All Comments on 'Cancer'

Ramonia was a good girl/woman that wanted to taste the honey out there the only problem was she had a much better grade of honey in Brad that she just threw out like last nights trash.

Kelly appreciated what she threw away and fell in love with Brad and went after him and got him.Good for her. Now Kelly is with child and if it is a girl they will name it Ramonia Why I dont know and what ever happened to her mother and sister did they just go off into the night. Good story in my favorites.You know some people come out of an illness and glad to be with there loved ones.I guess some do not.I would like to read more about Kelly and Brad if yo have written a follow up story.

Ron. Texas

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I don't think it was the cancer that changed her. Having cancer DOES change a person big time and their family. I think in this story it was her losing weight and having her skin clear up that changed her. She finally became voluptuous and was sought after.....that she couldn't handle. She said it herself that she finally had the control to pick the guy, do what she wants and then get rid of the guy, not the other way around. It was this power that her beauty gave her that she couldn't handle. When she changed from the chubby girl to the beauty, to the 'big-breasted bimbo' that she became...and always hated....that her true self became apparent.

Yes, I don't really understand how her husband could let her go out drinking, etc. for so long a time without doing something. He wanted her to be happy but there is a limit. Thank you for a good story.

What is the TRUE BTB? To sell the cheating wife to Central American whorehouse?

NOT! To let the cheating wife (ex wife) alone in the hospital-hospice in the struggle against the illness. This is the ONE OF THE BIGGEST BTB!

5*****

Wading through all your stories. Some I like, some not so much. This one was good.

After she was diagnosed with the cancer he said that is why at (25years old) she was always tired. Now think about this she was 25 years of age completed college and married for 7 years so 7+4=11 years so there is no way that this adds up if I am wrong tell me so.because 25-11=14. Ramona lost and Kelly won

Ron. Texas

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you forgot to sign your name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Ron

Ramona caused her own downfall. Kelly picked up what she threw away like last nights trash. Kelly and Brad lives on. How about an update on them.

Ron. Texas

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I'm sorry... but when he refused to come see her... and tried to use it as leverage... he.seriously lost the moral high ground... granted she went crazy after almost dying from cancer... a scare that was btw... by no means gone... and I understand his not being able to get over it... but this was a woman that had loved him without reservation for many years... and he couldn't find it within himself to give her some peace in her last month of life... it was really necessary to rub her face in divorce and make her dying 10 times more difficult... when the divorce wouldn't even matter in less than a month???... regardless of how she ran off the track (and ive seen people that come close to death that react far worse) she loved him... greatly... the manner in which he let her die reflects badly on him... jmo

-jaye-

She made her bed and she lost all hope and passed. Why forgive her for fucking every Tom,Dick and Harry She broke his heart she just had to play like Kelly said she did her majic trick she crawled into a liquor bottle and turned herself into a whore all in the name of fun. She got what she deserved alone and dying even her Mother and Sister wanted nothing to do with her. The story is a little extreme but it's just a story. I have never heard of true cancer patient's doing this. Have. You?

Ron

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What would lying to her accomplish. Lots of people have cancer and beat the odds, but they don't go out and fuck the whole town afterwards. She, herself said, she wanted some fun from being the fat person she had always been. There was no mention from her about her doing this because of her cancer. She just turned into a slut and he treated her the way she had been acting. Ignore her the way she had ignored him. How come the RAAC crowd always thinks that they should talk things over, she'll tell him that she really loves only him and all the other fucks didn't mean anything, and he will forgive her so they can live happily ever after? Why can't people believe that she is just a slut, she loves only herself, and that she will never be a loving wife? As Freud said, 'Sometimes a slut is just a slut.'

To pass judgment on this story would be a sin against all who have cancer! Love you all! GREG BYE.

But a well written story. He could have seen her at the last and helped her die peacefully.

I like this story, I really enjoyed reading this. You can almost look at this story as a BTB story because the cheating wife actually brunt herself with cancer.

This tale is two things: typical and sad. Typical being about the fat girl (I hate saying that because all women are beautiful no matter the weight but this is how she described herself) found someone who loves her but when she lost the weight she, in her mind, because thin and beautiful and started her drunk and whorish ways forgetting about her loving husband. Sad because when she realized she lost her husbands love she knew she had to get it back, somehow. Typical again because in the time she cheated he met another who saw him as a loving man who would say faithful forever. True, she forced the issue a little but she loved him and he loved her and in the end all were happy. At least all who lived.

Stories where the husband find the love of his life (wife) cheating on him, drifts away with a broken heart and is scooped up by a strong, beautiful woman - are just weird!

Fantasy? Maybe, but a weird fantasy of a passive man. Perhaps it was the husbands innately passive / doormat personality that made the little whore think she could dirty up her filthy hole and then come home and wipe it on her doormat? This guy needed to be told his wife was cheating on him, the first night he found her out without him an average husband would have been on alert and tracking the slut down. He wouldn't wait until he had to be told by another woman. Then there is the whole - "we" went through cancer, and I will pay your medical bills" thing. This is the Saint Husband fantasy. It too is laughable. His actions are not the actions of a saint, or even an average man. His actions are those of a doormat. As far the "beautiful woman to the rescue" - Another silly fantasy! Have you ever seen a woman who is beautiful by societies standards not use her appearance to catch the biggest money earner that she could? The exceptions to this rule are: Crazy women, Beaten Down women (usually from child abuse or other early family abuse), drug addicted women, ect. In other words there has to be something significantly wrong with them to waste their time on an average guy who is a doormat. Of course, worse than the above defects is the controlling woman - Wife 2.0 who wants her own passive doormat so she can wipe her shit all over him. Fantasy is fine, until it becomes so illogical that it collapses under its own weight.

This was really a crappy story! Not one character that was worth a anything.

"My mom said, you'll cheat on me so you can have kids," – If he had kids with another woman he couldn’t acknowledge them without admitting cheating!

“All of the things we'd gone through with the cancer and every thing else had forged our bond far deeper than ever before.” – For YOU, maybe!

"Most of the guys out there are just after whatever they can get and some fun. That gets kind of empty after a while.” – LOL, sounds like Ramona!

"But now with all of the weight I lost I started getting attention from more guys” – Yeah, the weight you lost when you were sick and Brad was taking care of you!

"He's always working anyway," – Working to pay YOUR medical bills, and since you’re feeling better, why aren’t YOU working to help out?

What an evil bitch, no one deserves cancer but she was a vile evil witch

My wife is a cancer survivor. A big fuck you to this author and all the hyenas saying she deserved it. Garbage story filled with garbage readers

The husband in this story is a total cuck ass wimp!

To get the true concept of the story you need to look deeper in the story not just read the written words. I could go into it by what I observed but you might read something different out of it. If want read the story again and look for all the catch phrases

In my favorites

led to a good ending for a good story .

thanks for this .

5*

I don't get why sme writers seem to drop those nasty little details at the end of the story that ruin them. Calling her baby after the cheater? Really? Do you want that karma over the poor baby? "Do you know sweetheart? you were named after my first wife who cheated on me." Great story besides that detail.

An interesting take on this situation. I can see how he could be seen as a wimp. He will do anything for her. I'm glad he finally woke up, even though she did not. Thanks for your story.

...but he namef his daughter after his first wife; the wife who fucked around on him, treated him like shit and broke his fucking heart. For that...one stat. Fuck you

My least favorite SS06 story.

The ending was a killer for me, literally and figuratively. The life, death and general well-being of characters is solely in the hands of the author in fiction. I found the death of Ramona appalling in this instance. Ramona losing Brad was a sort-of death in itself and the punishment fit the crime as it were. Ramona was selfish and foolish but she might've been reined in had circumstances been altered but hence the story line would've been doused of the flaming drama. I have a great amount of respect and admiration of this author but I feel he got bored or rushed this ending without forethought. It is for that reason I rated this story four stars instead of the usual five.

3 holes in the ground, I'll put 3 things in them.

First one: he named his child after Ramona...after not talking to her unless she signed the divorce papers.

Second one: it was implied Kelly was Ramona's idea "not doing...according to her plan.". What the fuck?

Third one: he didn't get to go for his drive.

Kinda long. All in all the husband was a total asshole. He should have be been the one who died. Ramona’s cheating was bad but what hubby did was over the top.

The author should have had be more of a man than a creep.

REALLY???!!!

Finds out she likes attention and revels in it. Ignoring, slutting around, and hurting present spouse. Ends in divorce.

This story fills out the details brilliantly, and somewhat uniquely. Fills out Kelly's personality and character. Details more than normal the why, and the details of F;&/Ing MIL animosity.

I suppose just a little more internal POV from Ramona would be good. It's certainly detailed enough for a typical Literotica reader, as we have read all this before. So we fill out her character with memories of similar situations while reading.. But a new reader might have use for a little more of her internal thought processes and feelings. But this is a tiny quibble.

5-stars

... how it would end? Would he/she relish the beautiful appearance and attention afforded by this new exterior? Will he/she start fucking every water fowl under the sun? One can only wonder.

I have had a couple of people I know now whose chubby/fat wives have lost a lot of weight and changed. It doesn't have to be from a cancer type thing, both of them had a weight reduction surgery. They went from great, loving, faithful wives/people to cumguzzling-whores. First, they both cheated on their husbands who they found disgustingly overweight now, to them and then divorce. One of them even bailed on her husband and 3 kids for her new and exciting lover.

However, as Karma often does, she rears her ugly head and becomes a Bitch. Both of those women ended up gaining back all of the weight they had lost after a few years and got dumped by their Lovers. When the one with the 3 kids came crawling back, it was too late. He was a friend of mine and I got him on a workout plan and a healthy diet. Basically, he changed his lifestyle, became more active in sports and hobbies, lost some weight but more importantly, he turned a lot of his weight into muscle.

So, when she came back weighing more than he did she found he had a beautiful new bride with a recent bun in the oven and 3 kids that adored her and wanted NOTHING to do with their biological mother who had made zero attempts to even contact them in the previous few years. After that realization on her part, no one I know of ever saw her again. Like the previous couple of years when she bailed on her hubby and kids, she hasn't even sent them Birthday/Christmas Presents or Cards.

She never attended the weddings of the kids and no one knows if she even realizes they got married and gave her grandkids. She could be dead for all anyone knows.

They had thought about hiring a PI (me) to go find her, but then decided not to as she knew where they were if she wanted anything to do with them. I even offered to do it for free as they are really good friends and to the kids, I was always Uncle Tommy and to their kids, I am now Poppa Tommy.

Within hours? Macabre much? What a lovely double anniversary to remember.

As someone who has had cancer (kidney) and, hopefully, beaten it (surgery), I can’t say I enjoyed the ending of this story at all. Cancer sucks and it’s a diagnosis I would not wish even on my worst enemy.

I've seen a couple of people question why he'd name his kid after his cheating ex-wife, and I have to agree.

'Daddy, why did you name me Ramona?'

'You see, sweetie, I used to be married to a woman named Ramona. But she cheated on me and broke my heart, after beating cancer, and refused to sign the divorce papers. Anyway, the cancer came back, she died and your mom and I got hitched hours later. And that, kiddo, is why you're named Ramona'

What a fucking joke

Nothing wrong wiith sitting back & doing nothing! A deserved ending was at hand.

Another bang with Stang.

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

women were hitting on him all the time because they could smell his need for release! Are you serious? Women can smell a man and know it has been awhile since he ejaculated? lol...do you think we are morons? If he is working all these long hours, it must be coworkers doing the hitting on...and just how many women are in his office especially late in the evening? Get a grip! 1 star.

It has restored my faith in a just and vengeful God!

"... as if they could smell my need for release." <- key words there being " as if ".

It's called hyperbole... moron.

Stangstar06 has an incredible imagination and writing talent.

The genius of George Clinton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A

ANOTHER OLD GUY , YOUNG CARING ,DEVOTED HO, AND CAR.

Hey, dumbfuck. Why don't you try really hard to pay attention to details when you read a story? The "Old Guy" and the nurse he married are about the same age. She worked at the hospital before they ever met and had already been married and had divorced her husband after the THIRD time she caught him cheating on her. If she were here and read your comment, she'd laugh, shake her head and say you're fucking STUPID. I'd stick up for you and say that you're just a brain dead Liberal.

You often see cancer used as a plot device in LW stories, but never quite like this. A really good story unlike anything I've seen previously. What a great writer and poor judge of cars.

She needed the class for her degree program and I needed the class as a prerequisite for AutoCAD. I hate fucking AutoCAD.

"Well" I said calmly. "The big breasted bimbos are smart enough to do one thing that gives them the advantage, whether it involves dating, relationships, or getting guy's dicks wet." She looked at me dubiously and asked, "What's that?" "They ask," I snapped. "They communicate. They do something to let the guy know that they're interested." What a concept, communication, Webster gives one definition as "Intercourse".

"Over the next few weeks Ramona had surgery to remove some of her lymph nodes and started a radiation therapy program. I stayed in the cancer center's family apartments so I could sleep (when I did sleep) right next door to her." U of Michigan has a motel on site, very handy unfortunately it always seems to be fully occupied.

"The nurses in the facility had always been angels toward me, and they often went above and beyond the job to help me do things for Ramona." These could be the nurses at U of Michigan or University Hospital in San Antonio.

"You gave him up, when you did your magic trick," said Kelly just as loudly. "What the fuck are you talking about, you silly cunt?" asked Ramona. "You disappeared into a liquor bottled and transformed yourself into a whore," spat Kelly.

"Ramona, you, didn't have cancer," Brad said seriously. "What?" she began, as Brad held up his hand to silence her. "We, had cancer!" he said, with tears beginning to form. "I was there every fucking day in the hospital," he snapped. "Only it was worse for me, you felt it, but they gave you drugs for the pain," he said. "I had to sit there and watch the person I loved most be ravaged by it. Powerless to do anything, but I had, to watch it. There were times when I felt so guilty, that I'd have done anything..." said Brad. "If I could have taken your place, I would have," he said. "And I couldn't, but I never left your side," he told her. "I had to pretend, to be cheerful so you could keep your hope, and your spirits up," he said, "But inside, I died a little bit, everyday." I don't know what it's like for a husband and a wife to go through this but I do know this is exactly what it is for a father with his daughter and losing.

"Why must I be like that, why must I chase the cat," It was all so clear now." The answer is "Nothing but the dog in me."

"They fucked, they screwed, they did everything they knewed. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)" ;~}

"They have a saying in Polish," said Kelly "Tough-ski Shit-ski." ( ! )

You hit the nail on the head describing cancer, I can attest having been there myself, members of my immediate and extended family as well as numerous coworkers and friends. Thank you for that. I both agree and disagree with 25thNC on this one. First I agree on the quality of the story and author but disagree on the car. My '67 was a great car till it got Michigan road salt cancer and just rotted away. Signed BTW

They barely waited the legal amount of time. He gets a divorce that takes 9 months to a year if Ramona never signs the papers and they have to wait out the Court process. Then, depending on the State they're in, they have to wait 6 months to a year before he can re-marry. So by her dying they were able to get married much sooner than normal. Ramona may6 have been a slut but Kelly wasn't an angel. And who paid off the medical bills AFTER she died? Badly thought out drivel.

2 stars

Really a pile of crap. Why is it that all the stories of a wife cheating ends with hubby getting a new hot girlfriend and the ex ending up alone and broke or dies a horrible death. Are all the authors who write these stories just bitter divorcees who hate women? Would be nice if a realistic story could be written.

Other comments said it

4 stars

No literotica story that I've read yet has packed as much of an emotional wallop as this one masterfully done, I re-read it twice more and cried each time.I gave it five stars and listed it as a "favorite", but I don't think I'll re-read it a third time (too painful).

It followed the template of some of your other stories but was much more powerful

I felt bad for Brad and Ramona, was a bit confused by Kelly's "Why didn't you call me?", and would have liked more scenes with Ramona's mother and sister, but those are mere quibbles as overall the story was very powerful.

You only have to look at all of the NDG’s (no disclosure agreements) that Trumpy has with young beautiful women to see REAL sexist attitude!

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They really didn't have to name the baby after the cheating wife ffs...

Otherwise nice story. I'd rate 4*s, but will give 5* because it at least tied everything up nicely at the end.

Personally it seemed like you were is constant tensoion between whom to give moreattention to, Kelly or Ramona. I still think Ramona got too little of a say.

And the story seemed to be a sort of highlights reel of all the other best LW stories...

@timriv - it's men writing this lol.

[Really a pile of crap. Why is it that all the stories of a wife cheating ends with hubby getting a new hot girlfriend and the ex ending up alone and broke or dies a horrible death. Are all the authors who write these stories just bitter divorcees who hate women? Would be nice if a realistic story could be written.]

Ramona got her rewards...

390 hp lmao.

so if fucking other men is funny, they why get mad at him for fucking Kelly?

Five people at her funeral, speaks plainly to the type of person that she had become. A really good story.

Sad ending; Nuff said .6 stars. The Bear approves. Love those Mustangs.

The BEAR

The concept of this story has multiple layers revealing in a believable manner how a devoted couple deals with a serious Cancer diagnosis and treatment .

That's worth the 4 stars.

Unfortunately the story's second plot line is superficially , nearly indifferently handled, and is wanting. .....so, no 5 stars.

After all the weight lose, Ramona became a narcissist woman who NOW be able to explore her new found sexuality and life WITHOUT BRAD . Brad is differently better off with Kelly. THIS is definitely a good worthwhile BTB story.

Didn't like it one bit.

timriv Fantasi story collection contains stories about successful exhusbands who divorced cheater wives, why problems to you?

The LW other part shows husbands who like their wives have extramarital sex. Is this the real world that the 80% of the husbands like the wives have extramarital sex and the husbands must be faithful as the LW stories show??????

Well done.

Bill

A good story but a sad story. You get what you give.

I get what she did caused the breakdown of their marriage but to marry his new gf days after his wife dies from cancer is insensitive an refusing to visit her when she was DYING is cruel I don’t care what went down with an ex I would go an see him if he asked me too in that situation cos the happy years u spent together should count for something

Love all of it except naming the baby after her. The kid doesn’t deserve that even if Kelly agreed to it for some crazy reason.

Ramona got hers. With the first round of cancer, Brad was there most f the time, then worked extra hard, just to pay HER cancer bill. That's how the slut paid him. Seeing that, Kelly was truly his WIFE, before they even married. Ramona was just a whore and he shouldn't have paid her hospital bill. Instead of fucking around, she should have worked to pay HER bill, not OUR BILL.

Why name the baby after a slut and a cheater and give her such a bad karma? Imagine when the baby grows up and asks: "Daddy why did you name me Ramona?" "Well, Ramona was my ex-wife. She cheated on me with multiple men, broke my heart and never gave me a divorce, but I thought I was a good name for you..."

Not a bad story.

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I get what she did caused the breakdown of their marriage but to marry his new gf days after his wife dies from cancer is insensitive an refusing to visit her when she was DYING is cruel I don’t care what went down with an ex I would go an see him if he asked me too in that situation cos the happy years u spent together should count for something

Then obviously you've never been betrayed by someone you truly loved mind, body and soul. When something like that happens, especially when they selfishly won't let you go because THEY don't want to, all you can do is avoid them and, ultimately, move on. It takes two to be a couple and selfish assholes and idiots rarely realize they can't force a decent man or woman they've wronged to act like they did before said asshole or idiot wronged them. That's why you ALWAYS dump a cheater. You can still love them, and maybe reconciliations are successful somewhere other than rumors, gossip, stories or books, but you ALWAYS dump their asses so they realize that failing to keep their promises is a deal-breaker and leads directly to being alone and out in the cold, PERIOD.

5⭐️S. Great story. You are missed,

SS06

Cancer is a monster, the real monster is the medical industry. (except nurses) Cure cancer and the medical industry would go bankrupt. I lost my wife to cancer, a five year battle. So I know What you were trying to express with your MC. I also know what the patient goes through so I can understand her frame of mind. No my wife did not run around, she was never able. All the lies the devils (doctors) told us during these treatments getting our hopes up. Then denying saying it. I started recording what they said, then they refused to let me accompany her during her appointments. The nurses were the only humane part of the whole thing. Chemo, was invented by Adolph Hitler's scientist as a chemical weapon to kill people. So I've read.

You may say I'm a little bitter, when it come to medical industry I am.

This is a great story. Wish you were still writing.

Great story, well written and everyone got what they deserved ( both bad and good). It’s a shame that there are people in the world like Ramona.

Again great story

Loved the story except marrying Kelly hours after Ramona died that’s just vile behaviour an not visiting Ramona in her final hours is so cruel an imo he loses any moral high ground an is worse than a lying cheating slut yeh she was wrong but he’s become evil hope Kelly realises before it’s too late that he’s not the nice guy he tries to portray

Strange tales of mustangs more dependable than ex spouse.

I hate the whole hopelessly in love narrative 🙄 if your a teenager then yes you become overwhelmed with your 'love' because frankly your ignorant and irrational. But grown men very rarely ever convey feelings of being hopelessly in love that's a Chick Thing😂😂😂

Ending just sucked on multiple levels. Sure divorce was inevitable. But cancer comes back. She is dying. Fine he doesn't have any reason yo support her. But he trues to extort her to sign the papers? Marries her within hours of her death, and yet names his kid after his dead ex? Wtf? And the whole motivation for cheating was lame.

I think he might just love his car more than he loves either woman.

"Ramona was served the papers, and tore them up. She not only refused to sign them, but to even read them, or get a lawyer." This is just silly. If she is served the divorce complaint and then does not respond, that does not stop the divorce. It goes on by itself with a judge eventually dividing assets which, in this case, sound mostly like debt.

Bit extreme.

"She cheated but then luckily she died of cancer"

Holy balls.

Great Story!! Loved it!!

That is an unusual response to a husband that suffered along by her side for a long time as she fought her cancer and he supported her. Definitely fiction.

Just another stupid, selfish bitch.

I'll say this. Fuck cancer. Fuck it up it's tailpipe with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. The sooner modern day science figures out the cure-all for cancer in all it's forms, the better. Ramona was dumb. She was over the top lost in the FOMO after beating cancer the first time. Happens to people in real life, though probably not to this extreme. I don't think she deserved to be killed by cancer. No-one does. Brad forcing the divorce through on infidelity charges with the proof released and Ramona declared persona non grata and forced to leave the city / county / state to start over somewhere would have been a more fitting end to her part of this story.

Not one of your best I'm afraid. The storyline and characterisation just didn't quite gel properly. This could have been so much better sorry to be negative but it's how I felt when I finished. It left me unsatisfied. BardnotBard

@Kahunabob it's nice to see that someone still believes they are trying to cure cancer. I really don't anymore.

There's too much money to be made by treating the disease.

It's just not cancer either, I feel there are a lot of diseases that just het treated, not cured. So many people on a drug regimen for life.

As for the story, she forgot she wasn't alone and felt her disease should give her special treatment.

The whole "fat to fab" thing is a real phenomena. In fact they actually give people who go on those "biggest loser" type shows psychological counseling because of it... it still doesn't help, they have a VERY high rate of divorce post weight-loss. Personally, while I thought this story was good, I felt like the cancer angle made me feel too sad for Ramona.

A strong story! 5*****

Like the fella once said "ain't that your pig of a wife". ...... "the place was a tabletop, they fucked her, and she fucked back". ........ "like the sailor said quote, your wife smells like the harbor at low tide "

Come on man you know that old children's song from the sea...... seven chipmunks sitting on a branch, eating lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch

Big_Tim99. You are correct, please please research a Dr Otto Warburg ( yes the banking family Warburgs) he cured cancer in 1931, he proved it using the scientific method, he received a Nobel prize for his work....

Also check out a YouTube video called. "Cancer the Forbidden Cures"

Ramona may have been one of the worst wives written about in this genre. And that's with wives who try to destroy their husband's lives so they can go out and have their new man in their life. You don't repay his kind of devotion with her actions.

good story about sad lives

So obviously written through the delusional eyes of a woman. Let's start with the fact that men don't use guilt, his whole letter to his wife was a guilt trip, showing he had little self-respect blaming himself. Also weak emotional men DO NOT attract beautiful women who want to help them whether emotionally or physically. After being destroyed by divorce caused by a cheating whore most real men never again trust women, they are broken inside and usually live the rest of their lives sad and alone. Why, because women are for one NOT attracted to sad emotionally depressed men, and add to that what women have zero clue about is how hard (meeting and dating) women is, and that's for men who aren't broken. You used so many feminized ideologies in this story a weak emotional man, a woman coming to his rescue, and karma dealing the revenge upon her. Cheating whores should be stoned to near death and made to live the rest of her life in a community where everyone knows who and what she is.