All Comments on 'Fool's Gold Ch. 03'

even though we all know what is coming so far I am loving this story.

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The KEY point is How Anne seem to have been bothered so much by the similarities between JEAN and herself. Its 3 years after the divorce and ANNE is just now gettng around to seeing that welllll.....maybe...... BILL might....somehow....... barely.... have a legit reason why he would NOT want Anne.

Run Wimp, RUN! I fear this will end very badly! He better learn to love creampie!

all you wrote in 3 chapters could been finish in 2.a lot which you've wrote wasn't needed.get it over with for crying out loud.

Despite the fact that I like this story, and despite the fact that you are an excellent writer, I was tempted to give you a zero. That is what I will hold in reserve for when this story arrives at it's obvious conclusion. You should never stoop to turning this fine man into a wimp.

You're dragging the story, but the writing is good, quite a quandary. It's getting interesting. Will he go back to Annie? I was appalled that he would use her "for advice" into his lovelife. That was cold, cruel in fact. I'm glad that for the good of the children, and for themselves, they have mended fences. It's clear that once upon a time they loved each other deeply, and more than anything, they were good friends. Correction, they ARE good friends. But this is all about him, and I can't see a "balanced" relationship. True, Annie is no picnic, she was unfaithful, but after all this time, he either settles with Annie or he better let her go.

ha,ha,ha,he is so idiot that will make 20 chapters of this shit

ha,ha,ha,he is so idiot that will make 20 chapters of this shit

Of course, a lot of us know the end result [SOL] but still the drama must be played out. She barely suffers and he rides a roller-coaster of emotions before he apparently takes her back. Wimpy ending - yes! Does he get enough revenge sex prior to that point- maybe. Does she suffer enough? - hell no! However the cards have already been dealt - so handle it!

Excellent chapter again. The character development of both Bill and Anne is outstanding authorship. I particularly appreciated Bill's wariness at being with any woman after his experiences with Anne and Jean. Rather than the comicly heroic cowboys we see portrayed in all too many LW stories, Bill is very real, full of his own doubts and fears. He has his strengths but also weaknesses, both shaped by his life experiences. That's what makes him so believable. Evidently, the LW nazis prefer the comic cowboys.

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I appreciated the scenes with Jean. It's a poignant exploration of what a rebound romance is and why they usually don't work. It's another aspect of divorce that LW stories usually ignore. Thank you, capecodmercury, for a story well-told.

What Alvaron53 said. You explore Bill's emotions well. Still would like to hear more about Anne's, but the story is obviously Bill's, not hers. That's why we only get Bill's observations of her, and any pain that she suffers. I think it reasonable to suppose that when she is on her own, she interrogates her own situation. Real people would.

but i have to ask what annie has been doing in this time ...if she has been waiting for her ex and not screwing around ok...but if she has been fucking all over town also like he has he dont want the bitch....she has to show that she can go without fucking up the relationship again ...sorry the only way she can do that is to show that she knows she fucked up ,,,,she tossed him away so now show that she knows she made a mistake by being as celibate as she can be ...she tossed the bad apple away that started this mess ....that should be her only mistake ...he can forgive that one mistake but not several or many as he has had ...with him she must allow it as she is the one who threw him away but she herself must prove she is gold again if she wants any chance of getting him back....she must forgive his many transgressions just because she knows it is the price she has to pay if she wants him back...but no man would want a round heeled slut around who had fucked like he did ...i would much rather stay single and even if i had to fuck escorts do that rather than go back to a slut ....if he wants companionship he can find a maid tokeep his house ....his wife just has to admit she fucked up and hope he comes back t o her after she shows that she can go without fucking around on him any more ....sorry hes allowed she isnt ...its just the price she has to pay t oget hubby back and make her daughters happy and herself....maybe she can then figure with all his experience he can then show her how to be a better lover ....thats why i didnt do a 100 till i see what happens

want the jerk back unless he gets his head on straight. And if he has a problem with her being out and about through the time that he is out catting around, screw him. What's good for the gander is good for the goose. Writing -- I almost gave CCM a 100, but there are a few spots that the story lags just a little.

He really is clueless -- he admits it yet does nothing about it. First Anne gets jealous, but he writes it off as her problem. The Jeanne gets even more jealous. He should examine what he is doing. It's the completely inappropriate relationship with his secretary. Someone from his firm should force the issue before they get a lawsuit.

....I've been reading this, and while I don't agree with all of the man's philosophical thinking and choices, I fully agree with not dating a woman for a mere carbon copy of your ex.

I don't agree with the notion that he is jealous of his ex or applying a double standard. The only ones showing jeaolousy are his ex and his girlfriend Jean. Another reason to be careful about them.

I like that he was realistic about the whole "sugar daddy" thing and didn't let it confuse or deceive him. Unless you just want to be a sugar daddy, you need to watch out for that type of woman.

However, I disagree about Heather. She's not looking for a sugar daddy. Nor is she dating him. There's almost nothing inappropriate about their relationship, except that they're not dating. They should be. She's perfect for him: loyal, hard-working, friendly....the first thing is something that his wife lacked....might be worth looking into...he was right about not seeing the person right in front of him, but it isn't Annie...it's Heather. But, just as in reality, I doubt that in this story any of that potential for a good relationship will go anywhere. He'll end up back with his ex....you can see the hints. Everyone's pushing for it, including Laura. She is giving him mostly good advice, but I think that she is a sucker for sentiment when it comes to his marriage to Annie and she's scheming to play matchmaker too...mostly in the misguided belief that it's best for everyone....the only one not clearly plotting is Heather...which is another good point for her...if she's plotting, she deserves an Oscar for pretending otherwise. The only possible hint that she might be trying to snag is Amber....she might have set them up so they could fail and she could catch him afterward...but I doubt it.

I find it interesting that it is still the ex he goes to with his love life and emotional problems. He has stopped using his twin to put his life together. He has not moved on emotionally at all. He is just paying lip service to real stability of his own mind.

It is as if he has not learned to include others in his life as he has no real knowledge of what it takes to understand his real self. He needs counseling to get started with true self analysis of himself.-----------------

This is a man who has changed nothing from day one. He has a fool for a patient as it is himself who is trying to be the doctor--------------------.

We all need to get perspectives from those not involved as they see what is in front of them now. Then you can go back and see what has transpired along the way. We all tend to try and fix things in the short term by bandaging parts of what is there instead of an overhaul of the whole vehicle.------------It is sad some people think they are immune to the need of outside help. They go on for years stuck with the assumption that they can handle anything the world throws at them, yet nothing is changed when you don’t ever see the core of real problems

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i do like the "Jean looks like Annie" twist, but come on, since you are going for reconciliation (the husband alresdy have resigned himself to it), then do it. having a 4 chapters for a reconciliation story is already stretching it.

take her back. Yeah, go back to thw old slut. No woman is sorry she cheated, she is only sorry she got caught. SHe knew what she was doing and did it intentionally. It begins nervous and just gets easier with time. After a while it is only her needs and her gratification that matter. She has no mental understanding of why her husband does not let her have free rein until she completes her needs. And when given the chance she will cheat again. The only men who are wimps or cucks are those with no self esteem, lacking sufficient male hormones, with mental illness, or need to be submissive to women and men.

I can't believe that after you have recently (rightly) urged to tone down the language in messages, you are now resorting to the same extreme and unacceptable language which crosses the line. <P>

At the outset I should make it clear that this comment has NOTHING to do with any current or past content of your comments or for that matter any skirmishes that we had.

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DO YOU FULLY COMPREHEND WHO AND WHAT THE NAZIS WERE? <P>

DO YOU REALIZE THAT THEIR VICTIMS ARE STILL ALIVE AND WALKING AMONG US? <P>

I happen to not like this story. Do I or other people who dislike a story deserve to be titled as NAZIS? even as LW NAZIS? <P>

All I am asking: for heavens sake, have basic decency – STOP the incendiary language, regardless of what other people do!

The Zig zags in the relations in this transitional chapter is clumsy erratic and unbelievably superficial. It consists of a set of physical mannerisms and physical appearance. Nothing about personality; attitudes; opinions or temperament, not to mention the type of relations he developed with each woman. Were those relations also identical? To his relations with his ex or only the similarity in the physical appearance counts?. Every thing is based on what any aunt in a family gathering can notice in a short observation. *******************The most incredible aspect of it? Supposedly all the Physical similarities and set of similar mannerisms went totally unnoticed by the husband. ***************************************************

I had to nod my head in disbelief at the level of discourse (no more than Junior High in my estimate) over the competition with the ghost of the ex. ‘Do you love me for my personality or for my body’? Is it for my appearance which reminds you of your ex wife which you left or is there more? No one seems to be able to talk about the quality of the unique relations between two people. Is there bonding there? Is there care? Is there understanding; compassion? WHO CARES WHAT INITIALLY put people together? It’s what the couple develops in real time - face to face that counts, Not the initial fantasy. The boy next door may have been initially attracted to the girl next door because she reminded him of his favorite wet dream she was attracted to him because of his car. But then they found the real qualities that made them stay together. This story totally lacks that basic level of understanding of the development of human relations in the analysis of the relations in the story.

KOLKORE asked me, "DO YOU FULLY COMPREHEND WHO AND WHAT THE NAZIS WERE?"

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I do. Shall I begin with the '23 putsch in Munich or can we skip ahead to the The Night of the Long Knives? Would you like to discuss the dismemberment of the SA in favor of the SS? Or how about we explore der Fuehrer's penchant for keeping political power divided within the Third Reich so that potential rivals could never gain enough power to unseat him? Shall I go on? Having authored a number of articles for publication over the years discussing the military campaigns of the Second World War, I think I can speak with some authority on who the National Socialists were and what they sought to accomplish.

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KOLKORE goes on to ask, "DO YOU REALIZE THAT THEIR VICTIMS ARE STILL ALIVE AND WALKING AMONG US?"

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I do. While some refuse to acknowledge that the Holocaust ever took place, I don't. It is a sad testament to the depravity of humankind that such acts of genocide ever happened. Lest we forget, many Christians also perished at the hands of the Nazis working in forced labor camps and in factories. The Nazis were no respectors of any religion save that of "Mein Kampf". I am convinced that they were the greatest threat to liberty that the world has ever seen.

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And finally he asks, "Do I or other people who dislike a story deserve to be titled as NAZIS? even as LW NAZIS?"

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You do, if like some who comment here, you cannot abide someone else having a differing opinion. Being totalitarians, the Nazis permitted no dissent, eagerly censoring ideas that were not state-approved, even unto the point of killing those who disagreed with them. When I read statements of similar intent here, I call attention to them and to those who write them because that behavior is hostile to liberty and freedom. I have no use for political correctness. When I smell a pile of dung, I don't label it a pleasing aroma. I call it what it is and some people can't stand that.

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I have no problem with someone holding a differing opinion because it is the free exchange of ideas that lead to enlightenment. But I will never countenance the idea that censorship is a good thing. Neither is advocating violence to silence one's critics a worthy endeavor.

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Have a nice day.

Let me see if I got you right. Are you seriously suggesting that any person who expresses him/herself inappropriately in that he/she claims that other people somehow do not deserve to have their opinions posted – for any reason (the opposing poster is ignorant; dumb; perverted; have not written stories yet; belongs to some ‘despised’ minority - have I missed any of the inflictions that those highly dangerous posters present for the rest?) - Are you suggesting that for any such inappropriate posting you are willing to equate them with the NAZIS?

If the answer to the above is positive, as I sadly seem to gather from your response, then all the facts in the fact sheet that you have posted on the history of the ascendance to power of the Nazis are just that – a list of facts with no understanding. It indicates that indeed (as I feared) you do not understand who and what the Nazis were.

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You took my questions quite literally, namely, out of the context of the issue of the connotations of the use of the word ‘NAZIS’. It was not meant to literally examine your existing knowledge, or your ability to retrieve it. It did aim at alerting you to the unique cultural and emotional connotations of the word, based on the (mostly - now I realize) universally known horrific legacy of the NAZIS. ********************************************************

Per my second (what I assumed to be a rhetorical) question, you actually missed what I thought was an obvious allusion to the need to be sensitive to the insult to those victims, by avoiding the abuse and misuse of this title. Parenthetically, I don’t know at what point you got on the Jewish wagon in your response. You should know very well how I responded to another attack on NICI which similarly belittled the crimes of the NAZIS by misusing this “Title” while nonsensically calling another minority group as NAZIS. ***********************************************************

I had to decide: either you have very limited skills in analyzing basic historical and societal well established knowledge in the proportions which history and the western civilization have assigned, or that you are uninformed. I chose the lesser option, i.e. the latter. Maybe I could help you some. *********************************************************

In their Ideology the Nazis aspired, and in fact incorporated into their policies the commitment to apprehend certain groups of people: Jews; Gypsies; Gay people; Jehovah's Witnesses; the Mentally retarded; the mentally ill; the physically disabled, Communists; Socialists; or any person who seemed risky in anyway that seemed relevant to any Nazi officer’s whim. All those groups were, according to an indexed level of risk to the German people, or the “Arian superior race” candidates to physical elimination as soon as physically possible – WHOLE SALE, SPARE NONE. Until that time these peoples’ labor should be used as slaves. After their murder, their body should be used in any way possible to enrich the Reich. *************************************************

In their actions the Nazis demonstrated the dedication and termination to implement their plans, breaking the back bone of many thriving communities in a way that could never culturally and socially be repaired. (Few individuals survived). In addition they allocated Inferior races (likes the Slavic and the Blacks races) to serve as slaves to the superior race and as providers of extra land to the expending Arian race. Should this “inferior population” becomes a burden and out lived its utility, the Nazi Ideology had no hesitations - it should be eliminated as well. **********************************************

In Their Ideology AND in their Actions, the Nazis have left a scar on the western civilization which is equal to only few other genocides in History. In their SYSTEMIC BUREAUCRATIC approach to mass murdering they have not been equaled so far by any other of the ongoing horrible genocides which happened since *********************************************************

I am doing this painful educational task not to prove you wrong or to educate you (I would be happy if it happens but at this point I am not holding my breath). My purpose is to educate other readers who might face this crude use of inappropriate language, and hopefully understand why it’s important to VOLUNTARILY avoid using it. *****************************************************************

Even though you have not apologized (I actually can’t remember ONE time that you have apologized or corrected your admitted mistakes, but I may be wrong on that). I forgive you for belittling the murderous crimes of the Nazis. You are belittling the NAZI crimes as you are willing to say that those nuggets of thoughtlessness in LW are as bad and as offensive as the NAZIS were. The same Nazis which obliterated tens of millions of people; tortured humiliated and destroyed Elderly Children and Women - all innocent (including more than two thirds of my own family) in the holocaust. I am sure Alvaron that regardless of what stands in your way , pride or vulnerability which still does not allow you to admit in public – You should be able to comprehend in private how offensive you are. Moreover, I believe that had you grasped in time the true connotations of the words that you were posting, you would have avoided calling other people NAZIS. But I understand. We all do what we can at the time we are strong enough to do it. If you need, for now, to always be right, I can live with it if you can. Good luck.

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BTW, with all due respect, I will appreciate references to the published works by you which you have mentioned in your response, and had relevance to the issue at hand.

p.s. I am equally curious to read any of your other (published or none published) works. Any references, should you choose to furnish, will be appreciated. You can send them directly to me through the member message board. Thanks.

if she stay home and kept her legs close to other men this wouldn't happen.so if her feeling is hurt i sorry.

male lead in this story. He is really a spoiled little brat that is so indicative of high pressure cow pie projects men.He is so frigging imature that he ruins another life, Jean, I stopped reading half way in number 3 when it suddenly hit me what he is. Oh well you can't win them all.

The guy under me may have balls, but in which jar? Ah well.. Who the f*k cares about Jean? She f'd her marriage real good, they are divorced... But I agree to them both being unfit role models for any kind of marriage.. At least if it's supposed to be a loving one with trust involved... Cheers Yoron.

I admire your writting tremendously you have a very effective manner of writting a story and creating characters. Unfortunately I detest your "hero" in this story he must be the most stupid, uneffectual, emotional cripple ever described in a story. He is so lightweight that to describe him as a wimp would be an insult to the word he is much much worse. He destroys everything he touches: his children, his ex-wife, his 2 'serious relationships', his job, his self respect and his dignity. I find myself for perhaps the only time supporting the 'slut' ex-wife and screaming to her to let the asshole continue on his path of self destructive and immature way, she is much better off without him and so are his children.

I give you 100 because they have not reconciled. Annie is a slut. Add to that the she a manipulative bitch who only thinks of herself. At the end of this chapter she tells him to look for women like Jean in the hopes that he will take her back. Self interest she could care less about why he should never go back to her. So let us list them. She is a slut. She does not love him. She actively deceived him. She has no respect for him. This is the person you want him to reconcile with? If they do this story becomes another 0.

The dumb fuck will never get on with his life if he keeps moving towards the cheating slut. Is he stupid or just a glutton for punishment. He needs to find his balls.

Your perfect woman threw you away.. and could do it again. Emotions are not cold hard facts. They are fluid. Feelings today are not the same thing tomorrow when you both have regrets

Should have just moved on to #4...there's nothing of value here.

Yeah your kids are important but who are you going to be living with in 10, 20, 30 or even 40 years from now. NOT you kids. If they don't like her too bad. They will get over it or not. Choose what is best for you.

It looks like the writer has decided to have a confused main character, he is not sure about anything. he is ambivalent to many things and people. He cannot moved on with his life. Ialso agree with the view that this chapter was unneccessary. He cannot completely detach from Annie whatever he does. He is indicisive as a result.

Do NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT take the cheating whoring slut back. She already callously tore your heart out, threw it down and then flushed it down the toilet. And for what? Because she was a fucking cheater.

Does anyone know the old saying about a cheater? Hmmmm?

Under NO circumstances go back to Anne.

She had her chance and threw it away with no thought or discussion.

Do you guys yell at the movie screen when you're watching a thriller for the protagonist to "Watch Out!"? The story is the story. Go with it. Just like life it doesn't always (or never) goes the way we want it to...

Of course we yell "Watch Out!" at the movie screen! Doesn't everyone? And I'm not sure whether it's the rapids just around the next bend, or the baddies hiding behind that rock up there, but it's "Danger, Will Robinson!" time! (Let's see someone else mix that many metaphors in a single sentence. Ha!)

"Instinctively Annie grasped the fear that I felt. Can you imagine how much it must have hurt her to discover that I didn't want her, yet I had chosen someone exactly like her?"

Who really gives a shit about the woman who cheated on you? Or a man, should you be a woman? Fuck them and the fucking fucked horse they rode in on.

I found it odd when the woman who divorced ME, because SHE had to go looking for strange cock suddenly couldn't understand why I didn't give a shit about her. I didn't want to look at her, talk to her or go to any family get-togethers with our kids. Hello....

And then when her cocksman boyfriend gave her the clap and they broke up, after he rode her for six months, she struggled to figure out why I didn't open her back with open arms. On top of that, when I finally found another woman, one who I actually loved more than the air I breathed, she was devastated.

Well, fuck the scummy fuckers.

Serial cheating wife like to talk about her affairs. Ended up others talked to. Was spread all over Helena Montana. Details of affair that cost her college instructor position on Facebook profile of dearbornmt@yahoo.com

it's starting to drag on, he's like a tart in a trance! needs to shit or get off the pot.

i assume we're heading for reconcilliation? personally i hope not, as a cheater is a cheater and cheaters cheat.

Too much exposition.

You've turned your character into a real ass-wipe!

This guy is turning into a real pansy about his ex-wife. Look at everything she's done to him and their daughters - all the pain and heartache - simply because she thought it would be good for HER, obviously her greatest priority. Now that it didn't pan out, she wants him back. Tough noogies. Walk off and leave her in your dust.

So what if Jean looks and acts similar to Annie! That's the type of women that he loves. The important aspect to remember here is Jean won't stab him in the back ( and heart) like Annie did. Why would he want to take back the weasel Annie when he had Jean. Your author's reasoning here is "shitty". Now I am really pissed off on the way that this story is going. The author is forcing our hero to take back Annie, ugh!

Thus chapter feels like bullshit drama whose only purpose is to prop up the no doubt unsatisfactory ending.

Yet another clichéd story where the guy isn't smart enough to move on.

Stupid ex husband. A cheating whore who didn't do anything to own what she did and change- Cliche plot. Heading to RAAC as I predicted.

I have no idea how this story got such a hig score.

Who’s rating this shit highly? Are you high? RAAC cuckold cunt. 1*

There is a looming wall of RAACitude that appears to be ready to topple on this story and crush anything decent under it's malignant weight.

This is going downhill fast. You keep losing a star on each chapter.

PEEEUUUKKKKEEEE!!!! What a pathetic ass-wipe he's turning out to be! Always thinking about the girls instead of telling them what REALLY happened and tell them to LEAVE IT ALONE! But of course he's going to take Annie back if he doesn't go groveling to her. The girls get what they want and to hell with him and Annie now snickers to herself saying, "I got away with it"!

well fuck her with a frosty bottle.

she's still not apologised

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The writer is shooting for reconciliation so he invented this character "Jean."

This is artificial character that is supposedly a carbon copy of the ex. Now what are the chances for that to happen? What are the chances for break-up because of "realization of replacement"? I say 0.

People are complex but they are not subject to any "rational writing concepts." The writer manipulates his characters in a completely unrealistic way just to rationalize his "reconciliation" story. That makes all his characters artifical and phony constructs.

The superman wimp here is now dating one beauty after another while "female sharks are circling" to get a chance of date with him? This is on top of the first chapter where he was portrayed as not having time for anything but his work. Now he has all the time he needs to chase women?

At the same time his ex is just waiting for him to come around.

Can you believe this BS? Yes, one can dream about but is it realistic?

The author invented everyone in this story, not just Jean. Thats what happens when you write fiction.

As I read through that part, I wondered why all the

to-do over Jean being a copy of his ex. Suppose he had been married to a twin, who died or divorced him. Would there have been a hubbub over him being attracted to the twin of his first wife? I did not see a problem.

When he was married, he was so busy with his job that he was shortchanging his time with Anne (and maybe his career demanded it at that point). Now that he is divorced, he has time to "go for a walk, watch TV or talk for a few hours." Sounds like capecodmercury is cramming the people to fit the story, instead of the story describing people and their "real" lives.

Gave first two parts 5 stars.

This one, reluctantly, 5 stars.

Paul in Oklahoma

So this guy is having no trouble at all getting dates, dinners, companionship, sex. What about Annie? What is she up to and why does she care what the guy has been doing? He cares as he loved her but he got tossed. She did the tossing and so what if boy toy dumped her? According to her ex she is a hot lady that men desire. I can't believe she has been sitting around doing no one since that one date with "dave" in the other chapter.

Get off with this whiner and fill in some other details.

Jack99 has misconstrued dark2donut2's reasoning to infer that dark2donut2 is not taking into account that all the characters are invented fiction.

But dark2donut2 is not protesting that Jean is fiction, but that Jean is UNREALISTIC fiction.

This is similar to my observation, at the end of my previous comment, about capecodmercury cramming in a character (Jean) to fit the storyline rather than describing the person's "real" life.

While recognizing dark2donut2's complaint about unrealistic fit, it's not problematic for me. Sure, it may be "unrealistic" for a near-clone (Jean) of his former wife (Anne) to suddenly appear. But I expect these fictional stories to stretch credibility (although when it's stretched too far it belongs in SciFi / Fantasy).

My attitude is: sure he goes bonkers over a near-clone of his ex-wife -- that shows he's consistent in the type of woman he likes. And that is good.

But, of course, if that particular concept were carried on out to its end with Jean, it would abort the previously planned plot, namely reconciliation with Anne.

I like reasonable, well-told reconciliation stories. (See my comment 10-13-18 on writing reconciliation stories as niche marketing at The Birthday Gift by TallMarriedMan.) So I do not have a problem with reconciliation with Anne (unless unreasonable).

As seen by the closing statements of chapter 02, this chapter 03 is an interruption in the march of the plot towards reconciliation with Anne. I would be OK with the interruption, if it were: Bill falls in love, but for legitimate reasons it does not work out.

But when the reason is: he still likes the kind of woman he desired in his first wife -- to me, that is a reason to go forward rather than to back off. So, I just do not get this chapter.

Since this chapter was an interruption in the storyline, and since it was not a good interruption, this is not a good chapter. The plot would be better off without this chapter.

I've changed my mind since my previous two readings of this chapter/story -- 3 stars.

Paul in Oklahoma

So, lies to the girls about the reason for the divorce is what's keeping the false hope of reconciliation alive for the girls. If they'd been told the truth about Annie's cheating and wanting to divorce their father because she was in love with someone else then they wouldn't be so hostile towards the new women in their father's life especially the ones he's seriously interested. They also wouldn't be inclined to keep pushing their parents to get back together. But one can tell that the author has an agenda and is going for a long drawn out reconciliation between the characters. The author telegraphs his intentions more and more as each chapter comes to pass.

The fact that the main character has a particular type when it comes to women isn't a problem in itself. But in this case its more that the character is stuck in his past and is unable or unwilling to move forward and is doomed to repeat his mistakes.

I know where this bullshit is going. He's going to end up back with the slut🙄🙄.. all this b.s of showing how his life is meaningless is just steering us(the readers) into RACC. Please warn your reader's . Reconciliation makes no sense, she never apologized, never showed any remorse, actually tried to throw him out of his own house and move her boyfriend in, has lied for months while she banged Allen. The only reason she told him was cause they were caught by Allen's wife. She didn't confess and begged for his forgiveness, she tried to screw him. She only want him back because things didn't work out with Allen.. stupid cuck shit. Warning your readers!

It's really sad that in order to give the story a RAAC ending and in order to make a saint of the cheating wife you decided to make a bitch of Jen. She didn't deserve the I'll treatment from her boyfriend's children and definitely not from his former slut wife. You made an absolute idiot of the husband too. What a pathetic story it is degenerating into.. B

What does Raac mean?

RAAC means Reconciliation At Any/All Cost/s

Something this story is starting to reek of.

I think this chapter was just a filler. The thing with Jean was a bit ridiculous and seems like the author didn't know what to do with the story.

Oh dear now we begin the downward spiral to la la land otherwise known as RAAC, it would be nice to be proved wrong but I’ll not hold my breath.

Wow...Chapter 3 went nowhere, as well. 3 stars

Women that don't appeal to him? So Annie, who is a cheater, appeals to him?

He now thinks he through her away. Doesn't totally ignore the cheating and HER telling HIM she wanted a divorce???

You read it backwards. He says “your perfect woman was the one that threw YOU away”, meaning “threw him away”. She threw him away when she cheated.

Read it again. You’ll see.

Perhaps more incredulous than the RAAC is that they become close friends again WITHOUT having discussed why she had a six month affair, asked for a divorce, blew up their marriage, lied about the reason why even though she knew Alan's wife would confront her, tried to get him to move out of the house and quickly made the divorce ugly, all.for what? Six months of an affair that was hot and heavy for three months (2-3 times a week) and as we learn later for mediocre sex with a pussyhound, and then only stay together after the separation for another six month? Lol, really? I have read this before and know what is coming next chapter, but I am bemused to remember now how friendly they had gotten for such a long time before she actually comes clean. And boy is it a doozy. She had some serious issues that blew up in her face.

Why wouldn't he reject her she already proved she could not be trusted to be faithful

I am amazed how the author keeps the story close to real life struggles while the commentators complain that the author should have gone off in the wrong direction.

I have been involved in both pre-marital and marital counseling for over 50 years. This story in full of valuable insights and lessons. Listen and learn, my friends.

The Hoary Cleric