All Comments on 'Making an Honest Woman Ch. 04: Epilogue'

"People do not want to engage you in a dialogue of any sort. Accept it" - LOL, except that they do engage, just as you're doing here!

Who knows exactly what any of our personal truths may or may not be?

I KNOW a real anon VALUES their one comment per story (or chapter), and wouldn't waste it on a three word "rant"

Jesus, Man! Let it go. You are commenting on other readers' right to comment, which is determined by the writer of the story. She allows anonymous comments. What has ever happened on this entire planet that makes you think anyone gives a shit about what you want, or think, especially regarding other readers following the rules and expressing opinions? Get over yourself. People do not want to engage you in a dialogue of any sort. Accept it.

The story itself gets 6*s and two of these little fuckers. 🔍🔎. I call them as I see them and a I see this chapter as an epic unlike anything previously written in the world. It makes me smile! Is this a smile? 😖 It's how the Buxom Maid Marian looks after I have tickled her fancy. Thanks for posting!

AMerryman

PS: That fag cuck that claimed to be me and only gave 4 *s is an imposter that hacked my anonymous account. 🔍🔎

This is now the second anonymous comment where the title line is exactly the same!

Yes, you anons may exercise your right to not have a profile, as I will exercise my right not to accept your comments, and my right to express my dissatisfaction with the situation.

And you wrote it very well, it's obvious a great deal of thought went in to this.

I'll keep an eye out for more of your writing in the future.

5* for completing the story with a brief but entertaining conclusion.

Pray tell, what you comments about anons have to do with story.

Numerous people have made a PERSONAL decision to not register a profile. I believe their reasons are varied but it is their decision to make.

Most anons post respectful comments, most likely with no thought or desire to engage in dialogue with anyone.

Not certain why you and luedon cannot accept anons right to not have profile and the fact they owe neither of you an explanation.

The two of you will continue to harumph, and they will choose to remain anonymous.

Hope wendylicker will ignore the dialogue between sbrooks and a number of anons on this matter.

Look forward to further submissions from this author.

Comment by Valint:

"We made it to the end of the story while still having almost no explanation for the wife's bizarre behavior, no actual baring of the soul about how or why this all started, no honesty about her past or her affairs."

"Bizarre behaviour" - I can't express it better than Valint. In Ch. 1 Ellen changes from a woman who does not give a damn shit for her husband & family to a loving wife who is desperate to win them back.

We still do not have a hint of an explanation for that and no questions from the husband who surely wants to get closure on that. And my former questions - what triggered her serial cheating and how long it has been going on - are still not adressed.

Wendylicker - please write a part from Ellen's POV - I know you can!That would really mean closure for your protagonist and many of your readers!

Despite these shortcomings still a 5*.

The difference is you MAY add description IF you feel that it is necessary, while if I want to respond to you as Anonymous I have no choice!

Just look at the title here! We're up to three "@"s! If you reply it will be FOUR!

It does tie up the loose ends. Based on the talk between the protagonist and Diane, we get a clearer picture of the divide created by their differences. You can easily have a loving, and long lasting, relationship with a partner who is fundamentally different. The caveat being that one or both partners have to be accepting enough of the differences, or at least be willing to work around them.

In this case, one partner was willing to cope with his wife being unable to truly understand his career. The breaking point was that the wife was unable to deal with someone she saw as boring. Thankfully, this lead to a non acrimonious split, for the most part, and eventually to a better future for all.

I don't know which "IDed commenter" you are referring to, but in my experience the worst trolls are anonymous. You may disagree, some of my good friends do!

His wife was shown to be very shallow cheater who could not even merit the love of her children never mind her husband.

His new girlfriend / wife was too good to be true. An ideal fit from nowhere just appeared on the scene.

So in the end all's well that ends well but it just lacked any bite. The reader could not care less about the wife or the lost marriage, so what was the point of it all. She promised to fight for him but didn't, he lost the love and respect he once had for her, so she was no loss. The whole story just died slowly but surely with no real angst or passion leaving the reader cold.

I had the same issue, that's why my ID changed from sbrooks103 to sbrooks103x.

I simply got a gmail id and set up the new account using that.

My question to you is why you are concerned about why anons don't bother to register.

When I respond to your post I also have to include title of your post as you are known to make numerous comments on some stories

If you use @anon plus title the dialogue is easily maintained. Not sure what the difference is as far as ease of dialog when only distinction is a profile name instead of anon is used in title of comment.

Luedon and you are seriously mistaken if you believe namers exceed anons in number.

You really needed to write a ending,well done,thank you. One of those rare divorces that worked out for every one.

As an anonymous commenter I am using my one comment on this story to say Bravo to your open forum comment. Perhaps you and the other writers could go back and check the anonymous comments that led you to the decision to block our comments. Let me clue you in the worst anonymous comments are usually several from the same commenter, or in simple words your IDed commenter decides to trash a story and writer. Perhaps a good solution would be to limit all commenters to a single comment on a story. Writer I apologize but your story had no appeal to me so I have not read any of it.

@sbrooks103x:

I don't know about the others, but I am anonymous because I lost my password, and the link that the site sens me when I request a new password never works. And since I can't register again with the same email...

Sort of fell off the path with his one. I really led the previous ones but this was like staggering over the finish line. I didnt care which way they turned out but something was lacking in this part of the story... it was like you were tired, not them.

You put a finish on your story and that is good, but you still left a few questions I would like to have seen answered.

Realizing this is written from Dan's POV it still would have been nice to have seen what were the repercussions from his sending Rob's wife the pictures and report from her affair. Did they get a divorce? Was Ellen cited as the cause? Did she get sued by Ann?

As mentioned in an earlier comment it would have been nice to know why she did it other than just boredom.

Did Ellen remain celibate until after the divorce was final and she moved into her own condo?

All lame questions but as a reader we are all really just voyeur's we want to know these things. Like the other three I gave it another five.

It feels like there was an interesting story trapped inside here, that the MC just never cared about enough to follow. We made it to the end of the story while still having almost no explanation for the wife's bizarre behavior, no actual baring of the soul about how or why this all started, no honesty about her past or her affairs.

There were quite a few tantalizing hints that she was actually a prostitute, but again, the husband just didn't care enough to actually press her on anything, so we never got that story.

That the situation went from the wife declaring that she was going to give her all to win him back... and then ended with "We were cordial and then a few months later, she declared that she had met someone she wanted to get serious with" (which almost certainly means she had been non-seriously involved with him on some level for some time), with the passive MC not even caring, seems fitting, as does the fact that his final conclusion about the marriage was yet another way to make her cheating all his fault.

One thing I've never understood about husbands like this: Why do they care so much, and make such a point of pride, that the ex-wife is still heavily involved in their daughters' lives? I mean, the essential problem here is that he honestly never knew the true 'her', that she's been lying and deceiving him their entire marriage, and that her basic values and views on how a woman should behave in a relationship are fundamentally at odds with his. Why is this the person you want to be teaching your daughters how to be women and what kind of wives they should be?

As an author who DOESN'T allow anonymous comments, I have no problem with an "open forum."

If I didn't want an open forum, I wouldn't allow comments at all!

My question is, why are you so reluctant to identify yourself? As has been mentioned many times, even IDs are anonymous, but they allow for an easier dialog in the open forum!

You show me a woman who enjoys eating, and I'll show you a woman who enjoys fucking, and most things sensuous and fun.

The only real mystery, and the weakest aspect of the entire story, is why Dan ever married Ellen. A weak, shallow, unintelligent, selfish, whore. It begs the question, what did Dan ever see in her, and how could she possibly be a decent wife and mother? If her next husband bores her too, she's going to continue to be a whore. She can teach her children nothing about being an ethical moral woman. While she is supposedly waiting and scheming to win her marriage back, she's already meeting and getting to know other men with romantic and emotional feelings. Hell, by the time she tells Dan she's already met and probably fucked his replacement. How could Dan have possibly found anything of substance in this blowup doll?

So it was a useful and welcomed epilogue. Good luck with future work. And thanks for allowing anonymous comments. We all know and understand why some author's can't handle being in the open forum. I salute your courage, and intelligence.

At first I thought this ending was a bit rushed. After thinking it through, I believe it is exactly what this story needed. The tone, dialogue and pace matched the previous chapters and provided a good ending.

Thanks for an enjoyable read in a difficult category.

Enter stage right, Ellen Tucker.

Daniel and the author having failed to make an honest woman of her, her soliloquy finally fulfills the promise of this story's title. Ellen speaking to her therapist - off stage - details her numerous affairs and explains her self-justification for her behavior. Indeed, the author absolved her of any guilt. Diane pointed out, and Daniel accepted the blame was all his. Daniel was bored with Ellen, she understood that fact, andjustification his dis-interest in her as justification. Good to find out Daniel realizes he was responsible for her serial cheating the commenter sarcastically noted.

Wendylicker is an excellent ''joiner of words''. The author engendered great interest with this series, an excellent start to Literotica ''career''.

The author created a debate about the author's gender. Would be interesting if author set up contest, brief submission asking for readers' thoughts on that topic.

Epilogue just confirmed my assumptions at end of Chapter 3. Ellen marries some man. Daniel marries some woman. Daughters have wonderful lives.

Confused though as to Ellen's intelligence. While Daniel's papers were surely witten in ''academic speak'' the subject of his research and conclusions would not be that intellectually challenging. Much as with his student's Daniel could have explained the basics to her.

Anthropology is not Theoretical Physics.

Boring and predictable, but that’s what the masses enjoy. You gave the people what they demanded. Now start working on that second story that flips the script and pisses off the masses! Breathe some life into this category with something fresh and original and unpredictable. I have great confidence that you can do it.

Thanks for this epilogue, it was nice to see a number of issues wrapped up and to have a satisfying conclusion for the protagonist.

If you ever go back to this one, I'd take another look at chapter 3. When Ellen finally lets slip that she's been cheating multiple times, it would have been good to have the husband pounce on that and get her to actually be honest. She could break down and confess to having been frustrated/bored/trapped for years and had a series of affairs.

At that point, she actually becomes an honest woman, which fits the title of the story. As it is, she's never honest with him about her cheating, leaving the husband (and the reader) with lots of questions. It would still be too late for their marriage after her confession, but I think it would make a more satisfying path to their cordial relationship post-divorce (because the husband values honesty). As it is, there's a huge question mark over the extent of her infidelity or her motives, which was the real nuts-and-bolts of the story.

Alternatively a quiet chat with the new husband to warn him that she was a serial cheater could have been a satisfying bit of revenge (again, making an honest woman of her). I didn't get the impression you wanted to go that route though.

Anyway, this was an enjoyable story and really great for your first one on literotica! Well done!

"We stopped having dinner together." - That's good! I know a lot of people complained about that arrangement, better that they're cutting the cord.

I know it's "just" an epilog, but felt rushed. I also miss not knowing why. (Don't faint, lue!) You should probably rewrite the chapter with the note and have him read it.

I think I'm going to have to reread the whole story to get a better feel, it's been too long since I started.

Nothing about Ellen🔍🔎. I realized that Dan is the protagonist but damn was he completely clueless throughout the marriage. Or did she tell the truth about only cheating with two 😖 men??

Gave you 4*s, thank you for a very excellent story.

AMerryman

Enjoyed this. Good story nice ending. Thanks.

Probably the weakest chapter, the pacing was a bit rushed, but a good and overall satisfying ending. Thank you for going back and finishing it.

Sorry, maybe I lost something, but why the first wife decided to cheat? I'm afraid that there isn't a valid explanation to the behavure of the cheater.

Anyway thanks for this story.

Thank you.

It wasn't as strong as the other chapters. It's obvious you seemed a little tired of it. But it did need the final tying up of lose ends, since you took it as far as you did in chapter 3.

Honestly, this chapter was a strong 3-star, weak 4-star. But the overall story is a very strong 4-stars (maybe a weak-ish 4.5). Awesome for a first timer in the LW genre.

I saw Diane as a possible romantic interest right away. Glad you worked that in. Wonder if you saw that during the writing, or just saw it in the end?

Liked the bit about American girl's language. My wife teaches high school (some sex ed) and tries to get the girls to stop. Points out when "No means 'No'" you can't sound like,"No....???" Or "Please? Stop...???". For a testosterone fueled boy, a questioning "no" might as well be a yes.

Now, can't wait for the next one. (There will be more, no?)

HDK says the beginning of a story is easy but the ending is difficult. This ending of Dan's story is perfect. 5 stars. Now if we can get an honest story about what Ellen was up to and is she faithful to her new husband?

Thanks again for your work,

reasonable man

Well done. Thanks for providing an ending to your story.

Nice ending. Thanks.

Cog

That was the biggest thing missing from the other three chapters. This gave a bit of closure to that. Thanks for doing it.

Nice job. You kept my interest and pulled off a slick writing job. This is not an easy category in which to write, and you did it with aplomb and poise. I really suggest that you will find a far more appreciative audience, elsewhere. This is 4.7plus writing, in any other category.

If you're tired of your characters you should just kill them. Car accidents, school shootings, preemptive nuclear strikes, waffle house grease fires, rabid barn swallow attacks... anything will do in a pinch.