All Comments on 'A Letter to Isabel'

Title is my comment. Otherwise well written, 4 stars.

Her response.

I'm not a fan of the style used. It comes off too dry, more like reading a shopping or laundry list than a story that's meant to move someone. Having a letter is okay as a plot device, but you need to bracket it with the actions of others so we can see the impact and feel some of the emotion involved.

Part. 2...!

A story with no dialogue is just narration... and it's boring.

What about the wife's reaction when she reads this? Was she devastated that her husband had left her, or just happy that their sham of a marriage was over?

No betrayed husband would write a letter like that... the content is weird because it's a story device, not in any way authentic. He's taking Maria the secretary with him, but "My association with Maria will be strictly business"... so why even bother mentioning it to the wife? I can understand him rubbing her nose in a revenge affair, but what's the point of telling her about a platonic business relationship?

Sorry, this just doesn't work.

...isabel started feeling feverish, and achy along with other flu like symptoms. That was when she noticed the mysterious white powder that had spilled from the envelope......... good story. 5 stars. Thanx!

Loklie

Part two?

Good tale but you need to complete it. Things like why did she cheat, what happened to the cheaters after the husband left. What did her company do to the cheaters and how did she handle the divorce and how did her children deal with her... Curious is all.

I'm told there are "bad people" in South America.

Perhaps on reflection, the good husband might seek out some of these "bad people" and get them to visit "Arsehole"!

Perhaps "Amputated fingers" might teach him to leave alone things that aren't his!

Sorry, the story is a bit "Forgiving" for my taste. I kept reading in the hope he used the match!

not much of a story, just a bloke having a rant. Why would he write all that in a letter, most of it his wife already knew? And without any sort of reaction from the wife the whole thing feels flat. Did she care? Was she heart broken? Was she relieved?

would love to read how she was after getting that letter

Ohh booo hooo you broke my heart. I’m not a man, I’m a spineless cuckold that hasn’t matured enough to confront my slut of a wife face to face, even stay in the same house and pretend everything’s fine for months after her slut rose it’s ugly head, and run off into the night like a gormless worm leaving a letter behind to reveal my cowardice.

Wonder what her reaction would of been?

screwed ur self making it a dear jane letter format, and omg way way too much work detail that had nothing to do with anything. man that was way too much work detail lol sorry cant stress that enough. lastly personally i didnt like that it was one sided and had no aftermath but u cant please everyone all the time, oh and part of that lastly not enough emotion. i guess that has to do with the letter format part of it. dont let negative comments discourage u from keep writing here. with all this said i did enjoy reading it, could have been better though

Anything except leave his wedding band and walk away... his kids are in college . Let them pay their own Insurance and car payments. Covering their tuition is fine if they knew nothing about mom but adults need to deal with life as it comes. And Isabel needs a rough landing.

let me tell you what my job was when we first met because for some reason people writing letters to cheating sluts do that as though it isnt really a letter but narration in a story, also I am going to explain to you in great detail about my promotion and the fact that I'll be banging my secretary and what the hell I will mention the seven other men I hired on my executive team though I cant imagine why this info has any relevance to you or our situation

If your going to write in letter fashion write it like a letter

Also what kind of moron admits he got hunderes of thousands in a court settlement BEFORE the divorce is even filed?

the statement, "If you have opened the envelope" as if she may read the letter without opening the envelope. Then he writes, " if you are reading this letter for the first time, I have already left." What the hell? If she is reading it the first, tenth, or hundredth time, he has already left. He should have said, "if you are reading this for the 32nd time, I have already left." That could confuse the shit out of her. These statements were in the first two paragraphs. Our hero decides to write a strange, obtuse letter to end his marriage. I hope she writes back seeking clarification on numerous vague points. "Take care of the kids cause I'm out of here and you'll never find me!" always works for JPB and PappaToad

AMerryman 2.0

What's the point? He gets to vent and explain how he is butt hurt. She still has the job, the social status, and the kids nearby. She can even lie about how she was abandoned. He ends up looking like trash in their local community because only an idiot would confess after the damage is done and he isn't coming back to the marriage.

Thank you for writing this. I appreciate your hard work on it but I don't empathize with the protagonist. He was cheated on. He ran away. She gets to craft the narrative.

Will there be a chapter 2 where she collapses and her world falls apart? Or will she say "the sun will rise tomorrow; I need to deal with it and get on with my life?" Or something else?

This story truly sucked. The husband was a boring weak cuck. I'm sorry I wasted my time reading it.

Thank you, I particularly enjoyed the husband's lack of emotional response in his tonality, leaving her with a cold "matter of fact-ness". BTB is fun to read, but the worst punishment by far is being discarded like a no longer useful yard tool.

Never going to a problem reading about any man (or woman, for that matter) walking away from toxic relationship. The fact that James did so while still getting his pound of flesh is commandable. Good for him.

But goddammit - his letter was too long for no damn reason.

His justification behind the length of his last written correspondance to his soon-to-be-ex-wife was, according to him, about explain how in learn about her infidelity and how the dissolution of their marriage will proceed, and so it was. No idea, however, why he needed to remind her of their courtship; why he had to explain his weight loss and newfound workout habit; why he needed to go into in-depth details about his South-American promotion; and why he needed to mention Maria at all, given he made it very clear that he has, at this time, no design in seduce her (which made him sound quite stupid, but whatever...)

Honestly, all of those needless details could have been sum up in one single paragraph, toward the end of the story. To have them pop throughout it just made reading about it a tad tedious - we go here for the heartache of love lost, not to learn of the insidious alliances of business and politic in South America (well, maybe if it was presented in less of a pointless and boring way, I wouldn't have mind it!) Really, the MC should have just went "Moving South; ain't bringing you with me; bye, Felica!", then ghost her.

The sad fact he started his letter with "Dear Isabel" and ended it with "Your Loving Husband" is also kinda annoying - sure, he moved on physically from her, but the fact that he hasn't yet done so emotionally, after 8 months of knowing about the affair... That's not a good sign, old man. Maybe fucking Maria isn't such a bad idea, especially if it helps him forgetting about the cheating shrew he left behind quicker.

But whatsoever - my sole real issue, here, is the length of the letter. The author should have made his MC stick the current facts at hand, without going down memory lane, as if Isabel was an anonymous reader learning about their life for the first time (!!!), and make James' future plans for himself as nebulous to his ex as possible. I can definitely imagine the slut later on going down South, tracking him down, to try to reclaim him, which he made quite easy for her to do, with all the information about his new job he provided here... Why would he need the aggravation?

But at least he walked away and got Asshole fired and divorced... definitely has to still put this in the 'win' column.

. . . has been done before, and it’s not a bad one. The problem is that you loaded it up with information his wife already knew about their past, to give the back story to the readers, and that made it implausible as a letter to the wife.

There is no way he would have included information about Maria; that gives his wife ammunition even if he did say he wasn’t going to fuck her. Nor would he identify the private investigator and then document the felonies they committed — breaking and entering, burglary and making pornographic tapes without the knowledge of at least one of the parties — because that makes him guilty as well; he knew what was planned and paid for it.

Finally, her employer would never have made a deal which fired him and let her retain her job; it would give the fired man grounds for a lawsuit. The company would have offered both chances to quietly resign, in exchange for good recommendations and no lawsuits.

This was not badly written, but decent writing of poor execution only helps so much.

By using this dumb letter format, you stripped every shred of dramatic tension from the story and made it into a long boring monologue. It wasn't cuck shit, so three stars.

But falls short as the overall effect is sterile, emotionless, and feels like a high school assignment.

Narration is a horrible way to tell a story, and you used SO many of the usual cliches: A wife OBVIOUSLY cheating, bu instead of confronting her, needs "more" evidence, yet even THAT isn't enough, you need the PIs, then, of course the high-paying out of the country job, money from the company (at least you didn't use the "failure to enforce their morals clause" crap), and the hot replacement, who of COURSE he won't be fucking!

He was a coward and a wimp the way he handled things. Stories need interaction and emotion as well as good writing. It had one sided feelings of a cuckold.

Finish the damn thing!!! I hate stories that leave you hanging. 1 star!

Well, that should get the boll rolling:) l hope you continue the story-line.

The thing about stories that are simply letters to the cheating spouse is that it is only half of the story. A one sided conversation. What is worse in this case is that nothing of substance was offered from the wife’s perspective even from the P.I.’s report. So the story feels unfinished. The purpose seems to be missing unless it’s intention is to be cathartic to you personally.

The excuse of writing a letter made the story more interesting. As always, I cannot understand spouses that cheat, but we certainly know they exist. Good story.

What possible reason is there to go into all the minutiae of the South American operation and the meetings with the P.I.s?

It needs a response and some reason why and how the divorce affected her life and attitude. Consider ch 2 please

You have wrapped up a justified runner in the letter, but this is a self limiting story, no tension or interplay, just exposition of goodbye.

Some common LW tropes that need to die:

Private Investigators who video inside hotel rooms are breaking the law and will go to jail - yet every other story has this unnecessary device.

Waiting months to confront cheaters? Really- you know after she missed the anniversary to fuck dirtbag, just end it then.

Great letter! I hope you will finish this off.

The letter-as-story format contains its own challenges. Near the top of the list is, how to let the reader know the backstory without the letter losing its authenticity? Presumably a wife would know her children's names, so there is technique involved in how to, or whether to, use the names.

The other challenge, of course, is that we never get to know the wife's reaction to being dumped and abandoned. Some would say, "Who cares?" Others would see the reaction and denouement as the readers' satisfaction in experiencing the twisting the knife of revenge (vengeance).

It took you 30 paragraphs to say what you could said in 4. 2 stars.

Congratulations on your first original story. It had nice pace. Keep them coming.

Bloody good is all I can say! I like reading loving wives stories but I like it better when the bloke has the upper hand here.

The usual....wife goes on trips and enjoys herself while out but is normal at home. Husband finds out accidentally while trying to give her a loving surprise for a special day.

Unfortunately I continued reading it hoping there would be something other than the usual.

Would have been nice to hear her reaction to the letter. But I agree she was gone and didn't love him anymore. Thanks for the read

Great story, need a follow up from the wife.

Yes need to follow up with the fall out

Yes, your writing presentation is good. But the whole "letter" concept is downright embarrassing. The husband is portrayed as an intelligent but ignorant and gullible wimp of the first order. Going to all that trouble to get evidence of his wife cheating, then not looking at it. He decided to divorce the slut, so why not watch it?. Plus all the giving her the house, paying all the university fees etc. Just ridiculous. Then all that rubbish about how many pushups he can now do and how far he can now run.

As if she would be interested. On top of all that, he doesn't have the balls to confront the cheating slut. He just runs away, trying he highlight his "victim" status. Poor poor man. If he is that weak she is well rid of him.

She have the house and no house payment. She still makes good money. and she still looks good. finding another man wont be a problem.

But what does he have? I guess, w/ his money, he can have a prostitute when he can get it up.

This wasn't a letter, it was a long, drawn out story disguised as a letter. You basically took their entire backstory and everything leading up to him leaving and dumped it into the premise of a letter.

...make gardening a real chore...have to bend over!

I wandered into the gym and wondered, how many subordinates I'd need if I took that job in South America.

Story/letter is a bit dry and not true to the chosen medium (letter to a spouse). It seems to be a LW trope that audio and visual evidence is mandatory, in spite of all the other indicators (i.e., "I needed proof"). This decision invariably lengthens the time and expense before the split.

I get the goodbye letter and leaving the wedding ring, but why go through a history she already knows? The only answer that I can come up with is that he wanted to make sure she knew how he felt. .... The fact that he took the high road does that so maybe it wasn't necessary? Also, you left us without any explaintion of her behavior. I, for one, want to know her reasonings. Did she just feel intitled? She mentioned her husband was in better shape but continued with the "asshole." If you had included tpsome of the transcript from SIS this might have worked, but as it stands you owe us a part two. Looking forward to it.

You might have wooed me with the letter format, if it had been a letter and not a biography.

What might be a reasonable sequel is her response via his lolyer (well a decent lawyer would have told him to up and go and just have her served.)

So he sued and they settled in a week? It was last weekend she returned, strangely for the first time, too tired for sex. I was hoping for an explanation in the report. TBH I would expect a firm to just sack them both according to their policies. If they only sack him they would be sued for unfair dismissal. By sacking both it sends a message to all staff and their families they actually mean what they say about nonfratinisation . If anyone finds out, like when asshole sues, the company would look 100x worse.

A solitary letter involving emotional issues to anyone is awkward. As ANON ‘oh darling’ points out, Sweetie certainly knows their common history as well as her private history. No need to tell her (thus bore her silly, plus increase Hubby’s postage cost.)

This method also cuts out any nuance of motive or behavior that might add to the interest of We-The-Readers. WTRs, for example, might conclude that BH93’ supposition of a dual-life (at home - on the road) was very satisfactory to Sweetie OR that she was in-process of transitioning her emotional energy to Away Hubby and was going to leave Our Hero in the near future.

Hubby’s inadvertent self-improvement adjustments are pretty much of a tangent in this case ... since WTRs do not hear her thoughts (obviously not from her, nor from Hubby writing about her concerns of him letting himself go) about Hubby’s pudginess and low aerobic capacity. It did not add much to this tale. Nor does anything he does on South America. This account could have been much tighter if BH93 had kept his focus on its primary message.

Nice try. Really... but no. I generally think letter format stories suck for the story reader:

- it is one way;

- too much background in a format not suited for it;

- even evil people can be saints in letters they write;

- and they tend to be too long

A ring on top of an undeniable cheating picture or list of names would explain things to the letter recipient in the story much better. So a letter is for the sake of the story, yet fails it.

Two stars in my view. Felt like you squandered a promising story on a bad format.

The idea of getting it out of your system in a letter is a nice concept. However, the language was very stilted, stiff, and unemotional.

On top of that several things didn't make sense:

1. Why would he repeat to her about things she would already know (their history of how they met for example). Obviously, he is doing that for the readers' benefit, but you should have found a more clever way to do it.

2. Why the whole thing with the political corruption in the other countries? To try to make him seem like a stand-up guy? Again, poorly done.

3. Why does he go into the whole paragraph about the different company people he is taking down with him to his new job?

4. Why tell her about Maria, if he isn't trying to make her feel a bit jealous? So why does he say nothing will happen there? Makes the whole thing silly.

5. He sues the company and they settle without her knowledge? When her company is first served papers, she wasn't called in with "what the fuck is this?" They didn't try to ascertain if it was true or not? Plus he says they took steps to make sure the company didn't know about their tryst. So how were they liable in the least? Why would it embarass them when they didn't know so couldn't take any steps?

I like the idea of writing a letter and getting it out. That was about all I liked in the story.

A lot of the experienced writers fall for the same weak formats.

I am sure that very many 'wronged' spouses write letters to the partner who has 'done them wrong'.

Sometimes taking the time to think things through as the letter is being composed avoids saying careless things in the heat of the moment that will make things worse than they already are.

The question is "what is the purpose of writing it?"

If the purpose is to repair the relationship, it would be a different letter to one which tries to make the writer feel better by trying to make the other person feel bad and guilty for what they have done.

This one contained so much detail that it would raise real questions about the personality of a husband who would write such a thing. He has left no nit unpicked. Mr BlackHeart's husband character here has already taken the retributive action against his wife and the man who led her astray, as he notes in his letter. What more does he want?

A letter like this is a personal indulgence. Presumably such a character would feel better for having 'told her how wrong she was to do what she did'. As other commenters have noted, the wife's side of the story would be interesting. How has she tolerated 24 years married to him before trying a bit of adultery?

If she wrote a similar letter in reply, with as much detail as he has put in this letter, then Mr BlackHeart should put his two characters back together again. They would deserve each other.

As I said, I saw this story as an interesting experiment in writing. It was well written in its dullness.

Lue

I am, of course, referring to what so many others have noted: no reaction from her. To be so detailed on one part and completely lacking on the other just makes it only half a story. Is she sad? Is she happy?

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If she was willing to be with Asshole on her 24th anniversary, that gives weight to the notion that this is actually what she wanted, to be free of him.

I doubt guys that people that are cheated on are really that fair, that being said, nice letter. It would have been interesting to see the wife’s response.

Is that he tucked his tail between his legs and slunk off like a little bitch. And gave her WAY too many of their assets. He basically rewards her for cheating. She keeps the kids, the house, her job and 1/2 their assets. He basically trades his marriage for less than a million dollars. No one will know what happened so their friends and family will assume he's the bad guy. And he isn't going to take advantage of Maria in any way? How does that idea make for him having "a good life"? Like I said - he's a complete coward. Which made him a really unlikable character. The fact that we never hear from his wife or his kids just makes the story worse. Your chosen "format" for this story simply wasn't a good one.

2 stars

...when he insisted on fair prices and terms? I'm sure that at least one other company would have happily gone along with the shenanigans that would enrich all of the participants. Wouldn't that be the bid that got accepted?

Oh, and I agree with all of the posters complaining about how the author took a story and put a thin shell, in the form of a letter, around it.

Pretty good letter, but I prefer a dynamic, ongoing story. The confrontation with the cheating spouse is the best part of the story. The reaction of the outed spouse is also usually interesting. We miss the "it's only sex, I love only you" protestations along with the "surely, we can get by this" pleas. The letter was too civil by far. Who is going to tell he children? What all you tell them? Taking care off Asshole's job and marriage are the only vindictive actions by James in the entire letter. We need a letter from the wife with her side of the story. Decent stuff, please keep it going.

I'd like to see her response, please?

I was ready to shot the wimp! Talk about overdone....watching paint dry would have been more interesting!

24 years and you have no idea why ,you just run and give her the house. And a decent settlement. What man would take this lying down. I doubt you could sue the company since they had no idea of this Affair. What about the kids thoughts. And why did she have this affair but was the loving wife at home. A double life,. You need too answer this questions as you ran to another country. Okay writer clear this up please!

Have HER finding the letter, narrating the pertinent parts, giving her reactions.

Good letter but there is no conflict, no interpersonal dynamics. Therefore no growth or opening of characters, hence no story.

A sequel and a follow up is a must. Leaves so much left wanting.

YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Fuck me that was long winded and boring! 1*

I’d love to read her response! Maybe MattBlack would write it...that’d be cool!

I enjoyed the very tightly written prose that was the backdrop of the very hot anger that drifted among the lines. I found myself wondering how I'd react under such circumstances and that engendered several questions about the wife: was the Jekyl-Hyde person reasonable / believable? (Probably). Could she really believe she loved her husband? (Hmmm. I guess so, Maybe.) How would the mind bifurcate her life like this? (I've no idea!) Etc. etc.

Thanks for a stimulating exercise! It begs for a follow-up by poor Isabel.!

Not original and very poorly written.Why do people keep putting up storieswhen they have absolutely no ability or talent.Both stories are terrible.Not even original but take a work done by someone else and copy it.That just makes you a cheat not a writer.

Stop do something else and give usa break.Do not write unless you have some ability.you don't

When you returned Saturday we made love again , lol really likes his sloppy seconds

how to treat cheating wifes

...this probably would have been better not adding all the pre-incident info. This would have worked better as a narrative, but with the paired down letter in it. Also, I like the suggestion that her response should have been shown. Maybe an epilogue for what happened over the next couple of years also, but not a necessity. I gave this a 3.

All the cliches hit, but devoid of anything to make you empathise with the characters.

do you have the ability to write anything? Do you have the knowledge to judge another's writing skills?

More!

Well what happened next,there is enough missing to have a second chapter how things went.

The husband is a whinny little bitch loser. It's no wonder why the wife is cheating. And this extremely long drivel has to be the most pathetic piece of crap ever. The wife didn't even read it after the first paragraph. She crumbled it up and through it in the fireplace laughing and commenting "Loser" as she called her real man. Once he learned that his wife was nothing but a heartless Cunt. He should have cashed out everything he could and just left. No letter or note as it doesn't matter. Why he stretched it out for months just shows what wimp he is. I think you put in all of these meaningless details just to stretch out the story.

The letter, while almost emotionless, was an effectively brutal kiss off letter. I enjoyed the writing style immensely. I’d like to see you continue the story.

It is a story and not a letter to his unfaithful wife. A ruse like this puts me off my feed. He gave all the details which were necessary to a reader of a story but certainly not to his wife. Perhaps she has another personality.

Must have been awkward for Isabel to utilize an agricultural implement in her affair, not to mention the difficulty of making it fit in her suitcase. Women usually wear Hose

Equals lower stars

I Wish I had done that with my First wife .. The Wife I have Now is almost 8 Years younger then Me .. But Age is just a Number to the both of Us ..

i know he was venting, but all he wound up doing is feeding her already bloated ego.

if you want to really vent, and feel better, i'll tell you what to do. you get over her first and foremost. because the love was real, the betrayal was real, and her disrespect was real. but understand she feeds on her self image as a generally good person that deserves all of this. the husband should have grieved on his own time, grown stronger, and ghosted her for a long while.

MAYBE he could have called her names, or worthless in bed, or a waste of time and resources. just really cold and cruel words, ones that openly expose her for what she really is in the light of day. But I truly understand the pain of love and betrayal, maybe he wasn't there emotionally, which is why I suggested the ghosting. Making her feel dumped and tossed aside WILL flip the script. And she IS a narcissist. So YES, these actions will absolutely rock her core. Everyone grows at their own pace though.

Top.nic4 to high road by far. Divorce for infedility and be done . Angle for as better dealnusing proof as leverage then expose her after the fact .

It was ok but needs continuing

This story is not complete without knowing the aftermath! Part 2 should be from Isabel's point of view. Your writing is pretty good but like many other storytellers here in Literotica you have not "Finished The Damn Story"

Why would you write a story about such a pussy???

"God baby you were right, he really is a spineless piece of shit," Chad crowed while pounding my pussy for all it was worth tossing my pathetic husbands letter behind him. "Funny how his high priced spies never figured out the company is owned by my family trust. Or that my wifes family is rich becuase of their stock holdings in my family's companies"

Chard wrapped my hair around his fist and yanked . "Bounce that ass harder you little whore," he growled into my ear. I started gyrating my hips as he held himself still to make me do all the work.

"Stupid cuck," he chuckled while slapping my ass several times. "That settlement drops our net earnings of the year saving us far more in taxes than we paid out, he didnt list the settlement as part of the divorce settlement which is fraud, and he will be out of the country and unable to contest when you 'discover' the discrepancy and get more than half of it leaving him with the tax bill"

"God you have the second tightest pussy I have ever fucked." He was gripping my hips so hard I knew I would have bruises in the morning, "Tell me, tell me how much you love my cock you little slut. Tell me how much you love being my fuck toy"

I was past the point of talking, my nipples were swollen and chaffed from sliding back and forth across the sheets, my pussy was throbbing in time to my pounding heart and I could barely hear what he was saying as the sound of my gasping breath echoed hollowly in my own ears.

"OH MY FUCKING GOOODDDDDDD YESSSSSS!!!"

I came so hard I spasmed myself of his cock my pussy gushing like a fire hydrant as I thrashed around in the throes of my orgasm for two solid minutes

"Well," Chad said with a smirk in his tone as I blinked up at him focusing on his face, "someone certainly enjoyed that didnt she?"

I moaned satiatedly.

"DIDNT she," Chad said in a more forceful tone

"Yes daddy," Ana said from her chair in the corner. I rolled over groaning at the strain in my well fucked body and looked over at my daughter. Her nipples were hard as diamonds and glittered with the piercings Chad had gotten her for her birthday; her pussy red, wet, dripping, and gaping open and closed as though searching for something to swallow

"I'm afraid your mother made quite the mess," Chad said chuckling, "But daddys little princess doesnt mind being covered in mommys cum while I fuck does she?"

"No,daddy," Ana said, walking over to the bed and crawling thru the soiled sheets. She rolled over on to her back and eagerly spread her legs for him as I watched. My baby looked up at our lover and said "Fuck me daddy."

"All that money," Chad said, as he rubbed the head off his cock up and down my daughters dripping slit. "He really aught to have looked at those photos"

My pussy started throbbing in anticipation as my daughters moans filled our room as thoroughly as Chads cock filled her

Lujon2019 rewriting this story in his comments was really dumb. This was an excellent story and well written. I see that Lujon2019 has submitted no stories to Literotica but his crap rewrite is very poor written and has numerous grammatical errors which are typical mistakes of a dummy!

I just love this guy...the letter was a pefect way to let this bitch know...she had been had...But like always with these stories...the ending stinks...this wife has to be feeling something when she founds out...but the author is a wimp...we have to guess...and I hate that...I want to know what she's feeling...not guess at it...finish the dam story......

I enjoyed the read, but there were a couple of things that bothered me.

Why on earth would the company give him a dime? They had their non-frat policy. They had no reason to know of the breach of the policy. They didn't approve it and the cheaters had gone out of their way to hide it. There is nothing in the facts given that would make the company liable.

I can understand letting her live in the house while the kids have not yet left the home, but don't understand why he would actually leave her the house for her own. There's no legal reason for it, it is more than she'd get in court and doesn't make sense. There are cases where the house is awarded to the wife as part of her 50% share of all the assets, though if that is what the author intended in this story I missed where it was stated.

It a narrative for the benefit of Lit readers

Good story... well thought out. Not too much character development ((some people overdo that part with a lot of crap that nobody needs to know) Please consider writing a sequel from his wife's point of view

This one is just dumb! No one would ever react this way.

Overly wordy and detailed

Well done! Unique in that I haven't read this plot before. I mean the long detailed explanation of the events leading to the divorce. I would love to read her response and explanation and her future with the kids, grans, and their circle of friends. O well, that's just me.

Thanks for giving me this delightful story

Again. Great letter, but I prefer a face to face confrontation for shock value.

The wife is leaving on a Sunday. He finds that she has packed sexy clothing, and so kisses her goodbye and goes to the office with people there as on a normal work day. People don't work normal days on Sunday.

Then there is the common trope about "I have sued your company for supporting an adulterous relationship." No lawyer would file such a frivolous lawsuit and it certainly would not make friends withy his wife's employers, and certainly would not cause them to take any actions against the wife.

Another weak story.

This is another good one; maybe a little antiseptic but since he was a high ranking manager/engineer I can see it. The Engineer direct, just enough detail to make it BURN. Especially about his new Exec PA....

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The miss here is how his two kids felt and how informed... He cannot trust the CHEAT not to spin it as his fault she was abandoned.

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His generosity is misplaced "giving her the house"... Hell NO, quick deed the house to her but take equivalent market selling value half from the joint savings/CDs/etc. He has suffered enough by her hand. Besides he will need to setup a new State side abode for residence/tax requirements and far better to have a place when returning for the Exec project reviews.

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4.6*, Hooyah, Salute....

different plot line that's good but it's a little too one sided for me. Some response from the wife would have made it better. The story just feels flat, no heat, no emotion. 4 stars and thank-you for sharing

Good story although a reply to her husband or something like that might be interesting