All Comments on 'The CEO Versus the Husband'

Not near the quality of most of your other work--which I have great respect for. On to the next....

This was a great beginning but it’s incomplete

There no intro or conclusion just a middle dialog

Possibly the worst variation of this plot line I've read on this site. I wish there were more, some of them have been quite good - this one, was not.

Two totally unlikable characters in a rip off story...two stars...at best.

The husband was full of animosity and insecurity. He apparently really did screw up at work over time and turned resentful when his wife flew past him. Doesnsound like he was pulling weight in their marriage either. I get that being fired is traumatic and seems disrespectful, but he did seem to bring it on himself. Maybe it coukd have been handled better. No HR director woukd have have a spouse fire their spouse.

Better than %90 of the stuff you’ve written.

Reread I come back to this one to get my guts in a knot. Stays a four based on quality of writing. Only.

That was probably the worst version of this story I've read so far. Some of the shit didn't even add up. Like when she said in all their time together he had never spoken like that (with all the cursing), then you read this last page and it's like "Uh, bullshit." Also, if the guy is such and insecure little bitch at work where his wife is the CEO, because she's the CEO, how's he suppose to have the testicular fortitude to run his own company?

HA - another CG wimp husband story - it never ends

Wow how stupid a story was that

He should of had a gun in his hand when she found him in the workshop. And as she opened the door, he put the gun to his head, and pull the trigger. Now he had ruined her life, just like she had ruined his life..

Unrealistic BS

I can understand some of the husbands pain, seems like he's been there for a while and knew his job better than most, training people who got promoted before him and must have been passed by for promotion a few times.

Then he gets his wife a job at the company and she too soars past him to become CEO....

What I don't understand is why he sabotaged his job and was working hard at sabotaging his marriage. If he's that upset then talk to management, quit the company if needed.

That was a waste of time

Where's the end of the story???

Decent but not as good as some other variants on this site of the same topic

Honestly, it was kind of crap.

bit of a lame story

Well, I enjoyed the story and it was kind of retelling of another story. I am ok with the storyline. I did not like the ending where John had to puff up his "manly" chest and call his wife, that he just made love to, a 'Bitch". John just could not take that his wife was the CEO and that he was just a project manager, nor that a person he showed the ropes to was above him too. As I remember the previous story ended with the guy's wife finding out what caused her to fire her husband. In this story, the husband caused the firing.

The martian slut ray finally has it's male counterpart, the bumbling idiot ray. A competent worker just becomes dumb and useless as his wife exceeds his status in the company.

What joke. Just a mashup of insipid cliches.

Really a lame story, poorly or completely undeveloped characters, vague scenario and background, and Flaky narration. Seems like a rip off of another story, poorly done.

Too much missing. And the emotional flip flop at the end was very weak. Not realistic, not believable...

However others are right using the plot line from another story is like robbing from the other writer its honestly bullshit it's not a original story which goes against what you say you do so you ruined your creditability as a writer yes here was some differences but not enough its still the same thing as the story titled let go

Ok to the anon that said a better ending would be killing the wife then himself leaving the kids as ophens your just a fuckin idiot that is never a good ending for any damn story and someone who thinks it would be needs there ass beat then killed no damn child should lose there parents

Ok not a man hating story like your others but not exactly a story showing respect to the man either you never once showed on the real issue don't tell me it was because his wife was ceo that's a load of shit that would have come out long before hand for it takes years to make ceo for a company when you were hired as low person on the totam poll and it was done with both his wife and a guy he trained no he didn't have a case for wrongful termination however he may have had a chance if he would have filed correctly by the company playing favorites he could actually won that 1 its pretty simple that favorites was being played 1 they kept giving his wife a promotion but hardly him and then they hire this other guy he trains him and taught him everything he knows yet they pass him over yet again and give it to the other guy even though the husband should have had the promotion to tony job that's definitely favoritism going on

Same story covered better by others. Reconciliation too quick and contrived. Can't really see much home life after being fired and losing court case; suicide more likely.

Considering the authors rather firm note in their biography, I'm surprised the author would use another's story as a plot device.

I read a different Version of this same story or should I say the first half of this story before, but without children. In that version, after the husband got fired by his CEO wife, he to sue and won wrongful Termination. Then he moved to the next town, and Became Wife's biggest competitor. But they did reconnect in the end and adopted two kids.

But this story wasn't bad, but ending was kind of Corny. To have really made it different, when the wife went in to the workshop, she saw he had a gun and was really the kill himself, but when he saw her he shot her first then himself, leaving the kids Orphans. All because she couldn't see what see was doing to her husband by being his boss!!

Yeah, well, ... okay, thanks.

Reply to Anonymous 3 below. I think the story you read was Let Go by qhml1. I was subtly different in so far as the wife/CEO was being manipulated by her lover/ his boss. Good story.

What? Is this mental instability down or what? No story here!

I'm sorry to say this but this is a real boring crap story.

It had no real plot or depth.

It's just about a jellus husband that has a hard time excepting his wife's excess.

Nothing more or less.

This story was a copy of another story that I read about a month ago. The difference was in the ending. The original story ended with the husband winning the court case because she did not follow the proper procedure for dismissal. She fired instead of the HR people, and he had a reasons for the delays. I believe instead of being a design engineer he was a sales engineer and his sales was off.

The other story was a much better story. I guess she changed it so the woman would win!

Many of these stories desperately need a revision or rewrite....

DOL

hmm..a few of this theme on LIT, and this is the weakest response from a guy possible.

I'm kinda surprised his termination package didn't include a male chasity device.

The other LIT writers who approached this theme had the guy lighting her ass on fire in the end.

But that would never work for this author.. check out LET GO by QHMI1. It would have been nice

if the author actually explained why John went from being their best performer to one who needed a

care taker. it was obviously more than just anger, so in the end John just admits to all the happy feminists

he isn't worth a damn and all the other employees at his level have so dramatically surpassed his talent (?).

Really sad non sexual emasculation of a guy who was instrumental in starting Lori's career and the careers

of other high level management staff.

I guess you decided that you needed one story where the male protagonist deserved the emasculation you wanted.

AA+++ That's it.

This was a rare glimpse at complete role reversals and how times have changed as more women become educated and excel in the workforce. It also shows me that, in this rare example, it shouldn't matter which spouse is the breadwinner. Your marriage and family are most important in your life and your career doesn't define your character. Jobs come and go, family is forever. Marriage should be too. Anyway, that is just the message I got from this story. Hope everyone is having a good summer.

Wow! I'm not sure how to respond to a Cagivagurl story where the lead male character actually realizes he's an ass. Much less does it two pages. (That's a compliment, I think.) Thanks for the story. I never miss any of yours.

@Anonymous Re: anonymity. Yes, we're all anonymous in that our true identity is hidden, but when you have an id, we can easily communicate, have an exchange of ideas. Also, if we find a commenter consistently posts ignorant comments, we can see their id and skip over it.

4. Usually the author writes stories the meander too long at times but this time if anything it was too short. I'd have liked more exploration of the conflict and resolution. The husbands clear problems seemed resolved with no effort, the ending was pretty abrupt. I did like this story went in a different direction then the other "let go" style stories where it was more on the wife or the "snake in the grass" for him being fired, it was really his fault because of jealousy. I'd have liked the story to continue to show the husband growing on his own, fixing the home problems as a effort rather then it all fixed with one bang. Still despite my complaints it was a great story.

This story didn’t end well or not at all. The real story after this set up ie what happened to them. Sorry to throw water on this effort but hope it will be finished some day.

Why is this rated so low? It's really short for a cagivagurl story, but it's still decent.

I got to admit to usually not liking your stories, it’s the general anti men thing you have going on. Manipulative women, all men perceived as weak and pathetic. But this one I liked, yes, husband had a meltdown I get his issues but throughout it all the wife was exactly has it says on the tin, a loving wife. Sometimes men are not always strong, motivated and can struggle, just like women but that’s what marriage is about - you support and encourage them and add your strength when their weak (a partnership in all ways).!the wife’s not perfect, she just obviously past a lot of stuff onto the husband when she took the new job but she stayed true to him and loved him throughout.

Best of your stories

@justplainjeff. You’re just as anonymous as any anonymous commenter. If you’re not anonymous please post your real phone number and home address. … I just don’t want to be bothered creating yet another login account. I DO NOT read stories from any author that have fragile egos and can’t take the criticism from their readers - even “anonymous” one’s that hide behind fictitious names.

As to this story, yeah it totally sucks. Cheap knock off of another story (Let Go) with little character development and no plot. The authors writing is usually good, but the misandry and overall story lines running thru her works is wife is cheating slut, but that’s OK, and her faithful husband should just accept her cheating, because after all women deserve several lovers and a husband certainly shouldn’t care if he really loved her. Which is actually very neurotic.

four stars, good writing, entertaining as hell

Note to Cagivagurl: Reading these comments is why I DO NOT allow any comments from any anonymous people. If they don't have the balls to attach a name to their comments, I pay them no mind. Oh, yes, Deb agrees.

No...

"MACDonald's?" Jesus Christ in Heaven, edit. And this is really just another story where you emasculate the male character somehow.

The whole company was wagging the CEO like a tail. Femdom agitprop wins out in the end.

Why was the CEO so clueless and ineffective in managing her most important relationship?

This made no sense. He has a complete personality breakdown over hurt feelings? His wife has no clue? Just bizarre.

Disappointing!

This is another tale putting the male role under a negative light, likely from a fem point of view. The low evaluation received, speaks by itself.

While I liked the premise of the story, this would never happen with a competent CEO. Whether the husband was doing an adequate job or not, good management would have enabled a means of saving face. The employees will now see that the CEO has diminished and failed to support her husband and by extension if she wouldn’t support or enable a way to save face for her husband, what does that mean for them? The workplace would become toxic and the relationship with certainly end in divorce.

Normally I do not read stories given less than a 4 by literotica readers. However having read many if your previous stories I decided to break my rule and read this story. Sad to say you disappointed me and this story is not up to your past efforts. The same theme by other authors were a much better read.

This just goes to confirm my belief that literotica readers are an intelligent and discerning crowd and I will continue to read only stories given a 4 or more rating by readers here

One other point... Sometimes the comments are a much better read than the actual story

This is a watered down copy of another story

Funny what the mind can make us do.

This was quite nonsensical.

Good story!!!! It remmind me another story at the begining ;) but totally different developing!

Well done! 5 stars!!!

While I didn't care much for the story, since I am a male, I will congratulate Cagivagurl for two things.

Firstly; she was more succinct than usual. I don't know if that result was from a conscious effort from the author or the hand of a good editor, but I consider it an improvement.

Secondly; while Cagivagurl couldn't resist making another story about the evils of the male ego, at least she didn't link the two words together ad nauseum in the dialogue this time.

Cagivagurl could be a star LW writer (we could use some of those), if she ever gets over her misandry.

I liked it, but felt it was a take off of "Let GO", which was an excellent story. This seemed to have the lay out for a much better story in place, but still needed to be fleshed out a little more. It also reminds me of another story (I can't think of the name of) where the husband "works on the floor" and is head of maintenance, while the wife works in the office. Her boss the COO wants the husband gone so he can get into the wife's panties (like Theo in this story wants), and is running the equipment into the ground to make more money with plans to leave. Only after the company owner and CEO gets the husband back to fix a costly machine does the wife realize her husband was right. Sometimes it's just the little added details that make a story interesting. I loved "Let Go", but mostly because of the added details that were put in. The only detail we never got an answer to (in the story) is what happened to the car he was restoring that she bought parts for to use a a communication device (a reason for visiting him).

If the story has a point, I couldn't find it. Guy can't handle his wife getting a high end position, his personality does a 180 and he becomes a complete idiot, destroys his career, then he admits he's an idiot, and they have sex. The end.

It could have been much better, seems more like an outline rather than a complete story.

To the anonymous that posted this: Not sure where you re getting your data. Just making it up? What I found I that college-educated women are fairly unlikely to get divorced. “Researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics estimate that 78% of college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010 could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years.”

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I'm curious. Are you saying that they or their spouses were dead in 20 years? If they are unlikely to get a divorce but their marriages only last for 20 years on average (which would mean they were still under 50 when it ended), what brings the end of these marriages?

Sometimes you discover an author and you like his/her story so much that you want to read more stories written by him/her. Unfortunately this not the case. My first and last story of this author.

I think you could have added to this. This felt slim. That said, it certainly got the story across.

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I enjoyed the dynamic. It was a good illustration of work pressures, real and assumed, that exist for the world. Overcoming them isn’t easy, and the situation in the story was interesting in the structure.

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Be well!

You are a talented writer CG. Unfortunately yout recent story trend of embarrassing/humiliating the main male character, and ultimately emasculating him, appears to be starting to undermine how your overall body of work is received. One need only review your rating trend. It's taken a considerable hit.

I hope you move on to another theme/genre in your writing. You're a far better writer, in my opinion, when you're not consistently demeaning/denigrating the male lead.

Regards,

G

Are we supposed to support the husband? Sounds like he has image and confidence issues so maybe being his own boss will boost his self esteem. Of course, if his wife keeps her position or moves higher in he company then he will never be able to feel like "the man in the family".

Recommend some readers take a second read and find out who holds what position in the company.

Okay yeah this is just... at least with a cheating wife your male characters have a reason to get upset even if they do eventually forgive them, but here it just feels like drama for drama's sake. Surely he'd have spoken to his wife before this happened, or if not her someone at the company. If he was so liked why didnt any of his work friends notice the change? Surely one of them would have done the whole "lets get a beer - okay now spill" routine. I admit Im not a huge fan of the theme some of your stories seem to have, but at least they flow and when you take a step back it makes sense even if I dont agree with your character's decisions. This however feels idk the word... forced? rushed? not quite sure of the right word. You write really well, but sadly this doesn't quite live up to your usual standard. - YB

10 stars! Wonderful, as usual!

What a waste of time. Nothing happened.

Would have made a more interesting story if Josh had sued for divorce after being fired instead of suing for wrongful termination.

When I see your Cagivagurl as the author I know it going to be a damn good story. I may not agree with the ending but always a great story.

This however was a disappointment. Ya fell short big time on this one in multiple ways.

This same story has been previously posted here almost the exact story line only shorted, the other story was much more believable and a better read

One of the very few of your stories I’ve read that left me wanting more.

The previous versions of this story were excellent. This short, shallow retelling with a delusional man was unnecessary.

"Then get dressed, bitch, MacDonald's, here we come." If you were trying to make the husband a total dumb shit arrogant hopeless loser, you couldn't have done better. I have no idea what the point of this story was. What a waste of electrons.

Liked it, a true loving wife.

Wow, that was a disappointment. From anyone else, I’d just shrug my shoulders, but from CG I don’t know what to say.

As i remember this is a;most to a story i read a few years ago. Can't remember by whom or exactly when/ The ending was different. After the firing the husband when on to be a successful manager somewhere else and they both retired together.

Anyone else remember the details or who the original author was?

Its fine. It is a snapshot of a situation where a couple has a lot to work through. It was easy to consider one perspective then the other.

So the wife becomes CEO, and husband has to pick up the slack on the domestic front. Is it any wonder his performance dropped?! Maybe if they had discussed it (like rational married people should!), they could have gotten a housekeeper to free up some of his time for work.

I believe BigGuy33 and Qhml1 have both put stories out regarding this premise. Both told excellent stories...this was far below mediocre compared to them.

Wow. I'm thinking you were half asleep when you wrote this.

What's everyone excited for? It was just your regular " Women Rule " fare.

Sorry but this was a very short and poor take on "Let Go"

2 stars at best, you have written a lot better than this in the past.

Sounds like this guy has a tumour inside his brain

She was as bad at being a wife and mother as he was at his job. He should have fired her - gotten a new job and divorced her. As the primary caregiver, he’d get custody and she’d pay child support and have to find a new home. Win. Win.

Agree, Theo wants in her panties, and with the husband gone he will put on the full court press.

A typical MeToo story written by a man hater. A single question : is it a dumb bitch or a fag?

You had something good going, but too short.

Excellent story. A different subject and you handled it well.

Sorry, this one was all over the place. I feel it may be one of your poorer stories. I was never able to reconcile work hubby with home hubby at all, they felt like two different characters.

Woman perfect. Man shitty. Woman strong. Man weak. Do you write for Disney studios?

I am a huge fan, but for many reasons that one did not work for me....

Good concept but the ending was lacking substance.

Five stars. Much shorter than usual (which I liked). Concise. Believable (for someone who has been married for over 50 years - and has worked for women too.) The man does not have to be dominant and is not emasculated if the wife (as mine did) earns more. The two become one. There's no mine and no yours. It's all ours. That's what marriage is.

I can see this was a piece about ego, self esteem, and the place a husband should hold in his family that society has decided he should have. It’s not a new story and that’s fine. How a person deals with the reality that social norms from the past do not necessarily apply to the present is always an interesting exercise to write about. Some people are able to adapt and change their views on their place in their the world and some cannot.

My criticism is that the story lacks several elements to make it more compelling and interesting to read. The setup is good, John is obviously struggling and not able to cope with the pressure he feels. Lori is trying hard to keep not only the professional side but the marital side as well as she can. I think Lori does have some responsibility to the family that was not addressed. I find it difficult to believe that she would respond as she did in the story,. Her relationship with her children would be somewhat distant compared with John and them. This is also glossed over. Even a shyster would not bring a loser case like this and even if he did, it would be dismissed by the judge before it could even begin. I think the same drama could have been developed by John being told repeatedly by a variety of lawyers that he didn’t have a case.

Between that point and the ending, to me, does not make sense. The kind of break through that John would need to have to be able to overcome his social programming just does not happen like that. He’s built up so much resentment towards his wife as the big boss, his supervisor who used to be his junior, and (I’m not sure I’m reading this one correctly but) his life partner who is no longer present even when she is home. To be totally accepting of his own shortcomings and behaviors, to realize he is taking out all his frustrations on those he perceives as the cause of said conflict, and to make the changes in himself that allows him to start to make apologies and start to heal his relationship with his wife is a HUGE step that requires a least a peak into his mind when he is sitting in his workshop to explain how he makes this leap forward in his psychological journey. I think this should have taken a longer time and more exploration of his character. That said, Lori has her own personal character arc that is not touched on. Her relationship with her husband is not what she thought it was regardless if she was portrayed as being perfect in never reacting to John verbally abusing her. Nor was her relationship with her children looked at. John is supposed to be a great father but if she is not there for her kids, their bonds will be strained.

So while I feel this storyline has good potential, I think it could have been better developed and explored. I hope Cagivagurl would consider adding to this story and update it.

I like your work. This was not one of your better ones

Your usual stuff is not very good, but this was awful. 1*