All Comments on 'Busted!'

5* Thank you for a neat little story with a happy ending - for Jim and Annie at least.

We all have to make choices sometimes!

5

You score a 5⭐ with no possible context.

Selfishness, the desire to always have more, always better........ dissatisfaction or rather the fact of not being satisfied with what one has, are as you wrote the greatest motive for betrayal and cheating.

A classic example of a double entendre. Made me smile - the ending, that is, not Barbara’s shenanigans. Thanks very kindly.

This was very well done. You had a great idea for a story and presented it extremely well.

She made the right choices. Barbara was never a friend and would betray her in a heartbeat.

Beautiful story. 5 stars and a fave!

Well done.

Liked it! She reacted the way a real loving wife would react. Her GF got pissed at her for not condoning bad behavior. How often do “friends” look the other way for their friends? I’m guessing more often than not.

Wasn't sure where you were going to lead us, but really warm, loving story - 5.0*

Very nice!

A perfect snapshot of married life. Been there, done that.

I really enjoy stories like this with real people acting like real people. In this case the POV is from an observer, not the ones doing what they shouldn't.

Thanks. 5*

Not bad; in fact I gave it a 4, but only because I thought it needed a bit more drama. THANKS FOR THE READ. CD

So much said in such a short story. At first I gave it four stars, but then I went back and read the story again and had to give it all five stars. Well done JW.

Amen

So lovely to read about people who actually love each other and eventually communicate like real people would.

5 stars, thank you.

@johntcooksey

The author’s pen name or the title of the story? 😃

A short but incisive exploration of the impact of an affair on friends…as well as a loving relationship.

Wonderful story. Barbara was warned, but wouldn't listen. The whore, and maybe her master, got theirs. GOOD!

A story of a special wife 5

Your pen name says it all. Might be "Just words" but you certainly have a way of putting them together, Thank you.

An excellent perspective story! Thank you!

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Be well!

Perfect! 5*

Great story! It does happen in real !

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Great story, thanks! 5 BIG ONES!

Thank you for swimming against the tide and for arriving at your destination. It is good to act toward restoring balance.

Great story, thanks for this. wish there were many more like it. 5/5

That you, everyone. It's always gratifying when someone likes the effort and I never know if a story will be received until I put it out there and test the waters. And, yes, this wife is a keeper for sure!

5* for legitimate literotica family values! Believable, likable characters for such a short story. Bravo!

Thank you for writing and thank you for sharing your work.

Nice. Annie was in a no win scenario. She’s lucky that Jim saw the look on her face in the photo, otherwise he’d have had some questions and suspicions of his own. Been in exactly that situation. Not fun. Sometimes you have to choose between what’s right for your family, rather than keeping your friends’ secrets.

So much potential. Interesting scenario but it becomes husband “all knowing” and wife who could have had agency becomes 1 dimensional. Way too patronizing, but your tale to tell.

A very human dilemma. Just what do you do when a friend is openly going off the rails like that?

None of the choices are palatable, but priority is making sure your spouse knows.

Fantastic story, love the love shown towards each other! 5*

A great story, although unusual for a romance. 5 stars.

Loved it. You deserve more than 5 stars. People who cheat are selfish.

A well told short story. 5 stars DMW aka

Those kids behave the way they were trained to by their parents. Wait until the no knock policy is reciprocated after they hit puberty.

Good one and way too close to reality for a story. Keep 'em coming 5*s

Great story , J_W! Thanks for writing!

Wow! Great string of well deserved comments, to which I’ll add my 5.

Where was the conflict? Reads more like a report than a story. Claire didn’t tell Jim the whole truth. In fact lied to him. She told Jim, “I think Barbara is running around…” when in fact, Barbara had already confessed to Claire. That was completely unexplored in the story.

So damn sad and pointless (Barbara's stupidity) but so lovely having the contrast of a happy, loving relationship with a husband and wife who are thoroughly committed and dedicated to each other and their family. Make me sad, then make me laugh happily. You keep doing this to me, you darn puppetmaster. Have a fave. Contented fidelity is stupidly hot, to me.

Now that is a loving wife.

Thanks for writing her.

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4.5 stars. I'm unsure if I should round to 4 or 5. On one hand, well written story. But it has 2 issues:

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1. She should have told her husband IMMEDIATELY. Let him decided to tell the friend or not. But she shouldn't have hidden it from him, AT ALL. Honestly say "I suspect, I don't know for sure". As a consequence of this, she was super lucky with some circumstantial stuff, or he would have had VERY valid reason to worry about her being OK with cheating. And even in the end she's justifying her silence instead of admitting she was in the wrong.

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2. OK, there was divorce for the cheating skank, but we all know that by default, unless story says otherwise, it means she gets the kids, the house, all the money and all he gets is loss of kids and money and PTSD for his trouble; so basically she wins on all points and he loses on all points. I am not going to lower the rating for this in THIS story, since it was not about Tom as MC, but it still bothered me that there was no BTB upside for cheating victim.

@Karl_Hundasson - simple. You stop being the person's friend. FAST. If the bitch was willing and able to so easily destroy and hurt her HUSBAND, the one person she supposedly loved most, imaging what she would and could to to a mere friend (never mind acquaintance, which her blowing up shows was the actual relationship). And that's purely on the practical side. On a moral/ethical side, the friendship should take subsidiary role to the fairness and justice (for the victim of cheating).

Pfantastic marriage. Loved the story.

A very nice short story. 5 from me.

Good story, well told. Realistic people and realistic dilemmas. I don't understand why people would downvote a story because its characters make wrong decisions. All of us make wrong decisions, and a story without them would be a worse story. FWIW I agree with the decision to try to stay friends with Barbara without agreeing with what she has done; Barbara is going to need somebody like that even though she doesn't know it yet.

A loving couple with a dumbass female friend.

Thanks for sharing...

A surprisingly good little tale, with a captivating tempo. Strong 4*

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Great story.

Sweet commentary on how a loving family ought to be.

5

Yes, the right sentiment throughout. We occasionally need a reminder of the good marriages and faithful spouses that so infrequently find their way to these pages.

What Trambak Said.

Certainly a novel perspective on a classic infidelity situation. Well done 4*

out fucking standing. It's a very realistic and accurate conversation between the husband and the wife. very well written and very believable

Five Stars.

well written short story, right to the point.

A nicely done, 5-star story of romance, touched with a bit of Loving Wives about a cheating wife who wasn't part of the couple telling the story.

The relationship of the narrating couple puts them solidly into the Romance category.

Well done !

Thank you for a happy family story!

5* lovely story - thank you

Good story of real friends who risk the friendship by telling you stuff you need to know but didn't want to. 5*

Yet another five! How do you do it? Be so consistently excellent, that is!

Brilliant. From a perspective that's not often addressed. And an actual sense of morality that seems to be missing badly on this website. Nice to know there's a few women around who aren't pushing the agenda for other female dogs to be running around loose and think there's no consequences....

There's an old saying out there. "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks..." in this case, the narcissistic woman spoke it in her mouth and her actions. It's a heart issue, all of these are at the very base. It's selfishness, and nothing more. These women run around talking about wanting to be fulfilled and it's only a fling and it doesn't hurt anyone and it's just about excitement. But it's not, it's just that they can't think about anybody other than themselves.

@Anonymous - Interesting quote. I've not heard that before. Thank you. I might steal it someday if you don't mind.

English Standard Version

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Luke 6:45

Reality writ large

Nice short.

Wow, really good one, but, are you sure stories with a sense of moral compass are even allowed on this website? So much trash on this site, this was certainly a nice take on whst a life should be....

I liked thius story, so different from the usual run of LW stories, one about a happy, devoted couple. Good job and well written to boot!

Good story with a great message. For a while I did wonder if the shoe was going to drop and she was having an affair. Very well written and worthy of a follow-up with how things went with their friend Tom and his children. BardnotBard

I loved it. I loved that the faithful wife didn't get ideas from the cheater and wasn't tempted to be a cheater as well, as happens in many histories. It's so sad when all the friends in a group are alike and all of them turn into slut cheaters... They seem to think that if all of them do the same wrong thing then it can't be wrong or it isn't a big deal. A few days ago, I read a story in which a woman was cheating on her husband to get a promotion, and I read, with horror, that a commenter was telling to "not take it too hard" because that practice happens with frequency. She and several of her also-married friends "had fucked to get a promotion and kept doing it to advance in their careers. If many people do something wrong then it is right? I don't think so. That comment disgusted and sickened me. I liked this story because at least there was a faithful wife.

I like the honorable, sensible, intelligent, and for lack of a better word "world-weary" female protagonist. She can calculate more than two moves ahead in chess, I think.