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I had a terrible night sleep. I kept thinking, what was running through Sabrina's mind during those thirty seconds of silence? I needed to act, and I needed to have a plan that worked. The next day, I ran an internet search for local personal trainers. I found a guy that was a retired army PT who ran one-to-one fitness courses. I went over for a free one-hour trial and he told me what was needed, he thought around six months would have me in the physical condition that I should be in, not this current tired old man that was my body. And so it began.
I'd like to say that Graham (even I can't call him Zep now) and Kelly sorted their relationship out. They didn't. Graham was forced to leave the house and ended up renting an apartment, but money was tight. Kelly moved back in, as she had their teenage son to look after. When the son moved out to go to university, her lover, Charlie moved in. Last we heard, when the divorce will be final, they'll be getting married.
The girls still see Kelly, but we refused to bring Charlie into our group, it simply felt disloyal to Graham. Graham struggled, and ended up taking a transfer to another part of his company, somewhere up north.
The catastrophe that befell Graham and Kelly kicked myself, Grouch and Harp into gear. Within three months we were regular gym goer's but choose a different one to the girls. I think I would have got into too many rucks with the testosterone fuelled fools that kept trying it on with Sabrina. As well as the physical fitness, we all started to look at how much we drank, and started to rein it all in and drink a lot less. We also started to follow some eating plans, designed for guys like us that had habits that were hard to kick. And it started to all work! As my waist started to disappear, my health started to improve dramatically.
Now I can pound Sabrina into the bed, exactly like I used to! We took a video of ourselves, and compared it to one we made ten years ago when I brought my first Iphone. I can happily say, it looked like our lovemaking matured with age.
It was a hard lesson learnt, but the price for some, turned out to be way too high. You have been warned, take heed from this tale.
- COMMENTS
Inkentabout 1 month agoAuthorRosenkavalier thanks, I do like to interact where and when I can. INKENT
Rosenkavalierabout 1 month agoGreat to see your comments on reader’s comments!
Thank you for this, too.
I am looking forward to reading your next stories.
Anonymousabout 1 month agoI can only see one comment that acknowledges that the four husbands are Marx brothers but no mention anywhere that the four wives are Charlies Angels.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoSo does this bit of "Shallow Hal" apply to women, who are the ones most likely to let themselves go? If you look at men and women's weights with age you will see that men's weight tends to increase into middle age and then level off whereas women's weight keeps on increasing until just before death.
Sooo, which sex has the weight problem, eh?
Anonymousabout 2 months agoA 4****. I think most guys starting in their late 30s let themselves go more than a bit. Drinking more than they should, burgers and fries too often for lunch, not exercising because they convince themselves they're too tired from their jobs to work out, et cetera. It happened to me and thank God my wife, who stayed in good shape (not a gym rat) even though she too put on and kept more weight after 3 kids, she still was looking physically in better shape than me by a lot. The story should resonate with a lot of readers.
I excused myself because my highly stressful job generally required 50 hour+ work weeks, often quite a bit more time than that. I also had to travel a great deal and could be gone for weeks, even months at a time. My wife remained faithful but all of those things led to much stress at home. I knew then that I should be getting more exercise but it took serious heart issues to do something positively. Truly, this story should be a wake up call for everyone reading it: take better care of yourself for the sake of your wife and children.
The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is that the entire story is mostly a monologue rather than a narrative that develops the characters. There are very few interactions between the characters and dialogue/conversations are almost non-existent. It seems more like a very detailed outline rather than a fully realized story, from an author who is capable of doing better. Thanks for the effort though and a timely message.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoMaybe a culture gap? I simply did not see any plot developing that was worth trying to keep track of the inane names and obnoxious slang. I hope many others love it. Best wishes for great success.
Aardieabout 2 months agoAll eight agreed, one and done! The three wives still hang out with the cheater. I suppose that is because she got the other three husbands to get in shape. I will have to assume that they bought out the ex-husband's half of the house.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoAny middle-aged man with any conscience will see himself in one of the male characters in either version of the story. I'm over 80 years old and go to the gym three days a week and my wife of over 60 years goes with me. Do we have a sex life? Of course we do, not like it was 20-30 years ago, but we do get it on and I still get the job done for her. That is all true! We are not the norm, but keeping in shape certainly makes a difference. Most of are gone and all of them were overweight, some rather grossly. Those that talked about their love life admitted that it ended around 50 years of age.
Sit on a bench in a shopping mall and people watch and you will quickly find that at least two thirds of the people are overweight and sad.
Great story, well told. 5*s
detroitdave
Gardenshedabout 2 months agoEnjoyed the stories, I thought #1 was better just because of the more humor. Sabrina needs to be more careful around bicyclists, she should have killed Charlie in the first story! Not to mention scuffing her fender.
Second story was realistic also good but sad.
Thanks for writing.
