up the story and how the story flowed. Thank you for posting this.

It's not often I trash a story I've read.

Many have had a plot I didn't like

and some a plot I hated, but I don't

trash them for that.

That's just different opinions

between a writer and me.

But when a writer writes a story

of a wife incapable of acting like a grownup

and asks us to accept that,

that is just over the line!

A wife who doesn't want or isn't "able"

to be faithful to her husband,

doesn't deserve to be a wife.

It's as simple as that.

1 out of 5 from me.

Silly story and poor dialogue.

Many stories in the LW format start out with characters being poor and unsatisfied with their status. Like this one, they have problems and split up just before some financial windfall comes into the picture. Many youthful marriages break up over financial matters, and these circumstances need to be kept in mind as the stories evolve. At the end, we find out that she was coerced by her employer, and that she was a "closet" mild submissive. And so, more detail is added to round-out the themes.

I found the story a bit too long, and containing a few too many "wanderings," but overall, it is a marvelous and well developed tale with a joyful ending. 5 stars !!

White Knights rescue fair maidens... but Judy was just a dumb slut.

I enjoyed the story, but I'm not sure why the husband blamed himself so much for everything. It's not like Judy was retarded... she chose to fuck her asshole boss and she chose to marry him afterwards. If her husband meant so much to her, she never would have spread her legs for the asshole in the first place!

Judy was weak and shallow and lacked personal integrity, making her unfit to be a good wife and mother. Any claim that her first husband made her do anything is just self-serving bullshit. Either she's a free standing adult, fully responsible for her choices and their consequences, or she is mentally and emotionally dysfunctional and needs professional help Either way he is lucky to be rid of her. Too bad she is the example of a wife and mother for his daughters. If he doesn't tell his daughters the truth about their mothers stupidity and betrayal he is abdicating his responsibilities as their father, and shame on him.

Well done, RIP.

your idea of mismatching was good and correct; unfortunately the husband came over as a self centred, sanctimonious prig. Your editor should have taken a machete to your prose, you have the makings of a good author if you rein a trend to verbosity.

A very good story, and definitely well written. But still, a sad story. D

Yes his passing was a tragedy as a great talent was snuffed out.

So sad Josephus is no longer with us....

A generic title for a brilliant little piece of fiction.

Got to love a story on this site where both justice and humanity prevail.

To Jackmoften and his 1 star below - you are an absolute idiot. How is it possible for three sentences to be so fucked up grammatically? Learn to write at a fourth grade level before posting any more comments.

re:

with children it's different

i'd been married 19 years when I found out my wife had test driven 7 guys early in our marriage. 14 year old daughter who was seeing a psychiatrist, and a 10 year old boy who had lost his grandmother--I had to do what was best for them. the pedestal was gone forever. wife hasn't put out for the last 4 years. I'm waiting till she dies or I die.

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Why wait for death?

There's this thing called a divorce.

When the children are grown and gone go get one.

Why would you stay after that?

Eight to twelve years and your sentence is up, no need to serve life without parole.