Best Friends Forever

Forgiveness is the key.

Seems like the issue is forgiveness. You have to let things go and forgive to continue. if you don't, your hatred will consume you, and to continually make you miserable.

And Jim was continually miserable till he forgave. Even with Ann he had to forgive Claire and Rodney.

Excellent but long story.

Characters Too Bent

I think I see a trend: You bend your characters to fit the story idea you have, requiring readers to suspend all logic. You have an interesting idea, why not make it a good story by giving it believable characters? Or is the over the top leg loss thing a sign that you're more interested in the idea than the story?

A lot of work....

... put into such an orgy of self-pity

Probably your best yet, Matt

This was painful to read, because of the choices of the main character. He was betrayed, but he held onto it for too long. We all like to think "There is no way a normal person would do that". But reading about normal people is boring, nothing ever happens to them. You made me think as I read this, and made me angry. That's good writing!

This writer likes to write

About the lowest scum on Earth. His stories are always depressing and in order to make us hate the characters. Just a question: If the cheater false best friend had an accident and became paralizes from the waist down, what would be the attitude of his now loving wife? Get another lover and make him live the life they wanted to give to her previous husband? Or would she stay with no sex till her last day on earth? I think this was the twist this story needed.

Voice of dissent

I must admit this is one VERY long, depressing story. However, the author put a lot of effort into expressing his feelings through a fictional work. We didn't pay anything to read it and no one forced us to keep reading. Keep writing Matt. Some of us can appreciate your work even if not all your stories are for everyone.

Well...

It was well written and reasonably paced for such a long piece but gosh it was quite repetitive ( in parts ) contained characters that repeated unprofitable behaviours and it was very unrealistic. Just a point ... There are 37 billionaires living in suburban Greater Los Angeles....none of them live in a condo in the Valley in fact none of them live in a condo (even a penthouse in Century city or Sunset Towers) period. At the end of world history this will still be true.

oh my god

i gave up on this drawn out crap by the 8th page,,, what a waste

TOO long

Too Long

Not a good read

This is story was a piece of shit. I am a avid reader and I found this story not worth reading. Boring and no man should have deal with his ex-wife and best friend through out the entire story. Jimmy should have been successful as well Rodney was. But hey misery loves company. Was that your intentions for writing this story. I find nothing good about this story. Jimmy should have been able to move pass what Claire and Rodney. Instead you made Jimmy life miserable. Sorry you need rewrite this story again with more or a happy ending. I don't know about anyone else but in the real world if the husband catches the wife cheating they would be dead or the husband moves on.

I liked it

It was 30 pages, which is not your norm but at least you did not go 'Full Bore' Matt Moreau and make it the short guy with a little dick all the time!

Garbage story, made it to page 12 and quit.

"Go fuck your self" should have been the only words he ever said to either of them.

And if your ex is the only pretty woman in your town? Move. There are plenty more elsewhere and she wasn't worth spending an hour being sad about.

The best revenge is a life better lived. And a right cross to the ex best friend

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What a waste of time. Just go to page 30 or you may shoot yourself. # 1 All this could have been said in 3 pages.

Made it to twenty pages and below made me stop

This close work office he has and he did not know an employees sister was blown up in afganistan?
Otherwise, just awful. Claire is a evil masochyst without the ability to feel. Daughter was put in awful situation, and rodney is a horrible person

Idiotic like his other crap!

You believe that a story long like that crap is a good story? Than you also believe in St Claus! That crap is from the lowest cuck shit and it belongs to that.

Pathetic

Only decent character was Anne. The rest sucked so bad. But it was such a train wreck, I read it all. I feel dumber for having done so.

can't be done

To survive long term as an actually on-the-street homeless man takes more mental toughness than a MM wimp has.

30 pages of pure shit

They should use this crap as punishment for murderers and child molesters....Pure shit!

i want to say thanks

for NOT chopping the story up and publishing it over the course of 2 weeks.

Wow 30 pages

I didn't think you could pile Shit that high. You get the award for Sissy of the year MM.

Why. Old times

You write some pile of shit. I give it a 1*. Still I made it all the way to chapter 8 before I stopped. 30 chapters. Why? It's the same as all your other dumbass stories. Poor spinless wimp is best friends with a good looking rich adonis what will also have a big dick. So this alpha man can't get a girlfriend so he steals his best friend's wife. How many good looking rich man can't get a girlfriend. Same stupid shit as the rest of your retarded crap stories.

Had to just skip to the end...

This was ridiculous and long-winded.

For anyone that managed to read all of it

I got a question. Did it ever come out that Rodney was also cheating on the slut Clair? There is a reason that I'm asking.

Matt The Motherfucker

Fuck u Matt, atleast show some decency to the man

Seriously Matt,

I dont want to add to the highly critical views here already, But why?
matt you are a good writer, but your stories are very insipid. they have a very convincing realism to it & yet it is completly hollow at the same time.

May be this is what, you are comfortable writing about, maybe this is your universe.
& i can understand that, i cant agree to it, But thats the world we all have different opinions.

Just watched the movie Nocturnal Animals. every thing in the movie is real, From the beginning to the very end. though the revenge may not be as gruesome as some of the stories here, its is brutal on a emotional level.
Matt there is a lot that i want to say, But what would be the point. You will just continue to write mediocre stories, this story may never cross a 3 rating, inspite your effort, which i do respect & commend you for.

Matt take a vaccation, go for a hike, ride some waves, Hunt some wild animals with a camera, eat delightful exotic foods, & dance with some beautiful women, Before you write your next story, that is my humble request to you.

I'm conflicted

I kind of liked the story without really liking any of the characters. Ann and Rebecca are not really fleshed out but didn't really piss me off. Rodney was an amiable pussy-hound (think Bill Clinton but without Chinese money) with no moral compass. Jim was a consistent punching bag and I was hoping he would successfully off himself. But Claire takes the cake! She was self centered and carelessly malicious. Jim appreciates her honesty, but she just doesn't care enough to cushion the blow every time she tells him so thing awful. I sleep better because this is fiction. As an aside, have none of the other commenters read any of your work? Please keep writing!

Vile people

Oh my. I not sure how intentional it was, but I haven't seen a better depiction of sociopathic narcissists in a very long time. They belittled him constantly, never respected him, never felt any true guilt (the kind that would actually give them feelings of remorse - neither ever had any feelings of remorse). Every effort to reconcile, every act of 'kindness' was not done in the spirit of forgiveness or true giving. It was done simply because the two cheaters didn't like feeling guilty and having their personal emotional punching bag removed from their influence. Everything was about them. The main character was pushed into a cycle of clinical depression because they just couldn't let it go. Every single time he almost got back to a point where he could move forward, they butted in and kicked him back down the stairs into a depressive cycle.

This is, of course, a classic MM story. The plot lines rarely vary. I don't fault you for this, there are plenty of others that do the same thing. They just use a formula that more people like. The story has decent bones, though you could do with a good editor. The whole thing was bloated and repetitive and could have been about half the length and still imparted the same emotional impact. If your depiction of the two cheaters as sociopathic narcissists was intentional, kudos to you. You did a really good job of demonstrating both that type of behavior and how clinical depression can destroy an individual. If this was all incidental, I don't really know what to say. The only redeeming factors for most of your stories are their depictions of different types of mental illness/disorders. A good twist in this one would have been to have the daughter recognize how toxic her parents were and turn to her biological father in sympathy and support.

on jim and anns 10th anniversary, claire caught rodney screwing a young one at the office

man you put that guy through a lot of shit in this story

Rubbish

Complete unending boring trash.fuck I waisted hours hoping this would get better and it just got worse

Ironic

The guy who stole the wife may have been sterile since he didn't father any children while the wimpy husband fathered three by two different women.

Boyd Percy

FOGET WATERBOARDING

Just make terrorists read this absolute dirge. Do people like the 'hero' actually exist? The author has to be laughing at us.

This is a longer and somewhat more intensive story that was posted here awhile ago. The cheaters spending nearly all of their waking hours trying to make good with the victim of others finding their soul mate. Well and good because there arent too many new plot lines in LW. I did read it all and it did redundant at times but I've read many a shorter story that is worse and more tedious.

I do, however, have a complaint about the timeline especially in regard to the shared daughter. Her actions at six seemed more like a toddler and the additions of years didn't match up with her age. Also, it seems like she should have had opportunity to hear about the full-fledged cheating, discovery, suggested living arrangements and other details of the divorce in some of the situations you set up but her character seemed to remain clueless to the end.

An awful long road to provide a RACC story.

Good writing

Really well written Matt. 5*. Maybe I read a different story than the others, but I did not find any willing cuckolds or wimps here? Most puzzling some of the comments. Read ya next time.

I agree with @LordSlamdawgg

There is good story here - of betrayal and redemption. Unfortunately, it is buried under too many layers of MM's standardized template scenarios. Rewritten, I think this could be the screenplay for a tearjerker movie.

I've never been worth $4b, but can people in that asset category actually just drive around on their own? Don't they need bodyguards and security everywhere they go?

Sorry

The problem with your stories is that everybody's sorry. The hero's sorry for himself and the wife's sorry for him and the waitress is sorry for him. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Well I'm sorry, too. Sorry I can't wade through 30 pages of misery.

Roll my eyes

I started rolling my eyes when Jimmy lost his legs. With the current level of support for amputees, sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of his life doesn't float. Doctors wouldn't allow it to happen without leaving themselves open to massive lawsuits. Also, the idea that a wounded soldier would not receive artificial limbs (yes, both legs and arms are available) is laughable. No one today has to live like that ant more. It makes for good drama but doesn't cut it as reality.

Could not force myself to read beyond page 6

Your grammar, syntax and sentence structure are beyond distracting. Should been filed under Sappy Michael Bolton Novel/Novella. A great deal of thought and effort has gone into this effort. But, I'll pass.

Kind of over the top

The worse part I think is Claire never really accepts that she was wrong on the way she handled jimmy. Even assuming she loved Jimmy she couldn't grasp what she was asking him to do,she was trying to force him into a poly relationship,and couldn't through her selfishness see what that would do to him.She also lies at the very end of the story,she claimed the emotional stuff with rodney came later,after she left Jimmy,but she made clear early on she loved R as much or more than Jimmy.She also doesnt grasp,even at the end,that fucking Rodney shortly after the wedding meant she never respected Jimmy,never really wanted him fully,and 3 years of fucking is not just sex.She never tried to help Jimmy to work on what he needed to do.

The real question is why she and rodney woukd bother,the way they act it is apparent they care only about themselves, and their attempt to help Jimmy are all about making themselves feel better then helping him. Given he pulled away from them they likely wouldn't care,there is just nothing about them that makes their attempts real.

Jimmy needed real help,but they never really gave it to him.Jimmy fucked himself up,he was a very weak person and in his own way never really stands up for himself.He is presented as a hero but in his own way he was just as self absorbed as the other two.

Just some mild mistakes

First was Gerald the one he told her to go on a date with? Second is she's worth well over a half million after interest (Becca) why would they have to wait to go on their honeymoon overall a good story, had to be I read all 30 pages

Thanks ju8streading

I saw that coming a mile away. It was his receptionist. When the wife came by it was a young attractive women who acted nervous. Later his receptionist changes to an older lady. Besides a cheater will always be a cheater.

30 Pages?!!

I think this is the longest single story I've ever seen on this site! I'll admit, I only read the first and last page. Although, that's what I do with all of your stories. I really don't like your plots. It's always: wife and friend/relative cheat, marry, and somehow a marriage born of disloyalty survives. The children treat their step-dad with as much love and respect as their actual dad, despite the fact that their actual dad has done a lot more for them and their step-dad helped bring about the end of their parent's marriage. Everyone basically says "Sorry but you have to accept it" and treat the husband like he is a big jerk for not being ok with it. This sends the husband into a deep depression until he meets the love of his life. After which he reconciles with his family, accepts the cheaters were right, and they all sing kumbaya.

I don't get you or your stories. It seems like you are viewing the events through a different lens. You view of love and respect seem much looser and less meaningful than mine. Also, your stories aren't so much Reconciliation as they are Redemption. The main premise is that the protagonist starts out as somehow bad, but changes his/her ways to become good. I've seen this in other stories such as a wife who stops being selfish, or a husband who gets over his PTSD and drug addiction.

The problem is, to many of us, the husband did not have any serious flaws. It is his ex-wife, former friend, and children who have the flaws. This makes it so even me, who likes Reconciliation stories (even the more extreme ones), not like most of your stories.

I wish I could like more of your stories, since they are very well written. But they seem to cater to a particular set of values and morals that I simply do not have.

Matt Matt

This sucks your normal cucky cock shit. I could not get past page 6 myself. What tripe fuck you and fuck 30 pages ya asshole !!!!!!##

Kind of bad

I read the whole story. It is written well but just seems really really unbelievable.

Monumental Effort

I think LordSlamdawgg pretty much nailed the review. I liked it, though ti was a good story, if a bit long. I can't imagine the effort this took, my hat is off to you.
5*

Just my $.02 worth

The first story that I read when I discovered this site was " Ethan and Marie " by Matt Moreau . I liked it . It had a guy who got dumped on by his wife and his boss , but in the end he wound up with a much better woman , beat his ex-bosses ass in public , and then actually pissed on him while he lay broken at the protags feet ! I thought to myself 'Damn , this author has real balls '!
And , then sadly , I read some more of his stories , and apparently " Ethan & Marie " was not the norm , to say the least.
I skimmed a few pages of this when it was posted on SOL the other day , and sad to say , it's no " Ethan &Marie" .
Maybe the author likes to get truly vilified in the reviews , I guess a true Sub likes all forms of punishment , I can't think of any other reason for writing this super long , standard Matt Moreau storyline .

And the troll parade marches on

People keep thinking that forgiveness is about the offenders. Most of the time, those that truly offend don't give a shit about having offended. Forgiving or not, does nothing to affect their lives. If they gave a fuck, they wouldn't have done the deed in the first place. So forgiveness is about the offended person letting go of the pain and the burden of the offense.
When the offended person does not forgive, does not 'let it go', the poison of the injury can slowly destroy the person. The protagonist hurt himself very deeply while unwilling to forgive and move on. When he did, he got better. He was right to be angry at what was done to him, but was right to let it go, not for their sake, but his own.
Ann showed him the way. She never displayed bitterness over her war injuries. She healed emotionally, though the scars would be there forever.
The antagonist eventually realized their guilt and tried to make amends. Flawed people, but with age and time they seem to have truly come to terms with the wrong they did.
To me, this was a story about people who were all, in one way or another, damaged goods. But then, we are all damaged goods. Only the utterly arrogant will not recognize this fact.

Very interesting story

I did feel it was out there maybe not as far as Saturn. Must be nice to have a job where you can run toyour friends wife and service her and still make all that money. to bad he didn't let them get hit and hope the daughter servived the acccident. I must read your other stories. keep writing. 5*

I commented earlier on another site that I was half way through and Jimmy was the most pathetic character in any story I have ever read. Now that I've finished this tale I still must say this guy is pathetic. The story itself was too drawn out in my opinion but I do appreciate the time and effort you put into it. There are not many contributors to this site that write well enough to keep me reading a story this long. Thanks again.

Thirty pages??

No thanks.