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. . . the part that ends with the question why would she tell her husband, that part is very real. Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Marc Damon, the celebrity crush changes as time passes, but these guys have a charisma that just sweeps every obstacle out of their way.

He question isn’t would your wife screw Tom Brady; the question is whether she’d fuck one of the guys she actually does meet.

This was very well done.

The guy had a hard choice.

It appears he sucked it up for his kids.

Their relationship died, cruelly.

Just dont see how any man could ever get over it.

I suspected you would write them just living together until the kids were grown.

It was as close to acceptable as have seen written if intent was to keep them together.

But again she threw away her marriage and her kids.

Doubt even the "new" marriage would survive such in real life.

Cheating is hard to get over. But can be done.

It was the cruelity, the humiliation of doing it on their night and in front of others.

And you didnt address that in the story, just the cheating.

Was George trolling just looking to fire up the crowd with a story so far fetched? She just decides to spend the night with star athlete on a very special date and gets friends to help her sneak out and hubby does nothing but whine about it and doesn't even truly conform the friends? No divorce? He apologizes?

Perfect story to spark the angry reactions but not one that is very entertaining to read.

@Anonymous Re: "With some notable exceptions, I am astonished" - I believe that I am generally considered a member of this "clique" you speak of. If you read my comments, I had plenty to criticize about the story. You and the others of your ilk continue to deny it, but we all have our own opinions, just because they may often agree isn't anything nefarious.

here stem from an author here not giving a reader the reader's desired outcome. Unfortunately, in this case the story fails because of the character development and plotting.

I think the source of the problem begins with your little story about your conference experience. No one doubts that there are women like that - sort of shallow, a little bored with life, a little "entitled". They are comfortable with their lives and marriages and generally satisfied with their husbands, but the love they have for their husbands is a kind of fondness and comfortable attachment; isn't deep or truly passionate. It has aspects of a habit.

"Linda" isn't written that way. In a sense that's the beginning and end of the story's problem. From the beginning, the inner "Linda" isn't written as a "conference wife", and in the real world more wives are not "conference wives" than many commenters here seem to realize. No "celebrity " or anyone else would cause such a woman to do what you wrote "Linda" as doing with Marc. To be credible in fiction, the actions of a character have to proceed from his inner nature. That's why this story is an authorial pratfall. To move Linda in the direction you want (i.e. having her leave with Marc), you are forced to resort to what commenters have variously called the "Martian Slut Ray", an incubus, and the Death Star tractor beam, as well as transforming "Linda" into a callous, shallow, cruel human being who is unrecognizable as "Linda". The action doesn't proceed from her inner character as you had initially created her. Instead, you begin writing another "Linda". To the reader, it feels like a cheap trick. Moreover, to force a reconciliation, you essentially rewrite "Jim", thereby losing the integrity of the action in the story on his side and, again, having to resort to absurd plot devices to force the story in the direction you want (e.g. the "siren").

Apart from these considerations, it seems as if you set out, as an exercise, to see how thoroughly "Linda" could humiliate "Jim" and still pull off a credible reconciliation. Not only do I think that no genuinely thoughtful reader could possibly think that the story works, the repeated and grotesque humiliations of "Jim" and the degradation of his character seem utterly perverse.

I do realize that your story has fans, but I almost think that they are the kind of people you could give a can of Alpo wrapped in Neiman Marcus wrapping paper, and they'd be convinced that it's really something special.

I wish your editors had told you that you needed to write the inner "Linda" as a conference wife. As it is, this is 8 pages of a weirdly failed effort. You obviously have talent. I just don't understand how you got so off track.

This whole story was about Linda having her dream and Jim getting over it. This was Jim's First Surrender in this marriage and there will be others to follow. You can call them Marriage 2.0 or Marriage 3.0 or you can label them Jim's surrender to Linda's Rights.

I'm sorry. I know you put a lot of work into your story. And you are an excellent writer. I respect that. But no self respecting man could recover from this. The wife betrayed her vows, the buzzer sounded, and the marriage is over. And one day, assholes like the athlete in this STORY will find themselves on the other end of a gun. Nope. Sorry. The RAAC here just can't work for me.

Good but the last pages were not for me . She felt what he did except she wasn’t humiliated as a large group of friends knew he was going with another woman to fuck as he left his wife alone at a bar and hotel the rented. Also he didn’t cheat at all and just like he told that cunt dee he might think about it because he’s human but he wouldn’t cheat or break his vows or humiliate and embarrass his wife or jeopardize his family and children. He also didn’t fuck the hot lady all night and next day come home and make like nothing happened. No way I would stay kids or not that cheating will be in the way of there family forever . It’s not like she had a one night stand and didn’t know the guy and would never see him again . This guy was famous on tv lived local and would always be around for him and her y to o see. . I commend people who could get past this but I couldn’t and think it’s just as bad on the kids if you stay together as opposed to divorce . Still love her yes but every reason she gave was utter and complete bullshit. She actually had the balls to say she was going to the bathroom and sneak out with all friends knowing to fuck a star athlete. You don’t get much worse, clearly no reconciliation is possible here for me . He went from hard line to feeling like he did the same thing but it wasn’t close. I also know an eye for an eye is not right but for the wronged party it is . He should’ve fucked someone she is close to or hates so much or is jealous of to let her feel the actual pain she caused. Also using the kids as to why he should stay and moved passed this would make me more angry because before she took a strange cock all night that was the best fuck of her life she should’ve been thinking that. He also as I would not be embarrassed be tell everyone they know and related to what she did so they can all know no matter what they say will think what a slut married whore pig she is

However the wifes character in particular just doesn't stack up. If she was so thoughtful and in love, then of course from the outset of her one night stand she would have known it would be marriage ending. The fact it didn't end is just too far fetched. The story has echo's of "the bridge" but this time you made the husbands character unbelievably weak. Too much of a stretch for me.

The story was a bit too long given the missing pieces. I really could not get over the unbelievability of the jock selecting a married woman rather than a single, the wife publically abandoning her husband to spend the night with the jock, the three other couples being unanimously on the wife's side or the scene with the husband tempted to repeat his wife adultery. Randi commented that the story made her care about the characters, but I could not really accept the characters as real, and, thus, to care.

I am definitely in the reconciliation side, particularly when young children are involved. But, if we were to accept the wife as believably real, I could only see divorce as a logical outcome, because no amount of explanation or thinking can sustain the concept of loving or a marriage where a wife walks away from a dinner party and abandons her husband fo a one-night stand with a jock, and then does not apologize but rubs it in as "everything and more." The band-aid of the siren at the end of the story cannot save the outcome, because it is so blatantly an unbelievable artifice to achieve a desired ending.

So fucking far fetched a total waste of ink. I bailed out after 3 pages jumped to end and remained as disgusted as I'd found myself page 3. You wrote this crap for a joke and to provoke. Stick to something else because you write shit.

For a couple of reasons, for the reconciliation to have a chance to work he would need to fuck at least 3-5 other women and/or having a mini affair (not just one night) with someone like Ellen. Bellow I'm going to state the reasons why:

1. Even if he is reconciles he is always going to be bugged that she got one on him. That he had to accept what she did. If he fucked other women that balances out things out.

2. The reasons he has to fuck multiple women is biological. The wife essentially is using evolutionary theory as the primary reason that she fucks Marc. That women are biologically predisposed to try to mate with the male with the best genetics, and that she was greatly attracted to his alpha male personality and confidence, etc. It's true that women have evolved to want the mate with the best possible genetics because of the long gestation and rearing periods to make sure her progeny survives (thus passing on her genes). She has a lot invested in each offspring. Well, a male is predisposed to want to fuck many females which increases his chance to pass on his genetics. So, if she essentially makes the argument that it was such a strong instinctual reaction to want to be fucked by Marc, then the MC has the same argument from the male side.

3. The wife expects him to understand that their life can go on after the event, yet she says if he fucks another woman it would "break her." So, not only is it important for her to understand the extent of what she did, he needs to feel vindicated and not just be the victim in what happened. If both are the victims AND the perpetrators then they have a chance.

If there were no kids involved I would have said for sure just divorce her. With kids if they had the financial means I would have said he should divorce her. But with two young children and with limited financial means the only way I can see a reconciliation workable is by what I suggested above.

Wife walks away with another man on Valentine’s day wearing the special dress and spends the night fucking him, and she literally thinks no big deal?

And the cuck she’s married to doesn’t toss her to the curb immediately and permanently?

OK....it’s fiction on Literotica.

Guys, what are you so upset about? This is a fantasy story with no claim to reality. The author conceived it and wrote it according to his feeling of how he would probably act. Now we know the author's stories and know that the male protagonists are usually cuckolds or wimpy men! So we don't have to be surprised if this story is no different. The author leaves us the freedom to comment on his story because he knows that the readership's feelings will be very conflicting and very convincing in their expression. In reality everyone would act differently. That's also the nice thing that fantasy and reality are miles apart! And let's be honest men, who in reality would want to be married to such a woman (whether children or not) and who would want to have such a devious group of friends?

Good one. I started this some time ago, but at the end of the first page I stopped, I knew where it was heading and I really didn't wasn't in the mood to read how the wife left him. Eventually I got my shit together and read it. And yup, she did. I like how the husband bit the bullet and stayed with her for the kids at first. Then eventually came to terms with it. The bit with Ellen was perfect, gave the wife the lesson on what hubby felt. My only question is, How the heck did LW know when they were going to go out that night and where they were going, so he could sent Ellen in? Or did I miss something?

@Anonymous Re: "Why would you and your editors think" - I can suspend disbelief enough to believe that either spouse might get hit by a Starstruck Slut Ray. What I CAN'T buy is that after having suffered through his wife's attack that he would be so susceptible. Also, let's say it WASN'T a set-up, and he did spend the night with Ellen. Linda would have had to accept it. But what if Marc HADN'T happened, and he went off with Ellen? Would she accept it as just a once in a lifetime experience, or would she rip his balls off?

@Anonymous Re: "So" - Yes, what does he "know" now? That he's also susceptible to the Starstruck Slut Ray? That makes it right, somehow? As I said above, would Linda have excused him going with Ellen if Marc had never happened? Not on your life!

Epilogue:

Linda picked up the phone and dialed a number she knew by heart. When Marc answered she gushed: "Hey, Lover. Well, it worked. The idiot swallowed it hook, line, and sinker."

"So he actually believes that you turned my advances down?"

"Yep. As if his pathetic dicklet could compete with that magnificent mountain of meat you're packing!"

"So we're on for tomorrow at the Hilton?"

"Of course! I can't wait, Lover. My panties are soaked just from talking to you. I went off the pill two weeks ago, and I have my fingers crossed!"

"See you there!"

Why would a woman seeking to reconcile with her husband say this? She even mentioned Marc’s sexual prowess in the “sweet” note she wrote Jim after they made love. lol.

Personally the moment she left with another man we were divorced. She did it very coldly and she kept bringing the guy up. That said I enjoyed the story right up until Ellen.

Nice to tell us, but there's nothing that shows us. This story doesn't work well at any level.

i feel she threw it in his face way too many times. that being said they both seemed too shallow to not have cheated in the past.

I read the story start to finish. Couldn't believe the blue dress didn't disappear that same night. Why keep the reminder ? and for goodness sake, why wear it again?

Can't believe she thought this would blow over , and that made the escorts' action so nice a story device , to let them see the others' point of view.

Cute gimmick, but why does this story try to prove that everyone is corruptible ? Many people evade seductive possibilities. It would have been nice if the MC had principles, and refused, seeing the temptation for what it was. I think the majority of people would turn this offer down, especially in the presence of their spouse. The whole story to me, therefore is unbelievable. Like if in the third man the husband took the wife back.

Could still have happy ending, but in the real world , their relationship, like that of their kinship with heir friends , was finished. Really hard to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

One of the very best reads on the internet. Worthy of a commercial contract. MAYBE AN ANTHOLOGY. THANK YOU

@Anonymous Re: "you always write so well" - Yes, this! START walking away to let Linda feel what he felt, then turn around, walk back to Linda, say, "Now you know, and you see, it CAN be resisted!"

I STILL don't understand why the men in the story didn't react like the men in the real life example. In the real life example, they were angry at just the THOUGHT that husbands they didn't even know MIGHT be subjected to something like this, yet in the story, ALL of the husbands thought that he should just accept it.

Despite smooth writing, the characters are incoherent and the plot is a collection of LW cliches that can't possibly result in suspension of disbelief.

The problem with that statement is that over time most people in town will know what Linda did, even her children. Their friends at the table that night will talk to other people, the bartender and others at the bar will talk, with Marc being the local celebrity a good portion of the community will know what happened with Linda and Marc. That night will be in Jim's nightmares for the rest of his life and one day the kids will come home and want to know the truth about what the other kids at school are talking about. I think the new marriage as spoken about here has an expiration date. I suspect that the reconciliation will eventually fail in this case.

She cheated disregarded and disrespected him. There is NO recovery from that ever disown her and her friends divorce and be civil for the kuds but thats it

8 pages of cliches that seem pulled from about 100 similar stories on LW. It's a parody, right?

I started last comment with you always write so well, and believe that. But that is style, not content. What a fantasy world these characters live in ! I mean, I know it is fiction, but not fantasy. Not everyone cheats , or is capable if it. Cheating is not always a forgivable offense. While staying for the children is admirable, staying true to someone you love is much more normal than cheating, and expecting to be let off the hook is just total fantasy. No wife can be as delusional as this one , or her friends. And I agree the husband should have shown more stones, and also walked away from beautiful escort long before the wife's tears flowed. Did neither care for the others feelings ? Why , then , were they married ?

Your writing is excellent but the story might have had in IMHO had a better ending with Marc getting burned by the press and his fellow players. In my assumption Linda's affair would eventually have been found out and her children would have suffered the emotional pain. If Jim had used the letter Linda wrote and the recordings that Marc left (along with all of the witness statements) to an investigative reporter, his career might have suffered a hit. The children were going to find out anyway so why not expose Marc for what he was - a sexual predator and let the team and league deal with him?

I have some real problems with the plot and the characters are bit out of focus at times. But a lot of the comments indicate some serious ignorance about women. The biggest stumbling block in this story is not the attitudes of the women in the intro conversation. That's way more accurate than a lot of these commenters apparently want to believe. The stumbling block in the story is the way she totally smashed her cheating in his face and then waltzed home later like it was no big deal to be surprised that he was angry.

Hypergamy is real. Women have evolved to trade up. It's part of their survival instincts. Doesn't mean all women cheat. But one would be foolish not to understand how strong the temptation.

Some anecdotes on point -- movie where Robt Redford plays dirty old man offers a mil to Demi Moore to sleep with him. I remember being shocked when the movie came out at all the married women at the time saying they'd sleep with Redford for free if they had the chance and didn't mind their husbands knowing they'd said it. The chance to sleep with Redford trumped marriage. Sure, they'd want to salvage it, but they'd never turn down the once in a lifetime opportunity. Apparently, run of the mill hubbies can be replaced easier than a shot at a night of sex with a star. And for all the women who would say yes even with husband's knowledge, there must be ten times or more that number of women who would be willing to take the risk of wrecking their marriages if they thought the odds unlikely they'd be found out.

-- I've seen several sharp, intelligent women literally shake uncontrollably when out to dinner at a place owned by very famous music people when two of the owners showed up to talk to us at our table and when we saw a famous senator/actor having a bite to eat with his drink in the bar the same night. They could barely contain their excitement when posing for pics (pre-selfie/phone era). Nothing sexual, but they couldn't control themselves. After all I'd seen, I still found their over-the-top emotional reactions to celebrities disturbing. As an athlete and a coach, I saw lots and lots of groupies (and lots of jock-sniffing men). Celebrity clearly has an incredibly intense hold on certain people.

-- Remember the stories of women lining the hotel halls, often nude, hoping to be chosen by the Beatles for the evening orgy. I've seen the crowds of hot women in hotel lobbies where visiting teams stay hoping to be chosen for a night of fun by one of the players. That kind of raw desire and sacrifice of self-respect is disturbing to look at. They are literally offering themselves to be used and discarded sexually simply because the user is a celebrity. And, if chosen, would consider it one of the biggest highlights/achievements of their lives.

-- Attractive, classy-looking middle-aged women at expensive political fundraisers standing next to their rich husbands talking with well-known national politicians and making it painfully clear that they were sexually available to the politician. To the point of it being extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing for the other people in the room. Poor emasculated husbands not wanting to make a scene, wanting to strangle their wives, wanting to walk away but fearful that their absence would increase the likelihood the politician would agree to take what she was clearly offering. I have actually used this type scenario to outline a LW story. (likely never to be written.) This would make a good, real life scene for the story GA tried to write. Not a thunderbolt or a Martian slut ray, but a very real celebrity/power stud slut ray.

-- a married secretary in a law firm in her fifties. Back in the day, she'd hooked up with one of the NFL's all time great QBs. Even decades later, whenever he let her know he was back in town, she'd take the day off work and fuck his brains out all day in his hotel. Her husband never knew. This is the most likely scenario for a married woman (whose hubby thinks she loves him and is loyal and true) who willingly risks her marriage repeatedly to be a starfucker. And likely considers her romps with the old hall of famer to be the highlights of her life.

Knoxhard

Comments are better than the story. How often does THAT happen

Horrible and painful, I wouldn't have taken her back, but very well written, 5 stars.

Yes Jim should have stopped to call Dee and tell her to come collect Linda and to tell Linda that he loves her and he'll see her tomorrow.

However, this seems to say that the Famous People among us really can grab them by the "p***y.

I can't believe that Jim would have danced with Ellen. Totally out of character.

This rigged ending ruined the story.

The Ellen bit does not work for me, but who cares, A lovely bit of fantasy! Real life just does not work like this, the truth is that type of marriage is frozen in time at that first transgression, hells bells I know this, it happened to me and 20 years later after all the trying to forget and forgive and rebuild the "overnight affair" ate the whole center out of our marriage, the husk that was left turned to dust.

Still 5 stars.

That was a fantastic read, although it wasn’t the ending l would have preferred because 2nd best is always that 2nd & no reassurance in the world will ever change that memory ( as long as he is content?hmmmm) l still gave you 5* for the effort.

Thanks again looking forward to your next posting.

Well done, but I think I prefer the ending HDK put on it.

...needs to be cut up and burned in ceremonial fashion, by them both.

Usually, when I see the page count, I groan.

Since by that time I was on page 2, I was happy to have a lot to read

The writing was very good. Linda was certainly slow to accept the gravity of what she did. Perhaps because all her friends were supportive of her. But that is the kind of person she is. Her abandonment of her husband proved it.

What was disgusting is that you had to drag Jim down to Linda's level to "fix" things. The point was to break Jim by realizing it could "happen to anyone", that is, we are all weak charactered. There was no indication that Jim was like this. It was necessary for the story so Mr. Anderson magically made it happen. It was also necessary for Jim to do this to hurt Linda enough to make her realize how badly she had behaved. So Jim had to be weak enough to cheat and weak enough to humiliate his wife, again, things he had given no indication of of wanting to do. In fact, he rejected this type of behavior over and over.

One of the problems authors keep facing is to build up a good character who they need to act poorly. While the typical person might do something like this, good people DON'T. Yet Jim was made to. It was out of character for the good person the author had created.

You are great at setting up situations and helping us feel the emotions of the protagonist. I felt Jim’s pain, anger, and humiliation. By the end of the story, I was emotionally invested in Jim. Good writing does that.

Jim had years to eat his pain and humiliation and make the best choice for his children, but I only had a page or two. I was still extremely angry when I finished the story. I didn’t get the catharsis I wanted. I want Marc burned badly. I want him to lose his career, his ability to dance, his face and his balls. I wanted Dee burned directly for her role in the deception. I want more pain for Linda. The Ellen episode was just too little; nothing really happened, and it didn’t last very long.

I was still so angry when I finished the story, that I am afraid that I voted it down undeservedly. It really is a well written story.

A very well written story and I give it 5 stars but I think I agree with skibum I like HDK`s ending better. I do prefer your story up to Ellen though.

I love these types of stories. I have to say that after having read HDK's version and re-reading Anderson's I like Anderson's better. But I can't see remaining in the marriage in either case. It was a cold blooded betrayal on Linda's part. And, the question that wasn't really explored, but if Linda hadn't done what she did, would Jim have "almost" done what he did with Ellen? Normally I'm a reconciliation guy, but not at all costs. I really enjoyed both stories.

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No, no, no, NO......... Sorry, but no.

You took eight pages to establish she is a slut and he is a cuck, congratulations message received. You should have made this a flash story. Every time someone opened their trap shit came out. He didn't know his wife, his friends weren't his friends. Even one time acquaintances couldn't give good advice. He is surrounded by morally bankrupt people and he gives in to save children he can not save by giving in. One and done at the beginning of the story turns to "I hope you don't do it again." Even her saying no to Marc the second time is meaningless. It is no every time or it isn't no. Just maybe till next time. Yes you can write a story but the ending just like the cheating ruined it. *

I agree with Anon...blue dress burning and he should have gone home with Ellen. He could have stayed faithful and explained in the morning. Also, good ole Marc got off too easy. Maybe hit social media about his actions with married women. He doesn't deserve to be a star cause he's really just a scumbag!

An excellent story. Enjoyed it!

I don’t know. Structurally, the story was very good. But she disrespected her husband in the absolute worst way possible, by sneaking out on him in front of their friends (with their cooperation no less), then tries to play it off as nothing. Can’t see the husband, in that kind of situation, having any self esteem if he takes her back. I think it’s a more realistic ending than HDK at least, where the husband ends up as a pimp AND a cuck, but I still don’t see it happening.

I’d give it five stars for the structure of the story, but one star for an ending that I can’t see happening in real life.

Interesting story! The husband's comments at the end was most telling. I guess many couples stay married because of the children.

5

Give Linda a false sense of security everything will work out.

Use her to raise your children.

Start moving money and investments around.

Start planning a better life someplace warm.

Cheat with impunity until the day you leave.

Take Linda out your last night together and have some frinds hold her up while you leave to start a new life.

Based on the time you took to develop the MC, his going gaga over Ellen was terribly inconsistent. He goes from feeling that much hurt, that marginalized, betrayed, etc,to losing his mind to lust. In addition, having some genuine level of appreciation/understanding for the efforts of his wife, sorry, too big a leap from what the MC was experiencing to acting so counter to what his insight told him. I don't see this betrayed husband acting that way, especially one who had spent so much energy in trying to find his way back. An angry, knee-jerk reaction shortly after the wife stepping out? ok, but that's not how you wrote him.

This RAAC came about by tricking the husband with a professional seducer; he was already in a severely damaged state-relationship at NO fault of his. So the tit-for-tat lesson was amiable but not the same by far. Once again Jim allowed himself to be led into a conclusion that should have never been. And then to party with the same traitorous couples who did not give a damn about Linda/Jim's marriage is beyond BS, especially being anywhere near the enabler "Dee the Judas".

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This story became a cuck ballad. So much BS (with contrary logic) in this story it only gets a 2*.

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My gosh, did Linda miss any single step in 'how-to' trash a marriage in one night --- a special night that she knew her husband Jim took great lengths to setup, FOR them; then later to read Jim is 'not-as-good-a-Lover' is a total flaming manhood crusher from a conceited arrogant bitch. The total humiliation and embarrassment that Linda subjected Jim too is utterly unconscionable and not recoverable except for a cuck. Jim would forever NOW have an inferiority complex and I was surprised he could even get a stiff-one in Linda's presence. Linda has trashed the unique marriage trust and special bond of marriage.

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Linda's act was so selfish and weak that she can and will do it again with the right predator (even quicker with a few drinks in her); it's NOW Jim's mission, for life, to thwart off all seducers tempting Linda - not a marriage geared to success or real love! Staying together for the kids (as faux roommates) is a fools goal (one I personally know).

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One miss in all of this is Linda/Jim's parents/siblings/cousins applying peer pressure only an older Uncle who meddled in an unfair way? But for Jim (a-cuck-in-waiting) I can see how easily he could be manipulated/controlled.

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2*, Hooyah..... but NO salutes....

No fucking man in his right mind would have taken her back. This story sucked big time. Gave it a one star rating for stupidity. Just to bad this author stooped to this level.

a surprisingly bad story . Smooth writing, but it's a pastiche based on standard LW cliches. How could any author think there could be a reconciliation on these facts?

HDK posted another ending to this story. Link here: https://www.literotica.com/s/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-2 At least Linda was outed to the world and experienced the pain hubby went through. In this one we have a RAAC story which is ok if you like that sort of thing.

Wishing a decent writer can post another or third ending where Linda and friends get burned? Especially Dee and Dave. Granted those 2 ended up divorced later, but Dee especially deserved to share the pain and heartache before the fall. With friends like them who needs enemies?

Well written story. Thanks for posting.

I found this thanks to HDKs do over.

I wasn't overly impressed with his as the reconciliation was too easy. Throw money at it and move and everything would be okay. Which is a shame as I like most of his writing.

This, was going along well. I wouldn't be able to reconcile after what Linda did. Forgetting would never happen and forgiving would take so long it would be bad for the kids. But I do get that some people can get past this.

However, I think you ruined it with the final resolution.

Still I'll be having a look at your other offerings. Thank you.

What follows are thoughts and ideas I had while reading.

"Then he asked me, and I saw the envy in Dee's eyes, and knew I'd never have another chance to say I danced with Marc LaValliere, so I gave him my hand."

Given her promise to only dance with Jim, even if she hadn't disappeared, this could potentially ruin the night and cause arguments further down the line. It's not just she broke her promise, the humiliation started there too as she had already turned others down saying she was only dancing with Jim.

"At almost the same instant, I knew I would give it to him. I didn't really decide, I didn't think about it, I just knew, as if I'd been told."

And at this point the marriage is over. He can never trust her again as all it will take is another man or woman to dominate her like that and Linda will be off for another 'one and done'.

"I understand, but now, everything he borrowed has been returned"

Like borrowing a stick of gum and returning it after you are done with it.

The car analogy is ok except:

1) they keep their car because it is practical, just like Jim.

2) people usually trade their cars in for a younger model, maybe with better accessories on a fairly regular basis. Few get kept for life.

3) the old car isn't hurt or humiliated about being left on the lot, on its own, while you have your test drive. It wouldn't care less if you scraped it.

"I love you, and I believe in you, and I trust you with everything I have."

Which is all very well, but this isn't about Linda and comments like this show how little comprehension she has of what she's done.

You can see how much empathy I would have. 🤣

But to be honest, as soon as the kids were out of the way I would have cut the dress off her, if I managed to not walk out of the door when I saw it. Her putting it on in the 1st place is a sign of her lack of comprehension.

Lucky Jim didn't hang up on Dave with a simple 'None of you who covered for her are my friends.' If he felt the need to go into detail he should have followed up his "how would you feel?" Not flapping in the air but telling him what Dee had said.

As for Dave throwing Dee and the other wives at Jim, it was presumptuous that the other couples would accept or had it been discussed already behind Jim's back? It was also presumptuous that Jim was looking for payback rather than understanding.

This to me was the first big sign of Jim's spaghetti spine.

"You see, you win every time."

Except when it counts, when it comes time for her to say no to any and every man.

"And worst of all, it's my own fault! You think that's easy to deal with?"

So? She made her choice, trying to throw it at him is more of her disrespect and trying to push the guilt onto him.

Jim's not throwing this straight back in Linda's face was the next red light for his spine.

I'm mixed about the 2nd call from Dave it sounded like he was being thoughtless. But the heads up stopped Dave being totally caught by surprise with the flowers. Maybe Dave is starting to get an inkling of where Jim is at.

Linda is still not getting it. She came over like she was playing with Jim over the flowers.

And then...

"Do you think he means it, or is he just trying to get me in his bed again?"

What?!? Does it make a difference? Just the fact she asked that when she did is telling.

"it wasn't anywhere near the best sex we've had, let alone as good as what I had with Marc.'

Linda is seriously deranged! It was the best night why compound it by throwing the comparison in that reminds Jim it's never been as good as Marc, despite her protestations. She is lucky Jim could even get it up after humiliating him.

"I never consciously decided on him over you, though I know you don't believe that."

The problem is that she didn't consciously decide, not that Jim doesn't believe her. Excuse or truth, all the time she thinks that the marriage is doomed because he can't trust her to fold.

I want to make new memories starting with a night out wearing the same dress that wrecked all our old ones. I'm flabbergasted that the dress is still in 1 piece in the house. I'm surprised they still got out after his reaction to her coming down in it.

Now you know, more importantly now Linda knows. But using Ellen like that was bullshit and ruined what was a good story.

Better would have been her asking Jim to walk her to her taxi and him coming back to find Linda in tears.

Far far better would have been Jim politely offering to get a bouncer to deal with the drunk, but refusing the dance.

To be honest, these 2 should have their children taken from them as they are clearly not mature enough.

It was obvious it had to be a set up, but it still ruined the story because now Jim is 2nd guessing himself, Linda and LW. For an intelligent man it was an incredibly stupid move.

Re think the ending.

HDK alternative ending of this story went nuclear on Cazenove and yet kept the husband, wife and family together was far more fantasy than factual. This ending is perhaps more believable up until the meeting of Ellen. It went completely off the rails after that. Surely Jim could not be so gullible not to see he was being set up with Ellen. Surely the first person he would suspect would be his wife. After his life changing experience with his delinquent wife he would have been far more guarded particularly in full view of his spouse.

I’m a hard task master and I don’t think I’ve ever given anyone a five but your ending took this story from a solid 4 to just scraping in a 2 star rating. Thanks for the effort but you blew-it.

Wow. I can’t believe all the holier than thou people an here who are just ignoramuses.

He made a good and wise decision. He did what was best for him and his kids. He was a lot better off with her than without her. She paid a tremendous price for her idiocy. She discovered her true character and now has to work hard forever to overcome that character flaw she found. That is a price I would not want to pay.

Love can do miraculous things if people work at it. Love tremendously forgiving. All of these people who automatically shout burn the bitch or once a cheater always a cheater are just small minded ignoramuses. Real people, real men, can get past those things.

What Linda did was horrible. No doubt. But she was also stupid to not understand how it would hurt her husband, her family, and eventually her. You can bet after that pain of understanding it wouldn’t happen again. What she did was not cold blooded. She didn’t set out with a conscious thought to do any of that. She got carried away in the moment. Her biggest sin was the lack of regret afterwards.

Again, all these holier than thou commenters ... I just feel so sorry for them to be so self absorbed bitter small people who think themselves to not be human but godly and never capable of a mistake. The lack of understanding and forgiveness in their bodies must truly make them miserable individuals.

5 stars for this well through out story. Well written story.

Depressing, Frustrating and a really poor portrayal of marriage. I am surprised that BlackRandl thought it good... BUT from a woman's point of view(especially a bitter one's) this may provide a few 'jollies' George, If you want a suggestion on how this story SHOULD have ended read the comment from 'Powersworder' It more accurately depicts how a thinking man would have dealt with it and exactly how the wife would 'enjoy her memory of her 'one night'

I actually think HDK's was way more realistic than this one. The characters felt more real and alive in HDK's version. People who stay together like this especially for the kids always end up being miserable. Being happy and coming out stronger after something like that is a fantasy.

Lol at Mbgdallas. How enlightened of you to feel sorry....

So, there was no premeditation? She just got carried away? Can you read? She formed a plan in her head, gave Dee a signal, told Dee what she was going to do and how she wanted Dee to stall her husband, what she wanted Dee to tell her husband, and then she proceeded with the plan. When the slut returned the next day, she stayed on script. She was not "carried away" or in a trance. She formed a cruel plan of betrayal and executed it, not merely that evening, but also her "damage control" part of it after she returned. In real life no one except a weak, needy, cuckish man would take her back. The business about divorce law and the children is ridiculous. With her written confession in hand, he had all he needed to get a good settlement in the divorce on custody and property. "Staying for the children" under these circumstances would actually harm the children for reasons others have described well.

But it isn't the RAAC that makes this story a train-wreck. It's the fact that it's a heap of LW cliches cobbled together, along with wildly inconsistent character development, to create "husband humiliation porn." It's simply poorly conceived and is gratuitously misandrist.

I've ever seen a more absurdly contrived RAAC on LW. Having read several GA stories, he seems to get off on writing tales in which the husband is treated with extreme cruelty, but then, because he is weak and needy, cucks out. It seems to be a formula with GA. Unless you think "bodice rippers" are literature, formulaic writing, which relies on cliches and tropes, isn't good, no matter how grammatically and smoothly it is written.

Gave you 4 stars for a well written story. But I felt like something was missing.

Marc should have been dealt with in some way. At least Dave got to learn that a wife's infidelity is not easy to overlook. When he offered the Jim an affair the wives if it would smooth things over, Jim should have said he was going to hire studs for the women for one night and then see how the men felt the next day. Of course at least one of them would have used the line "If you know it isn't cheating."

a much lower score.

Would a wife as lovingly devoted as Linda allow a star to fuck her? Melted into submission by his attention? Possibly yes. But right in his face? On their special night? Can’t buy it.

But that said , there is nothing else good about it . The story itself came across like an extremely contrived plot from a third rate soap .

No drama , emotion or even a hint of trying to desperately claw back some sense of his manhood .

Chalk up another victory to the PC Liberal Democrat brigade .

Now thanks to LW Linda can forever think the "hunk" chose her and all Jim could get was a setup from a professional whore. She will be smirking if not laughing out load at her pathetic husband.

had some of my girlfriends read it. One thing we agreed on was that the main female speaker in the preface - the woman in the conference story - was very different from how you wrote Linda. The conference woman essentially admitted to having a long term contingency plan to commit adultery under the circumstances described. We could recognize that that type of woman is out there. But, Linda is written as totally committed to her marriage, and then on the spur of the moment during a very special romantic evening with her husband, she is completely transformed. The way you pitch it (as also illustrated in the Ellen scene) is that it's a compulsion of some sort that appears out of nowhere.

With all due respect, none of us think that woman exists, unless you are writing a character based on abnormal psychology, which Linda wasn't. Mature, happily married women like Linda don't become mesmerized by a "new shiny object" like Marc. They aren't "tweens". They aren't adolescents who read "Tiger Beat". Unfortunately, you wrote Linda as going from being a mature, happily married adult to being child-like in the blink of an eye. Frankly it was a plot device to facilitate the reconciliation, which admittedly would be inconceivable if she were viewed as a mature adult.

We looked at a couple of other stories, and this woman-as-child theme keeps recurring (e.g. "Lena"). Our problem with your female characters is that the central character is ultimately child-like, and the other women are incipient or actual sluts (e.g. Dee and Anna and Chrissy). The men tend to be weak, but ultimately seem to be written to recognize that their wives aren't fully responsible adults, and so they tend to reconcile with their child-like wives. None of us would take our husbands back if they behaved like Linda.

We suggest you consider why you are apparently compulsively writing women this way. It's far from reality. Normal women who have affairs typically have complicated reasons for doing it (this comment is not a defense of their adultery). They don't have affairs because of the sudden onset of reverting to a nearly infantile state.

Regrettably I read HDK's first, however...

Though your version is better it still turned out bad. What went wrong at Morrison's that first night went so terribly wrong no reconciliation could be possible. Linda killed it with the tight end, and our protagonist was left with but one choice, pack up and start over. Kids always suffer, but in our world today that doesn't matter much.

A couple people left comments suggesting that third option, to have our hero file for divorce and move on, might be worth investigating. We'd all get to see the misery this kind of thing can cause. I'd try it, but I'm busy with something else. Besides, I think this story might go the same route Troubadore's story about Susan and Early went, or perhaps Agena's story about "The Joke". I expect we'll see several different versions of your story, each with a different ending. We'll just have to wait and see.

Of course, this is a five. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I like all your stuff.

Jedd Clampett (carvohi or now FirstBorn374)

P.S. I'm into westerns now, Nineteenth Century where there's no electronic tomfoolery, just hard core infidelity or love conquers all.

This was a very original scenario that I don’t think I’ve seen before. It had so much promise until the sissy cuckold reacted. Not revenge and the stud and he still allowed him to continue to entice her. What a weak man with no balls. He just wants to hear the details to haunt his nightmares. She did not get any payback that I understood and got her man back. She’s absolutely going to do it again. Maybe next time they’ll let him watch. 1 star you could do better.

Helped me see: There really is no coming back from this. Because there isn't a Martian Slut Ray. The utterly narcissistic selfishness it takes to pull this on a spouse isn't even fixable with therapy. All you can do if you find yourself saddled with a partner like this is run far far away.

BTB? Irrelevant. Just. Get. Away

Always good to see another story from you GA. I hope it won't be too long until we see another.

You are certainly right in your comments especially the ones about various sequels sure to come as in The Troubadore and Agena's stories, but you did miss Jezzaz's 'Words.

"I shrugged. "You can say that now, because Marc was only an option that one night. If he, or someone like him, became available again, how can I know you wouldn't choose him over me again, like you did so easily that night?"

"I don't know." Her face was troubled and sad."

"And that is exactly the problem." And for me that is exactly the problem.

A very good story but for me it fell apart in three places; Ellen in the bar, way too obvious and there is no way after everything that happened up to that point that I can accept that Jim would go that route. It has the effect to me of excusing what she did not to mention making what she did partly his fault, which it was not.

The second place it broke down for me was keeping any of those so called friends as friends. Not a chance in hell would they be friends of either of us if there were ever to be any attempt at reconciliation. Starting with Dave and Dee. For more detail how I think this should have been handled read Q's story 'An Unexpected Reaction'. Just the first page should do for an explanation, the rest of the story is just plain magic.

The last place it broke down for me were the two different times after her cheating, she wore that damned blue dress. She somehow thought it appropriate to wear it when Jim came home from work and then again coming down the stairs when they were going out. What the hell did she think her husband would feel seeing the same dress she wore the night she became a cheater, that she was still wearing the next day when she deemed herself worthy to come home? That's right she wasn't thinking, the same way she wasn't thinking for the rest of the story after that first night they went out with friends. That dress should have gone the same way the bra and panty set she left in the hotel room that she had planned on wearing for her husband. The same set she was upset for some reason when she learned he threw them away.

In reality could or should this marriage have survived? I don't really know, but as I said at the beginning of this tirade "And for me that is exactly the problem."

The blue dress incident for me really struck a chord, only in my case it was a forest green, crushed velour dress that I bought for her. The same dress that she wore when she lied to me saying she had to go out of town for a seminar. When I stumbled onto the truth the reason she gave for wearing it for him was "...she wanted to look good." Needless to say we weren't together very long after that. Signed: BTW

Excellent review of Anderson's latest story. The stories are generally of the same ilk: a brain-dead wife, a spineless, hand-wringing, weeping husband, and an all-powerful, man's-man, bad guy who uses said wife, then throws her away, whereupon she returns to the original sad-sack whiny cuckolded husband, who takes her back.

They remind me of the Melvin Udall quote from "As Good As It Gets", when asked how he writes women so well.

"I think of a man. And I take away reason and accountability."

That describes Anderson's female characters exactly.

... but you've lost me when the protagonist falls for the obvious Ellen plant, his lack of self awareness shot through the roof, shattering my suspension of disbelief.

Still, it's not often a story manages to summon such visceral levels of blinding rage from me, so you are definitely extremely talented. :)

It's a simple statement that has been used "again and again". Tired .... worn out .... but appropriate after reading a story that was intended to provoke your readers and demean the character of men. February is not the only thing that "sucks" when this writer chose to post his RAAC/cheating WHORE wife Apologist tale.

I just do not understand why this story has only an average score - It is superb. Five stars all the way. There must be some really stupid, small-brained readers out there... Trump supporters? The plot was intellegent and realistic, with a nice twist at the end. It sent a range of emotions through my veins.... A real page turner! LW definitely needs more stories like this. A big thank you George for this classic.

You can write of course and have proven it many times. You simply can't write anything but wives that are unsympathetic, brain dead, irredeemable sluts and the dickless pathetic simps that apparently can't do anything without the whores they married.

If you ever write about believable men and women, you would be great.

As is, this is seriously low end cuck shit.

Locks changed, clothes in bags on porch, banking and CC changed, no discussions, divorce papers filed, and served. Pretty simple.

The alternative, be a spinless wimp, rotten roll model, while being married to a lying, cheating woman who feels her selfish entitled needs come first.

I keep seeing comments about him being weak, sorry cuck. He took what he had and dealt with it the best he could. A real man gives up a lot for his kids. He stayed with her for hiS kids. That takes strength. The bit with Ellen is a convenient plot device, but he showed true strength to do what needed to be done for his kids.

Sometimes it is not taking a bullet or landing a big bonus - sometimes it is just being the best dad you can be. Who knows, maybe they get divorced after the kids are grown.

I went through this one more time to really give it a chance.

It was even worse!

I think you are just really out of touch with reality.

The conversation at the beginning might have taken place but bullshit is just that.

There are several women who might have a fling with a superstar of any kind if they thought they could get away with it. They wouldn't be women in very good marriages but maybe at least solid. There might even be a psychopath or sociopath or two that would do it right in front of their husbands but most will not intentionally destroy their marriages like Linda's actions most certainly would, especially if they were in a great marriage. I don't care what bullshit someone might claim.

When it comes to ending a good marriage, extremely few would to be a star's slut for the night.

I am really starting to wonder if you drink the bull's cum directly from your wife's whoring cunt or do you collect it with a wine glass first?

You are somewhat warped.

benefit from Jim's role modeling. Moreover, divorce doesn't mean that the husband is cut out fo the children's lives, and a divorce won't necessarily harm them. It just depends on how the parents behave. Accepting Linda's utterly cruel, cold-blooded, calculated betrayal teaches children the wrong life lesson. The cucks here just want to roll over the minute someone mentions children.

The conversation that's the basis for this story is between colleagues drinking in a bar. What's said in such a setting is hardly deep or profound. A bunch of drunk women showing off for their friends- and themselves- in a party atmosphere in a tavern, trying to prove that they can be as crassly hedonistic as any man, is not a moral treatise on human behavior in married relationships. It's drunken boasting and not much more. You can pose the question but if you expect anything like a serious or well considered answer then you're probably drunk too.

I think the theme of "February Sucks" is very much the same. It's superficial and not at all a realistic portrayal how any married couples might behave. It's true that anyone can fuck up and cheat on a spouse in the right circumstances. But that isn't what happened in your story. You stacked the deck when it came to the egregious and outrageous behavior of Linda. It's acceptable and believable that she might let down her guard if the perfect storm of events led her to be in the frame of mind to cheat, but you piled it on outrageously in depicting her betrayal. Not only does she cheat, she dropped her husband like a hot rock on their special night seconds after expressing her undying devotion to her husband. She simply abandoned him in a bar and went off to fuck a sports celebrity without a second thought. Dee's manipulations and scheming don't even enter into it. Even a thoroughly wicked woman doesn't do that and then expect that the next day her spouse will be all forgiving. She would do it solely to damage her husband as much as possible as quickly as possible. That she would not see this is absurd.

You might have made your point with subtlety and skill. Instead you used a bludgeon. This is disappointing in someone who actually has writing skills, as you clearly do. Those skills were wasted with this turkey. If the events of this story were to actually occur few men on the planet would ever be able to forgive her and the folks calling him a wimp would be understating his condition considerably.

The behavior of the other members of this group of friends is incomprehensible. It's too ridiculous to be taken seriously. No one, not a single one of them, sees his point of view or agrees that she had treated him with cruelty.

You provoked a lot of comment and I expect that's what you were after, but that doesn't make this a worthwhile read. The story fails miserably as a morality tale and doesn't even make for good entertainment.

I read the 'alternate' first ... both were damn good. That's all I'm gonna say.

You formulated an exceptional story, indeed...it certainly brings the bitterness, and though I have my distinct doubts that such a sweet ending would be the result, I certainly appreciate this story and you direction! No doubt that it has garnered the attention, whether or not you received complete agreement as to the end. It's your story, and when someone constructs a classic...why give a rats ass what the neighborhood prefers!

So...I posted before, and somehow, suddenly became Anonymous. I do not wish to remain anonymous, so I will reiterate! This is a well crafted story, with clearly well defined characters, and the story flows, brings true emotions...and ends in true form to character development. Whether those outspoken aggressors agree with how the story flows, or who your characters are in the end really has no bearing...just water off a duck's back. It feels real, and although I'd never be able to reconcile in this instance...you stood by the strength of the characters you created. A truly fine tale, indeed! Thank you!

Extremely well written tale that left me sick at my stomach. The degree of embarrassment she inflicted on her husband is unforgivable. This was much worse than any cuckold story because she did it in front of eight friends, and I used the term friends loosely. I hated the story no matter how well written. I'm tempted to write my own ending. I'm not sure I can write as well, but I am sure I can write a better ending.

I just cant wrap my head around the utter disrespect the wife showed the husband on their "special" night. THE CALLOUSNESS!!!! I just cant get pass that. great story otherwise.

Brilliant story, but I just can't get my head around reconciliation 😔

This was 8 pages of saying the same thing over and over again.

"I'm sorry"

"I can't love you anymore"

"I'm sorry"

:::writes a letter:::

"I'm sorry"

"I can't love you"

:::writes a letter:::

"I'm sorry"

"I actually do love you"

:::Happy cucked ending:::

I wanted to bitch slap him & her both. The story grabs me by throat and doesn't let go. It drive emotions on both sides. Great Great writing that made me hate the author for letting this happen. Can you tell I am torn.

I can see the protagonist point of view, I see hers and I don't agree with any of them. I can't believe he didn't call out her bitch friend to the hubby or any of the women to their husbands. No friends to me, long gone in my book. A lot like the "Unexpected Reaction" by the awesome Qhml1! That fact that he didn't react until she came back and he let her go away to the rest room - what a moron. He should have intervened during the dance. This called for decisive reactions. Not physical, but present her with a choice and let her know choices have consequences.

Then she comes home and he's all cuck. That said, I get the kids, his worries, and he takes it in the ass for his kids. That I understand and almost applaud. He should have went out and gotten laid - shown her how it feels. Reminds me a of a recent country song, by Brett Young - about a breakup, she says they go out with friends, stay friends, the line(an title) goes something like if you can be out and see me with another women like I see you with another man -- "you didn't love me like I loved you". That basically says it all !!!

Man u people really suck at writing stories,,

Something worth exploring is for the protagonist to approach the wife with a post-nuptial agreement. Yup, she screwed up, made a mistake and she's sorry, fool me once shame on me. But the only way he can be sure it doesn't happen again is to make the consequences painful enough that she will have to consider them before even thinking about having this happen a second time. She cheats again? Okay, the kids and house are in his primary custody and she leaves with minimal clothing and finances.

The only question I have would be, would he get a hall pass as part of the agreement?

Anyone can write about revenge or brb but it takes imagination and belief in love and marriage to come up with reconciliation

One of the commenters indicated the author had a story to tell. Not sure what the purpose of this story was. Understand it is fiction, Not at all believable as far as the circumstances of the initial cheating - sneaks out with a celebrity on their special night with all the close friends around - really! After the deed was done, the wife thinks nothing has changed! Then after portraying the husband as a faithful man, the same fascination happens to him with a high priced escort? The husband was better off just saying No like he did earlier to such a temptation, Overall too long for the plot.

Yeah, mindmeld31, a post nup would probably be a good idea. If for nothing else, then to prove that she really did mean what she promised. I don't think he would be interested in a hall pass, though. I don't think it would fit with his belief system.

That brings me to my main criticism of an otherwise well written story: The whole Ellen scene. That he would be so easily lost to something as simple as beauty just did not work for me. It seemed cheap. It did work to push the story to its completion, but in a very clumsy way that did not fit with the main character.

If temptation really had to be the plot device, then I would have preferred it to happen away from his wife's attention, but of course, then the wife's development would have remained unresolved, to be dealt with later, or not. When tempted, he could have been reminded by a memory from his wife's night of betrayal, or by a helper character. Or he could even cheat and not feel guilty about it. Just afraid of possible consequences, and shocked by his own character, thereby gaining understanding of his wife's emotions.

But of course, that might have made the ending more bitter. And I DID enjoy the happy ending. Only, the enjoyment was marred by the use of the magic bullet. For me, it brought the writing down to a level where it did not belong.

Still, it was very well written. One of those tales where you hate the story but love the writing. Good job!

You are a great writer, easily one of the best here, but there’s just no way. Not even for the kids. It all felt pretty real emotionally, but no person could get through that.

It sparked a lot, though. Look at it all. That’s good writing. Nice job.