All Comments on 'Just Good Friends'

When a partner has to go to these lengths it is not worth it. Also the story centers on all the reason they should not be married. Finally the ending exhibited a weak man who turned on a dime and hit in the line. Pretty pathetic to heve a discussion after the wife goes away with another man. Daughter worlds biggest dope after husband. Would not want tone her partner.

You've done a lot better than this. Good to great start then a pathetic ending.

I realized I know one man who would put up with this much shit for this long. So I decided I had to rate the story higher. Every man I know, but one, would’ve dumped this bitch years ago. The one man I know who’s this patient is married to my bitch of a niece.

Did they go to Rome or Paris together? How did the reconnect? Really liked the story

Well done, Satindesires,

Not just a story but important lessons for life.

Excellent, a great wake up call for people who have been in a relationship long enough to take the partner for granted.

When someone does something hurtful to prove their independence, it show a lack of love and a deep seated selfishness that usually destroys the relationship. The author provided the needed outside party. in this case the daughter, to put things into perspective, so the needed corrections should be made.

Another important lesson; we need to have family and friends who love us and are willing to be truth tellers.

The Hoary Cleric

Loved the story but I would have pulled the trigger!

The relationship was “plutonic” (sic) wow!

OH HELL NO. Her ass would have been gone the minute she mentioned going to Rome with her boy toy. By the way, The word is PLATONIC

Technically there was just the right amount of meat to keep me engaged and NO unnecessary fluff. The story had a point and it got to it cleanly. I went through some of the exact same emotional issues with my wife, and wonder if this was a real experience for the author as well. Write about what you know.

A psychiatrist told me there was a very rare condition similar to psychopathy but more specific. A psychopath can not empathize with others. In the other condition, the subject can "put himself in someone else's shoes" imagining how HE would respond in the same situation. Easy. But can not, ever , correctly imagine, based on knowledge of the person, background, things the person has said, what THAT person is actually feeling. Instead, he continually just sees himself in the spot, and does not even realize it.

Moira's inability to just step back and say, "my husband is feeling uncomfortable, and that is what is most important" but instead argue with him that his feelings are wrong?, they reflect a way a person with this disability behaves. I know, I lived it, and 15 years of "what the fuck was she thinking" all fell into place when the shrink explained it.

A well thought out story. While personally, that ending is hard to swallow, the author did a fine job selling the tale, so to speak. 5* Nicely done.

Why would a guy or a woman go to all this trouble to gain some respect? And Vince, If he is this hot guy, why try and rationalize his feelings? Go big or go home. When a spouse has to deceive himself and play games it time to cut bail. I really didn't get much entertainment value from this story. Maybe because after the 3rd or 4th attempt to communicate my displeasure I would pack it in and divorce the self absorbed twit.

It was a nice read but I can't honestly imagine anyone tolerating their wife going to Europe with another man. I would have filed the minute the plane got off the ground.

Yeah there's no way, after turning down trips/vacations with her husband then going with her "friend" that is an absolute marriage breaker, just that alone not to mention for things to have gotten there, with that level of entitlement there's an 85% probability she cheated, on top of that for him to not divorce her after disrespecting him only pushes the probability of her infidelity up to 98%. His trip was a pointless gestures because for one cheating is felt and processed totally differently between men and women, women don't know or even comprehend what it's like to question paternity or the horrifying discovery of not being the father of your wife's child, since the beginning of time this has scared and demented men so emotionally it is ingrained into our sex and why fidelity is so much more important to us, and why infidelity is so much more painful. -FACTS

I thought the wife's behaviour was totally unacceptable. He should have asserted himself strongly early on.

I also thought the ending was very weak.

Ah, the ol' switchback. The relationship may have been plutonic, but I doubt it since that means formed by solidification of magma deep within the earth. They were dense, just not THAT dense.

Could his wife really be that dense?!

The story is Well written but the plot is idiotic and makes no sense and is simply too incredulous to be believed. The worst part is that it wasn't until the wife and Vince were caught in the restaurant by the daughter that the wife mother had a sort of come to Jesus moment about what was going on. And that's what kills the marriage beyond all repair. It wasn't the husband's complaints or arguments it was being caught by the daughter. The daughter's opinion mattered far more than the husbands. Indeed the wife mother says to her daughter well it's just Ian. Yeah in the guy who doesn't matter. That's what that statement means. Those two things mean that this marriage is over and done with

He should have divorced her ass when she was in Rome. Had her served there while her lover was there to support her. For he was her lover even if they did not have sex.

"Plutonic?" I think you mean platonic. "Plutonic" seems to be about rocks, not... platonic relationships.

Nice story, otherwise. Thanks!

Plutonic means doggy style, like Mickey Mouse’s dog would do it

A somewhat believable story only because there are so many crazies out there. Once you accept the premise that there people this brain dead, the story was fine.

Three months is not a sufficient test.

A year might be enough.

Excellent story that stays away from the cliches and hyperbole so endemic to LW tales.

The vitriol and cluelessness of the comment has a direct correlation to whether the commenting individual has ever written and published a work on Literotica.

I was actually engaged with this story and really liked the theme. I agree, though, with other commenters who pointed out that Moira was unbelievably dense, self-centered, and clueless. She took her husband for granted to such an extreme that she felt entitled to be “independent” and spend more intimate (even if not sexual) time with Vince than with her husband. Her inability to empathize in the slightest with her husband’s feelings was almost sociopathic. After 23 years of marriage, I think the husband’s restraint was realistic, but his trip with Linda finally seemed to clear some of the fog from Moira’s brain. But I wonder if it really affected her self-absorption; it may appear in other guises. A successful thirty three-month trial extensions of their marriage does mean something. I liked the story, but the Moira character still came across as so implausibly narcissistic that it lessened the impact and power of the story. Four stars.

I think if my wife left in a trip with another man, she would have come home to an empty house.

Of course MY wife knows that and would never do that.

You left out one half of the setup of the "vitriol and cluelessness" comment - are you pro dumping anonymous text files for free into a big bucket of mental illness, or con?

Good story. Emotional affairs are more damaging than sexual affairs. Moria was too long in realizing what she was and damned near lost her huband. Their daughter Raechel did open her eyes fortunately for Moria. He should probably have filed for divorce after she left for Rome, how much disrespect would he take?

Moira is making a big fool of Ian. She has all her time for Vince. She goes on a trip to Rome ! What were their sleeping arrangements? Were they sleeping together in a single room on a single bed? For years they were living very close. If they were not having a sexual relationship then it is possible only when either Vince was not having a cock of any worth or was having an erectile issue.

Four stars for the writing. And while the ending, as presented, was real some nice fictional fireworks would have been nice

When the premise is as stupid as this, there’s not a lot of point commenting.

Now T H A T is what I call Loving Wives submission without the “BTB” trail. Though I’m on my second marriage (26 years come November), my first ended after 17. The difference? Caught her literally with her panties down (in her purse) when. I arrived unexpectedly from my deployment. Took a taxi home to her getting out of an unknown vehicle driven by some dude I did know. She doesn’t swallow, has long hair and wearing a dark blouse that had white blotches on it with the same type substance running down her leg. 😁😁😁. 5⭐️