All Comments on 'Suspicion: Healing'

Too much nice for me.

. . . boring. Sorry.

Personally I prefer the scorched earth policy when its necessary, if nothing bad happened to the wife then there was no reason to add her into the ending even if it where for closure, as was stressed through out the story she fell in love with a fantasy but a fantasy is just that a fantasy it can never be real. I'm a bit disappointed because despite everything there was never really any closure for the mc, marriage yes, closure no.

Not a bad plot however had all the emotion of a potato.

...then you write something like this? Where is the Lord's JUSTICE in the irony of this ending? You made us believe there was some 'evening-up' of the score, judging by your other stories; but this was a betrayal to your readers.

Good story, glad for the happy ending. But I don't like the fact that Kathy and Karl got away clean. Karl knew she was married, but pursued her anyway. That's not a good guy. Kathy left her family without any regret for a Life with the asshole. In what universe do they deserve happiness? Happy is good, but some people deserve to burn.

My problem with it is that it has so little to do with the original story. Kathy and Karl are mentioned just briefly at the beginning of the story, and just given a token mention at the end. Other than that it was Paul and Heidi’s story completely. Not to mention the fact that this ending is not anymore satisfying than the original author’s was. I’ve always believed that the best way to deal with the pain caused by a cheating spouse is to share the pain with others. And who better to unload some pain on than the cheater and their lover. You know, a draconian divorce, Lawsuit against the lover, and the company they worked for, make public all the sleazy details of their affair, that sort of thing. Put them in the hurt locker. Heck, I feel better just writing about it.

But this story was too close to reality and it had no real emotional punch.

From your introduction I expected it to be a variation of The Celt's story but with a better ending (i.e. a story that has consequences and natural justice) but that's not how it ended up. The Celt had Kathy's marriage to Karl end after two years as her fantasy world ended in ashes, and then she takes up with Paul again. No natural justice in his ending at all, and Paul was a pathetic man who couldn't move on unless it was with Kathy.

I, and many others, thought this was unrealistic. We wanted to see Paul have a good life with a new woman, but we also wanted Kathy to still suffer the consequences of what she'd done to Paul and their children. I know in the real world this is not always how things pan out, but damn it, this is fiction where we can be judge, jury and executioner to mete out some karma of biblical proportions.

Your ending was neither fish nor feast. Yes, Paul ended up happy BUT Kathy did as well, and she had happiness long before Paul did. And as for Karl - he still ended up with Kathy. No real justice, no karma, and no REAL regrets or remorse from Kathy at Paul's wedding. In fact, her comment seemed to indicate she had well and truly moved on from her marriage to Paul and it was almost condescending, with the subtext being that now he was happy again her conscience had been salved. What a cruel bitch.

but barely related to the original at all.

Paul should not have encouraged the kids to continue to see their mother. The kids decided by themselves that she destroyed the family and wasn't the loving mother she professed to be. And she's certainly not a good role model for the kids.

Christie was right, she abandoned her family. How is that showing her love for her children? Maybe losing the love and respect of her kids would make her realize how much she hurt her family in pursuing her own selfish pleasures.

Additionally, after Kathy marries Karl it is unlikely that Paul could continue to require the kids meeting their mother at Kathy's sisters house. Consequently the kids will come into continued contact with Karl. Kathy will probably try to nurture a relationship between him and the kids. This could be a source of conflict for the children having two "father" figures in their life.

Paul should accede to the children's request and advise Kathy of their decision. He should subtilely undermine Karl's character, he is a seducer and a home wrecker after all, since he is as guilty as Kathy for the divorce.

Divorce is not fun. Paul needs to realize that being Mr. Nice Guy all the time is not in his family's best interest.

asked what they hell she had to be so upset about, and who the hell had invited her when I had made it very clear over the last two years I wanted nothing to do with her

Just because every other version has dad sitting there like an idiot waiting for the whore to return

I’d forgotten it was related to the other story

It sounds like real life.

It is long as time goes by.

But, as it is a story, I prefer the end of "Suspicion - The Aftermath by thecelt", even if it makes BTB fanatics howl

Mustela

Good ending, but I think it would work better without Kathy’s appearance. She didn’t bother checking in with him for at least 3 years. She didn’t want to distract from Heidi’s day. But just appearing was a distraction.

Minor continuity error with the original Here it says Karl moved away after graduation, in the original it was after Junior year.

If you can't have both, I can't understand how you can walk away from 16 years with a man you claim to love, for a high school crush that you haven't seen for 20 years, especially at the risk of losing your children.

"She'd left me for her fantasy life and as strange as this may seem I wanted her fantasy to come true. I guess I truly loved her. I'd rather have her happy with another man than unhappy with me." - For me, it would be neither of those things. It would be more, "She destroyed our family for this, I wouldn't want to think our family was destroyed for nothing."

"it pleased me that [Christie] had such a good role model." - Huh?

Minor point: Going out with friends who are female isn't a "date." You have to do that before it becomes anything more.

Since her son isn't very young, where you would want to be careful about bringing a guy around, I would have suggested going to see the play with her.

"So Heidi, are you enjoying yourself?" - You don't ask your date that in the middle of the date! What's she gonna say, No? AFTER the date, you say, I hope you had a good time.

"He didn't feel the need to pay child support," - He didn't "feel the need?" I don't think courts care what he "feels!"

Heh, at 16 James couldn't nuke his own food?

Call me vindictive but I would have like to hear that Kathy and Karl's marriage didn't work out.

"You have a great mother kids" No she was a terrible mother for what she did to her family. Even the children at 13 were a thousand times smarter than the idiot father: "If she loved us why did she give us up to be with this guy." Father sits in chair drooling like the imbecile he is.

Father almost loses relationship because he is scared to ask his partner for sex at 40 years old. If you are so pathetic that the woman has to ask if you are gay or not, she is going to lose interest in you. Father sits there drooling like the imbecile he is.

Future wife says ex-wife seems nice on their wedding day. Normal man would say she is nothing compared to you, and I am happier now than I have ever been. But father says "yeah she was a great person and really wonderful. I hope she wants to stay for the wedding. " He then sits down and starts drooling like the imbecile he is.

I am starting to see why she went back to her high school boyfriend.

No conflict. Should be in Romance.

I concure should be in romance. I kept expecting drama but as the pages turned I started to loose hope. Yes eventually it petered out into nothingness. Dreadful waste of time. Sorry

Yeah, not bad. But I’d still prefer, the bitch Kathy to have suffered some more.

If her relationship with Karl had of failed, it would have been karmic delight for her to suffer the loneliness she inflicted on her ex. She was after all, a conniving bitch

Scores 4/5

Weak husband! I guess he is one of those “I feared for my life pussies” don’t make any effort to find high school crush. Who ignore the guy screwing his wife? I mean not one word.. 1 💫

Great and realistic!

I was expecting the ex-wife to regret her decision, but life isn't always like that. Sometimes you accept the truth as this man did, realize his first wife never loved him enough, and then go on to be happy with someone else. Good story.

I read the original authors story. Was lefr wish he had more to tell of his story. I was disappointed with the ending . Then I found you squeal. Thank you writing it. Now I feel much better.

This was a good story. The original was a true Loving Wives story. This was more of a romance with the only loving wives portion coming from the look back at original. Still, good story.

This sequel suffers due to the author's decision to omit any significant follow up of Kathy's new life. This is only half the plot development a worthy sequel to w_r's original story would contain.

I'm torn on how to rate this story. As a love story, it's a 5. However, ad a loving wives' story I'd give it a 2. It would have been much better if you cut out the first part that focused on his ex cheating, the divorce and the immediate aftermath. Better to have started after that with very minor reference to the ex. The whole cheating section included unresolved issues, in particular payback on the cheaters.

The only thing I didn't like was how nice he was to his ex slut and how you tried to make her out to be a good person.

Good ending...

Okay I know this is "just a story" but after reading the first page here is the DEAL.

Guys that have had something similar happen to them, here is why:

You are a pushover, and she knows she can get away with it. Oh, sure she knows you will be angry and hurt but, in the end, she knows your reasoning will be..... "but I still love her". Oh yeah and anyone who cheats for six plus months DOES NOT LOVE YOU!! You poor poor fools. : (

I am a BTB fan and RAAC fan under the right circumstances, This should have ended in divorce, but she should suffer a bit more. In real life, the kids would have a lot of resentment for their mother. They would hate her actions, hurting their father, and sense of abandonment.

Vandeminium, an literotica author, has a scale. This should have fallen under 2(2ax) plus stick barometer. Where their is divorce and some social fall out. Personally, I sbelieve Cathy and Karl's marriage should not be a fairy tale marriage. Maybe Cathy has a little regret

Female infidelity has been on the rise for about thirty years. Plus,the vast majority, near 80 percent, of men that discover unfaithful wives stay with them. Free testoerone has been on the decline in males for four generations. There are even environmental factors contributing to the decline of testosterone. In addition, as outlined here,the man always needs to be under relational stress. Here, Heidi did nothing to initiate, she waited until Paul made a move. This societal invention teaches me to divorce themselves from feelings in anticipation of rejection. This is something women do not deal with. Men are also under constant performance review in sexual situations. All this contributes to male difficulties,and women , especially in current days, take advantage. It does not need to be like that. Decent men in good health in middle age, say 45 and up are vastly outnumbered by single women looking for a partner after a first marriage failed. It should be easier than it is for a man to find a decent female. However, the world is a messed up place.

It was the ultimate insult for the first wife to expect he would be ok with sharing her. The failure of his author to expand and develop that means a very low score in indicated. Ther was literally nothing done I never response, no antagonism,, just blah.

My ending!!!

He marked my wife being the alpha and me the beta!

My ass.

Didn't get drunk didn't dither around.

Attorney instructions adultery and very limited visitations(as terrible role model) alienation of affection against him. And later after divorce final her work received her affair during work hours and conflict of interest in approving his paperwork

Then back in the saddle again

I enjoyed it, it was certainly a nice enough story. Problem was, it wasn’t really connected to the original story with Kathy and Karl and Evelyn.

Huh???

In first part it talks about alienation of affection allowed in that state and he was going to file. Then simply dropped??

Kids didn't want to see her anymore and MC talked them into it. Just the person I would trust with kids. Threw 18 year marriage away for boyfriend she had not seen in 20 years and didn't tell you. Simply cuckolded you. Definitely a good role model. For wimpy cuckold!!

Get real. Don't want to be near either. Shit might be catching

Well, this was unsatisfying.

Screw Kathy- she deserved revenge - six months lying and cheating… husbands need more backbone!!!!

Kathy's ambush on their wedding day was the intrusive, narcissistic move of a truly entitled bitch. What a cunt.

Sorry, way too vanilla to be a credible follow-on to the original author's part one. Didn't rate it because I don't give less than 4 stars and this didn't make that threshold, in my opinion...

The ex wife is not a nice person ahe is selfish and they away her family...how is that nice

Did anyone else hear the choir invisible singing in the background as Saint Paul reacted with stoic amicability in his interactions with the delusional Kathy, one of the many reasons why this is a fantasy site. Not even the male equivalent of Mother Teresa would have behaved with such magnanimity towards the cheat.

I think I liked this more the second time and I liked it a lot the first time. Reading it again, the first marriage was never going to last. She said she wanted them both, but he was going to be second best until she left him. He just accelerated the end and good for him.

This is well written but is not what it was advertised to be. Kathy, while central to the original story, becomes merely a footnote in this sequel. That makes no sense. In reality, this is NOT a sequel. This is a romance story based on characters created by another author.

Seven pages and Kathy role is to stop by and say good luck? Not a loving wife story, but a romance and not a very good one..

The wife betrays him, has a 6 month affair, chooses her lover over him and the children and his response is: "I still loved Kathy and I didn't want her to be unhappy with her decision. She'd left me for her fantasy life and as strange as this may seem I wanted her fantasy to come true." I call bullshit.

Kathy barely registered in the story after 1.5 pages. Was a romance with Heidi. Well written and realistic. I liked thecelt's version until the ending, though unlike other commenters, I am not convinced he took Kathy back, just re-established friendly co parenting communications. So yeah we no sqaut about Kathy and Karl. She shows up to wish him well on his wedding day to Heidi and then just leaves forever. I did like the MC. He went the extra mile (don't think I could) and she still turned him down. Ultimately he then turned it against her and got custody of the kids. Kathy had serious mental issues. In thecelt's version we see it from her side and her slow descent into reality as she comes out of her obsessive fantasy. This was a romance with the Mc and Heidi.

Very nicely completed. What a great ending to something that opened with so much pain.

There was no closure to this story. Kathy just becomes an afterthought . To vanilla, no BTB or anything. He just eventually finds someone else and moves on...3 Stars.

Well done.

This guy was too good to be true. There had to be some real hatred in there somewhere. D

I would think the ending is more like real life instead of btb which I usually prefer but divorce was the only route for him.

Good ending to the original story but clearly not a Loving Wife story.

The best of the sequels.

I am disappointed that we didn't see Kathy's marriage fail or at the very least, It needed some closure, as the story jumped too quickly to the new relationship with Heidi. It was a really good story though; bringing me laughs and tears. It is funny, I often like to talk with Rob after a good story and before he agrees, he looks at my face and if he detects any "eye moisture", then he passes...like he just did right now. <sigh>...men.

I enjoyed this alternative version the most but would have liked brevity and more information on the true consequences suffered by Kathy and Karl for breaking up the family. Realistic consequences like the true cooling of relations with the kids, tension between lovers due to costs and guilt of being together, loss of friends, cooling of relations with co-workers, muted family celebrations with her parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, distrust from other wives, etc... or karma if you wanted them to suffer.

Heidi was a good character and the romance was nice. I like when the sweetness of the romance is about equal to the misery of the divorce.

Nicely written. A fine Feel Good love story.

I think this is in the wrong category - should be romance. It's lacking in the emotional complexity of the primary story which is what this should be exploring - you just kind of dispense with Kathy early, and then the whole thing is then a courtship with Heidi - it moves slowly and awkwardly with the plastic dialogue between the MC and his kids. There's only so many pages of "hey dad it's great you're getting out there. Gee, thanks son" we can read with interest. Nothing much happens here, and the emotion is gone by page 3. Thanks for the efforts.

If she loved them both equally, there would be no affair.

While her lover knew about the situation the husband did not. She would have talked to her husband immediately. She had already chosen a man and it wasn't him.

Maybe she regrets some decisions. Maybe not. The only thing we know is her actions tell us she loves Karl way more. There was no marriage left to fight for. He made the right call.