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Enjoyed it

a nice flash tale.

An answer

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.more...

NOW I SEE!

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!more...

Like the setup for this but it feels incomplete.

this is what I don't get, why all the concern about money

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.more...