All Comments on 'Promise'

This must be the worse and most badly written story ive seen on this site

Science says men's testosterone and male fertility are noticeably decreasing. NO EFFING KIDDING!

Her behavior at the dance BY ITSELF was grounds for a divorce.

Would she have accepted that behavior from him with some woman?

Not just no but HELL NO.

Demanding a Hall Pass on the eve of the wedding was brilliant but dastardly, like handing the soon to be spouse a prenup as the band plays "Here Comes the Bride." His mistake was agreeing to it. He should have said, "OK, we'll break up and you can go get laid as much as you want and I will do the same until I find someone who is SURE about marrying me. Have a nice life." He deserves whatever she does.

Good grief! The WHOLE 4 pages is wife looking for the right way to proceed. And men wonder WHY women think we're SO gullible and stupid! Wife understands the problem, but still wants her cake and to be able to eat it too, "just sex" she says, yet she'd divorce MC if he did the same. Sooooo the whole "I'm staying at Anne's" is a TOTAL ruse, the perfect way for her to her to get laid while pathetic clueless MC thinks she's staying at her friend's place. Notice MC never talks with wife, just Anne, so how do we know she is even there? As Anne said, wife has been discussing the situation at length with her. Wife has NO problem doing this because as Anne points out, she believes MC's taking back his "promise" (albeit it 10 years on) is justification enough for anything she does at this point. So wife gets her jollies, hubby thinks she's had a change of heart and all's well that ends well. The talk the next day is just to see if wife can be honest. Seeing she can't, she makes up the whole little "I couldn't go through with it" act just to keep her marriage intact.

Well done. Was a bit surprised it wondered off the one time narrative. But suppose if she thought he was serious about her taking her time to get it out of her system with a full affair that runs its course, then she was sadly mistaken and he would divirce her straight out. Tough story. Well written. 5 atars.

Britease you do a wonderful job of building tension in your stories!! This was definitely tension for the poor bastard left wondering whether he is just boring and doesn't turn her on enough anymore. complete suffering when he knows she is attractive and could get laid in a few minutes any day of week if she wanted to.

Nice.

"I wouldn't want it to be the first time." - "First time?" Does she expect to do this more than once? The "promise" was for ONE time!

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"literally buried my head in the sand" = He didn't LITERALLY bury his head in the sand.

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"I simply need to know what another man is like while I'm still young enough and attractive enough." - Why? What's the upside? It's no better or worse, she's fucked up their marriage for nothing. It's better, now what? Go back to the "lesser" sex and spend the rest of your life pining for the better sex?

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"With that religious background she had" - What does her religious background say about adultery?

Wouldn't stay with her after all that crap.

Good story. Only issue I had was in the beginning when I was try to figure out whether he was British or a backwoods southern hick. As for relating to the story, there were several factors I caught that would have caused different results for me personally. The first is I would have never made that promise. Say i did though....Second, the promise was for a one off, not one affair. So when she brought it up as such, my inclination would be divorce. At least my head would start down that rabbit hole. Third, she said their marriage was based on that promise. If that's the case, might as well end it divorce. Marriage is based on love and trust, amongst other things, not a promise of permission for infidelity. That probably would have solidified my resolve for divorce. Then I'd have her served as she was leaving for her date.

she put him through hell and her behavior at the dance in the beginning was horrible!

Regardless of the women-haters out there I think this story is excellent and has a great ending. I know I'm probably nit-picking here, but please recognise the difference between "eat" and "ate": "eat" is present tense and "ate" is past tense.

I've said it before in previous comments, but your spelling and grammar errors can really spoil a good story. Apart from that another good story, keep up the good work!

I want an alternate ending. I was soo looking forward to her fucking multiple partners.

I also like a happy ending, enough to give this 5 stars. Great story.

fuck her and him

I’ve seen some comments that allege the wife is cheating on MC already or will do so in the future.

I don’t think so. It’s pretty clear that she is a moral person, and logically, correct. He made her a promise, though a promise he hoped never to have to keep. I think she was tempted and stepped away.

Ever given up nicotine? It’s hard. Very very hard. But sometimes you do get to the brink of shaking and all you can think about is just one more. And then you don’t and it abates. I think this is happening here. She was curious. Very curious. Too curious. But she did not go out for the metaphorical cigarette.

On the other hand, MC also promised forgiveness, but as explored, he did not promise his marriage or love. He promised to forgive her and any other connotations on such a promise are merely in her head. So, if she did it, he could say that he forgives her for hurting him and still divorce her.

The story works logically and emotionally. Plus, as any late 30s/early 40s person can attest, it’s a very hard time. There’s a reason why depression is particularly pronounced at this age.

And the mug believed her in the end that she had given up the idea of cheating on him. She waits a month and does it multiple times behind his back. She probably already did but wanted him to be a knowing cuck.

Great story!

I would write a sequel about the marital counseling, and may a shrink for the wife's messed up head. 'I was about to step out, but decided to come home and fuck you instead.' Even with her realization and counseling, I would imagine this marriage was walking on eggshells over mistrust every time she works late, does a 'girls' night out' or anything similar. Either the husband is the biggest trusting chump ever, who will forgive her anything, or his mistrust will be phenomenal for years after. Who would want to remain in such a marriage? A sequel of years following would be interesting to explore, like the author Ohio does.

That she had him make that promise and keep it indicates that marriage wasn't a good match from the get go. He should have walked away from such a bitch and found a loyal woman. Kids or no kids. One cannot imagine not wondering about her future fidelity with every girls night out or some such. Not a way to live! A classic Cunt- as in a stupid or unpleasant person. The husband's character was a fool to stay.

Nice variation on the hall pass story. Surprised not reciprocal. Ignoring that his logic was impeccable and quite devious. She had to realize that despite his promise of forgiveness because he lived her so much to allow her thr hall pass, he likely will not love her enough afterwards to stay married (personally I would.alwqys opt for the divorce vs the slow death of the marriage). It is good she realized how she had hurt her husband. It isn't thr fear if consequences so much as realizes she would hurt him enough to cause him to lose his love for her. That worked and is meaningful. Look she developed and obsession and thought she had a pass to act on it. But she misconstrued the real consequences of her stepping out. Heck she was not even going to go all the way tonight yo see if she could.be comfortable with going through with it. Finally she woke up. They still need counseling, otherwise trust will still be hard to restore, though time will help. I don't think she will cheat on him. She was adamant about not doing it and would only consider it if he broke his promise. He didn't. But she had the epiphany that she was being "an inconsiderate bitch" and was doing harm to her husband and her marriage for an obsessive on time fling. Think of the paradox: her husband loves her enough to allow her thr one time fantasy fling and forgive her (formally) but NOT enough to stay married to her afterwards. So what does that make her? She had her "Saul on the road to Damascus" moment. And she stopped and begged forgiveness for even putting him through this ordeal. But yeah they need counseling. If anything to reinforce her epiphany but more so for him to rebuild trust in a healthy fashion.

then after hubby went to work, she had Dave come over and fuck her in their marital bed more than once for several years. She thought about it for years! She will do it behind his back now.

This may well be the best story of this genre on the site!

I know it is fiction BUT how can the wife be so stupid to think regardless of his promise that if she did fuck someone he would take her back Their marriage would never be the same or last very long NO FKN way stupid bitch

Cilla needed to pay for the torment she caused her husband.

I enjoyed the story, even if the husband was portrayed as a ham fisted lunkhead largely incapable of articulation. He did manage one deft maneuver, expressing the difference between forgiving and continuing to love. All in all 4 out of 5.

Bloody wizzo, mate! Five pointy ones!

One might think this is a happy ending but, by God, why not portray a man who acts like a man? there are so many stories that talk about situations like these and in almost all of them the man turns out to be grotesque, I mean, a pushover who doesn't even know how to tie his shoelaces. and the worst thing is that he accepts it without putting up a fight!!

Five stars.....cos I like a Happy ending .....

uhm... that was happy ending , wasn't it ???

The MC was really fool . He should have broken up with her when she decided not to go through with the marriage just because she couldnt have fun that her girlfriends were having. But she never gave a thought about the fun she could have with the one she loved and going to marry . This shows how much she loved the MC. What's the gaurantee that she will not want to do it in the future. ..I can clearly imagine the conversation going like .

' I wanted to do it but I didn't go through with it. But now I am sure that I am to do it . So I hope you keep your promise' .

There will be never be a happy ending for this couple.

I’ve read most of this author’s works and liked most. 5 stars. Agree with ErotFan and Drgwng. As to the reality of offering a hall pass before marriage or after I’d only agree if it was totally reciprocal. What’s good (or bad) for the goose is just as good (for bad) for the gander and for all the same reasons. He could have brought up why she wouldn’t tolerate his getting a hall pass, like hers. One reason is he’d several be sure wasn’t comparing him to Dave or her fuckbuddy. Cock size? Better lover. Rocked her world. That’s the reason she wouldn’t want him with another woman. Was she better lover? Better blow jobs? Tighter pussy? Would he be think of her when he was fucking her. Wishing it was the other woman?

Second read after around seven years. This was a good end to the story as it was Dave's strongest argument; even though he never explicitly voiced it. "I loved yo enough to make you that promise. Do you love me enough to not exercise it?"

Many authors have taken this scenario and had the wife have her fling. The honest ones wrote of the slow demise of the marriage. Both are good. I prefer this one.

He promised a free pass but he never promised ther would not be consequences or negative repercussions. She was already treading dangerous water with even the consideration. Average score.

Your story was based on love. It was well done. Not sure it was reality, but it sure filled the saying: "If you love something, set it free. If it's yours, it will return. If it doesn't return, it was never yours." 5*

For this frequently done type of story this was good. But how many men in reality ever promised a fiancee that they could have a "hall pass?" And how many women in the real world ever actually tried to take their husband of many years up on an undoubtedly drunken "promise" to overlook a one time affair at some future time? These sorts of stories and their sisters, the "honey I am going to fuck another guy but its not cheating because I just told you"stories, strike me as completely unlikely to ever have happened in real life. For virtually all men these would be deal breakers because they are so blatantly cold blooded cheating. A drunken night out with the girl's resulting in going too far with some guy might barely be forgivable, but not this calculated infidelity. Still, this is a well written story of its type so i gave it 4**** for that.

Let's see, now. She's religious, which at least implies that she believes in God. She goes to church religiously and insisted on a church wedding. On the day before the wedding she extracts a promise from her fiancée. On the next day she takes solemn vows before her God that directly contradict the one her husband made. Now, 20 yeas later, she states: "...our whole marriage was built on that promise" (referring to the one her husband made). Later on she says it again.

Nope. Doesn't wash. No nitpicking here, though. This is the basic premise of the entire story and it doesn't wash.

LWlurker

5+++++/5!!!

Great story well crafted and enjoyable. Kept the tension going right to the end

they shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. glad she didn't do it. she would have killed her marriage

1 star, when either person still want to sleep around the night before the wedding that is a total deal breaker. End it and lose the money paid for the wedding instead of losing everything later.

Ending is trash not because he forgave her but because of how she instantly changed her mind when leaving for her date and the two of them jumped right into bed like nothing happened.

Storytelling perfection!

I don't know whether there is an established descriptive term for them, but I'm a big fan of stories like this one that skip the hackneyed how-I-discovered-her-cheating scenarios and go straight to the poignant dilemma at the heart of all good LW stories: how can the love between two people survive when one of them wants to have sex with someone else?

Don't know why I read it again and again. First off he has no guy friends to talk to that would smack some sense into him wedding day? None of my friends would let me do that and of course they would know what is going on. Anne is awesome telling him what is taking place and is smart enough to tell him to hold off the wedding. Then, years later she pulls this crap? How can he be certain she won't cheat? Her religious upbringing doesn't stop her from wanting to commit adultery so why would cheating be any different?

So forgive her, sure, as he made the mess with the promise but stay with her? Not on your life.

What man would agree to that .. I would have called off the wedding and found myself a good Lady .. I would have also told a few people why I called off the wedding .. I am not a Cluck nor do I plan to ever be One ..

everyone that gave this a 5 would do the same thing....BULLSHIT! Everyone would be saying he's a bastard, he's a fucking cheating asshole. Take him to the cleaners.

Confronted prior to a wedding with "the fiancee who has cold feet because she needs to fuck around", any normal man would say "Adios! Glad you told me you aren't committed to the marriage before we were legally entangled and, worse, there were children." No amount of skillful writing can overcome this fundamental problem. The husband isn't written as a cuck, so it's entirely implausible that he would have made such an idiotic promise. Second, Cilla can hardly insist that he keep his "promise". She promised to marry him, and then essentially broke that promise, which was the set up for coercing the ridiculous hall pass. Another problem that shows up in many of these stories is that the husband is written to say that he wished she had done it and not told him. I don't know any men like that who actually care about their wives and marriages. In real life, I'd be very skeptical about her change of heart. I'd suspect that she realized that she'd pay a high price if she overtly went out to get fucked, so she'd decided that she'd bide her time and do it some time when she was sure she wouldn't be caught. I gave this a 3 for the technically good writing despite the deplorable plotting.

I’m a fan of happy endings. She realized her mistake in time.

I got the London slang. I spent a few years working for one of the central London boroughs and enjoyed my time there. Even though I live in San Francisco now I still remember my time in London fondly and go back there to visit quite often.

Right to the edge of the cliff and then.... 5 stars

I didn’t expect a happy ending to the story. I kept wondering which “promise” was the most Important to her. The promise to let her sample another man or her wedding vow in church. I do enjoy a Feel Good story. Thanks for sharing.

The whole marriage is based upon that promise that she has a get-out-of-jail-free card? The whole marriage? So her kids her family all of that is secondary to getting some strange dick in her vagina? I'm sorry but it's a ridiculous premise. Further as soon as she said that any man with half a sack would be out the door because she's batshit crazy

When she said that she couldn't go through with the wedding... He should have believed that. She was not really sure if she wanted to get married, so... DON'T. That was a huge mistake right there. Making a crazy, insane promise was mistake #2. Believing that all was well in the marriage at the end...GIANT MISTAKE#3

If she won't go through with it with promise

No big loss

I really enjoyed your story, but I can't believe a man would make that promise. I wouldn't want a wife wouldn't want a wife who asked for it. Good story all the same.

The reason her personality changed was because She did have Sex with another guy .. Then She plays her husband like a Violin .. Sadly He believes in her and still loves her ..

"Before you leave dear Cilla I need you to sigh these divorce papers."

"But you said I could do this and you would forgive me."

"I did and I will. I am not sure I will be able to do it before the divorce becomes final. We will just have to wait and see."

"But..."

4 excruciating pages to come to the reliable fag cuck shit from Bitchtease.

He is the stupid guy he made the promise why did he have all that drink is he an alcoholic

I quit drinking like that except for once or twice a year when I am not paying attention due to circumstances game playoffs or similar and it doesn't happen every year

No sorry for him

"her mother totally unaware that her daughter had spent half the night practicing for the honeymoon"

She didn't spend the night before her wedding with Ken. She (and probably Anne) went out on the prowel and got laid, probably more than once.

But in any case, how did Ken learn "her mother totally unaware that her daughter had spent half the night practicing for the honeymoon"??? Not in the story.

It wound me up good. And I do like a happy ending.

Silly, silly woman...

but if reason can make the correct decision....win win,,,TK U MLJ LV NV

Britease's women characters are so utterly stupid that makes me wonder about his experiences with women since I know British women are not so stupid as these. Is this a serious misogyny or just really bad experiences?

have walked away the night before the wedding.

But it's my own, lol. The virgin thing is a ridiculous premise...people must be so caught up in themselves. I guess life is pretty good when you start only having to worry about stuff like that. There are many criticizable things, but I'll just point out that to be over an obsession without going through with it is pretty good. Honestly, the author writes all the males like they're a touch mad from mercury or lead poisoning...sort of excessively neurotic, the annoying kind.

And what I really wanted to say is that this story is nothing but a reason to go on about how much tea means to "the British."

If my husband even just mentioned the idea, my bags would be packed and I'd be gone!

card, he just said he would forgive her. He already told her during her totally stupid rant that he would forgive her but that it would change their relationship and that he didn't know if he could love her or even live with her afterwards. I also think Anne would have been a better choice for him, hell anyone would have been better than that stupid cow. Someone as obstinate as she was would not have given up, ever and when the selfish pig got her free dick, she would have felt entitled to another and then another, ad nauseum. Moral of the story is: if you have to promise your fiancé she can screw someone else, sometime in the future, don't marry her. If she freaks out that badly, run Forrest, run.

Doubt I'd ever feel the same about her. Probably just fuck her till the kids moved out.

I could have done it then. I can't do it now. You and I are through. Feel free to fuck the whole navy. I'm out.

now you made kids with her. Damn. You are so fucked now.

She gave you the free pass. You are out. Run away, run away you dumb ass!

Possibly they could have had a 3 way thing. That maybe would satisfy the promise and they would not have to split up...?

This was well written (as usual) and had me at the end of my chair but sorry I didn't like the ending. Not that there was anything wrong with it.

For me, the trust was broken the minute she brought it up. I guess I'm impulsive. Wouldn't matter how long we'd been married. On reflection, MAYBE I could have dealt with it the early part of our marriage but certainly not after kids and all those yrs. I do understand her dilemma but also understand his. Gotta man up and keep your promise. I would have...did with my ex...to forgive. To me that means I would let her live. No way to forget. And as he said he didn't promise to love her afterwards and I think that is a valid argument. I'm sure many of you would see that differently. IDC. It would have been over for me. Sickness health forsake etc. it appears he kept his vows...and his promise. She chose, at the end to keep hers but as far as I can see she broke the trust. It will build even more as life goes on and eventually she will cheat...and in a sense I don't blame her but again a promise is a promise. It is her choice to keep or break those vows and I believe it will happen and maybe even once just so she can see and I'm sure compare.....which would be inevitable.

In a relationship, once you start to fuk each other things do change. No matter how well she hides it he will know she cheated and it will change their relationship for the worst. She also said "Once". to fuk another man. In this scenario she wants to wine and dine and be romantic. That was not part of the deal. It appears to me that she wanted to have an affair, not just a quick fuk to see what it was like. Be wined and dined etc. It could very well be that she would want to keep a lover and not just stop after she found out what it was like to be with another man. Anyway I look at it that is what I see. Ok..I promised but didn't promise afterwards. For Give? Well I mentioned that above. After all those years and children then this...I would have ended it. Who can define forgive? Forgetting would be out of the question. Once the bell rings it cannot ever un-ring.. It would hurt too much and I wouldn't be able to live with her under those conditions. Never trust her again. I know from personal experience that no matter the past you can start over... It's going to hurt but it can be done. With me it took about 5 yrs before I could get close again. Being numb for 5 yrs is not pleasant but I did thaw and have some one in my life again and I’m happy.

Obviously you done good Brit. Your story got to me and that’s is the point isn't it? Art is to affect. You accomplished your goal..at least I think that was your goal. In any case 5*s.

Damnit, you had me spitting nails to the end! LOL Excellent ending!

The husband did!!! He cheated his wife!! He promised her one free fuck after she married him. That was part and parcel of his marriage vows. If he was ANY kind of man, he would have stood behind his promise. But clearly, he is nothing other than a liar, a cheat and a back-stabber. Rot in hell you low-life, piece of shit!!!

Cilla had religious beliefs and given the mention of bridesmaids it would have been a church wedding. Now a church wedding ceremony includes vows made before God, which include 'forsake all others'.

Surely for a religious person, a church vow would trump a prior ordinary promise! Therefore the promise is null and void. In any case the promise was to 'forgive one slip-up'; there was nothing about forgiving a planned extracurricular copulation.

There has been speculation in previous comments as to Cilla having already done the deed. I would say given Cilla's aversion to lying and cheating, I conclude she hasn't.

Good story. Realistic. Good character. The problem I had was with the flashback to how they met and leading up to their marriage. It wasn't necessary and it took away from the narrative flow,and the drama of her asking him to keep the promise.

write cheques you don't want cashed, especially post dated ones. TK

Or how wimpy the cuckold husband was behaving.

He should have played her stupid game and left her to her own devices while he went out screwing around on her and see how much she liked it then.

Or exposed her stupid ass to all their family and friends to explain why the divorce was occurring and to show the courts proof of her neglect and cruelty towards her family.

Having sex with someone other than her husband is part of a greater sin. The sin of betrayal includes, forcing him to make the promise in the first place, marrying him while holding out hope of a sexual encounter with another, lusting after others and lastly tormenting her poor husband. He would be better off with someone that was in love with him not this mentally unbalance child he married.

You can't blame her - She wanted him to honour his promise. Great twist when he said he would honour it by forgiving her but not necessarily be able to stay in love with her.

In her favour she realised herself that she couldn't go through with it. Her own love for him trumped her desire for another man.

Despite her deciding not to go through with the deed, it seems there's going to be a lot of dialogue between them in the near future. Luckily this is fiction, because that conversation will never take place.

Just me being nuts.

I guess that's the right word. I thought I'd read all BT's stories; then this popped up on the random section. I checked it and realized I missed it. Jeepers, am I glad I got to read it.

Two things I especially liked:

Cilla bailed on the infidelity at the end. I admit she had me going. I thought for sure this marriage was in the toilet.

Second, I do enjoy the idiosyncrasies of every day language in England. Lately I've been watching Doc Martin, and I find it a very warm series. I like that word - arse.

Thanks for a good one. Sorry for the late comment.

Jedd Clampett

very nicely done. like a guy that's only had one woman. I really liked this story, the mechanics worked well. a wife gives you a get out of jail free card, you tell her and see the hurt, what do you do? she made the right choice, but darn sure took her a long time to see the hurt she was causing.

Boy, did this story make me think. I think this guy brought it all on himself. If a girl dBoy, did this story make me think. I think this guy brought it all on himself. If a girl doesn't want to marry you, so be it, move on. When you have to talk a girl into marrying you with promises of a 'get out of jail' card, you are not going to have much of a marriage. He should have just moved on and let her get all the experience she wanted-without him.

When she brought up the promise, years later, he should have said, OK, I forgive you but it's time to say good bye. He had the right idea, but it just came to late.

I also think that she had already cheated on him, she had too much time invested in her plans to just drop them. The Friday night cancelled date was part of her scheme to get away with it.

something that seems to be forgotten here is that she went into the marriage with the idea that she had one chance for fling. so if he wouldn't have made that promise would she still have married him? seems she forgot that fact in her thinking

She spent too much time planning all of it. For years she had been mentioning it to her friend. She kept it from her husband because she knew he wouldn't like it, promise or not. It was all just an elaborate plan and she pulled it off brilliantly. But she is such a stupid cow that at sometime she will throw it in his face, how she did it and it didn't change anything. But it already had. After all the drama that she put him through and the stubborn disregard for his feelings, she had already killed the foundation of their marriage and all it was going to take was one little snipe that she had already proven she was capable of hitting him with. And what about doing the deed with someone she works with. Everyone she works with will know what she has done and of course when asked about it by the "girls" at work she will bleat loudly about the promise and every time they go to a work function he will be the laughing stock of the party. And of course, the man she "experiences" will think her husband is a wimp and smirk and make remarks so he'll have that to contend with. Divorce is in their future and it is going to be a bloody mess, maybe literally. He would have saved a lot of trouble and heart ache if he would have just let the self-centered bitch go before the wedding. Then he could have gotten with Anne who would have stayed true to him and wifey could have fucked her brains out getting to "feel" another man.

Well written, but I hope the author doesn't really know any people like these. Would be sad, stupid people are not fun to be around.

Two things, I honestly believe she did it and Friday night was a "brilliant" way to throw him off. Just saying, the way you set her up as this self centered single minded slut-to-be, I dint see her giving up. Regardless, I don't think either of them realize right now what this has done to their relationship.

Second thought (argument?): I assume at the wedding SHE made a promise to him in front of friends and family. So, as a person who is so fundamentally committed to keeping promises, which is most important...the secret promise he made to her or the public promise she made to him...

Cilla was right. Anne really was on his side! :o)

Great read. Once again you got me infuriated and anxious. I felt his angst, regret and sense of impending marital loss. Took me right to the edge and then pulled me back.

So many of these moronic wives have no idea that any normal man is NOT going to accept his wife fucking another man, "Get Out Of Jail Free Card" or not.

How in the world is this self cuck?

He fought as hard as he could, I think it was obvious he wasn't going to stay if she did do it.

self cuck and anything thats self cuck is 1-5.... oh and you good sir author are a usless fuckwit

Because it was so gripping. But I have to agree with the other commenters. This is not a happy ending. Their relationship problems have not been addressed. The trust issue will always be there, as will the issue that she only married him because of a promise intended to ease her concerns. Her obsession is not healthy and not likely to resolve itself without some attempt at satisfaction and she has clung desperately to his promise in an effort to justify her behavior. That's not an epiphany she will suddenly arrive at on her own. Perhaps years later she may see it in hindsight, but even that is not likely.

So this story could have been better. It should have either finished as a "consequences" tale or had them get together and address the elephant in the room. I suspect you avoided this because you did not know how to address it without killing the marriage and for that reason I probably should not be giving you 5 stars, but I did.

could it ever be forgotten and put away. TK U MLJ LV NV

Thanks for sharing.

Read this several times, want to shake her every time.

Well written.

Great story.

Not one to distrust a wife that hasn't actually physically cheated, but I this case there is no way I could have stayed married to her. At least not without some serious counseling. She has felt the need to step out for a year? That doesn't go away in a single night because of an epiphany. She has some serious issues to work out. Yes he made that promise all of those years ago, so he was partly at fault. But the fact that she could look at her marriage and her life, and want to cash that chit in knowing what it would do to her marriage raises some serious questions about her commitment. What happens when she meets another guy that she finds attractive enough to sleep with. The next time she may not have that much guilt about it. Maybe the guilt would drive her to do it behind hubbies back. The desire is still there for her. I would have some serious issues trusting her again.

Another thing. Why is it that the ladies in these stories always feel the need to cheat just because they were virgins when they met their husbands? If your husband is satisfying you, why is there a need to see if someone else can satisfy you more? If a guy were to tell his wife that he needed to get some strange because he wasn't that experienced before he met her, and he needed to see if there was something better out there, she would call him a dog and have every woman on the planet saying that she should leave him and take half.

What they think. Personally I thought that it was well done. Well written dialogue (except for a few British mistakes with the Queen's English) that seemed very true to life. The only problem I had was when you pointed out that she came from a very religious background. How was she reconciling his promise to her versus her wedding vows which I'm sure included something about "forsaking all others"? An argument based on those vows should have over ridden his promise. In making that argument, Hubby should have mentioned telling her family about her behavior. And I do believe, had she gone through with her affair, that he would have divorced her. Have you ever considered writing the same story with a different ending? Or do you know of another author that picked up your baton and ran in a different direction?

People who like this story might be interested in Using a 27 year Old Free Card by Slirpuff.

So I am stuck admitting the inadmissable: in marriage, men and women are tempted to cheat. It is that simple. I would even venture to guess that it happens in every marriage; the path not taken, the 'might have been' or, in this case with Cillia the storybook romance.

The mark of character comes with what you do with that temptation. Do you pass it up, or do you indulge?

This girl had a promise. That complicates issues. I think we all agree he is a fool who was desperate to get married. I feel a touch you sympathy for her...but not too much. It is entirely possible to live life with only one cock (I am living my life that way...oh...wait...I'm a guy and it was standard equipment...)

PARTICULARLY as a religious person, particularly one who was, in her own words disgusted with some African infidelities going on by missionaries. So what happened to her values? Brit doesn't tell us that.

Herein lies the problem. She was engaging...desperate to engage in an emotional affair with some other man to prove her 'sexual' worth. This...gnaws. It will erode at their marriage unless she strongly reinforces her boundaries.

No husband can compete with the romantic 'new cock smell' and I don't think this idiot realizes this. This isn't a 'happy ending'. This is most likely a detente.

Interesting. Would like to see both endings.

Thx.