Something We Have to Talk About

There are endings posted by others, just use the search function.

Finish the story.

This story is far to French, it just ends without any interest in stopping when it should. In doing so it leaves out the most interesting bits.

This would be a stereotypical scenario in western liberal countries where the laws are skewed by the politicians. A good thing (?) the western beliefs in this type of system is only about 1 billion people. The rest of the world - about 6 billion do not adhere to this type of liberal thinking laws. That is why the rest of the world dont have this scenario often. Reminds me of the song by the Guess Who- American Woman. This was written and sung in 1969. I guess it is more the norm now in these countries. Sad.

Once the marriage gets to the point of this kind of narcissism, it is time to dig a deep long hole and bury it. Find some old lumber, nail together an unsteady cross, and write RIP on it with a Sharpie, then put it at the top of the hole. The couples I know who tried polyamory were really on their way out. They wanted to be married but not to be married, and it always ends in divorce or one partner getting more out of it until the other just moves away.

Pathos and pain. Author laid out the wife's claim. It was awfully demanding polyamory. The betrayed husband was supposed to accept being a submissive cuckold? Where does the broken hearted go short of murder?

I think I've said it before on one of your stories that I would put money on having read this before, but it went a lot further on, sorry if thatsnot true, my only way of knowing if I've read something is to vote on it, I always log in on this site just for that reason

Cowards way out. Start a used up story line about a mentally challenged woman and leave the story hanging.

"I love you, you are the father of my children and my soulmate."

"If you try to divorce me I'll take you to the cleaners, see to it that you are left destitute and homeless and never see your children again". Very loving, I must say. I shudder to imagine how she might treat him if she didn't love him so much.

JR

Not even a hint at an ending! Not even worth a 1.

This is a great start to a story. You laid out all the pieces and gave the MC a decision to make, but he never got to make it.

I would love to read the next chapter to see what happens.

She acted foul and her husband spoke foul. Standard lit male emasculation fare.

Just as clichéd as any LW story on this site, made even worse by the author's brag that she was writing something new. The wife is incredibly stupid. 2 stars.

Real life isn't openly or heartily accepted by the BTB-hungry LW readers and commenters.

What story! You have only written a few lines. I think you are delusional about your ability. You state you live in a relationship and are bi. lt would be terrible to live with a person who thinks so little of the word love and what it means. But there are millions of narcisic selfish feminist men hating women around these days. It is not a good world to be part of, it may be another reason for so much domestic violence in the western world.

You said you wanted to write a different kind of story but you really didn't. Susan dropped that "I thought you'd love me enough" line. And the threats of ruining him in a divorce. Went to her lover to spend the night. As usual in these kinds of stories I want to see Susan burned. She's a terrible person and deserves to lose it all.

Half credit for half a story. Three stars.

JPB NOT BOB

"Yes, this is how I'm ending my very first cheating wife story."

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Don't lie. You didn't end the story. You just stopped writing. There is a big difference.

A hint for your future stories. By your MCs question"do you love him"?? dumb on your part..by that statement you insinuate the affair would be acceptable by her or any husband if she did.. Very wrong on your part,all a husband gives a dam about is the fact she cheated and is in an affair,end of discussion!!.The other thing thats all wrong with your MC is the husband choosing to burying himself in a bottle instead giving her a beating and tossing her out the door or himself leaving a vapour trail in his hurry to exit from her life...Where do you come up with a MC like that,you must live a sheltered life..no man/husband I know did or would have reacted so meek. Unfortunately I have seen and heard about the real reaction/ results of some husbands to a wifes cheating. Try real hard to be realistic in your tales,believable fiction makes a tale complete...OK first story with this theme,but too similar to many others ... 2 stars..JZK..

Would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE link this or put it in the same series as the two sequels you've written? You wrote more, but left us all hanging in this woefully incomplete state.

As it is, you completely missed your stated goal. You don't have equal characters behaving realistically. You've got a scheming, cheating narcissist who completely sandbagged her husband with her long-term affair without showing even one scrap of remorse, and all the guy does is reel back from the assault. That's not consistent with your stated goals at the beginning.

Not much! That's what I think about this story.

I your intro you complain about narcissistic women, then you write a story with one in it.

She’s lucky he loved her enough to hit the wall. Most men I know would’ve knocked her out cold, then dragged her sorry ass outside naked and never spoken to her again. If they didn’t outright strangle her from their rage.

1 star - not just NO but FUCK NO.

This husband needs to pack his bags and move to another state, or better yet, to another country.

Leave his kids with his parents and send them money to look after the kids, until he sends for them.

Forget the slut and move on with his life.

Good mechanics can always find work - anywhere.

What kind of woman would treat her husband like that and claim she loved him. She is a cruel narcissistic bitch. She is lucky he didn’t kill her. She is the very lowest form of a human.

So SHE's the one to blame for "frail male ego"!!!!!!!!!!

Powerfully written, despite some grammar and spelling here and there.

But I was duped by intro ... this wife is detached from reality ,,, whether a narcissist, sociopath whatever doesn't matter ... he absolute lack of empathy and love for her husband is mind boggling. In every way she put herself and her lover ahead of her husband and then had the absolute audacity to before beat him with shame and disappointment that he (her husband) was not holding up his wedding vows. And further detailing how she had discussed and plotted with her over year long lover (who she makes clear is not only great sex but loves!) to make sure the MC is aware how fucked he is everyday he could possibly turn and the only right thing is for him to love her enough to acquiesce and be happy for her (could she be more narcissistic?).

Wow.

So, the wifey did not realize that her husband, who was working vast amounts of overtime, and starting to slip a bit physically, needed exactly what she willingly gave to her seducer, or to her replacement for her husband.

The widower-lawyer was under stress, and needed a loving woman, love-making and sex?

So did her husband. He needed help with diet, attention, stress reduction, and all because of something outside of his control, the apparently ever-present wildfires into which his work-life was tied, along with the stress of earning enough money to keep it all going. She needed to acknowledge that overtime reduced stress for him in ONE way, but not in a way good for their relationship.

She abandoned him and gave what he needed and wanted, a loving supportive partner, herself, to another.

Faced with life with an unfaithful slut of a wife, hubby turns to the bottle. This is a bad choice, and even more evidence that the "love of her life" needs her, or had needed her, in the game with him, yet she had already faithlessly long ago abandoned him.

She WAS the grieving widower's solution, only her, and she was not her husband's solution. Narcissistic much, so far?

And she had the gall to threaten him with the worst consequences of divorce.

That is awfully close to malice aforethought, on the part of her and her lawyer-lover, and amoral. The lawyer certainly had malice aforethought, knowing that he could take advantage of a likely divorce outcome to screw any married woman who "helped" him.

She is so blind to her own vanity and rationalization for what she enjoys that she warns hubby of how their kids will be affected by his actions, not acknowledging that she was the author of those actions.

Wifey is faithless, reprehensible and a narcissistic slut.

Good luck to the hubby

Good story, but I am not sure that you have left us with a woman who acted rationally, and is without mental illness.