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She finished off her wine and with a deep sigh said "This is the big one. I told you I had thought this through fully. It is obvious now that I hadn't, for that I am truly, truly sorry. I thought I had, but I had failed to think of how you would see it, how you would react to thinking I wanted another man. Because in my head I didn't, but you couldn't see in my head so you wouldn't know it wasn't going to happen."

"So, I am sorry I hurt you, sorry I made you angry and sorry I didn't think it through properly or come to you so we could work my problems out together," She paused, "Can I stay home now please?"

I put my hands over hers saying "After I thought it through and realised what you were doing, but not why you were doing it, I was never going to turn you away."

I had got just the apology that I wanted, she didn't think it all the way through and for that she was sorry.

She slid into my arms crying and I said, "I think we should go to bed." We did.

The next morning there was a loud knocking at the front door, when I opened it Jackie and Dave were there with Claire's suitcase. Jackie hugged me and asked if everything was Ok, I told her it was. Dave then exclaimed, "Oh yeah," He looked at me, smiled and said "Missed the game then?" I smiled back. Claire had just come from the kitchen wearing one of my dress shirts. She smiled at them and took the suitcase from Dave and took it upstairs. Dave got dragged into the living room by his ear by my big sister to stop him seeing if Claire had any knickers on.

"Did you tell her what to apologise for?" I asked.

"No." Jackie replied.

"But she did drop hints the size of the Empire State Building," said Dave.

I don't like football anyway.

Epilogue

Claire came home giggling a couple of weeks later. "The flirting has started again." She told me.

"I knew that they would be back flirting if they didn't get anywhere with the new girl."

She giggled again "It was the new girl doing the flirting!"

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AnonymousAnonymous25 days ago

A strange tale. But worth four stars from me. Just glad there was no adultery.

JPB NOT BOB

AnonymousAnonymousabout 1 month ago

So to sum up:

Poignant love story to start.

Amazing perfect marriage for 20 years

Wanna try a threesome?

GET OUT!!!!! My views of our marriage are shattered how could any of it have been real???

Don’t come back until you can solve my riddles of insecurity !

So um why doesn’t SHE divorce HIM ? This guy is insane.

TrainerOfBimbosTrainerOfBimbos3 months ago

Oh man, this is such common toxic behavior. A woman is feeling a bit down on herself so she tries to manipulate her man into being jealous as if that'll fix the insecurity she's feeling, be it age or just general attractiveness. It's crazy, but if you think about it, women do this from the time they're little girls, teenagers up until they're old women. A lot has been written here and elsewhere about how stupid it is for women to let their insecurities about their looks control so much real estate in their brains, but really if you stop to think about it, it makes perfect sense. After all, in a match up of almost anything except child birthing, the average woman is generally unequal to men in the measures by which we judge success in our culture going back thousands of years. The one thing that they have a solid lock on is their sexual desirability and it kicks in at a time in their lives when they are immature and typically unable to handle it or even understand the ramifications. In a lot of ways, they're playing a game that some day they are destined to lose and they know that and for many of them, the process of winding down and becoming invisible to society is crippling, especially when you consider how much more social women are than men. So, like I get it. I understand it. I have a lot of empathy for women suffering through this and I don't really blame them for it any more than I blame a man for say, being a workaholic and ignoring his family. It's sad, it's unfortunate, but there are REASONS that are hard to escape from. Anyway, just saying - understanding why someone is the way they are doesn't mean you approve of what they do, it just means that you can put their actions in the proper context. What that means is that inside this story, I think Claire needed to be knocked back for her own safety, but I'm not convinced that John's reaction wasn't entirely over the top. Hell, maybe it was and maybe that's what was needed - a strong emotional slap to reset Claire's brain and get her to focus on what her actual problem was (which she did, which was also commendable). Perhaps this is just a case of "all's well that ends well". I can live with that. 5/5 story.

bacchant2bacchant23 months ago

I think you made your mc reaction way over the top if he really adored her, so sympathy went to the wife, but it's clear you were trying to set up an apology and reconciliation. Full marks for that but the reaction still rankles.

AnonymousAnonymous4 months ago

Ah women. Such shallow creatures. Mind you a lot of men aren't much different, but it's the women that need the affirmations of being beautiful and desirable more. And I won't even start with the fucked up logic that goes on in a woman's mind when it comes to seeking such affections. As seen here, Claire's warped logic led to a massive fallout because she didn't think things through. This is what happens when you think with your pussy (or cock in a man's case).

I don't understand why women or men feel the need for strangers to give them compliments if their spouse is already giving them to them - they should be the only one whose opinion in such things matter. Who the fuck cares if Dave at work thinks you're hot. Dave is bullshitting because he just sees you as a set of holes to fuck and will say anything that helps his agenda of fucking you.

inka2222inka22226 months ago

3 stars. Mostly, because her words at that conversation were in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to the excuses she later came up with. "I am scoping out dicks at work" is nowhere near "I was wondering about a 3some as and idea", it's 10x worse. So, personally, I don't believe her - she really DID want to fuck someone else. Matter of fact, now she'll probably just do it on the sly.

mfj77mfj776 months ago

MC reaction way over the top. Necessary for the story but detracted. MC could have discussed it more but . . . that would be a different story.

Solid 4.

sbrooks103xsbrooks103x6 months ago

"She is feeling a bit out of sorts, not appreciated and lost." - Why the fuck is she feeling unappreciated?

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"You were supposed to be her knight in shining armour that found her and took her home" - Dodm't he already do that back when they met?

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"Has she saved it up so she can fuck another man?" - MAYBE not to fuck another man, but to use as a bargaining chip at some point.

oldpantythiefoldpantythief6 months ago

Thank goodness I was never put in that place the way John was, so I can't for sure say how I would have reacted. Not sure I would have gone off the deep end like he did, but to each his own. As far as Claire being the best wife ever, there's always ways everyone of us can improve in our married lives. Nice story worth four stars.

AnonymousAnonymous7 months ago

OK, so in the end nothing was really resolved. Jackie destroyed the process, but essentially all of the issues set up in the story were then ignored, and we jumped directly into a happy ending where they just vanished with no explanation?

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