by Regguy69
Very good. I do believe she is going to have regrets for a very long time.
Have to agree with all the points he made about "fighting" for his marriage. And I think it's appropriate to divorce her when she tells him she wants to "explore" her feelings for another man. Is that in the woman's handbook defined as "I got hit by the Martian Slut Ray"? Thanks for the read.
This concept of fighting for her makes me puke. She is the one fighting for him. Hoes.
Any woman worth fighting for wouldn't make you fight for her, end of story. Bravo!
The husband was correct, he shouldn't have to fight for his wife. Ending was as it should be.
Nope. Its true that once you’ve committed to a marriage, dotted the i's crossed the t's, thats all folks, any and all outside interference directed at that bond is tantamount to treason and apparently the data thats being produced via the burgeoning DNA ancestral sites nearly 1 in 25 births, the husband is not the biological father.
Bring back the Scarlet Tattoo on the forehead of both miscreants and condemn them to hell.
A marriage has to be fought for daily buy both sides. He didn’t he gave up. Best for Jinny that he slink away.
The MC was completely correct in his attitudes and behaviors toward his errant wife. He was mistaken, however, with respect to her paramour. That prick needed to be taught respect for the institution of marriage and for the MC as a man who had previously done him no harm. The lesson should have been of sufficient severity to be remembered for a lifetime.
Very good and really believable for me.
Love works every day, yes, but on both sides, on both partners.
it also means paying attention to others, to your interactions with them, and avoiding any closeness, whether sentimental or physical.
And if not, either you walk away from the problem or you separate yourself from your partner before.
Great story idea with a rotten ending. A man always has to fight for his wife, because there will always be an asshole like I used to be trying to slide into the gap.
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Complacency will kill a marriage, and unless she’s fat or ugly, someone will always be after her pussy.
Started out great but wasn't really suited to such a short read would of been better with maybe another page.
Classic 'cake eater'. She used some really tired manipulation tactics on him. But he stood his ground. Treated her like the manipulative loser she's morphed into, and moved on with his life. She will always respect him now because, and ONLY because he respected himself enough to never tolerate her blatant disrespect of him.
I don't really understand this story. By fighy do you mean figuratively or literally? Because he figuratively DID fight for this marriage. He asked her what was wrong, he tried to be more attentive and caring etc, when he found out he confronted her and demand she stop. There is nothing more he could do. It's her choice. She wanted to fuck around.
Yet he doesn't think he fought and no one should have to? And everyone thinks he just let the marriage die?
The interesting thing is to reverse roles and replay the whole scene. The guy would be a dishonorable pig for even thinking of cheating on his loyal, beautiful wife. There was a time when that was acceptable, but the pendulum has swung the other way. All cheating is inexcusable.
Great story.
There’s fighting for your marriage: the daily tasks that forge a home and a life that excludes other sexual and romantic partners and then there’s fighting for your marriage where you see your spouse as only yours and anyone who threatens that is dealt with physically.
If he was in a rage of such epic proportions that he almost killed a man, then he didn’t see his wife as a person, he saw her as a possession. He should also have been in prison.
This hit the nail on the head, no man should ever have to fight for his wife against another manFuck her she is no longer worth it. Unless it was against her will. He did that once.
I like that he debunked all those people who say that the husband should fight for his wife. Unfortunately, the rest of the story was kind of lame. His sister was an ass. He had already shown that he WOULD fight for her, when SHE fought for them. The person his sister should be talking to is Jinny. In fact, she SHOULD have talked to her that time she caught her with Tom. Meanwhile, Jinny, seeing how Mark felt, should have gotten her head out of her ass.
The logic that HE'S supposed to fight for her while she "explores" her feelings for good ole Tom is the most brainless shit I've heard in 2023 thus far.. first off, there can't be only 1 person fighting for a marriage😔..that will be a losing battle.. he's fighting to keep her, while she's fighting to get her hole filled by Tom, how would that work?😫😫 .. why WOULD he "fight" for her?, they've only been married 5 yrs and she's already "tempted", 🤭.. it's not going to get any better.. why should he be the only one fighting?... what will she be doing while he's "fighting" for her, continue her little secret lunches and kisses with good ole tom?.. Is her pussy made of gold or something?😂😂😂😂😂... Is he supposed to love her more than she loves him?🤨... Is he supposed respect her more than he respect and love himself?.... I think his sister sounded like a true moron.. he's absolutely right‼️.. why should he have to "fight" for her, They're married!?..When she started dating him, he fought and won when she chosed him, he fought and won when she accepted his proposal and marriage.. why should he still be "fighting" 5 damn year's later?.. TF?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂...I can understand if he was neglecting her, and even than, she's supposed to sit him down and talk to him.. not start dating some guy she works with🙄.. that wasn't the case in this situation.. she's just a self entitled slut, who thought her husband was a wimp who loved her so much...he'd not only wait on her to finish sucking and fucking Tom, he'll forgive her... he just has to "fight" for her.. the definition of "fighting" apparently is just letting her explore her feelings without any consequences to their relationship.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it sounds even stupider when you say it out loud...I'm just really trying to figure out how "fighting" would work when there's 3 people in the relationship and only one is fighting for it? The main people in the relationship is on opposite teams/sides 🥴🥴..let's just say he allowed this abomination for shots and giggles... now she finds out she's not special, she's just another whore Tom wanted to stick his dick into... you better believe Tom will be replaced by a will or Bill or even a jack.. Tom would NOT have been her one and ONLY temptation in the year's to come...
Just OK, Jinny was a skank cheating slut who obviously had already fucked Tom even though she claimed she had not. She was also selfishly delusional in her claims of love. You let Mark basically be a wimp who could barely get away from her instead of dealing with both she and Tom before hitting the exit. Not RAAC and not BTB so there just isn't much of anything here at all.
I always thought there might be something wrong with my perspective on life. Looking at your words, everything looks like it should to me.
This was just plain outstanding, Regguy! Stripping out the layers of dishonesty, the revenge to regain manhood, the angry sex and all the other trappings of the cheating wife story, you boiled this down to its essence--namely, what we owe each other, and the responsibility we each take on when we commit to a monogamous relationship. This is a hell of a story! Five stars!!!
"Explore my feelings for him" = "you're my backup plan". Mark's role is to give Jinny a marriage worth fighting for (and the author makes it appear that he is doing so), but in a situation such as this, she is the one who needs to do the fighting.
I like how he stood by his values. She got what she deserved. Mark can go find a better woman. They are out there.
The right way to handle it, for sure.
She was encouraging the attention of an obvious pussyhound. You can't build a life with a dumb, disloyal slut like her.
Not sure what author means by "fighting for her."
At first, I though author was talking about not being a good husband, but then he said he did all those things like flowers and dates.
What other things fit into "fighting"? Physically beating up Tom?
Wife was too clueless to make story interesting. You don't tell a spouse that you have feeling for another, but say "we are just friends and enjoy a a quiet conversation."
This is a great and realists approach toa problem we allget sometimes- stay in your laneand do you best strength comes from Iintegrity. If one horse don't pull his share then thatteam will not work!,
Being a guy, I totally agree with the man. Either you want to love and remain with your man or you don’t. *****
Interesting and insideful story about marriage. You can't force anybody to love you or to stay faithful to you. As Clint Eastwood said in one of his movies: "A man has to know his limitations." He has to know when to fight and when to flight. Thanks for the story.
It's sad that so many people don't seem to understand the actual meaning of the "fight for the marriage" phrase that they so often refer to.
Anything less than a UNITED (meaning TOGETHER) effort to save the marriage (as defined by their wedding vows), by both parties to it, constitutes a "default" of the marriage contract!
Does not mean the marriage CAN'T be saved, but saving it takes the prior agreement of BOTH parties for any departure from, or modification of, those "rules".
Jinny still needs to receive an anonymous package containing one of Tom's testes. Just saying.
Interesting but we as men have to constantly fight off the vaultures but I do understand when she said she wanted to explore the other guy that should have got the other guy hurt. Period. The husband turned out like most of these stories to be a pussy.
Really well told complete story. I rarely give 5* to 750 word stories but you earned it! 5*
“Please, Mark, just give me a little more time to sort things out. I want to explore those feelings, but please don't give up on us."
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Mark did EXACTLY the right thing after that moronic plea. The time for “sorting things out” was before they were married — NEVER after. Dumping the idiot was the proper move.
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4 ****
Bravo Mark! Nothing says you a piece of shit not worth any effort like totally ignoring a bitch like she doesn't even exist. Besides, there is all the time in the world to pay Tommy a little visit. The longer, the less the cops associate.
You're right he should not have to fight for her she was already married to him. When they got married he had already fought for her now she just had to remain true to him
Jinny was trying to be the ring announcer. "In this corner we have a scumbag trying to break up a marriage aaannnndd in this corner we have nobody."
3 stars - barely made the 3 and the story was just kind of boring.
No emotions, no anger, just a single digit IQ BARBIE BIMBO and a husband who finally realized she was not worth the effort and moved on - end of story.
Perfect. I agree you fought to get her. Shouldn't have to fight to keep her.
MC isn't wrong. Sure, effort still needs to be made in the marriage, but spouses shouldn't have to fight to reaffirm their spouse's love and commitment. It was the wife that gave up on fighting for their marriage, by letting a snake slither his way into her thoughts. MC made the right decision. Shame nothing bad happened to the Tom. Thanks for sharing! 5*
Great / why should he have to fight for her what gives any man the right to go after someone’s wife / his sister should have kicked him in the balls and slapped his wife silly if you want to fuck around DON’T get MARRIED
When she still wanted time to explore her feelings with the other man, the marriage was over. He was right. She needed to fight for the marriage, not him.
@Anonymous Re: "the definition of "fighting" apparently is just letting her explore her feelings without any consequences to their relationship" - That's not what they're saying. They're saying that he should fight for the marriage by trying to stop her. This is ALSO wrong, SHE should fight for the marriage by stopping herself.
People are idiots. The women who give this sort of advice are users, don't care about monogamy, and bigger idiots.
You fight for a marriage together. Not one man fighting off 50 men or women while his wife sits her fat arse on the bar stool and giggles over the mess she created.
A man flirting with women when his spouse doesn't approve or 'breaking her heart' is vilified and the woman's never told to 'fight for him'. They should take a hint from that! ;)
Dude made the right moves. 5 Stars.
No burning bitches or bastards, no free passes, no being the back up plan. You want to explore, I want to divorce. So let us get to it. Game over.
If there’s ever going to be a fight for any marriage, both partners need to be fighting together,
5* reminds me of a country song. Sing the song, and get the hell out of dodge. Must be 50 ways .....
Like I loved you:
… Don't tell me we can still be friends
Hanging on the weekend
You're gonna be okay if I start seeing somebody new
You hope that I do
It won't be long
'Til I forget to call every time that I'm drinking
And you ain't the love song
I can't keep from singing
I gotta be honest
If you really believe that's the truth
You never loved me like I loved you
Same old cheaters sing-song coming out of her mouth. Got to explore. Bullshit! Tempted? You don't explore but resist if you're a committed partner. This marriage is already lopsided and it's best to end it as quickly as possible. Life is far too short to be wasting it on someone can't understand the whats and whys of the spouse test.
Yup, he beat up Jason 5+ years earlier, then took a vow of "forsaking all others". Apparently she forgot she took the same vow. Divorce or an annulment would be the right thing to do in this case. I gave it 5 stars.
I wonder how Jinny felt after she found out Tom was dipping his wick into several other women? Tom wasn't giving up anything, she was.
Great to see a writer so expertly poke holes in the rationalizations that some make when they are attracted to others. If you truly love someone, not acting on a moment of attraction is not a problem.
LOVED IT. A married couple are a team. A team is only successful if all members are working for the benefit of the team. So if a woman comes on to the husband it is the husband's responsibility to defend the marriage and his choices and actions should reflect that defense, In this story the wife drops the ball. She does not defend the marriage and the logical solution is dissolution. As for attacking Tom in any way while satisfying would lead to bad outcomes for the husband. Is she worth that after becoming part of the problem, I think not. Off comes the ring and "Go find yourself we are done." Short sweet and ultimately to the point. She wont fight for the marriage then she deserves no benefit of the marriage, *****
Great story and as "real" as it can get. If you have to fight to keep someone, then the relationship is already over.
A good premise but it didn’t fit the 750 word limit well. It left huge gaps germane to the story
3/5
So Tom got a way free, fucking up another man's marriage. Mark could have saved someone elses marriage from this cheating SOB, even though he never tried to save his. What looser..
The answer to ',you need to fight for your marriage ' is 'they need to fight for it too' . Me fighting for the marriage is saying to me 'your spouse is this incredible person,you need to fight for them'...which implies that the cheated on person doesn't deserve to be fought for too.
I had a friend ( doesn't matter whether it was a man or woman) whose spouse had an affair. In couple's therapy the spouse said that they had given my friend a lot of clues they weren't happy&they hadn't picked up on them,didn't fight for the marriage.
When my friend said in response was 'did it ever dawn on you I couldn't read your clues? Did you fight to make ME understand you?'. My friend walked out of the session because the therapist said that was irrelevant...my friend asked me what I thought, I said if you want to try, find another therapist, because a good therapist knows that people in a relationship assume that the other person sees or understands them,which is not true. One of the big things in therapy w a couple is realizing the other can't read our minds, that the clues we think are out there are in our minds. What it also showed was bias, you never dismiss what someone says. You might ask them to save that for when it is their turn, but in this case that is an honest response ( they got a new therapist , someone who came highly recommended, and they were lucky, they patched it back together, and kept doing refresher sessions w the therapist from time to time).
If someone feels unappreciated or their partner is not working at the relationship, the first step is to tell them,it is okay to say ',I really don't feel like you are fighting for us as a couple:',but expecting the cheated upon spouse to fight for the relationship implies they are the beggar, that the spouse is so great, it is on you. If my sister told me what they did in this story, she would see nothing of me going forward. If the spouse is questioning, it is their duty to either fight for the marriage working w the other person, or being honest and walking away, either one at least is respectful. IME though it is interesting,the fighting for line most often is used against husbands where wife cheats, not other way around.
The story conveyed the message. Why should you fight for an unfaithful bimbo that is confused about her feelings for some sleazy coworker? Time to cut bait and go fishing for a new mate.
mark gave jinny one week to decide between him and loverboy tom?
twenty four hours would seem generous, but anything more than a couple of minutes would tell mark all he needs to know and leave forever