All Comments on 'Not a Bit Too Far'

Author’s Follow-up Note:

Private Detective Dawna Hightower also appeared in my story “A Fool No More.”

Feels incomplete without the ex-wife's POV.

I wanted Reagan's side of the story. At least an explanation as to the hinted hypersexual issue that many were aware of

except for her husband?

Excellent. Yes, it would have been good to have some of Reagan's POV but not particularly concerned over that. 5⛤

What a wonderful story. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I'm I awe of your story telling and the way you write them down.

Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another, you've been messing around.

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I read this from beginning to end even though I hate stuff about a cheating wife. Since this is a contest piece and votes count, I voted a 5 star rating. The writing was really good. Only one or two typos. But I might have been inclined to give it a lower score under certain circumstances. 🤔

However, I did immensely appreciate the comeuppance that both of the cheating individuals received in the end. You don't get any of that kind of closure in real life.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story, it was also nice when you made reference to the north Georgia mountains. I’ve lived up there for several years.

Top Notch Job!

Boring, predictable. I've now read 3 stories in this author invitation and found they're all the same, only different. I won't waste any more time trying to read others.

Good story, but the MC was kind of a knob. I really don't get this, not taking the cheating wife's calls or texts and avoiding her at all costs. Is it a lame attempt at, "I'll show her, I'll make her hurt by ignoring her"? I would want to know why she did it and most people I know who have gone through cheating, had alot to say to each other. Also, not originally risking the new relationship because he might have bad memories in dealing with her ex said alot.

Well written but nothing new here.

Great story. The only exception is a "tiger can't change its spots", Either a tiger can't change its stripes or a leopard can't change its spots, lol.

Other than that, great read. a 5

Tigers don't have spots.

Loved it! Thank you!

Just a small thing: shouldn't it have been leopards, not tigers?

I do wonder whether the ex-wife really loved the MC and was just a sex addict or was just using him but ultimately it doesn't matter beyond idle curiosity, she cheated and it doesn't really matter the excuses. Been nice to know but doesn't hurt the story not knowing. 5 star story, some good revenge with the best revenge living well with the two cheated upon spouses getting together.

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And that is what revenge really looks like when you live your life in the future and not the past

Very entertaining read. I liked that the MC didn't go nuclear and played things smart. Over the top has its merits, but I prefer things more realistic, like this story.

Excellent story. Thanks.

Well done.

A very enjoyable read. I’m definitely a sucker for a happy ending. Very nice to see Trent and Melissa together at the end. 5*

Enjoyable story with a happy ending. Thankyou

Best so far. Five stars

5 Stars! Well done. Loved the happy ending, too.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Darn fine tale, well done.

So, what, actual nymphomania, Martian slut ray, multiple personality disorder...The loving way Reagan was written just does not jibe with her hysterical promiscuity. The heart of a LW story is the confrontation and the attempted explanation. This piece omits all of that. It is the author's prerogative of course, but without those elements it is hollow to me.

This badly needed a final confrontation with the wife.

Her cheating was so extreme, and showed so little respect for her husband, I was curious how she'd try to justify it.

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With regard to the "revenge" he took on the ex-wife and her lover, it was practically non-existent. I was expecting something really extreme with all the ominous foreshadowing, but... nothing.

So he moved out of the house, then ghosted the ex-wife? There's nothing remotely illegal about that.

He ends spousal support when she gets married? That was her own fault for getting remarried.

Even getting Noah fired was weaksauce. He just went and got a new job.

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Unfortunately, the ending was a let down too, with him settling for a single mom. His initial gut reaction was the right one. In reality, getting involved with a single mother is often a recipe for disaster.

I personally two couples who swapped spouses without prior knowledge of each other pre a split!

The one gem in this event, loved it

A fine story and well crafted. 5*

Great story. I don’t think I’ve read any of work previously, but this makes me want to read more.

Well done!!!!

This is just stupid:

quote I didn't listen to the message or read the texts before deleting them. Unquote

Just because you read it on Literotica does not mean that it is a good idea.

Trent is a little bitch crybaby. Melissa should wise up and dump is twat ass.

A very good read! Good balance between narration and dialogue. The dialogue moved the story forward nicely too. It would have added value to the story to have some response or input directly from Reagan. It is also nice to hear the antagonist bemoan their plight. Btw. Most likely an intentional turn of phrase but Tigers have stripes and Leopards have spots. 5&FAV&Follow

And the award for whining bitch goes to Trent! Melissa should have just laughed in his face.

Well done.

Good story but Trent tends to hold grudges for a long time.

Doesn't seem like the mature type but hey, it's your story.

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Impeccable writing, as always, SC!

In fact, this tale has given me an idea for a plot in a new one! Keep it up. 5*.

No alimony for an adulterer in Georgia if you can prove opportunity and motive. Of could photo, video and witness testimony are best. However, condonation, i.e., forgiveness occurs if you have knowingly have sex with the adulterer after the fact. A new act of adultery restarts the clock. Otherwise, story needed more about ex-wife’s motivation to cheat.

Dec. 4, 2023 has been a banner day for Loving Wives and the 'Take it on the Run" invitational. A number of highly rated stories have been presented. I wonder what made them so popular? 5★

This same storyline gets rolled out time after time to the point of boredom from sheer predictability.

In saying that, though, this was quite well written and I gave it four stars.

These stories are so much better in shorter forms. Otherwise they repeating the same basic information and leave you waiting for a foregone conclusion.

Your a good writer but you make your mc such a coward that he lost my sympathy. He doesnt even have the guts to confront his wife. And you introduce a fact that she had been waywrd before. It all read like a vehicle for hate rather than the disintegration for a loving relationship. The wife was given no character so basically it was predictable and more about who the mc would end up with, i started skimming by page 4.

Farfetched but we'll written complex story showing a betrayed spouse mentally dealing with the issues

solid 5 well written

I don’t understand why LW authors seem to have a fetish for the protagonist marrying the ex-wife of the man who cuckolded him. It is absurd and would never happen in real life. Why would you want to spend the rest of your life with a person who is a constant reminder that you were cuckolded, who loved the man who broke up your marriage, who spent years sleeping with the guy who seduced your wife? It just makes no sense.

Funny. The deneumont can almost make it break some stories. In this case, it took it from four stars to five.

JPB

Gotta agree that holding on to the vengeance a bit too long. Still, a 5☆!

Very much lacking, in that a major part of the story- Reagan, never gets to tell her story. The 'why' of why she was a cheater, even tho completely loving her husband, is ESSENTIAL. So much time spent on detailing his sex with her and others also- what a waste.

Knowing Reagan's side would have helped with this story

I enjoyed this story but I agree with several commenters that it would be significantly stronger if we got some insight into Reagan's thinking. We don't really find out the rationale for her behavior, instead she's just portrayed as a nymphomaniac, which is honestly a bit of a cop out. In general, I'm not all that into LW stories where the cheating spouse is dehumanized by being given some sort of irresistible impulse to cheat.

This was very well written and plotted. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Thanks for the hard word and taking part in the invitational. It is appreciated.

Great story, start to finish. Wish there was more content from Reagan's side but a good read just the same.

God that was a tedious read. It seemed more like a how to report on protecting oneself in a divorce and burning the ex in the process! A good story requires conflict. Where’s was the conflict? Never heard wife’s story. There was no climatic meeting or even graphic explanation if the wife and lovers being served. There was plenty of poorly written and repetitive sex scenes. They weren’t erotic at all as they to felt like obligatory reports of sex.

Nicely written, and the characters have some depth, so it earned a 4. What was lacking was dramatic tension. Everything proceeded as if pre-ordained.

Good Story !!! Worthy of an award!! 5 Stars!!!

Well done. Not sure I would have deleted all her messages, (she may have given him the "Why" he needed), but I agree with not wanting to speak with her directly.

He certainly got the best of the trade and Noah gets to be reminded of that for the next decade or so.

Thanks for sharing.

And it WAS a compelling read. Of particular note, I loved the subtle way you tied the theme song into Ethan's reveal about Reagan cheating. I'll be the contrarian to the commenters wanting to know Reagan's mindset. I think you painted a general enough picture for the reader, along with some direct references that she had a mental health issue related to sex addiction. Any additional depth would have not added to the core plot lines of the story. It may make a good separate story someday if you're bored, but otherwise leave it as is.Well done! 4.9*

Just another LW plotline, but entirely missing wife's explanation.

Men do not prove their manhood by refusing to talk to their wives or ex-wives. Any man who does not want to have all the information, even from disreputable sources, demonstrates only a delusion that they know everything.

A great 5* story that does not go down the "the betrayed husband sued the employer of his wife and her boss lover for sixty quizilion Dollars."

Divorce is nasty business in the best of circumstances. Its ok to ad lib some!!

Great story, even better BTB, l loved it!!!!

Scores 5/5 well done!!!!!

Having only one side of a story is great for a two page shorty, but after 6 pages you needed her side or at least a real good detailed confrontation. Pardon the pun but it makes the story less "one dimensional." Hell, we know more about the secondary pregnant character then the cheating wife. Good premise and effort. 4 stars.

Great story. Just one thing bothered me. When Trent called her parents, her father talked about her previous behavior, but nowhere was it mentioned that Trent knew this or Reagan had told him about her past in any way. From the phone conversation, it sounded as though Trent knew that information.

Other than that, solid tale!

Dang! What a well written story! I enjoyed it from start to finish.

Thank you for sharing!

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What an asshole Trent was. He didn’t stick to his vows either. He forgot the”for better or worse.”

She obviously has a problem that needs to be addressed but he couldn’t even be bothered to talk with her. A wimp and a loser who has an ego problem. The worst kind of man that there is.

5 stars. Very well written. I'm somewhat disappointed that the author chose to not give the cheating wife any harsher downside (doesn't have to even be from MC), but the Living Well revenge made up for some of that lack.

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@deddras - why would anyone care about insight about cheating bitch's thinking? She thought she wanted shit, and being a selfish bitch with zero empathy, caring, consideration, honor or morals, she decided that if she could have her fun, why not, there was zero downside for her. This is a story about the main character, not about a low-life.

@seeingeye - if you are asking why the AUTHORS choose that, it's easy. First, it makes for a nice symmetry. Second, it eliminates the need to write the backstory of how main character met his next woman. Third, it makes sense from MC's viewpoint.

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From the viewpoint of the person doing it, there's also a couple of reasons. First, it actually serves as a "ego"/"karma" type mini revenge. Prior dynamics: "Asshole A took something valuable from me, my wife/marriage". New fixed dynamics: "Asshole A took something valuable from me, my wife/marriage; now I took A's wife, so he's hasn't won". Second, sometimes it's simply that the person is THAT worth it. Great looks, great personality. Third, a cheating victim is probably less likely to cheat in the future; since they know the pain. Lastly, it isn't always easy to meet women and make connections for a guy, especially if he's not super hot and super outgoing. The cheaters' ex is already there, they already communicated and established a connection, so it may very well simply practically be the most likely woman he is around who he likes AND feels has a shot with.

@anon - oh great wise one, please enlighten us why it's so stupid to refuse to listen to anything that **a proven liar and a sociopath says**? There will be ZERO new information useful to the cheating victim conveyed. AT BEST, it will be a bunch of useless lies and excuses. Worse, it will be the cheater dumping their garbage emptions on their victim. And worst of all, the cheater is trying to emotionally blackmail the victim into reconciliation abusing their prior love and good feelings for the cheater. So, go ahead, provide even a single shred of idea of any upside of listening anything a cheating asswipe says?

Tigers don't change their spots?

Anyway, some would like to hear from Reagan some wouldn't. Personally, I thing a few paragraphs where we hear her thoughts on the disaster that is her life would have added to the story. It didn't need a confrontation or a discussion, but what the hell was she thinking? It seemed that she did love him but couldn't control herself. Still a very good story.

This was probably 2 possibly 3 pages too long.Trent moved from 1 crazy woman to another with Melissa seemingly falling for him after meeting him once for a few minutes where he told her that her husband was cheating on her.

Trent and Mel ending up together was painfully unoriginal and shows a lack of creativity.

It would have helped the story to find out why Reagan was such a giant slut but I guess you couldn't think of a reason.

Very enjoyable! It’s your story, and you told it well. 5*

Nice. Well written

Well written and entertaining story. 5*

Very good story, well written. Could feel Trent’s emotion through out the story. I think the way Trent told Noah that Melissa was the better deal than Reagan, was the best possible revenge.

Thanks for writing.

I liked it but wish there had been some confrontation so there could be closure. Never speaking to her again seems impossible given how divorce works. Anyway, it was great to see a guy with character and backbone!

While the buildup to his realization of Regan’s cheating seemed a little long in the telling, it’s a good story, well told and fits a modest BTB format quite well.

Not breaking any new ground here, but telling a good, solid story your way.

I liked it!

I kept expecting that Reagan would pull some crazy shit, great read

Well written story! Clearly Reagan has a problem. Too bad she chose to cheat instead of talking with Trent about her problem and getting help before she destroyed her marriage. At the point Trent found out all the ways she was cheating on him, talking about her issues would be like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

3 stars, it would have been 5 if Trent had ended up with someone other than Melissa

Nice story telling. Happy ending always appreciated.

Two cheaters married! One a nymphomaniac, the other a serial womanizing cheater . Both have an illness in compulsive behavior. Marriage that’s crazy!

@Tajfa - unless she literally had a diagnosed mental health disease involving compulsion, "coudln't control herself" is a BS excuse, not a reason. Most people CAN control themselves - they simply choose whether they do or not. And the fact that she CHOSE not to control herself, indicates she didn't actually love him. Because when you love someone, everything you do is ALWAYS filtered through the prism of "how will my behavior and choices affect the person I love". If it isn't - then it's NOT "love".

@Mgbdallas, so the slut cheats, but somehow TRENT is the asshole? Only a narcissistic, misandrist bitch could use the idiotic logic you just used.

It was OK. The story generates some obvious questions:

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Apparently Reagan was notoriously promiscuous before the stupid cuck married her. Even her father was aware of his daughter's lack of discipline, lack of self respect, and her casual attitude toward recreational sex. So why did the stupid cuck ever marry her? And why was he so unaware of her proclivity? Reads like another deaf dumb and blind cuck husband.

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But if Reagan was a sex addict, why did she end up marrying her regular fuck buddy? That sounds like a romantic affair, not scratching the sex itch. Which makes it even more puzzling how the stupid cuck could miss the lost emotional attachment and her obvious lack of respect for him and their marriage. Authors who want to pull this presto cheating rabbit out of the marriage hat ignore normal human behavior that sends numerous signals that the marriage relationship is distancing. So we have to assume Reagan was some kind of sociopath who could put forth different and contradictory personalities and behavior patterns at the flip of a switch. But a true sociopath also reveals themself to those who interact with them regularly and intimately, if you are paying attention.

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So in the end the story was barely believable. An outrageous monstrous promiscuous slut deceives her husband for months if not years. Except other people around her, even her father, knew she had the history and the proclivity, and the husband finds out only because some acquaintance feeds the rumors to him. And of course the author never allows the whore to explain herself, that's just too much work. Got it. It was an interesting if incomplete story. Thanks for the effort.

Five stars with knobs on.

Good ones, sometimes the good guy or gal wins.

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Top Shelf!

11/10!!!!!

Well told and great story ! 5 for me.

It was way too long for too little content. No new grounds here.

Another loving wife transformation story from Slut to Angel with 4 pages of how clever the deceived handled there situation. Getting kinds boring.

This is a three star story. This could have been a four or five star story but the nymphomaniac excuse begged the question..... Why did the husband the main character marry such a person in the first place? Did he not know that she had a sexual fixation problem?

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The other problem is that there is no confrontation with the deranged slut crazy wife.

Excellent story! 5 stars for your effort and thank you SouthernCrossfire!

Well done!

First LW story from SouthernCrossfire is a beauty.

One fine plot, well worked and well written.

What a treat.

Top ratings from me.

Wow. What a great story! 5 stars.

What can I say? I liked it! Would have liked to see Noah and Reagan each get a little more payback- maybe from someone else's spouse. ))

All's well in the end! Thanks

A wonderful well written story. Entertaining and enjoyable read. 5*

Reagan never got to plead her case. She wouldn't have fared any better, probably, but we'll never know.

I see that as a flaw in the story. A point knocked off the rating. Was she a person, or just a two-dimensional character? What was her problem? How did she feel about what she did?