All Comments on 'February Sucks'

...for a well written story. IMO, the "fall from grace" after 10 years of happy marriage on their "special night" does not measure equally with LW's set-up with the hooker. At that point, the wife had already damaged the marriage (basically beyond repair) and both of the his/her abandonments do not have equal starting points, i.e. his turn started with a history of a cheating wife.

I guess this version is simply an exercise in showing that the Martian Sex Ray works on both genders? About as likely as "you know how I lose control when someone pushes my button by (insert: pinches my left nipple, rubs my vulva/dick, blows in my ear, etc.)"

Keep 'em comin'.

(But no more February sequels, please!)

Nice. Preposterous, but nice story anyway

It seems to me as an incomplete story.

Because, the victim here never has taken any steps neither against the slut nor against the asshole.

Dishonesty, infidelity cannot be considered in any relationship.

To continue such relationship just for the sake of children, victim needs to take a step to put an example to the society so no body will ever dare to do such nasty things which only destroy a family into pieces.

I think, the writer should rewrite the story considering all the above mentioned facts.

Pathetic effort. No one is stupid enough to think that stepping out on their spouse on what's supposed to be their special night is okay, and that it's no big deal. No spouse that has this happen to them is going to reconcile, EVER. Don't quit your day job.

I still think that the asshole should have paid. I waited for 7 years to make the asshole that tried to destroy our family. I had dug up 6 different families that he caused problems with. I sent pictures and anything I could to caused him problems. His business started failing his friends and family were on his case people who had invested money in his business were pulling out. He even got mugged. I didn't have anything to do with that. I almost forgot to say mother-in-law actually slapped him at a party one night. That was after she had heard about him trying to have his way with her daughter my wife. I actually laugh out loud.

Gotta agree the husband was already emotionally compromised by the wife's betrayal so his seduction by Ellen was a fitting punishment and example so the wife could get a taste of how badly she had damaged her marriage. To bad there isn't a version of this story where she gets T-boned by a semi and the husbands problem is solve permanently with her dead.

I do enjoy your work. I have a few issues with this piece, but I think it is a strong addition to your "redemption" pieces. My frustrations tend to come mostly from your dialog, just because I identify with the protagonist so strongly and think of things that I feel should have been said that are not. That said, I find that is one of the things I love about your work. I always feel strongly invested in the protagonists. I do think that Linda's reticence to admit she really did anything wrong against the marriage vs just hurting him, for as long as she does is somewhat out of character for the rest of what we see assuming what we see of her is genuine. I think that might be behind some of DylanThomasLives' desire to paint her as someone more like Dee. If I were writing a screenplay, I would want to collaborate with you on modifying dialog and arcs, but all told, a damn good story. I'd put it on film.

I love this story. Read it every so often to learn the craft. I have read many of the sequels and alternates. I even spent time looking to see if anyone had a good description of Linda.

From all the literature so far i have come up with the following.

SHE IS BLUE EYED AND MUST BE TALL AND SLIM BUT SULTRY SHE COMELY BUT PRETTY IN A PRETTY SENSUAL WAY. I wish someone could say of she was blonde brunette or red.

but as is it does not detract sometimes she is blonde to me and allways the most beutifull woman in the room.

Just one BIG flaw. To state that noone is immune to such a temptation... because fir some if us, who always think and consider wives and children, it's a brief, interesting thought, but doesn't get any traction as a temptation. Otherwise, verrry good

Its every hard with children in the family when one commits adultery. In this story kicking you when you are down. For me regardless, one and done. I am not built for forgiveness especially at this magnitude. For those that can, all well and good. Trust is another matter and I would not trust this wife as far as I could throw a large anvil. Whoever they are so called film starts, athletes, TV stars are ONLY people and is only people hat make them supposedly super humans. Its a shame people get so caught up and overwhelmed with them, but they do.

This was an easy read. I can feel many of the emotions as I have been in a similar situation. The ending was too hurried in my opinion. The possible seduction of the husband should have been tried in another setting, less obvious, detached from the main story. Nevertheless thanks for sharing.

Read it again after a long time with clear eyes to see if it was actually a good story... It isn't.

This feels like it wasn't written by a human being at all and that's the feeling I get from all this author's stories.

Not to mention this is just really dumb story.

The story was basically an ode to cheating wives everywhere. An apologetic tale for women and their shitty decisions and behaviors and that men most always forgive women for all offenses even the most horrific instances of betrayal and infidelity. Also, note that men can never ever expect similar acts of forgiveness from women.

I've just finished reading this original "February Sucks" for the first time. Funny thing is, I've read all of the other authors' takes on it first. I definitely think the original is the best, however, I do agree with some of the comments about the fact that happily married, dedicated people ARE able to resist temptation and not go brain-dead when an attractive person hits on them. Would like to have seen the same result (Linda FINALLY getting it and apologizing) without having to make Jim a "guilty" party too.

How did you know L.W. and Ellen the place where they celebrated Linda's birthday?

Wow just like America do the crime and get your wrist slapped just not hard enough to hurt. Same old stuff wife walks away ok while making a putts out the man.

The writing is clear, the grammar is good, and the spelling is fine. The problem is the author has no real clue how men think and feel. Her portrayal of the MC is simply a woman with a penis .. and a very weak woman at that. 2*s.

Love this story. George Anderson has possibly written the most evil female character in Lit history, perhaps not knowingly but her actions stand as the benchmark for female betrayal.

Looking forward to more emotional gut wrenching tales from this master scribe. Don’t let the negative anons put you off. A good story is one that leaves you emotionally gasping for air, and you certainly did that with this tale. Everyone can connect on some level. Myself? My wife was approached once by a very influential and rich male who felt it was his gift to society to share himself to all and sundry regardless of the commitments. Thankfully my wife publicly shamed him. He made the mistake of thinking that all partnerships are frail. Ours is not. He learned the hard way.

A thought provoking story. Sad that it took the stunt at the end for Linda to see what her husband was going through. She never said she was sorry before that last letter. I think the equivalency between Marc and Ellen was a bit more lopsided. Not talking about that he would have walked right out and cheated on Linda if Ellen were not part of the setup. But the big difference is that Linda had already cruelly stepped out of the marriage for one night that nearly destroyed the marriage. Jim still had one foot kind of out the door with his misgivings, which is why LW set it all up anyways. But do we really know the pre Marc Jim would have done the same thing? We don't know. But because of that the equivalency is not the same. Also Linda never had to deal with the knowledge that her husband actually slept with someone with amazing sex for a night. Imagining it is not the same. She got hurt and saw some of what her husband went through but only a small portion of it. At least she got her head out of her ass and may feel differently about how amazing her night with Marc was given the catastrophic damage. At least she now knew why her actions could lead to divorce. Linda is not evil. Far from it. She did a really and and cruel thing. Good people do that sometimes. But she was a bit of an airhead for the first half the story. Like choosing the blue dress to go out. Her talk with Dee. The first letter which while she pulled know punches showed a lack of emotional maturity. She got better but it took a deus ex machina to get them over the top primarily so she could see Jim's pain and actually apologize truly. One annoying things was that Marc keeps showing up. Whatever. Pro football players while they may be assholes are not trying to get into sordid scandals with married women at local clubs. I call bs unless they are total morons. But what was really dumb was that Marc was so enamored with Linda that he pursued her heavily via gifts and phone calls and letters. That is way over the top but I guess the author felt was needed to prove she could stop. Much better would have been a scene where they go out, Marc tries again not quite remembering who Linda is and Linda suddenly realizes Marc no longer had the hold on her body and she can turn him down. The rabid pursuit right in front of the husband would just lead to a scandal in the media. So yeah garbage. Still a good provocative story. Most alternate versions suck. The exception is BearCatFozzy's YAAE version. Linda was a much stronger character going through a rite of passage in that story (though the timing was cramped). I also enjoy the The Bus version but that changes the original a bit too much to be faithful to this author's work. Without the kids, stunts or no stunts this would have been over. Jim despite the implied weakness is a helluva guy to stay on and try again.

This is one of the very best Story on Literotica. And also one of the most Heart Wrenching Stories on Literotica. I wrote my one ending that was much better for Jim but Marc was destroyed. Problem was Literotica won't publish it. LOL I thought Marc LaValliere getting kicked in the nuts a hundred times was funny and the pretty just punishment. LOL It doesn't seem like they saw the humor. Or the just rewards. Oh well.

A great story with a most unsatisfactory end. I love the story but I am sorry I read it as it torments me mercilessly. The cock needs to grow a set of balls!

Although I SO don't agree with the ending and the MC's thought process, this was a REALLY well written story that totally drew me in! Nice work!

Damn good story. Made me love the characters when I wanted to hate them. 5/5

What an emotional story of a wife really losing her way and it took old LW to show Linda the feeling that Jim had when she left with Marc that Friday night by having Ellen almost take Jim the way Marc took her. I am not sure if I as a happily married man could ever have gotten past that, but then again, I have never been put in that position. Story was well written, and the reconsolidation was a tough road for these two, but they did make it and one can only hope it would last. I like other reviewers wonder why Jim didn't take revenge on Marc for what he did to their marriage. I believe that Jim should have gotten in Marc's face when he started the second dance with Linda that would I believe would have shaken Linda to the core and made her see what a grave mistake it would have been to let Marc seduce her. 5/5

My solution ,if this happened to me, would be to call a person I have done many favors for on tax matters. Later standing outside a club, a caddy limo would pull in and park. As I approached the limo, the driver would open the rear door and I would enter. As I shook hands with my friend I would sat “I kiss your hand Don Vito.” I would tell him I have a stone in my shoe, and don’t know how to handle it. I told him what had happened that night at the club, and he said “It will be handled.” Later that same night two men would pick the front door lock at Marc’s house and silently walk up the stairs to the room they heard sounds coming from. They would enter and when my wife and Marc looked up in shock, one of the men would say “I bring greetings from Linda’s husband. The only other sound would be a muffled “plop, plop”and they would leave. Once outside and driving away they would remove their masks and phoning me simply say “It is done.” End of story.

So she cheated and he still stayed with her?

Fuck that

600+ comments shows just how much this story got under people's skin. Well done and thank you

I liked the idea, very near the truth for many a couple I expect,, but why did he let her keep that blue dress ? It would have been one of the first things I got rid of,

What you don't do when you're going to divorce your spouse: 1. DON'T go to a friend or a family member that happens to be a lawyer. 2. Don't go to a friend or family member for advice. 3. Do get ALL the pertinent information you can. 4. Don't wait and see if things get better, because most often they don't. 5. Don't sit around waiting for your spouse to make the first move or to confess. 6. Don't fight over replaceable things.

7. Follow through and don't let it go on longer than need be.(Lawyers get richer if you do)

Misandrist cuck shit, with some truly stupid plot elements and terrible character development.

This story motivates so many comments because 1)is very well written and 2)does not make nobody happy. The people who wants the husband to divorce, torture and/or kill Linda, of course get unsatisfied. The people who would have liked the husband to really suffer (indulging himself in masochism or not) also gets frustrated. For me the first class should not be allowed to write comments or stories in Literotica since they ara boring at best and female haters most of the time.

I’m with the commenters who liked the story…considering it well written and emotionally moving. If apologists like Loejtc are correct, then it’s perfectly reasonable to give negative reviews to Stephen King or Thomas Harris because you don’t like their content. I think that there are great writers out there (like King or Harris) that I choose not to read, because I’m not drawn to their content. But I wouldn’t read their work and then give it a negative review because of the content…I simply wouldn’t read nor comment. For those who find GA’s story engaging (and at least one reviewer mentioned Richard Gerald’s The Bridge as similar), I would suggest Tnicoll’s Two Conversations. For some reason, I thought it appeared before February Sucks, but it actually occurred shortly afterwards. It immediately sprang to mind when reading one of the many sequels to February Sucks, but I couldn’t remember the author or title. Now I’ve stumbled on it and thought I’d mention it.

I wanted to hate this story of a cheating wife who did not seem sorry and a husband who could not divorce her. I have read similar stories [URL="https://literotica.com/s/im-a-bastard"]"I'm a bastard" [/URL]. But I was happy in the end they recovered. I like how the old man pushed for it to happen. I'm kind of happy that Dee is getting her divorce since she did not see the real issue.

This was a wonderful story and I give it 5 stars!!! I admit that if it were me that Linda cheated on with Marc, I would have divorced her. But I watched my father stay with my mother in a loveless marriage for far too long until finally the seventh child she had was born and he divorced her. He admitted that of all seven children, he was only sure he fathered the first two children. I would never permit a woman, any woman, to make me a cuckold husband like my mother did to my father. Also, my wife and I went dancing often prior to covid and we do not let other people dance with us. One night a very beautiful woman who is married to a good friend of mine asked her husband if my wife would mind if she danced with me just once. He smiled and looked at her with the response, “She does not share so forget about dancing with her husband.” That is true. I do not share either. I remember once a black friend of mine took my wife, my girlfriend at the time, to the bus stop for me and made a pass at her. She told me about it, and it was the last time I ever saw that black friend of mine. I do not share either. I feel that dancing is sex standing up. My wife and I are very good dancers but we know that dancing with other people is like having sex standing up with them and we just do not do it. Great story!!! I am so glad in this story that Jim and Linda could stay married and recommit to each other. Very thought-provoking story. Great job!!!!!

If I had known the ending I would have not wasted my time reading your story.

Reading the story number of times, it's my conclusion that Jim was not man enough to kick the bitch out to the carb.

It's one of those worst case of humiliation and making a person cuckold in history.

And I strongly believe that staying with such a slut, who put sex above the family, just for sake of children is simply an excuse.

I think in this way that if I didn't do anything wrong then I'm not going to see me suffer. Rather I'd cut the cancer from the family so that it doesn't effect others in the long run...

Didn’t think I’d like the staying together but in the end, “she got it”….she understood AND regretted being with asshole, which was NOT the case earlier in the story. That’s what made the reconciliation possible and just. He she kept saying/thinking “it was great but now it’s over”, divorce would be the only option for me.

5 stars

People who take back their cheating partner deserve every last bit to be cheated on.

100% wimp. Wife 100% whore. She fell into bed with that jerk way to fast for that to be her first time. They kissed and made up and lived happily ever after until she did it again. And she will do it again.

He was no better than her? He went with Ellen after Linda had ripped his heart out. Their marriage was non-existent. He's a god damn saint compared to her. She wasn't even seduced, she just decided to screw a famous guy whose skill at sex her husband could never match. This made me sick.

Commenting on this story needs courage. Can't say nothing new.

Is it a RAAC? No, because costs have been incurred. Rather call it RAGC (reconciliation at great cost)

I am not sure whether the truce will hold or not. The slate can be rubbed clean but the chalk dust will surely persist. And, it would colour the hands.

Its a new chapter in the marriage, not a 'new marriage.'

And, that's the problem.

Staying with a hoe "for the kids" is nonsense. Emma will grow up to be a round heeled slut and teen mom, Tom will find the red pill and never look at a woman the same way because of Jim's cowardice

The last paragraph shows how brain dead Jim and GA really are, if that moron really thinks his friends are envious of him because he decided to be a cuck, he's stupid enough to get cheated on again

The way I see it is like this, (1) he should either have the whore and her master, eliminated, find somebody like Ellen and change her ways, to be a loving wife and mother. Or (2) get in touch with Omegaman56, and get an UNFUCK machine. I am a distributor and there are dealers in every state in the USA. If it was #1, never have to worry about whore or her master again and marry Ellen and have 2 more children, and make her a loving mom of 4 children...

This is a really good plot for a story, with the worlds most digusting male character potrayal, the whole story is about slut whores manipulating their husbands, cheating on them, disrespecting them and manipulating them some more. All the wives in this story deserve to burn deep in the depths of hell. With not a single real man anywhere to be found, sick disgusting characters, with zero honour, dignity, or self respect...... so digusting how many writers on this site protray men, so sad.

I can't give this dreck a 1 often enough. Jim is written as a weak, needy, cunt of a man.

He was one heck of a man to forgive her. Revenge would not really be the best thing to do but I would make it clear that the asshole had never come near my family again.

Choosing to stay with a woman who neither loves nor respects him "for the sake of the children", is what a wimp and a fool would do. She so easily cheated even with her husband sitting there. She publicly degraded and humiliated him by making him a cuckold. Only a fool believes she wouldn't be out fucking other guys when he wasn't watching her. Her daughter will learn to be a cheating slut, and her son will learn to be a cuck.

As in many LW stories the two live in different worlds. In HER world, a man who gets off on seducing wives into helping him publicly degrade their husbands is a "gentleman." In HIS world, that guy is an "asshole."

In HER world, publicly cuckolding and degrading is what you do to someone for whom you feel love and respect. In HIS world, that is how you treat someone for whom you feel hatred and contempt.

The is simply no way any man with an iota of self-respct and an IQ above 80 takes the nasty, cheating skank back.

@GeorgeAnderson, you mentioned at the beginning of this story that it was based on a real life conference. Is this true? All of the married women agreed they would do that and not tell their husbands?

My parents stayed together 'for the sake of the kids' and it was hell. My sister and I were nothing but tools for one side to use against the other. Parents that stay together in conditions like these are only using kids as an excuse.

Wanker.

Possible to stay together after cheating? Yes. Likely to succeed, who know.

But no one with any self-respect would accept her back or trust her again. She has show exactly how she rates her marriage

So, WANKER

I can see why the ending of this story has been so controversial. First, though, it is a very good story. What troubles me is the question of whether Ellen undermines, or affirms, everything the author has been saying to this point. I cannot decide. For me, "we are all weak" is not a satisfying answer to an affair. There is a simple fact: even with intense marriage counseling, few marriages survive an affair. The author does a great job of communicating why. He also does a great job of showing that the sense of betrayal extends not only to the cheating partner (man or woman), but to all the supposed friends. Linda's statements that she love's Jim ring true, but the excuse, I had no self control, or, he meant nothing to me, will ring hollow with many women who's husbands cheated. This is the excuse seemingly offered in "Eyes Wide Shut", and it rang false there too. Dee's hopelessly statements that Jim would get over it contrast well with David's concern that if Jim and Linda's marriage cannot survive this, what hope is there for the rest of us? Does staying with Linda really mean he has no self respect, or that what allows him to keep his self respect is only his awareness that he too is an adulterer? His questions about whether it is worth staying only for the kids. The most powerful statement comes in Chspter 7, not 8, where LW tells Jim Linda has burned their marriage to the ground. His only choices are to leave, now or later, or to start over and create a new relationship with Linda from scratch. I suspect that most women who have bern cheated on would find Chapter 8 a cop out. A more satisfying ending would be if Jim could find compassion for his wife's weakness on dome other basis than he is equally guilty. It does not help that Linda and Jim come off as wooden.

Compassion is more important. If Jim cannot find his way back to Linda without becoming an adulterer himself (or only being saved from this by Ellen and LW) then I fear there truly is no hope for Linda snd Jim. Most who have been cheated on will want a more satisfying answer to "Why Stay Together" The clearest evidence of this is the 20 or more alternative endings others have attempted to write to this story. And perhaps that is what shows forth the profundity of GA's original, in spite of dialogue that sometimes falls flat. In a genre in which one ususlly expects little but titillation or revenge, GA's story inspires people to seek a better answer. Jim and Linda did not. In the end they concluded they were helpless victims of forces and desires they could not control. Unfortunately, once their victimhood becomes mutual, they stop asking the hard questions of themselves.

This may be too harsh. Perhaps saving a marriage requires a radical choice rather than deep introspection (neither character understands their failure. For most spouses who have been cheated on, perhaps there are no real answers, leaving them only with the choice to divorce or fight on.

Some will find the whole scenario contrived. It is, but the reason is that the night at the club is not intended to be realistic. It is a condensation of the essential elements of affairs that works well.

Not a realistic ending for me... I undoubtely much more prefered high deeper intense revenge on so-called-"friends", on so-called-wife and on the Asshole...

The writing was absolutely top-notch.

The story... well, the story had to hit a very particular set of beats – and it did. What were those beats?

- The Weak Woman®, who's just desirable enough to pull the attention of the "alpha," cheats.

- The Nice Guy® is humiliated.

- The Nice Guy® shows his strength by displaying stubborn resolve to his Weak Wife and their co-dependent friends.

- The Nice Guy® signals his virtue over and over until his halo positively gleams. He is now clear to unleash pain and suffering, and righteously repair his broken pride, but holds back on account of the children.

- The Weak Wife® acknowledges the prowess of the alpha, but eventually climbs up the gradient of regret and atonement.

- The Nice Guy® wins in a head-to-head competition for long-term affection against the alpha.

- The co-dependent friends carry the Loving-Wives version of the burden of Chekhov's gun: the absolute necessity that somebody needs to pay the price of divorce by the story's end.

- The ultimate virtue signaling at the close: that the husband is literally dubbed "the White Knight" but *almost* falls into the same trap. Ultimately, though, he doesn't – and now he can virtue-signal even brighter by claiming to have conquered his stubborn pride over this last fail-safe gesture. His recognition of being human marks him as The Nicest of the Nice Guys®.

...So where does that leave us?

"February Sucks" is the textbook example of muddling through the "Madonna-whore complex." It is Moby Dick where human libido substitutes for the Whale, and the Nice Guys® furiously justify their inability to control what their partner (or, more likely, desired partner) finds desirable. It is an absolutely necessary story because it encapsulates the impotent rage of a generation of incels, as well as those adjacent. This story will stand as a helluva time capsule... but it's not what I'd call erotica.

Screw that there is no reasoning behind adultery especially what she did to him nothing can justify that he should have booted her to the curb divorced her ass and took her for everything she had and then crushed her the kids will survive trust me they'll be fine

Opinion it was a great story but he should have buried the b**** you should have divorced her and walked out. There's no reason to cheat ever it doesn't matter if he's a millionaire billionaire sports hero never a reason to cheat on the person supposedly love and anybody who can come up with a reason why it's okay well you just pulling yourself and please stay away from marriage.

While I readily admit that I haven't read everyone's alternate endings to this story, I HAVE read quite a few, and I have yet to see one where Dee adequately gets hers for her part in this.

I really tried but by chapter three this story maes no sense to me.

Using the premise of this story, knowing that you've given your very best for however many years and realising that on the spare of a moment it wasn't enough must be so emotionally crushing that I cannot see how any relationship can survive going forward. What makes it worse is when the cheater uses cliches like "it meant nothing" in the scheme of the length our the marriage relationship. That just drives the nails further into the emotional coffin. There can never be any emotional equilibrium between the spouses, regardless if the cheated upon gets revenge or gets even with a revenge romance, because that will only ever be seen as reactive and hollow to the initial transgression.

For all the postering, for all the many various attempts to try and fine an acceptable ending to this great story, there can only ever be one outcome. We all know it, yet we try and steer the discussion towards some form of resolution depending on our own circumstances, beliefs and moral code.

Life is hard, marriage is hard, relationships are hard and mistakes are often made, While they may be forgiven, they can never be forgotten and therein lies the crux of the argument. Who amongst us are strong enough to forget?

A wimp is a wimp whatever pretexts he gives himself ! I don't understand why so many alternate endings to this garbage !

Such bullshit! She destroyed them and this idiot tries to stay with her? Why, she's a self-absorbed, selfish cheating heartless bitch. She's only sorry Jim doesn't love her, she isn't sorry for what she did, so she'll do it again. His kids are not worth his integrity. Nobody is, because if you lose your character you lose yourself. No way in hell Jim is even tempted to have sex with Ellen, much less look at her. No way he falls for that shit move. "I'm not the husband I should be." Crock of shit. Evil woman, who will probably win and keep the kids, further showing her true colors of hating her husband to the end. Hopefully, she'll step in front of a bus and the world will be rid of her!

Hahahahaha cuckishness at its most pathetic was I going to let him steal my family is code for get on your knees boyo your getting fucked 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Good story up to the last pages or so. The description of Jim's pain was great. But the Woman In The Red Dress? Cmon. A poor way to equate Linda and Jim as being equally bad. In the end, she had her cake and ate it too. Given the fact it took her so long to truly understand her poor behaviour, she was a truly awful character that kept a flogged husband, due to kids. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

Pathetic

I understand why Jim kept the bitch, it's only for the sake of his children. This is the compromise which a parent supposed to do otherwise I'm sure he'd have kicked the slut out into the curb the moment she showed up from her one night stand.

I wish, all those sluts rot in hell...

A wimp, lack of self respect. She humiliated him in front of other people. After that there is nothing, no matter what, no excuses. Just another cuckhold

Staying for the children is a precursor to a lifetime of abuse

The whole “Ellen” bit was ludicrous. He would never have walked away with her, just a very poorly considered deux ex machina.

Enjoyed your writing style and creativity, I wish you were still writing today GA.

Way too contrived nonsense expressly designed to frame the reader to a preselected morally ambivalent conclusion... Congratulations though Mr. Anderson, you have created one of the most venal sociopathic narcissistic princess characters on this site, Further, you frame the husband into one of the most "accepting" wimp cuckolds on this site also Further, you bring about a rather insipid reconciliation by a contrived LW dex ex machina off state entrance to fix the major plot hole of Linda's utterly selfish inability to get past her self justified hallowing of her sociopathic and public betrayal of everything her marriage stood for.

In short...Mr Anderson you have managed to frame a rather bizarre piece of agitprop that cuts to the heart of married monogamy, In your little heart of darkness world...ANYONE can and will surrender to the right rich and famous for a little night of strange. That this is totally spurious nonsense is about as subtle as gravity. I married my Linda as my first date in college over 52 years ago. Yes she was 18 and utterly stunning...but I was captured by her eyes and the innocent loving simplicity shining through her smile that lit up my world. We married as sophomores and were both virgins. We celebrated 50 years of ever increasing married intimacy in August of this year... surrounded and celebrated by both of our extended families, our children's families, and our now college age grandchildren. We can honestly say that not once have we ever strayed nor was there any real danger of straying. While both very physically attractive, we were utter focused upon each other as the centers of our respective universe...true unconditional love that has matured into unswerving intimate committment, fidelity, trust, and yes agapo love.

Why would anyone EVER forsake this for a bit of momentary strange.... I would submit that your entire tale is specious nonsense... You carefully craft it by prefacing your vapid convention conversation...and then create your entire sick betraying framework. The problem here is not so much that your framework is not entertaining....but that it has any semblance of truth or reality. In short almost NOBODY would ever play in that kind of betrayal. 80 plus percent of the american public marry once and stay there for life. The higher divorce statistics are due to a rather small percentage of the married public engaging in serial divorce/marry/divorce/marry episodes.

I think that your blatant missrepresentation of reality in the form of Linda's unthinking betrayal is so distasteful given what we all experience that it has spawned the cascade of add ons to this rather disgusting piece of work.

I usually vote for the writing, but this story is so upsetting to me, I voted it down. It is not a happy ending when a good man is cuckolded in front of all their friends and the whole town. He wasn’t strong enough to do the right thing. He deserves what he got, but justice fell on the wrong person.

i LOVE THIS STORY. a[[ the other follow up stories do not come close to focusing on the love between them. There is nothing more that could be added to make this story better. I look forward to reading more of your stories. PS: we have been married for 47 years and have experienced many struggles. Love One Another.

This is a great story of love and marriage. We have been married for 47 years and have faced many challenges over the years. The Old Testament has a story about Amos and the love for his unfaithful wife. God is Love. Those who do not believe in God will never understand the depth of love. I greatly appreciate your entire story and the ending is perfect. Having read many other conclusional stories, I feel that many writers never truly loved their wives. Your story is a god send to any one who truly wants a loving relationship. God bless you, my friend.

Horrid cuck rubbish.

Honestly, I believe readers need not read any other versions.

This is one of the greatest love stories on the site!

I'm not the best thinker, and I tend to search others opinion that feel right to me even thought I call my self a Christ follower. Many of the follow on stories seem to go in non conventional directions just to get to the btb.

I feel bad for the guys who will accept nothing less when we all need grace and forgiveness that narcissism will likely be their demise. Thank you GA for such an amazing contribution!

What a wonderful tale of love, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption!

How refreshing to read a mature response to an impossible situation instead of the plethora of puerile “cuckold-emasculated” or “scorched earth” solutions that litter this site.

I don’t know how realistic the opening premise is - of a wife waltzing off in front of the beloved husband - but the tale that then unfolds beautifully describes how, in a loving relationship, it is possible to recover from even the gravest of mistakes. It is not the easy choice, and certainly not the quickest, but it is the most wholesome answer.

Accepting, as we must, that everyone errs in varying degrees from time to time, this tale is a beacon of hope in humanity and forgiveness in an age of lynching by social media.

A true cuck master is G.A. must be experience

You took 8 pages to tell a 2 page story about a cheating delusional slut and her idiot husband. The saddest part of the story was they reproduced and their two spawn will probably be as bad as them when they grow up!

While I admit that I like this story, I can't stop thinking that Linda would never betray her husband. I want a version where she is faithful.

First, you don't go to a friend or family lawyer for advice about divorce. Me, I would of just packed my stuff up and left her with the kids, house, everything. She could deside what to do with her and the kids life, she didn't need me in their lives. Let her and Marc L. have a life together without me to in it.

Perfect story. Great writing.

A really wonderful and deep story! Very close to reality! I told my wife the essence of the story and gave her a high level of how they got back together and asked her the following :

Would Linda really be trust worthy again? My wife immediately said she'd probably feel regretful for a while but then would at some point succomb and jump into bed with another bloke.

I asked her what do you think I would do, she said a) I would have probably gone and got my own back with Ellen - getting even but also ensuring she would feel the same pain.

b) for the sake of the kids and finance would just shack up in the same house and lead a separate life - although it would be one more advantageous to myself.

Surprised at how well she knew me 🤣

I think there is room for forgiveness in these stories. I am neither a BtB nor an RAAC fan. I like well written stories. GA is a very gifted author and should be praised as such, no matter your feelings on the subject matter.

It is self-evident in the good authors on this site that are still active and their mentions of him as either editor or inspiration for a story. Please don’t run him off.

That being said, the reconciliation with friends would be intolerable. I am not in agreement with even taking the wife back, especially with the foolhardy handling by someone’s own attorney. (Disbarment?)

But there was another story on this site that aptly summed it up: if it’s okay to happen to me, why wouldn’t it be okay to happen to you?

GA, please keep writing. Everyone else, give some accurate assessments on rating and complain, like me, on the narrative in the comments.

Good story, well worth a 4 star.

Linda was internally a selfish bitch. No matter how much she professed undying, all-encompassing love for her husband she still demanded the right to have had her special night with Asshole so that she could keep a very special personal permanent hot memory whilst chugging along into old age with her poor cucked hub for the rest of their days. A memory and attitude for which she intended to offer no apology to the poor sap because she was so special he would allow her it because he loved her so.

She still didn't reach the stage of real regret and giving a "sorry" even when she had no answer as to how she would behave if Asshole really pushed for a repeat or some similar entitled alpha hit on her.

She didn't even realise that the blue dress could never recover in hub's mind from having been worn for Asshole and she unthinkingly rubbed his face in everything again when she tried to wear it for her first night out with hub after her slut night with Asshole.

Then the author blew any chance of a 5 star by turning hub from a man standing on his principles and beliefs into a male equivalent of her with the "lured away by Ellen" stunt.

Yes it finally caused her to experience the pain she had inflicted on him but it could have been done without him having to fall from grace and come over all equally fallible as her with sop-speak like " I hung my head and started to apologize, again. My morals and character hadn't been strong enough to be the husband I wanted and needed to be, and that knowledge was still galling to me.

Would I have actually gone home with Ellen, spent the night with her, if she'd asked? Of course not, I told myself, just like I'd told our friends that night. I love my wife; I'd never do anything like that to her.

Really? My conscience wanted to know. Just how sure are you about that? The mere memory of Ellen in my arms made my pulse race. How sure was I? Where would I be right now if Ellen hadn't sent me back to Linda?

"Now you know." Yes, now I knew. I knew the guilt of having been cruel to the woman I love. I knew how easily it had happened, and I knew to my shame that I hadn't resisted, not even a little bit.

"Now you know." I knew how someone could do what Linda did to me that night. I knew that I could fail her as badly, and as easily, as she had failed me. I had to face it. My love for Linda had not been enough to keep me from cheating on her, in the same horribly cruel manner she had cheated on me."

Instead the same stunt could have been orchestrated WITH hub being in on it. He could have played out the same scenario but it could have been him turning of his own volition as he reached the club backdoor to see her sobbing. Then he could have gathered her up whilst telling her "now YOU know the pain too. Now we can try to rebuild."

A extremely clever and well written storey, my wife did similar, I forgave her, or thought I had, but it did kill something in me, we are no longer together. But ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for the storey.

My 3rd read of this story, after attempting to read as many of the alternate endings as I could. It still pulls at the heart strings. Still, forgiveness of this magnitude is beyond my capabilities. 10 stars!

public humiliation, and he stays and forgives, a total lack of self-respect, nothing but a cuckold.

Once self respect is gone, there is nothing. Starting with your own self, forget about wife, children or people around you.

Everything is great, except I simply can't believe he could get on the same hook. It is impossible for anybody with at least a piece of brain!

The problem this couple has is they live in different worlds. In Linda's world, public degradation, humiliation and betrayal are what you do to someone for whom you feel love and respect. In Jim's world, it's what you might do to someone for whom you feel hatred and contempt. In Linda's world, a man who gets off on seducing wives into helping him debase and humiliate their husbands is a "gentleman". In Jim's world, that man is an asshole.

Ther is, however, one area where they feel exactly the same. Jim loved Linda with every fiber of his being, and he liked himself pretty well too. Linda felt exactly the same. She loved Linda with every fiber of her being, and she liked Jim pretty well too.

The reason this story fails is simply because it rests on a false premise. It only works if Linda loves Jim truly and deeply, but her actions prove she does not.

A cuck and his whore. This author can't write anything but cuck shit. 1*

I read this again to remind me of the ending and to re-compare to the many attempts by other authors to put a different spin and ending to it. No body but GA could put as much loving, caring and hurt in this story as he did. The introspection and loathing and hurt the husband went thru was felt by all of us males, at least I think so. We wanted to burn the bitch and make good ole Marc pay for his role in this tragedy. The love and uncontrolled reactions she had to Marc I could never understand and if put in the same situation I could never be influenced one way or the other. Why you say? Because I do not understand what love is all about. I also do not understand this uncontrolled lust. It's that simple. But at 26 or 27 I got married not because I wanted to but because the young lady was pregnant and that was the right thing to do. I now had a wife and two girls (she had one before). Well, I did my job and cared for the family and did everything a man and husband is supposed to do. Then 13 years later the wife says she has fallen out of love. Wham, bam thank you mam. I had never hurt so much in my life. No. wasn't in love with her but I was in love with the family and she was part of it. How can someone make you hurt so much? So I can understand the MC in this story and how he felt even though the ex said she fell out of love. It was the loss of the family she tore that away from me. In This story most of us can see why there was reconciliation, the kids. We don't really want to screw them up for the rest of their lives. Thank god this just a story but I would be willing to bet that many women have succumbed to lure of power and celebrity status some men have. President Clinton, Tiger Woods, John Kennedy are just couple that many women have jumped in bed with. You and I need not worry about that happening to us.

This story stirs up such extreme reactions for a very simple reason. It asks readers to accept 2 mutually exclusive things. It asks us to believe Linda deeply loves and respects Jim, and that she chose to publicly betray, degrade and humiliate him. Since it is not possible for those 2 things to both be true, an acceptable resolution is impossible for any sane, non-retarded adult. The only alternate versions that work at all are those that procede from the obvious fact that Linda neither loves nor respects Jim. Once that obvious fact is recognized, reconciliation is clearly not possible .

Terrible ending. She sacrificed nothing but Jim lost everything.

Didn’t se it coming, but I enjoyed the story

Tautly written, even at this length.

The last part with Ellen was not believable, but nearly so, until the protag convinced himself that he would have left with Ellen, but for Ellen making him look at his wife.

So, our protag has a weaker sense of self and will and devotion than our cheating wife?

After what he has been through?\ with said cheating wife?

Really good story, but losing sympathy for the protag, after the author put so much effort into making him real, and sympathetic, and rational, really hurt the ending.

Just did not buy the protag's thoughts and actions at the end of dancing with Ellen, and after Ellen, it was too symmetrical for the sake of being as symmetrical as possible without our protag actually cheating.

It made the whole endeavour too simple of a morality tale

Really good attempt though, and worth reading.

While I will laud this as a good-to-very-good story, how simply/ quickly the wife ran off, and how the protag continually was mad yet did little about actually leaving his wife, these were weak points glossed over by the quality of the writing, and the thorough attempts at rationality put forth by the author as the protag's thinking processes.

I can see why so many have responded to this in comment and story-alternate.

Sorry, I agree with one and done. Who wants to stay with a slut who leaves her husband humiliated in front of their so called friends to shag a stranger. Kids be damned, no self respecting man could do that even for the sake of the kids..

This story was a masterpiece in presenting Infidelity/Betrayal and the pain it causes people.

It raises so many thought provoking questions, is love real, if u really love someone would u hurt them so badly, can you trust your spouse ever, Is sex something women use to control men, is beauty the only thing important, Can people really not control themselves, Is sex really just 2 animals rutting?

I can see why so many authors have done an alternate ending to this story that's how I found it. It obviously is fiction and everything is Exaggerated for effect.

It had some really stupid stuff in it like... When the wife asks the husband not to sleep with someone else and said "I know it sounds hypocritical, but that would destroy me" and doesn't think that might have done the same thing to my husband. LOL!! At 1 point I felt sorry for the wife she was No smarter than an 12 year old?

I think there is 1 truth in the story: Whenever Infidelity occurs the marriage Is broken, over, gone, ended. It cannot be restored. A couple may stay together, they may raise their children together, they may try to start a new marriage like this story but what they had they have no more! Reality is almost all realize this and divorce.

Great story, well written, deserving of a better rating.

Linda has taken over from Glen Close in Fatal Attraction as every man’s worst nightmare. While Linda didn’t boil any bunnies, she sure as hell boiled Jim’s balls. Linda’s betrayal, made all he worse because she represents everything good that a man wants in a woman, until she wasn’t. It’s the case of the fallen idol.

The whole Ellen thing ruined it.

5*

My comment on the conversation supposedly heard by the author and the basis of the story. First, I am not naive and believe many wives cheat periodically and are never caught and husbands none the wiser. Same for husbands. However, cheating in public as was the premise here is a different story. If husband was not there and a celebrity picked up a wife I believe most would not cheat with him because they would have too much shame and be afraid it would get back to husband. Alternate premise and plot of the story, wife cheats while husband and friends observe her leave with the celebrity: this would almost never happen in my opinion unless H and W were in an open relationnship and friends knew about it. Odds are one in a million that a wife, out with friends and not in an open relationship who has children and wants to be married would leave with a celebrity for a night of sex with every one knowing about it. A spouse in such a situation would not let him or herself do something so destructive to their spouse and family. Now, if it could be done privately with noone knowing the odds are much different. The fact of the story not being realistic obviously does not detract from the story. Also, if the conversation did in fact take place it was likely a bunch of false bravado of the women claiming they would do so who would never in real life do it. My two cents.

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