All Comments on '4.75 Seconds'

...but the ending was way, way too rushed. It was going along fine, but it seems as if the author suddenly felt the rest had to be finished in two paragraphs. "To make a long story short, we're staying together for now, but there are problems. The end." Even the results from the lie detector test were never really explained. Why the sudden ending?

I thought a little more detail at the end would have been nice also, the answers to the question why espically. He needs to go get layed by someone himself, that might help also. Thanks for story.

I agree with the first two comments, the ending was especially rushed. The man is acting in his own best interest, but how did it work out? I'd also like to see more of the wife's side of the story.

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Has getting caught in this way changed her, made her a better woman or just more careful. One thing that makes us human is the ability to learn from our mistakes. I want to know if she learned anything or not. Has she changed?

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The only clue is that she was pissed at her husband for losing her job. That would imply she wasn't ready to make major life changes to atone for her cheating.

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You've left the story open, I hope that you'll consider a follow up after a few years, perhaps told from the wife's POV.

Good concept, well written, and a nice flow....but incomplete. I have to agree with the other posts, the ending felt rushed to the point of incomplete. I do not mind an open ended story, but this did not feel open ended just not finished at all. Overall...a good read.

I've enjoyed all of your stories. I agree with the previous comments as well. The writing was quick and effective with not a lot of unecessary backstory. But once the drama built to its peak, it didn't seem to follow through. Fortunately the open ending allows for an opportunity to resolve their relationship.

Okay, get the flame throwers ready.<p>It was a decent idea, and not bad, exactly; but, pet peeve time, I cannot abide a writer who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're." I mean, it's so so simple, and it's like reading sandpaper to me. Also, the punctuation was inconsistent.<p>Like I said, pet peeves. Who would be hurt by writing correctly? In my case, it would make the story flow better.<p>Not bad, but definitely needs improvement.

<p>I don't fault you for the story, but the ending kind of felt anti-climatic.</p>

<p>- He finds out his wife is cheating on him, on the day he tried to do something romantic to fix their marriage</p>

<p>- He finds out if he divorces her, he's screwed. While I'm one for child support, I've always felt some of those laws are a "tad" bit over zealous in claiming to protect the kids interest. And yes, while I've never been divorced, I have watched more divorces than I care from the side lines and it always amazes me it doesn't matter who cheats, the wife gets alimony (almost always) and child support. Regardless the husband always seems to get punished, even if he's not the one cheating in the marriage and his wife wants a divorce. Go figure</p>

<p>- Having sex with your wife after finding out she's cheating is a sign of forgiveness in the law. And something that you can never use or bring up again legally for any reason. So by this I guess he's basically forgiven his wife in the story</p>

<p>- Lie detector questions really only work well with "yes/no" type of questions. If you talk to a polygraph tech/expert they will tell you complex questions don't work on the machine. So his list of questions wouldn't really work for the marriage</p>

<p>- Why insist on an STD test if he still going to have sex with her? I mean if it is really a concern why not wait until the test are complete? It takes about 6 months on average for HIV antibodies to appear, even though there are some quicker test, they aren't definitive always.</p>

<p>- Making her quit her job, and making Rick move away from his family was just revenge? I guess I'm curious why? I mean he could have just have easily just said "Your life with Rick is your life, I'm going to start my own that doesn't involve you like yours with Rick doesn't involve me", but I guess I'm at a loss for how this is revenge?</p>

<p>At the end of the story he's in the same position he was in before it started. His wife is now estranged (they are having pity sex and she is upset he got her fired), they aren't really communicating, they are just there for the kids because it is easier and cheaper than divorcing her, and he's changed all his benefits away from her.</p>

<p>To me at the end of the story, its just two unhappy people stuck together. I was rooting for him until the end, where the story kind of ended abruptly, and I was at a loss to know how living like this was <i>better</i> than his position when it was first all out in the open, and everyone at work pitied him? How did that change?</p>

<p>And what about those three women? In the beginning it was only them that knew his wife brought home her lover to his romantic party. Yet the whole office knew, and he never tried to find out which one of them spilled the beans? Really? And later he takes advice from them, never knowing who ratted him out so that everyone knew his wife was playing around on him? And everyone who pitied him at work still knows he's married to the woman who cuckold him in their own house in their own bed, and he's just happy making her quit her job?</p>

<p>No, I really didn't want to root for this guy at the end of the story. But thanks for taking the time to write it though. It takes a lot to hang your butt out in the writing community and throw up a story for others to read.</p>

-Risq

Nothing original or sexy or realistic at all.

Why didn't the author include the whole story, especially about the affair and how it started. All of the nasty facts of the sloppy wet sex that his wife and her boss had. How she had sucked her boss off in their bedroom, and was fucked up the ass,(something she never gave to her husband), and how she had to hide the fact that her pussy was so sore that she could hardly wipe it after her and her boss finished fucking every time.

He could think back to those dates and try and remember the lies and deception that his wife was doing and see if he would have been able to tell anything if he would have paid attention to her. This could have all came out in the marriage counseling that they went to.That would have made the story complete.

They are like......two ends of thread which is never going to join. They are not going to make it. More or less it's just an agreement.

First, I did enjoy the story up to the end. What happened to the law suit against Rick? I agree that you should use the services of a good editor. One pet peeve for me is the incredibly naive legal scenario found here. Morality clauses in employment contracts do not bind the company to enforce them (i.e. monitor behavior), but protect it from situations just like this. Moreover, just because a clerk may have knowledge of the affair does not constitute company knowledge. A company may waive provisions in its favor as it wishes. For instance, the contract may require that an employee is liable to termination if he/she misses a certain number of days per year. However, they can waive it if in their opinion it is to their benefit. (This may open them up to a lawsuit later to claims that by not enforcing it earlier the company had, in effect, nullified the provision for all employees.) Also, at best the company would have only paid nuisance value for such a claim. Furthermore, the legal system grinds very slowly, nothing gets settled in a week. Since your protagonist had already filed his case, he made it public knowledge thus negating the company's motive of secrecy for acting to quash it. Your story is a nice dream but not realistic at all. Can you imagine the number of lawsuits there would be if your legalese was correct?! I am curious why you did not pursue the option of the husband filing for divorce then being awarded the settlement as his sole property. This would have negated some of the negative consequences for the divorce. Even though these issues sometimes frustrated me, I did enjoy your story, thanks - ttom

The point where The husband says he will accept the wife back and then goes off and does this thing where he tries to get as much money out the company as possible. I like reconciliations as much as anyone. but the only way I would even contemplate having the wife back is if she can prove to me that this was a one time thing and even then I would never trust her again. But up to that point it was a standard loving wife story. Not good, not bad, just okay. Keep writing you can and will do better.

until the end where as Risq points he is in the same factual

situation as at the beginning and emotionally he is much worse off. I can not like such an ending!

<p>While I agree with your comment about how fast court cases take, I just did my legal and code of conduct training for my company yesterday and what you just said isn't true for all companies.</p>

<p>At least in my company, which is a major fortune 500 global company, 3 people didn't get fired for drinking on the job because they proved that during company <i>picnics</i>, a freaking "PICNIC" to show employee's appreciation by the company, because it was on company property, alcohol was served and since management knew about it they couldn't be fired for doing the same thing about a year later.</p>

<p>Personally I thought they should have gotten fired, but the knowledge that a few people in management knew was enough that they couldn't lose their jobs. So if a company has a morality clause to protect them from being litigant in lawsuits or named as enabling destructive behavior, suing someone for not enforcing that clause, if it exist, is a valid process. At best it gives out negative press.</p>

<p>See any new reports on "U.S. Sen. John Ensign" recently and his affair of a female co-worker? Guess what? Most companies don't want this level of negative press. Specially if it is a "large" company. Which leads me to point two....</p>

<p>Second, our company is pushing this "How" management style. In that it says that perception in the market place is more important than trying to "Manage" it yourself. In it they use the example of a woman who used her blog to post negative comments about some employee's who stole her table and threw away her lunch for a meeting. While I think its stupid "THE COMPANY" believes it to be true. Doesn't matter how I feel about it. That's what legal is pushing to all the employees, and I just did my legal compliance yesterday so yes, companies actually do believe this now. Go figure</p>

<p>So yes, if it is a big enough stink, I could see the companies trying to bury bad press fast. Specially lately, and that's why some of the legal stuff used here in this story seems believable to me. And if you don't believe companies are trying to prevent all the negative press they can, go look up a book called "How: A new lens" corporations seem to love this tripe =( </p>

-Risq

As others have said, the ending was rushed. I don't really understand why he would have wanted to stay with her...surely he could have bought his freedom with the money he received from her company.

One more thing, were they having a sale on quotation marks? You might want to employ the use of an editor next story. Like the fellow who has a problem with your and you're (which I totally understand) it is way too distracting.

Don't have a problem if this is the sort of story you want to write - but should have been in the non-erotic section

myths... "can't get divorced, she'll get the kids" why must you always pretend that the law is so ridiculously slanted and that you must provide photos to get a fucking divorse... NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT ADULTRY IN DIVORSE COURT. AND SURPRISE MORONS... IT IS FUCKING EASY TO GET A DIVORSE IN EVERY SINGLE STATE! Wake the fuck-up it's 2009 already. 2/3 of all the marriages out there end. Why must you pretend that the husband is just so stuck in an akward place when he finds out his wife is a whore?? Your story is a complete waste of our time when you do that. and you know what you fucking idiot... THEY DON'T ASK TO SEE PHOTOS!

i think your writing is good, you have been learning. good work. i thought you were going to use one of the girls to seduce the boss. then get em. thats the way it seemed you were heading. suprise.

By now you must have figured out, at least from the cumulative POV of most readers’ comments, what was the main problem in the story. Unfortunately, I had a similar experience with the ‘non-ending –ending’. <P>

I liked most of the story: the very good attention grabber at the start and the good plot development. That was until the husband was listing the things he still needs to find out in order to resume normal life with his wife (somehow ‘if’ turned into ‘how’ with no explanation). On that list were just about everything you’d need to know before you close the door behind you –even with a stranger. <P>

That’s when the real surprise of the story comes – apparently you have decided to what is called now days: “pulling a Palin” : namely, quitting the story within two paragraphs, without any answers to any of the ‘must be answered first’ questions, and in contradiction with his previous decision (a good one) not to resume normal life before he finds a satisfying answer to them. <P>

Once posted: a story is a tacit agreement between author and readers; we read your story, assuming that you the author will provide us with your best effort at a conclusion to the plot; an ending at the end. In life, the endless actions never form a “plot”, and there is no ‘ending’ (except for one…). For that purpose we throw ourselves into reading fiction.

but when he closed all accounts, that was theft, you stated his wife was working, so I assume she was being paid with contributions into at least some of these accounts. Kooky KolKore has announced his praise for Chancellor 0bama and his National Socialist party (he & H signed agreements with Russia now). Pull a Pallin, "as it is a common phrase", instead the far left keeps attacking, to try to tell any woman that they should not be on the GOP ticket of they would face attacks for the rest of their lives. Where are ht attacks on gore for not joining the 0bama govt to save the planet. I guess this would not allowed him to get richer $100 million now a billion if cap and trade goes through.

- but I can't. For once, I couldn't make any sense out of anon's verbal salad. The other reason is that any person who claims that "the National Socialist Party" (otherwise known as the Nazi party in Germany at the 30's and the 40's) is in fact... Russia, should just be exposed for his/her shocking ignorance. <P>

Now dear anonymous, just wipe the froth off your mouth and crawl back under the rock where hateful cowards like you usually hide.

I liked it but it clearly needs more to finish it.

the other site. Keep up the good work. As far as the "anon" that dribbled some dog shit about Kolkore - get a life or get some help.

When did they move Michigan to the Northeast?

I like the way he handled himself, right from the 4.75 seconds. My thoughts were how long, other guys(?)stomach muscles tightening, hurt, anguish, tears from the betrayal of trust. In the end, they're working on their relationship. I would like you to have gone into the lie detector scene with the questions and answers. Obviously, the way you ended with they're working on it suggests that the relationship is still strained. Of course, he was and is a doer, a decision maker and is trying to overcome the emotional letdown of her betrayal and, there is an unwritten lack of respect when a woman goes ahead and cheats, especially when it is carefree and so wanton it is hillariously in her own home. Seems he will not be able to get the picture and reality out of his mind. I know if I were him and the woman I deeply loved came through the door half naked with a lover, I would be sick, devastated and would not be able to think straight and even though 'Boys don't Cry', I would be in pain. So, how about a sequel or next chapter going over the details of the lie detector test, the attempts to rejuvenate the relationship, the trust issues and give us an ending,huh?

your own little world of your own making - so common it is I have to believe you're all alike in too many ways to count. All of you create scenarios that have the lead character be a male and place thoughts and words in his mind and mouth that clearly do not 'ring true' because they're actually YOUR thoughts and words and reflect the reality of YOU not any male I ever met. I refer specifically to the ways you all live in a world of GRAY that's so wishy washy you can never be caught giving any real promises nor vows that mean a shit since they mean nothing to you. That's HOW I know which gender is writing any particular story on this site dummy! NO MAN IS THAT WISHY WASHY cause he cannot get away with it in his life, he's pushed to commit in a black OR white manner all the time including by fems just like you.

Needs a part 2 to round it off, otherwise it is only half a story. But was still readable.

are and excellent amateur sleuth. Want to guess why the words rang untrue to you, you are the femdommed one thats why.

And neither of the women got pregnant in this adultery?

That comment about Flint was pathetic,showing what a idiotic country bumpkin like yourself is all about,but good story.

That comment about Flint was pathetic,showing what a idiotic country bumpkin like yourself is all about,but good story.

I actually rather liked this story. As other people have said, the ending was a little bit abrupt, and there was no sex, but you can't have everything. Also, the legal bit seemed a bit unrealistic, but hey, its a fantasy. I would have developed the story a little by making the wife become totally submissive, willing to be just his sexual plaything, in order to keep him.

In response to the guys complaining about him not getting divorced, I have to wonder what planet they are living on. The wife almost always gets custody, so if he wants to see his kids on a daily basis, he cannot divorce. There are many many men who are still married even though they don't love (or are even attracted to) their partner any more. If I am honest with myself, if it weren't for my kids and my wife earning twice as much as I do, I would have left years ago.

Great story!! Really didnt see the cheating coming. Good plan of attack and the revenge was sweeter than cake!!!

the way he came back at the lovers, and she was surprised? apparently she was. for that question, it assumes that she did, and its rebateable that she did, and did what she did.

the flint comment may have been a tad harsh, but the point was removal to the boonies. trust was now a serious issue, where any financial obligation he has is offset, and the concerns for the children paramount. end the marriage, i say, and leave her to any whims and such she could have. consequences for her actions.

he kept her? since the responses were not stated, they had problems. the chance to be with one you trust and sex with love. no, he had options and there is always vistation for her

If there was ever a story that made me go limp, this was it. First I am truly sorry that you had to experience such a tragedy. I do call for applause on your handling of situtation. Too often we end up as the wimped out husband listening to an attorney that never see the person, just his checkbook.

Congrats on an outstanding story. It held my attention from the opening line to your closing words.

This is the best of your stories that I have read. Sometimes the good guys do finish first.

I enjoyed this story but, I am curious as to which answers from the polygraph, he didn't like.

Thanks.

what did he have the lawyer for, very dumb story with no truth in it at all.

One smart enough to get him $250,000.00!!!!!

Liked your story to a point but, I didn't catch anything about him accepting some of the blame for letting their relationship get as far as being boring. Speaking from experience ....... He definitely missed some clues over the last months or even years. You reap what you sow & don't ever forget it. One must remember what did it take to win each others hand to begin with. That certainly wasn't boring was it??? If either one of you can't deliver over time anyone would eventually look to someone who can. So, if your situation is getting boing ....... DAMIT!!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

Great story but a little too short of an ending , It would have been nice to spell out her answers to the questions and a little more about how the other man asshole got messed up .

Why are all the good ones so short?

He comes home to an empty house and he just feels angry? I pity any woman who marries a man that apparently doesn't just feel gutted by the loss of his wife

I agree with the comments that this story ended too soon. I would like to know how she answered his questionnaire and why, why she was cheating. Was it because she felt no spark after twelve years of marriage? He was trying to get it together with hs idea of date night. However, I do feel he should have a compassionate bone in his body and try to reconcile with his wife and be better lovers. Great story, though!

to slurp up a creampie - now that Rick is in MI some other dude must be supplying them

To whores that screw around rather than try to fix things. He realized it became stale if only a little late and tried to add some romance, she realized it got stale and allowed her boss into her pants and hubby stayed damn hope he enjoys a wife with cream filling.

is most certainly a fine story, with all the atrabutes of very good construction within. My compliments to a fine author.

This is not a good story. Many of the facts are inaccurate. (For example, polygraph tests only use 'yes' or 'no' answers.) The man did not act realistically.

And, really, you should reference Elements Of English Writing. For example, you mixed the present and past tenses.

Not a good effort.

Didn't really care about the inaccuracies. I suppose from a story standpoint, my only concern for the husband would be why does he keep her around? Clearly there is no future hope for a loving,trusting, faithful relationship with this woman She didn't break it off with her lover by quitting or reporting him to HR. She didn't try to repair her marriage.

Still, the characters, although not well-defined, rang true and the story worked.

The question that has to be answered is why and does she want to stay married? It appears the husband would divorce, except he would end up financially screwed. So he should either divorce or make a real effort at reconciliation. That requires him to figure out if they can really save their marriage or if she's just biding her time until the next affair.

It could have been longer, the revenge more sweet. I guess having the lover moved to Flint, MI was punishment enough.

HA

the fat cock is lustily smoked, the cornhole buggered, betrayed!

Due to irreconcilable differences. Because she was effectively out of a job, the fact that woman retain primary custody of the children as well as the house and half their marital assets....hubby was fucked for the rest of his life.

He may only have to pay child support until the kids turned 18, but he would be paying alimony until she remarries. Hahahahahahaha!!!!! He is a lose and bones a broke loser.

cheaters and those that sleep with married people should all be punished. It violates the others sacred rights and if they lose their jobs and their lives cause they took the risk then good. People that do that are not worth a shit.

I like your write...bill absolute 10

"Rick took the transfer to Flint Michigan. I send him a Christmas card last year from Florida with the caption; "glad your not here"."

Rick must have taken some small comfort from the fact that the man he cuckolded is functionally illiterate.

The shouting all the time (even in the restaurant) gets pretty annoying... I get that he's mad, but it seems a bit childish to never talk normally.

Good for a laugh or two! Nice.

You really need to do a grammar check....

Thx

Cheaters run amok. Did Rick make a payoff on his Alienation lawsuit? Did he tell his wife about the money he got from her company? And did he think this through? The wife lost her job. Can she find another or is he spending some of his lawsuit money on keeping up the home? And is he going to dump her eventually? He really didn't have his ducks in a row. Dumb and dumber.

He stayed with a slut who cuckolded him in his bed. So does that make him a whore?

The story started by a man but ended by a wimp. How could a real man stand a cheating wife and not doing anything to her lover, I mean beside sending him the damned Christmas card. It seems the main character is actually a wimp only he doesn't realize it, yet.

Although, indecisive it is a difficult predicament for a father of young children in love with an unfaithful cunt. Where do you go when the courts skin you financially? The unfaithful cunt wins hands down. The judicial system will torment the wife and destroy the husband by financial evisceration. The story was emotional and educational. It was very engaging as well as entertaining.

Slirpuff, I wanted to thank you for this excellent piece of fiction. A well written modern fairy tale.

As for the BTB lynch mob: Family of five have one loaf of bread. Father leaves taking half the loaf with him. Mother is left to feed herself and two children with the remaining half. 



Some asshole judge, enforcing legislative mandates or voter's initiatives {that most right wing assholes conveniently forget about} says that was not a fair split of the Family's loaf of bread.

The asshole judge orders that the bread be divided into four pieces, so none of the family go hungry.

Father screams like a little bitch, that ain't fair to him, he earned it.



The Court retorts to Father: 'So YOU would have YOUR children go hungry so YOU can fill up your fat gut? YOU are willing to throw the family YOU fathered, YOU created, onto public welfare to burden taxpayers, so that YOU can eat to YOUR content?'



If you 'manly men' are incompetent to fight for your marriage, I gotta ask, why do you even bother to get married?



When an Aggressor/Predator/Enemy threatens, so many of the commentators and a number of the authors on this site choose to run away and cower instead of taking up arms against a sea of troubles.





Wasn't that the point of marriage in the first place? To defend the Wife You chose? To protect the Family You created? To nurture in a safe environment the Children You fathered?




Ahhh, you are not being respected! You poor little dears, what are you? Perpetual twelve year olds? Dribbling some sperm may define you as male but it is accepting responsibility that defines you as men.

OMG -- this was PG stuff. How did it get such high ratings? Boring stuff.

the only thing boring here is you dim wit, you and your sorry attempt to drive all writers off this site. Annony should be banned!!

The fuk did u read it?

I just feel like this story ended too soon. I would have liked to see her answers to the questions he asked. Also a resolution of what happened with them...

A very good story.

Anon/Anon vs Anon. Very funny

Not enough revenge against the cheating wife. Although she lost her job she kept her husband. Cunt deserved more punishment.

I know what you're thinking. Go fuck yourself.

short but good

She has the nerve to say to her husband, "I gave them eight years, and in 20 minutes I was out the door"...?

He should have responded about having given her twelve years...

Buying your dignity and self-respect for over200 years!

Angry at your wife for cheating? Here`s some money to make it all better!

Hate her lover? Why not sue him for some dollars! That will make him un-fuck your wife!

Wife cheats? Feeling humiliated? Angry? Low self-esteem? Hate her? A divorce can fix all that! But wait! You can`t, because it will cost money, and money is worth WAY more than your happiness or well-being!

Welcome to the modern world, where EVERYTHING is for sale, including our souls!

all parties, including the kids, are unhappy and will grow to dislike each other even more as time passes.

Best final result would be to kick her cheating ass to the curve.

The last thing on his questionnaire "Do you still love me", I do not understand the point of this question. Why would it matter if she 'loves' him or not? How can you 'love' someone if you're willing to cheat on them? Even if she answers 'yes', will it make her un-fuck the boss? Will it make her more trustworthy? Will it make him forget it ever happened? And if he cannot forget, how can he ever forgive her? Their realtionship is already destroyed. Its only going to progress on a slow downward spiral of misery. The only thing worth keeping them together is the chance to provide a good enough life(as much as it can be under the circumstances) for their kids. Their lives are now going to be only a shadow of what it once was.

Buy the way, in polygraph tests they only use yes/no questions.

The marriage bed would have had to be destroyed and Lisa would never be allowed in it again. The guest room for her, perhaps. Seize the rings as they apparently meant nothing to her. Get a strong post-nup agreement. Intercourse with her? Kiss that mouth? No way ever. Keep her around to remind her she's just a used-pussy slut.

instead of the digital camera counter, TK U MLJ LV NV

I can understand why he moved into the guest room, the master bedroom is now home to memories of her leading her lover in to have sex and his destroyed romance attempt.

Make her live in it.

No way in hell he would have gotten $300,000 plus legal fees. All authors: try not to get carried away with your fictional legal settlements. Try to keep it real. Other than that a good story.

Who have to live in a Hell of a marriage for the sake of the kids? Some due to infidelity, others due to substance abuse, or mental defect. Of the 50% of marriages that our intact, how many of them suck? From what I see, I would estimate more than 50% of the remaining. That leaves you with a 1 in 4 chance of having a decent marriage! 25%! That's gambling and I don't like the odds!

People stay in unhappy marriages for many reasons! My guess it's cheaper for men to stay in an unhappy marriage than divorce!

But divorce is a fortune

If your a millionaire and don't have peace of mind. Then your just as poor as the broke fucker next to you. And all the bleeding hearts in the world can't change that. I looked at half of the comments here. You have Fanfare's comment, so if he takes half the loaf away the lifestyle suffers. So fucking what, who wants to eat spoiled bread, because that's all you have left is spoiled bread. DG, Ohio, Slirpuff and a few other feel that you should work it out no matter what. One of them even wrote a story about the wife cheating 3 different times. And then made a joke about her not cheating again till they were 80 something. Who fucking wants that. Is the money your going to lose, worth your peace of mind. I say no, but I also didn't give away anything. I sold, got rid of and burnt anything I couldn't get rid of before the divorce. I also spent 15 days in jail for contempt of court. And I think the only reason, I didn't spend more time was the Judge saw I was willing to get out of the military to serve the time. Hateful as it sounds, I wasn't going to give her a dime. In the long run, did it hurt my son? Yes and no, he's well adjusted but very careful when it comes to trusting women. He say first hand what I had to go through in his dealings with his mother.

Like the setup for this but it feels incomplete.

It seems that at least SOME of you believe in "reconciliation-at-any-cost" because the cost of divorce is so high. That may be so but for myself my peace of mind is more important to me. I cannot imagine myself living in the same house with a filthy, lying, cheating slut for even 5 minutes, let alone for years going forward!

Those of you who have the stomach for it, by all means, go for it and stay with her (secretly not trusting her, arguing all the time with her, being suspicious about her, keeping tabs on her, losing sleep over her, asking friends about her goings-on,

hoping and praying that she's being faithful, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

If you can live like that, more power to you but I'm sorry, I cannot!

A one word answer to all those asking why a husband, or a wife sometimes, would stay with a cheater. Kids. Kids change the dynamics of divorce. This is especially true if the kids are very young. I know it's not the best of situations, but sometimes it's the best reason for people to live in the same house even if the marriage and the love no longer exist. Does it work every time? No. But for some people it's worth trying rather than risk tearing the kid's lives apart.

a nice flash tale.

Or were you trying to end it in 4.75 seconds? You built it up to the point of the lie detector, then kinda went; "Fuck it. I'm bored with this one, here's two more tiny paragraphs to wrap up everything, now go away!"

Once a cheater,always a cheater! Dump her!

boring. and VERY badly written.

The biggest mistake couples make is staying together for the kids. It's better to cut the cord and go their mutual ways then to poison the kids lives. I've seen couples stay together for the kids' sake and have wound up with crazy kids. You can't FOOL the kids. They quickly learn that mom or dad were fucking around and are only together to appear as a normal loving family. When they really despise one another.

Sadly, the greater the dollar amounts named in a lawsuit, the more effort you can expect on the part of the defendants to drag this out in an attempt to bankrupt you in legal fees. No way they'd cave that easily; the lawyers will tell them to keep fighting as win, lose or draw it's a few hundred bucks of revenue per lawyer per billable hour. This could drag on for a year or more with no justice done at all - especially if the underlying facts are difficult to prove with evidence.

After he went to the trouble he did to set up a romantic evening only to see her come in anxiously ripping her clothes off so she could get fucked THEIR BED?? Who the fuck would EVER take a cunt like that back into their life?? Anyone who did would have to be the biggest and most useless wimp of all time.

Getting her fired? Big mistake. If they divorce and she's unemployed his alimony skyrockets. Asking her questions on a lie detector (like why did she cheat?) that aren't basically "yes" or "no" answers would be totally ineffective. Screwing Rick would have been satisfying for a brief moment. He would have simply pulled up stakes, moved away and started over. No sense in paying his wife anything. How does he figure he'll "get to start fresh" with a cheating wife? That really makes no sense. Not a very well thought out story. Maybe next time?

A lot of these stories misunderstand these morality clauses.

They are to PROTECT the company, not expose them to damages. They forbid an employee from having a relationship with a subordinate thus exposing the company to a sexual harassment lawsuit. The clause would enable the company to punish the employee who was using their position of authority to obtain sexual favors from the subordinate.

The only POSSIBLE way for the company to be in any danger is if they knew about the impropriety and did nothing about it.

Rushed the end a bit

Could use some proofreading, this story has the sad distinction of being one of the shortest the author has written, while having the most errors.

Not a very full story a lot was left out. Keith should have divorced her and find someone better.She will do it again.