All Comments on 'A Simple Case of Infidelity Pt. 05'

It was pretty clear that though she fell for thr seduction, in part because of her pill addiction, depression, menopause, time apart from Franvis being bust, and her suspecting him of having affairs (likely a wedge issue via Richard), not to mention her compassionate white knight syndrome, that the assholendrugged her with Rohypnol every time they drove to West Virginia. Every freaking time. She had difficulty even recollecting about the drive, getting into the hotel, and then the sex. Read her description this chapter, she was at least being low dosed drugged repeatedly, probably the same thing even before those trips. What was really hard to forgive was her lying. What also made zero sense was her going to a celebration with Richard in Baltimore, when she knew after he epiphany that he wss just using her and doing a service her asshole father in return for financial help, because her father didn't want her married to Francis. Wtf? Her mother and father were absolutely toxic and there is no way that didn't Scar her childhood. Then Richard who seduced and drugged and used her in college after her terrible crisis with the Guatemalan families' tragedies, he pulled the same shit here as a quid pro quo service for the father. The same man who probably stole their money in the crash, all to funnel to his family and daughter in Oklahoma. She never had parents who loved her when growing up. It was messed up. All she knew about love was Francis and ger kids and the distorted "love" of being used by Richard (and drugged). When she thought that Francis was slipping away and didn't want her, and under her sedatives (way to go Mom!) And depression, she felt unloved again, and Richard shows up with his seductive bs playing on her vulnerabilities and drugging her (low dose) over and over again. It was obviously an ambush on their marriage to get them to divorce. And Richard got paid well for it. Can't call it rape because it happened so many times and was low dose and she was on other pills. Lord only knows how Rohypnol and things like Xanax and Valium, etc cross-react. She is practically having semi out of body experiences. That is why he used the relaxation techniques in the car to manipulate her. She wasn't hypnotized, he was titration the Rohypnol dosing! No doubt she cheated and had brief emotional affair leading up to those 3 (well almost 4) times in West Virginia. She never knew about the paid ambush via her father. But what still seems really incongruent is her skipping along to go with Richard to a hotel celebration (only her words that nothing happened but seems likely not) in Baltimore, when she realized the asshole was just using her and had lied to her and started all his hinting about the his wife. He had already broken up with his wife! He knew it was Francis. His mission was complete and that is why he didn't push too hard to screw her the fourth time. She was ashamed what she did and sought to bury it. But that killed their marriage. Only the revelations of this chapter show how screwed up she was mentally and why Richard could so efficiently seduce her. The last page or so of revelations are just epic. Wow. 5 stars. Francis saved her again by giving her his love. Thr only real love besides her kids that she has ever known. Top notch writing.

Wow. That is a stone cold 5 stars, even on a second time through. And to some of the other commenters below. He went to Bar Harbor and the Beach because she left clues with her aunt, that only he could follow. He realized the truth and the unbearably sh$tty soul shattering discovery that her father had a second family and drained all the money he could for his ailing second daughter, while her mother was a whackjob who just wanted to be a nun, and emotionally abandoned her. He is a White Knight (see comment from a year ago) and he went there to save her again. She had exiled herself, putting herself in purgatory, reading Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter. Everyone else including her aunt thought she committed suicide. But he took the chance to try to save her again. He had saved her years before and they had a good run, but the reveal about her father destroyed her. And she did the equivalent of cutting herself, but doing it to her marriage, all convinced with her need to be Compassionate and help others, something Richard identified as a vulnerability and exploited. Took a lot of courage and grace to save her again. They will be happy in Virginia. Both characters are not the same person anymore and won't repeat the pain. Again 5 blazing stars.

A solid 5 for you!!!! With all the pros and cons comments below YOU most definitely hit a chord from everyone who read youe story. Considering some even re-read the story. Please............. write more!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's really easy to sit in judgement of a story, a cheating wife and a proud husband. In reading this story I figure the critics I have read in the comments section have never written anything and missed the point completely. The story is well told as it develops and builds relationships to help me feel the emotions and actually the craziness of the families. The wife's mother destroyed Leslie's ability to think through any situation or problem. The father's defensiveness and attack mode was mostly arrogance and fear he would be outed The husband was justified to totally move away from his wife yet stilled cared enough to troop off the Baltimore. Even his relationship with the children reflected he had a heart though broken. It was a reward in itself that they ended up on their own 2 feet. The story as most of your work was detailed and deep. L loved it.

Read this tripe twice just to figure out why I hated so much. Through all five segments does anyone like the MC? Only the wife who he treats like total crap for a year, never being enough of a man to cut ties just looking for another way to hurt her. A that is the best man in town? His parents and children are disgusted by him for good reasons. Only thing that could have saved the story was having her look at him a say ‘ I would like to introduce you to my husband’

Anon your definition of Perfect Wife of 20 years is very different from reality.

Cheating on him for 2 years, lying about it for months knowing he was looking into it, naming her son after her old paramour, running away for the better part of a year, coming back expecting him to fix everything in her life when he finally files to be done with the situation, and his family and boss all betraying him by taking her side; yeah, perfect indeed for 20 years minus the above.

Pride can certainly be an issue to overcome, but when you get past a slip/fling into lies and betrayal it is no longer a question of simple pride being affected. The character of those involved is now being called into question, her and all the meddlers, with trust being irrevocably damaged all pride aside.

MasterKote I ask you the better question, if you were her would you take him back? He was a self absorbed prick for all but the last paragraph. He didn’t want to talk about or solve anything. Spent a year making his parents, children and his second father/boss miserable so he could hurt the perfect wife of 20 no make it 22 years at every turn. Best line in all loving wife stories is “How’s that pride thing working for you?”

I loved this story.

If u were the hubby, would u take her back?

Interesting. Not atall what i expected, and it rarely went where i thought it would go. I can't say that I like the story, but it was an experience to work through it.

Thank you for the story - I loved it. When I read Part I, I had mixed feeling about the wife, especially, considering the way she acted when she had been caught. But then as the story was unfolding I was rooting for her and getting cross with the MC. Until the end I didn't know what's going to happen to her and the author was very good at suggesting that she was dead. Thanks a lot for such a wonderful story! Easily 5 stars! Please keep writing.

He's a better man than I. And you are a better writer than I.

Nice ending, but no closure

Just Wow! I really enjoyed this. :-)

A 5* ! Thank you for writing.

I understand that he still loved her, but after the cruel attempt to gaslight him by denying what he had seen at the motel, and then enlisting their kids against him … I don’t think I could have gotten past that.

Wonderful writing, thank you

I thought this story was excellent! It is very rare to see this level of attention given to the people surrounding the husband and wife in LW stories - so often even when friends and family are mentioned in the story they don't seem to have any character of their own, they're just props to emphasize the themes the author's trying to convey. I really enjoyed the time spent on the feelings, motivations, and actions/impact of the son, daughter, parents, friends and neighbors of the main characters. A woman who became part of a loving family over the course of two decades wouldn't just be dropped because she self-destructed, those who love her would care about her and want to help her. This story did an excellent job of showing how her infidelity impacted everyone around her, and how different people would cope with the changes.

Also, I don't really understand all these comments about him being a white knight and feeling compelled to rescue her - when did any of that happen?

Her husband certainly didn't rescue her from the consequences of her infidelity and drug addiction - it was his family and their community that helped her stop taking pills and rebuild her standing and self-respect. He pointedly refused to give her any more support than the bare minimum they wrung out of him.

He's not rescuing her at the end, either. Remember, everyone thought she had been broken by everything that happened. They expected to find her having committed suicide at the end, but instead they found her chilling on the beach, reflecting on her life. She has accepted what her decisions have lead to. He didn't save her, he finally forgave her.

These comments about him being an 'emasculated man' are just nonsensical. The whole story goes on and on about how much of a paragon he is: everyone in the community looks up to and respects him for his education, character, professionalism, and service. The young girls crush on him, the women his age want to take him as their man, and the older ladies dote on him. The boys take after him, his peers seek his input, and his mentors leave things in his care. He has enough pride to refuse to accept his wife's betrayal or his new boss's lack of respect, but enough humility to, even during their marriage, not see his wife as his inferior despite her history of problems and poor choices, and to respect his friends and family's desperate desire to have him help her heal so they can have their mother and daughter back, even if he no longer wants her.

No, if anything, far from being emasculated and weak, the main character is absurdly noble and perfect, to the point where the story feels truly fantastical at times. But that's okay, because it IS fantasy. Again, an excellent tale. I loved it!

The story is good.... The plot is well shown... The plot is well adjusted... The characters are believable... But I still didn't like it.

A man suffering from "White Knight Syndrome" is almost as debatable as the virginity of Mary (Catholicism).

What psychological problems would this man have, allowing himself to be "run over" by everyone, a bitch wife, brainless children, imbecile parents and idiotic in-laws?!?!

I like the author's writing, but I don't like the direction of his male characters.

I have to agree, in part, with the following comment: "Again, you are incapable of understanding, or at least writing, an intelligent and observant man. Your stories are very good, but your men are always superficial, stubborn and weak ."

Forgive me for being frank, but I thought so too. It's okay that the author writes for his own pleasure and delight, and that he doesn't care about the readers' opinions. Well... I also don't give a shit if the author is going to read my comment, consider it, or just dismiss it.

It doesn't bother me either. After all, if he writes and allows someone to read, he must be prepared for feedback, whether positive or not.

What bothers me in certain stories is the inability of the betrayed to turn the dial. Most LW authors prefer to have a man emasculated, humiliated and indulgent with his "evildoers". This trait annoys and disgusts me.

I don't care so much about physical violence, broken bones, crushed or ripped balls, disfigured faces... no!!! It's not about physical revenge, it's about the moral and behavioral aspect. I cannot believe that a man of character and well-formed personality would accept these conditions.

I expected something different... But that would be asking too much.

But that is, and only is, my opinion.

PS: English is not my native language. And it doesn't bother me one bit.

OMG is anyone as stupid as her to believe the guy has ED so she needs to help him? All at the expense of her family and her own self respect? And her husband keeps her? What a whacked out story. I mean the basics of a stupid women being tricked by an old boyfriend has so much other fluff thrown in! Old family guy helping her because she saved his daughter. Black boss and politicians, old virgina stuff, other family, yada yada.

It all boils down to respect.

She cheated because she doesn't respect him.

She'll cheat again because he's still the type of guy that cannot stand up for himself, that talks a big game but will eventually let others run roughshod over him, she won't respect him.

Feel a bit sorry for him tbh. 2 stars.

Again, you are unable to understand, or at least write a man who is intelligent and observant. Your stories are very good, but your men are always shallow, stubborn and weak.

To the Anonymous immediately above "Husband Suffers". You really thought this story through. I appreciate your comment.

Husband suffers from White knight syndrome. He feels compelled to “rescue” his wife from her fucked up affair and he does so at the expense of his own needs. Such behavior stems from a mindset that perceives the other sex as weak, dependent, absolved of all responsibility for their decisions and actions, and thinks that she will dedicate herself to loving him because of his help.

In relationships, a white knight tends to show many of the following behaviors. White knights are attracted to a needy partner or a partner with a history of trauma, loss, abuse, or addiction. They fear being separated from the partner, losing the partner’s love or approval, or being abandoned by the partner They typically engage in controlling behavior, often under the guise of helping. They maintain or restores connection with the partner by being extremely helpful or good. They describe a sense of “oneness” with the partner. The fail to recognize the partner’s manipulative behaviors. They are easily seduced by the sexual or dramatic behavior of the partner. They evoke strong feelings in the partner in order to avoid his or her own emotional discomfort. They maintain a hope for a gratifying relationship by denying the reality of the partner’s issues.

And to some of the other commenters: stop throwing narcissistic around. Leslie is by definition NOT a narcissist. That is not why she cheated. And her separation to Baltimore and her gambit with the photos was not narcissism. On that 4th time in a hotel with Richard, she had an epiphany that the asshole had manipulated her and she was desperate to get Francis back but took bad advice from people that she should not come right out and apologize but she be around him, hence her reporting to him for a while before the divorce. Yes she committed adultery three times with an emotional affair leading up to those acts for over a month. But as the plot unfolds there is a lot going on that we the reader and Francis know nothing about. In the end when he hears what her father did to her and her messed up mother, Francis knows only he can save her from her demons, and he steps up. They will work it out. Really complex characterizations.

Extremely well written but twisted. You turned Leslie from an unrepentant shrew to someone who was clinically depressed due to a childhood that was actually a 100x worse than she realized due to a messed up mother and a monstrous father who sought to drain money from the family for his other sick daughter. Not a surprise that Leslie turned to drugs and had a need to rescue people. I got tired of seeing everyone push him to forgive her, but thr depths of the story and characters continued to play out. Ironically there conversation in this chapter about what happened, really laid things bare. He could not forgive but she was pleading (without pleading) to take him back. She had been manipulated by Richard, torn by illusionary fears of the MC's infidelity, her depression, the drugs, and a deep undercurrent of rejection from her father, with a deeply disturbed mother who just wanted to be a nun. When he visits Annie and gets the real story and the plot reveal, now he knew it was all going somewhere. Though divorced, he could now forgive and it wad time for him to step up to rescue Leslie from her depression. Twisted path to get there but amazing ending. Francis and Leslie will be happy together in Virginia. They both deserve it.

This is some feminism bs. Who is rating these stories? Is it bots !?

The writer hates men. She tortured the lead male character right to the end. Disgusting.

And she didn't even apologise ever.

I CANNOT BELIEVE I READ THIS INANE INSANE DRIVEL A SECOND TIME....

Wow! I just loved it. You finished this story just perfectly. Thank you.

I feel sorry for the readers who are so obsessed with retribution that they won't allow themselves to enjoy all the emotions to go into a situation about which you have written.

This is the best piece of literature I have read on Literotica.

Ed

Well, this last chapter was just a complete shit show and pretty much made a lot of the preceding stuff worthless.

Could have been a really good story, but then you froze the characters and never had them advanced either way.

What a sad waste of time.

Where do people come up with these stupid Forgiveness stories! Napalm being drip fed on to her would be too kind!

Do have to laugh at all the anti reconciliation wombles. They are obviously without experience in the real world. I notice the greatest majority are to gutless to identify themselves

Absolutely brilliant. What sane man wants to live an empty, lonely unfulfilled life just to say they punished a person who made a mistake.

The annoying thing about reconciliation authors is that there's never much effort put into the reconciliation. Francis told her over and over again and again that they as a couple was never going to happen. Then a a last ditch effort like the author had run out of ideas he has Leslie take off all secretly with no word to her family and makes then think she's gone off to be alone and off herself. Yeah, right...like narcissists ever go the suicide route. They think to highly of themselves to ever do that. Then of course, Francis has to go on a magical knightly quest to rescue her from herself. Turns out she just fine and just went all Greta Garbo - 'I want to be alone'. Francis, should have just told her...."call your fucking children and let then know you're alright" then got the fuck away from her for good. You never ever take back a cheater who isn't remorseful about cheating. Leslie was entitled and unremorseful to the very end of the story. Not a likable character in the entire story. Can't like a story if there' no one worth while in the entire story.

A lot of twists and turns going nowhere.

A tremendous effort. Thank you for writing this. I did not care for it for lots of reasons but you are a terrific author.

Way too long.

However I disagree with many of the comments : I have seen some couples reconcile after a short affair, not everybody wants to end a life together after so many years invested. It changed them for sure but the ones I know are still together.

Carvohi brought his couple to a place of change, where everything was new: his job, the location, the children's situations, the parents' location, a lot of things. His characters' imperfections sort of worked out to an ongoing relationship. Nicely done.

I find I don't relate very well to these characters, and that is a compliment to their reality, the reader is made to want to relate to them. But she never evidenced any sort of genuine moral conflict, or distress or even a sensitive conscience over what she had done, neither at the time nor in more of a token sense after. Maybe it was the drugs after all! If these things were internalized somehow and never expressed, perhaps people could be like that. Some groups and subcultures have that reputation! But all the reader sees is just the pain at the consequences. She was having a bad time, so it was just ok to her at the time. No. The final meetup with loverboy in Baltimore, "a celebration". Good heavens. That sticks in this reader's craw. There was nothing to celebrate, just a love backstabbed and a marriage to grieve over and mourn. I find I've run on and written an essay! This author and his story is worthy of an essay.

A sorry tale told by a knuckle dragging racist POS.

It's racist to believe all people of all races can't be racist.

Man, I didn't know that this site was used as an coping tool for people's hidden racism. Make's me wonder though about what is truly in a person's heart. Lot's of self-pity, anger, and hatred.

This is the 3rd of your stories I have read. You have the ability to spin a good,well written tale, but also the ability to make it longer than necessary with irrelevant nattering that has nothing to do with or enhance the story line,if anything bore the reader. Also any fiction to be good rely on realism..a Man/Husband taking her(a cheater) back does not compute. Myself I would lose respect for any husband or wife that would do so. In my 75 years of walking this earth, only 1 instance I know an adulterer was welcomed back into a loving relationship and that survived less than a year. 1 other reunited relationship happened as a matter of necessity and convenience,that one took longer but also did not survive..

I like the way he handled his business, like a REAL man.

What is lower than hate it. What a Cuck!

Good ending

I don't care for reconciliations that rely on retconning everything we read at the beginning.

OK, Sure, Why Not? He has NOTHING to lose. His wife is mentally dysfunctional, so he's going to align himself with a crazy woman. It will serve him and his children right for being so ignorant and indulgent. But that's their problem, for the rest of their lives.

The plot is completely bogus: If the father was rich, and knew he was dying, why wouldn't he leave everything to the daughter and extended family he truly loved and cherished? Why would he leave his religious fanatic second wife in control to give almost everything to the church after he died? And once Leslie was grown and gone why didn't he divorce the religious nut and go back full time to the daughter and presumably wife he truly loved? And why would Leslie give away her $200,000 when her son just joined the military full time so his sister could afford to go to college? Why didn't Leslie give the money to her own children, and relieve the financial burden on the ex husband she supposedly still loved? Why would Leslie abandon her father in law and mother in law who needed her to help them facilitate their retirement and move to Florida? What would killing herself do to help ANY of the people Leslie supposedly loved, the people she supposedly wanted to make things right, atone for her sins, demonstrate she was now a responsible mature rehabilitated woman of virtue? Killing herself would be just as self indulgent and ignorant and destructive as fucking her old boy friend. The entire resolution of this story is ridiculous and unbelievable. What a waste of time. But thanks for the effort.

Amazing that you had to describe so many pages for your cuckold story. That would have been possible on one side too!

You write so well, l enjoy your style.

But unfortunately you write about cuckoldry like it’s normal behaviour. You love forgiveness.

Unfortunately, the majority of men and women who are cheated on are NOT very forgiving at all. In fact, they hate. It’s human nature.

One day u will stop dreaming and see people for what they really are and write a story that touches on what real people feel.

I won’t hold my breath though

Scores 2/5

dumb ass cuck!

Another chapter please.

the ending was less than expected. It seemed rushed and really lacked content. It's like space ship landed and reality got on and the story ended.

Yet another pointless RAAC story where the husband throws out any common sense in the end.

Maybe try writing a normal guy who is capable of moving on. Just once.

Ah... Romance, humor, loyalty...

What more do you want?

5*

Much ado about RAAC!

Which is ridiculous because the author specifically says this wasn't a RAAC. Also something to consider next time, upstanding people like the author hate it when they are coerced to make a decision against their interests. Which is what this story is about, coercion. Good story, 3*

Bastard! 5*

Awful ending .

Of course you made the wimpy cuck take her back .

It's your near constant crutch

Well, this chapter is a perfect non sequitur. The four previous chapters detailed the story of a man without respect -- not from his wife, not from his children, not from his in-laws, not from his parents, not from his boss, and apparently, not from himself. Then we get this bizarre story of his ex's very strange family, so all is forgiven. Doesn't work for me, I'm afraid.

Leslie says only 4 times in the motel in Martinsburg yet in Chapter 1 he got suspicious of the high gas bill and then checked the GPS. She was going to Martinsburg 2x a week. For how long?

Oh, and if they live near Oakland, MD it's 130 miles/ 2.5 hours each way to Martinsburg.

Lot of holes in the story.

That said, the ending needs a little more detail. Maybe a 2 sentence Epilogue.

What an ending. The best. Once again, many thanks.

I live WV not far from Deep Creek/Oakland MD and loved all the detail about the area. Great story and ending! Loved it!

Well written and substantial. Very creative

A really good story and well written. The characters are well developed and portrayed throughout and the story development is good, however, the ending rather lets it down. It just seems that you wanted it finished or had not been able to find a suitable way to finish. there are still many unanswered questions regarding her family, what happened to Leslie growing up and what happened after he found her.

I enjoyed this story a lot when I first read it a year or more ago. Since then I took a short course on short stories and met Beatrice in Hawthorne’s short story, Rappaccini’s Daughter. Leslie compares herself to Beatrice in comments to Aunt Annie (see the very last page of this story). I now I understand the reference to her in this story, as well as the tossing away of the book at the end. Hawthorne’s story is a striking, if strange, one that readers who enjoyed this story might find worth their time to read (it is readily available online). Thanks for the literary allusions. Who knew you could come her to get culture?!

The illogical aspects of her behavior during the affair...

And

The ending was somewhat truncated. The ending needed more clarity.

I still have it 5stars, even after a Complete second reading.

He noticed her increased fuel consumption....West Virginia , twice a week+(???)

Yet later, the sum of those trips was 4???? That doesn't equate to much fuel consumption.

...I still would not have taken her back.

All I would have been able to remember was her lying to me about the black lexus parked at the house. And then lying about not having been caught at the hotel...and trying to convince him he hadn't seen what he had seen. Laughing at him thr whole time while wanting to keep fucking her old BF.

Would have confirmed she was still alive. Told my kids. Told my parents. But wpuld have left her reading Hawthorne right on that beach. Perhaps reading a bit about Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne would do her some good?

I wish you'd write one more chapter. It would seal the deal. Thanks for writing. Great job.

Liked the whole series, I admit, like the other comments the entire reveal at the end of her own history pushed the story in another direction. Sure Mr. Weatherby got bored with being Archie's school principal so he goes to Maryland to get some strange but her parents were reallty the true villains up through the very end where her father won't even admit the oast to her himself on his deathbed. The real evil were those two. I did find it amusing how much she conspired to keep him in the dark about the cheating and that, while verging on the ridiculous, was SO much better than the tear filled confession followed by a drunken splurge by the offended husband and then months of begging and rebuilding.....or not rebuilding. This one kind of belongs in a LW parallel universe! A welcome distraction, didn't expect it to go where it went, while enjoyable I wouldn't say it's shakespeare but it kept me reading till the end. In fact the ending on the beach was very evocative of the ending of indecent proposal, the giving away of the money, the beach, the wealthy man/men. Anyway thanks!

I still gave it 5s all the way through despite a couple of character development problems and feeling that the end was a bit rushed (no, the story isn't too long), which made it feel a little contrived.

The truth is, in the human condition almost anything is possible, she was truly remorseful about what she did. No this wasn't a Raac story, just a guy that when he thought she might have been dead realized what she meant to him. I liked it.

I enjoyed the ending pages. He did NOT let everyone turn him into a CUCK!!! After the divorce was final he can screw the slut all he wants. Nothing to hold him to her. I think her suicide would have made a better ending...

Was a very maudlin, but believable story... until the last two pages!

Father has secret family? Half sister just happens to have some incurable gejetic disease? (oh, and someone with OI even thinking about having a baby? Doubt for two reasons a. huge health risk b. many dear spreading gene to progeny). Father "loves" older half-sister more? Mother goes into convent (who the hell does that now-a-days)? Leslie just leaves Oakland - without a word to anyone - after spending ~year trying to reintegrate with community? After giving $200,000 check to half-sister she is living in Bar Harbor how?

It's just too full of holes or improbables in such a short time span, while everything else had taken months and months to plod along (which is fine as I saw it as a metaphor for life in rural Appalachian Maryland). Any one or two of those is easily absorbed with readers "suspension of dishelief", but put all of them, especially so closely, together and the disbelief sponge is full to overflowing.

I want to give just this section a 3-star, but as usual so well written; then take the story as a whole (just barely as the downfall is at the end), it deserves 4-stars.

I suppose all the critical commentators would have written the story differently, had it been their own. I enjoyed it as you wrote it. There were a few stylistic bumps, but so what. Thanks for taking the time to write and post it.

Anon, you said it all.....it.s just your typical run of the mill RAAC

was a strong hatred for everyone who lived in Oakland. Leslie shits all over Frances and everybody, including his parents and kids take her side. Does not make a fucking bit of difference how Frances fells, fuck him. It is all about poor little Leslie The poor baby made a mistake. So she fucked around on you. Big deal. Man up, cut your balls off, tuck your dick between your legs, and welcome her back with open arms. When she fucks up again, just suck her lovers cum out of her ass, and take her back. The whole damn fucking town should get their noses out of his business.

You had a good story going here until you decided to turn it into just another pathetic RAAC tale.

First, it wasn't 3 times. In the first chapter, he caught it because of a credit card statement, which would have been at least a week after the last charge. Then, he goes down and questions the motel owner who says "They come in every week or so; sometimes once, sometimes twice a week. They get a room, stay a few hours and leave."

To develop a pattern, it would have had to be more than three times. Hell, he tracked her GPS down there in a pattern of twice a week, hard to do that if it hadn't happened at least 4 times.

Next, the happy picture where she looks like a kid again leaving the house with Dick. Never was really addressed. Maybe too big a side plot line to get into. Regardless, this is the asshole who ruined her marriage she claims to miss and she's holding his hand? Ever?

She gave the $200k to her half sister after everything that was done for her? Could have at least paid his fucking credit card off first. Self-righteous cunt. The half sister got more money than she ever did. She couldn't have at least used it in Garrett County somewhere?

Hypnotism? meh. Rophynol? college educated and she was the only one who didn't know what it was?

And honestly, what about Francis? I mean seriously, whole town welcomes back the prodigal whore and not a single person from the church reaches out to Francis when he stops coming in? Here is this guy who is supposedly full of friends and he's all alone while everyone goes fawning all over the woman who didn't just have a fling, but as far as anyone knew, left him after a month long affair (possibly longer) for half a year to be with Dick.

Still gave you five stars because you are from Maryland. :P

Spelling errors and grammatical errors are one thing and a good reason to have an editor. Plot holes, revisionist history on your own story, that is another. It gets difficult, especially if you take breaks in writing (lol, I would know, been writing my biggest story over ten years now) But, it's worth the effort to re-read your previous chapters before diving into a new chapter after an extended hiatus from the writing.

For me its a story about a good man falling in love with evil. Everything she touches becomes twisted. The family is twisted, he becomes twisted, nothing makes sense anymore. It ultimately shows how evil can corrupt, and is fairly simple in doing so.

is wildly improbable, but it has the happy conclusion his story deserves.

After following this entire story through to the entire 5 Parts, I continued to find the storyline interesting and well thought-out and written. At the end of the day, however, having followed the storyline through the entire tortuous path envisioned by the author, I think the tale had run its course and I found the ending a bit of a letdown and anticlimactic....yet, in a way, very romantic and worthy of a small poignant teardrop as Francis finds it in his heart to reconcile with Leslie, whom he thought was on the verge of suicide, revealing to him just how much she truly means to him and how much he is actually willing to forgive (if not forget). Hopefully, she, too, has learned a lot about what a colossal mistake her infidelity was and just how close she came to losing everything, irreversibly and forever. Her story...once she decided to come clean....was almost too tawdry and pedestrian to be believed. However, she was "betrayed" into the act(s) of infidelity by Richard. Why he actually sought her out again, and why it took her so long to figure out that his story was so much B.S. we'll never know. As I said earlier, it's all a bit "anticlimactic".

While waiting for the next installment of "Dealing with Jessie" I decided to go back and again read some of your other stories and I have to say I very much liked this one 5*.

Just another pathetic RAAC story!!

Should have gotten rid of his scanner and his phone. Would have been much better off. Needed to take that out of state job the I stand she showed back up in town. Poor bastard got manipulated like a guy in a bigguy33 story

Through everything he went through with her and her own personal hell, you brought it home. I didn't like everything about the story. Her explanation didn't really clear everything up complete!y. Richard never had any consequences for his pivotal part in the whole thing. But that aside, I enjoyed it.

uber cuck

his wife a slut and she just loves to fuck

a piece of shit like him will never be enough

he has no spine, plus he cant get it up

he is the uber cuck

I went through a somewhat similar trial with my wife. We're back together but the years of separation - I would't wish it on anybody!

5* and thanks

19pvc44

Sometimes only the fear of loosing someone you love to the grips of death is the only way to make you see what you had.Great read. Thanks for sharing.

Easy to quibble about many things in the story and the writing, but there was lots of thoughtful plotting and character development. Commenters can bitch all they want, but this is head and shoulders above the idiotic swapping, sharing, I-Want-My-Wife-To-Fuck-Other-Men, and big cock obsession stories ...all of which are shallow, formulaic drivel for the demi-males who seem to populate this site. So, fuck you all. I give it a 5

This wasn't a loving wife story, this was a story of S&M, or scat. I know i tasted bile a few times from this story. Hell even if it was labeled horror i could understand it.

This guy is hilarious. Weak, half-empty ending though.

Good story but pissing off the anonomen alone would have earned it a five.

I like that.

Should have told her that the pressure from her in laws(no longer being his parents, her lying kids(no longer his kids) and his fucking boss along with the whole damn town has ruined any chance she had of reconciliation.

Not sure what happened in that last part about the family subterfuge. I do think the story would have sucked even more if you had them get back together as a result of all the BS games and pressure from family and the town. And yeah, there are some very good reconciliation stories on here where it was well justified, but no, this wasn't one of them. I was hoping it would be. Read all the way to the end to find out though.

By way of example anonymous of 01/08/2018 comment.

When you have the capacity to put a coherent thought to paper and not the stilted gibberish you are offering perhaps then you can consider critiquing others work.

These are amateur at work and whilst the story lacked polish the author still managed to take us to a conclusion I don’t think too many of us saw coming. This, In itself a meritorious achievement.

If being able to kind of spell most of the words correctly meant that the story was good, then sure, carvohi's stuff would be good. For folks who really haven't opened more than a handful of books in their lifetimes, and thus haven't heard of things like consistent characters, not bending characters into pretzels around your need to drive the plot towards a ridiculous direction, and the characters being so far from the people whom your audience has met in their lives, that they could just as well be written as alien beings on an alien planet. Luckily the fans of these writers are as close to illiterate as it is possible to be, and still be able to operate a computer.

Well written of course, but if you take the time to read what another anon commenter summed up you'll realize this story is not only about a poor wimpy guy, but a very stupid plot. Yeah, well written and if you like many others, scores based only on the writting skills I give you that it should rank high, but if you focus just in the story itself yous hould be asking yoruself as I am: Really? Did the writer enjoy putting the poor cuckold though all this misery? And it was not enough to put him through hell he has to make the poor wimpy cuckold take her back? Shitty ending ruining a not so good story.

Like to see final chapter clear up loose ends

Lots of dangles left over. Never really got into the characters. Development was twisted on some, stunned on others.