All Comments on 'And Then The Light Bulb Went On'

where too much is dangerous when too little keeps them together, TK U MLJ LV NV

About as stirring and erotic as a chapter from a Robert Caro biography.

Felt a little rushed at end. Great story. 5 stars

Very much enjoyed the story, thanks for posting.

I didn't buy that the kids weren't talking to the father. If they cut off ties, seems Clark must not have ever been held in high regard by them. If we was thatshitty of a father, it makes sense Traci cheated on him. I lost a lot of sympathy for Clark at the end becuse of a few sentences.

he should've burned her and the judge to the ground. As for the kids,, if that's how they feel and act disown them too. I'm sorry he was wronged they back her with the its 20 years ago shit, fuck them too

The story was good the ending SUCKED, years of her fucking around and him raising another mans kid and all George got was a kick in the balls.....and as far as his promise to not do anything to George.......didnt she make a promise to Clark to be true and faithful. I dont see it happening that way.......Clark was a pussy

what was sad she never said she was sorry for having an affair, it was we did it get over it Clark

Good story, to many stories on this site end with the man living to the end with the woman who cheated. Good to see a man stand up for himself and do something. I agree with another post that the story seemed rushed at the end. Rated it a 5.

A little unsatisfied.

Fairly solid but could have used more in every aspect.

This was an interesting plot that deserved far greater depth.

This is almost an outline to a very good story.

Dig deeper into your characters and enmesh our imaginations with their lives.

Good start, weak ending.

I would have ruined him and her .Back child support collage fees and made sure every news paper ran the story.

Jesus, I envy your life if you don't find that believable. So often people see the one making waves (politically, socially, certainly at work, at church, within the family, etc.) as the problem. Go along to get along.

Who were her children going to favor, their distraught mother or their hard-ass dad? Right or wrong isn't always a consideration in our feelings.

Note: Traci says says that since Clark didn't know it's kinda "no harm - no foul". In a weird way, Clark endorses that sentiment when he keeps Jeannie in the dark about the (essentially) second affair that Traci and George had at the lake house after assuring Jeannie that they were through. Just saying

Good story. It has a good hard edge to it

Nothing wrong with the writing, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the way it ended. I am dismayed at the comments you got, some of them, anyway. Keep writing. Good luck. Randi.

Where can I get one of those collared sheets? I suppose it could be obtained at a Klan or Arab haberdashery but thought I would ask. LOL. I bought some cowboy boots and dressed them up with silver toes and heels, still have the silver the boots are long gone. I think you got in a hurry to finish this and made mistakes which hurt the story line. Three stars.

Got her pregnant and all he got was a kick to the balls?😂😂 this story is pathetic. The revenge was weak as hell. Even til the very end he acted like the true pussy he is, he didn't ruin good ole George's career cause his whore traci asked him not to hurt the love of her life and he did it. This story just seemed weak to me, the dialogue wasn't much better either. His reaction just seem forced almost. If I was a man & I found out my wife of 30 years cheated on me for 3 years straight, got pregnant by her lover, would've left me in a heartbeat if her lover asked her too, has no remorse for what she did, she never love me--my reaction would not to be sit, talk and have dinner with her and her co conspirator. I would want revenge. She took 30 years of my life, 30 years he could've been married to someone who truly love him and not be someone's consolation prize. He's pathetic. Why wasn't his other two kids speaking to him? 3 pages of nothingness. Shit could've been condensed to 1 or 2 pages. 3 pages didn't really shed any new light. I don't understand why he didn't file for divorce immediately? What was there to talk about except what we each want from the divorce? A betrayal this great is unforgivable, there is no forgiving and damn sure won't be forgetting. He might've not known then, but he knows now. He knows she conspired, plotted, manipulated to deceive him for 20 years. He knows she let him raise another mans baby she knew wasn't his. The whore and her lover was probably laughing at his dumbass the whole time

I enjoyed it and gave it 5*. I would have enjoyed a little more about the wife's thought processes, a little contrition on her part, a response from her when husband told wife she never said she was sorry but I guess the lack of response was a response in itself. Definitely one of the better LW stories in a while. Thanks and keep on writing.

anon.1

You managed to take a theme that's been used many times and still make it new and interesting. Thank goodness for a well written story in LW ! I'll spend a while reading your older stories and looking for your new ones. Thank you.

You can't beat up women in fiction because it makes you a monster and stuff. Can't have that, yo. Liberal blogs stopped writing about Game of Thrones when Michael Bolton raped Salsa Stark and they started attacking the writers of show. Do you want those idiot liberals attacking you? Of course not, so limit your violence to swift kicks to the jimmy.

I don’t normally say ‘wrong plot’ to a writer but the obvious better choice is really obvious: at the very least make sure his career never advances. Say that if his name ever comes up for another judicial position, he will be ruined publicly. That doesn’t need to be made public but the threat of that would pay the asshole back and pay his wife back for the ‘sacrifice’ she made to advance that guy’s career. He should know that because of his choices, he’ll never get the brass ring. Now if there were more in the story, I might suggest discussion about how to ruin him now, worries about the daughter’s mental health, etc., even with the twist that it was totally meant to fuck with their heads the way they fucked with his.

For all those cheering this story — and I knew it’d be some form of btb before I opened it, due to the 4.43 score it had — the obvious question is: how is Superman better off? The wife he loved for over 30 years is gone, and the great sex they still had has been replaced by his right hand.

Pride goeth before a fall, it has been said, and in this story Clark has his pride, I suppose, but he has lost his family and his friends.

Yeah, his wife cheated, 20 years ago. The way the story is written, she hadn’t been cheating on him since, had given herself only to Clark. He figures she still loves George more, but if that’s the way he thinks, he’s limited in his future prospects to divorcees, because widows will have loved their late husbands more than they could him.

This story has one major plus going for it: it is something that surely has happened in the real world. But as satisfying as it was to kick George in the balls, that’s all he has.

And, quite frankly, a real man doesn’t kick another man in the nuts as a sucker punch. A real man whips his assin a reasonably straight up fight, and maybe then gets in his revenge blow, but a sucker punch to the balls proves that he really is mild mannered Clark Kent, and was never Superman.

This is very well-written. Although lacking in emotion, I suppose we should expect that when the narrator is a self-described analytical robot. What’s really lacking here, though, is any evidence that he ever loved his wife in the first place. His decision to divorce her was instantaneous. He never even hesitated. That tells me that any love he ever felt for her had long disappeared by then.

The entire plot seems to have been written as an excuse to deliver one lecture after another to the narrator’s wife, family, and friends. The story ends at the beginning, leaving the next three pages to unravel predictably toward the inevitable conclusion. I was hoping for a curveball or some unique twist along the way, but the story ended exactly as you’d expect it would.

I think a more realistic ending would be that the narrator would live the rest of his life as a lonely, bitter, and angry old man who reads and writes stories like this one! He has purposely alienated himself from his entire family, and doesn’t seem that broken up about it. If I lost my entire family, it would devastate me. Different strokes, I guess.

"Why care about that judge's career?". Not going to supreme court and losing his face before public opinion would have devastated him much more than losing a testicle! Why not telling to the wronged wife that the judge lied about promise her he would stop cheating?

So are the other two kids his or not?

Cuz I don’t trust her either.

He didnt sue the asshole for child support? He didnt destroy the assholes carrier? Is he that a wimp?? And dont pester us with the argument he made his peace and he still loves the slut who betrayed him bodily and emotionally! Only real idiots would react like your protagonist. And kick him into the balls is so manly!!! Ha ha ha!!

..It seems she needs a Kidney transplant. They checked our 27 year old Daughter a few months ago to see if she was a match, the plan to donate to save my Ex wife's life.

She wasn't, and she is not my Daughter.

That is how I found out.

But then, the wife IS my ex. The Daughter?

Still.. mine.

Oh, well. Funny how things work out.

The theme has certainly been well covered over the years in Literotica and no matter how you write it, the decision he made is a personal one and may well be right for him and not for another. I have never had this kind of decision to make so I don't know what I would do, but I tend to think that after a period of rage I would probably stay with the marriage. What works for 31 years would probably work for another 31 although certainly not with the same level of devotion. It's hard to find a good match with another person.

What I never heard here was Traci's answer to the point Clark made about George being the real love of her life. Would she have left Clark if George had been willing to leave Jeannie and marry her? If that were true then perhaps Clark was right to leave Traci. That's a tough burden to carry forward even if 20 years had elapsed since the fireworks were over.

It's true that the tone of this story was dispassionate, but does indeed fit the approach of an engineer (which I am also). Time also has a way of leveling off the emotional high points leaving the key spots to remember. I gave it a 5* because it did make sense to me and I cannot predict or judge what another person would do in a very difficult situation. I do remember what Audie Murphy (one of the most decorated heroes of WWII and later a mediocre actor) said about heroism. He would never have guessed beforehand that he was capable of his acts of heroism. You just can't predict what people will do and how they react to a given situation and you can't judge them for their individual actions.

Would like to see a follow-up

Needs a follow up. Good take on a decent theme.

Kids his?

People who argue like you are the victims who are eviscerated by more clever ones. And if it works for you dont make the mistake to believe the same is true for others!

She never gave up the affair because it was wrong, or because it would hurt Clark - she gave it up so that the judge could be vetted as clean. She stopped loving Clark back then and only loved the judge, no matter what her words were - her actions spoke the truth.

Personally I would have applied more than just one kick to his balls, I would have made sure his wedding tackle would never work again. Nah, to tell the truth, I would have outed them all and let the press roast them in hell.

Thank you . Hey, you do seem to have knack for this writing thing . Good clean crisp story well thought out . Would really love to see what you could come up with for a BTB Story. You have quickly become one of my favorite writers .

But one gripe. 10 orgasms with his hand and mouth before he fucked her? 10? If he was getting her off 10 plus times when they had sex and she was cheating, she really is one strange lady.

Great story. *****

Good story, as for the premise, Clark had no other choice really. The affair lasted 4 years and she loved the other guy and had his child. The fact it was 20 years ago makes no difference. She still loved George and if it was possible would have married him and still would. For the kids to be upset is ludicrous they would regret in the end. The one thing that should have happened is he should have told old George he wanted $125,000 in child support $75,000 for university costs and $600,000 for alienation of affection or he would destroy his career and reputation. No need to sue and make it public he would just write a check. Don’t think it would be a problem. As for reconciling after the divorce don’t think that that would be possible but maybe as friends in time.

Could use a chapter 2

i hope you have more about him and the kids really like your story

Typical sad little man, if I was anything to do with the judge, wife, family or lover, one dark night a ball-pien hammer would end your fancy life, a few well aimed blows and you would spend the rest of your life in bed immobile from the neck down.

I agree with Silentsound. This was a generally good, well-written, entertaining story that needed more depth. I would have liked to have heard more from the wife. She never really explained herself, but only gave the bare facts of the affair. She also never made out her case as to why her husband shouldn't divorce her. (Her attitude was "It was a long time ago - get over it.") More was needed from her.

Also, I'm with cloacas. Why not ruin the judge, or at least derail his career. It would serve the judge and Clark's wife right. --JRZ

Great story, good writing, and good character development. How about a part 2 giving us the cheating wife' s perspective. Great opportunity for you to develop and exploit her character. Good job!

Real men do not seduce married women. Tough to be lectured about ''real men'' by someone such as yourself who boasted about screwing other men's wives during your hospital days.

The wife never once said she was sorry for affair that produced a bastard child. Fact is, she and her lover intentionally had unprotected sex knowing illegitimate pregnancy was real possibility.

Once the deception was discovered, and the wife knew she was caught she chose not to confess.

Your widow rationalization is ludicrous. One those women were not involved with him while in love with husbands.

Two, his wife was still in love with her ex-boss.

Just because the FOUR year affair was twenty years ago, does not lessen his pain or the destruction of trust.

Those elements are fresh for him. The illegitimate daughter had to be devastating.

The point to consider is how he would have acted if he had found out twenty plus years ago. He would have divorced her then. I doubt even you would fault him for that.

You miss the point that he no longer loves or trusts her. She hasn't loved him for years and is only worried about losing her safety net.

In a few years he will have moved on and will be happy. In great shape, is good looking and is rich. Instead of being reminded of her insidious betrayal everyday, he will be sharing the good times with others.

I agree with "Overcritical" that we don't know if Clarks wife is still in love with George. If Clark decided to take revenge by exposing George would Traci have stayed with Clark? Exposing George as a cheating spouse and fathering a child with another mans wife would have put a dent into his future plans as a judge. Traci would have to make a decision then if she wanted to stay with Clark after the resulting scandal. Put the pain on the cheaters not the cheated on Clark.

Decades ago I recall Phil Donahue trying to re-define ''real men'' and I thought it was hilarious.

America has been a nation divided since it's inception.

Federal vs. States' rights. Coastal liberal elites against working class families.

Spouses who ignore oft repeated acts of betrayal and those who don't.

Males who do not seduce married women and the reedrichards who do!

Would he have remained married if he hadn’t found out? Yes, it sounds like it was a good marriage, but once the cat was out of the bag, then he realized the relationship was all one-sided and he had been deceived for 24 years of a 31-year marriage. If the DNA test hadn’t been linked into a genealogical programme, with clear links to a known family, he would have had to find out who the father was from questioning his slut wife, assuming many more partners before and since. Definitely interesting and well told.

pathetic husband deserves the cuckoo

. . . then he will expose to the world that he got cucked. The way this is written, his pride would never allow him to do that.

I do so love the anonys who say they’d have crippled George. They’re so very anonymously brave, like Nikolas Cruz. In real life, they’re the ones who’ve been cucked, and have spent years fantasizing about the revenge they wished they’d wrought on their ex wives and the better men who hung horns on them.

Yes, it’s true: in my much younger days, I was something of a pussy hound. Alas, while I was successful, it was’t quite as often as I would have liked. I screwed 4, just 4 married ladies, but perhaps you’re one of the four guys on whom I hung horns? That would certainly explain your animosity!

But, probably not; that was all in the 70s. Unless you’re in your 60s, it wasn’t you.

Like some other commenters, I feel that the Traci you've created here latched on to Clark as a meal ticket from the get-go instead of marrying him for love.

Let's see if I've got this right: within the first 5 years of their marriage, they have two kids (maybe his, maybe not) -- then she jumps cunt-first into a four-year affair with her boss (starting out right away with a pregnancy, for crying out loud!), and after the cheaters claim it was over, she was STILL fucking him from time to time at the lake house?

I must have missed the paragraph where the Martian Slut Ray zapped her! Who knows how many lovers the skank has had through the years....

And it's just a tad ironic that the only one of his kids who seems to love him and respect his decision to divorce the lying bitch is Marissa!

I also agree with others that the judge should have gone down hard, in addition to crisping the unrepentant slut a bit more.... ;-)

Five * of course!

Justice screams for "outing" the judge and the slut wife. I agree it needs done.

However, the child born of their unholy union would again be a victim because her name would have to be released as she is no longer a minor child. That alone would be enough for most fathers to keep quiet. It was obvious in the story that both dad and daughter loved each other dearly and the now known status of their relationship does not change that.

It would be a nice twist if the daughter would "out" the judge and slut wife. Only our victim husband promised not to take things public, not the daughter.

I would really like to see a sequel where the daughter reclaims her dignity.

For every action there is a reaction:)

Thanks for sharing

Interesting story. Nicely spaced and flowed well. Interesting how children will often choose sides in a divorce. Oh, editing, nice to read a story that is clean of major errors.

I have a lot of trouble believing you ever screwed any women, married or single. You seem move like the blow-up doll type.

Thanks for sharing.

Obviously Clark was a man of honor and avoided throwing his wife under the bus but

definitely escaped future pain. Perhaps the people that feel ten orgasms or no, she never loved him but I do believe that the key point is that she showed no remorse for her actions.

So you lament the fact you only seduced four married women. Poor you. You are doing the best job anyone could of defining your character.

Strange you think only a husband of one of your conquests would not think kindly of you.

The comment you rant about only slightly referred to your lifestyle, most of it took exception to your ''animosity'' towards the husband for divorcing cheating wife.

Just wondering, what your feelings would be if one of the husbands you boast about cuckolding had divorced his wife because of you..what about their children...

Most likely your attitude and stories reflect your need to rationalize your staying with your wife after finding someone repeatedly hung the horns on you...

That would explain quite a bit!

Stretchboy comments this must be btb story because of 4.3 score. Strange, but I had read many raac stories with higher score.

Not to mention only loverboy got burnt.

Husband just divorced wife. Hardly scorched earth.

Fact is she knew he would divorce her if he ever found out.

She admits knowing that. That is why she confessed to lover's wife but not to husband

I liked the result you wrote from "Clueless Bob" at least he got payback on both cheaters. Not that I condone murder but exposing George and damaging his good name and career would have been nice. As another comment on here mentioned having the daughter expose her biological sperm donor and that would have been poetic justice.

It was "Patience Pays Off" story that I meant to reference not "Clueless Bob"

Great story. Entirely believable, has actually happened in real life, more than any of us want to believe. I do think I would have George pay 24 years of child support, maybe got a little piece of Jeannie to boot. Telling her about the "few" times she didn't know about for sure. But, what the hell, over is over. 5 stars, deserves more.

on how to pull his older children up short and get them to re-think their positions. Have a get together with them and their spouses, tell the spouses the whole sordid tale including his wife's lack of respect and remorse for the years long affair, then ask them to put themselves in his place.... what they'd do and how they would feel. I'd bet it would make for a very lively discussion, especially since his 2 older children siding with the cheater would come out. The rose tinted glasses would come off and I'd bet 2 more marriages would be in turmoil.

I might have written the ending differently but it's not my story. It was rushed however and the thing that really didn't make sense to me was the attitude of the kids. If there was any discussion at all between the two older siblings and their younger (half) sister, there should have been a realization that she had been lied to and deceived for her entientire life by their mother - her pain and now complete distrust of said mother, who seems to only have the attitude that "eh..it was 20 years ago, same height and hair color...what's the big deal?"

Unless he really was a shitty father I can't see them not understanding his, and Marissa's point of view. I also can't understand a loving father, at least it's seems that he was in the one or two conversations he had with Marissa, who seems indifferent that his two other kids have cut him off. Most of us would be trying to repair those relationships.

"Just wondering, what your feelings would be if one of the husbands you boast about cuckolding had divorced his wife because of you..what about their children..."

To the best of my knowledge, none of them had children. If any of them divorced later on, I do not know.

Yes, I'm a sinner, a terrible one. The most I can say is that I reformed my life, many years ago. But I can also recognize when even people who've been hurt go off the rails in their anger, and hurt themselves further.

Who is the 'winner' in this story? It isn't Clark, who has threw away the love of his life for an affair that happened two decades ago, and alienated two of his children in the process. It isn't Julie, who lost the husband she has loved for 31 years. It isn't their children, who've seen their parents divorce. It isn't George, who's injured, or his wife, who now has an injured husband.

Even if not-Superman Clark did as so many commenters have advocated (one wrote: "Typical sad little man, if I was anything to do with the judge, wife, family or lover, one dark night a ball-pien hammer would end your fancy life, a few well aimed blows and you would spend the rest of your life in bed immobile from the neck down.") he would not have won. He'd still be missing his wife, his children and his friends.

That's what this story was about, a loser. There was nothing he could have done to win.

"I took a long, quick stride forward with my left leg at that point, then I planted and drove my right leg forward and up, going for that 50-yard field goal with my target being his aforementioned testicles. George reacted even slower than I anticipated, and my metal-tipped boot hit the target square and solid." It takes time to execute a kick like that, and if George reacted that slowly, then he was clearly disabled in some way. Men instinctively protect their balls, and a man who could not dodge an attack as described is handicapped. That sucker-kick doesn't prove how many Clark is; it proves he's a wimp.

There ain’t nothing erotic about this story. It’s not entertaining.

You should submit your stories to a church group instead.

by Prince020402

02/16/18

Great story but deflated ending...

I might have written the ending differently but it's not my story. It was rushed however and the thing that really didn't make sense to me was the attitude of the kids....

My thoughts about the kids is the age they were raised in _ Millennials _ They seem to be a very selfish entitled group of young people. I had the same issue with my two when I divorced their Mother for Cheating after 20 years of marriage. 25 years later they still cannot see that both parents are human and they need to let it go, but it seems to not be the case. Oh' well.......

The story is told from Clark's POV alone. That leaves lots of questions how Tracy could even think about a reconcilliation without showing any remorse and making real apologies. There also must be something that is left out about the relationship between the older children and their father. Who would react in this way if there has not been a prior rift?

5* - waiting for part 2

I agree with SKHP in his/her analysis of the story. That said it is always interesting when things of this nature happen. Very well written and a tight, probably all too true, story line. Xoxoxoxoxo Annette

This was written well. I enjoyed it. The characters were believable. I would have found some way; however, to leak the info about the affair to the press.

I would have fleshed it out little more, but then again I tend to go into too much detail sometimes. And there would be no way the Judge would have fared so well. If you want to hurt an enemy, you take away what they value most. The judge would have made a quick exit out of the public eye, under the threat of exposure even as he was being touted for state Supreme Court. Then again, we tend to elect plastic saints repeatedly, don't we?

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allowed to raise your children. That's exactly why I shudder when some poor cuckold husband on this site tell his children that they should still be there for their cheating assed mother who had lovers for 30 years without a thought that it might not be something that would be acceptable. If she had no qualms about cheating she would probably pass that on to her children, as she obviously did in this story. The two older kids might not have different sperm than what he could supply but they weren't his kids at all. Nothing says that you have to take a bunch of shit from your children or your parents just because of the unfortunate circumstance that links them to you.

The problem with the idea of outing the judge is that it compounds the pain of the other grievously wronged character, Marissa. Publicly exposing the judge publicly exposes her parentage as well, plus exposing Clark’s embarrassment outside that close circle. I did like the idea of a private blackmail threat that would force the judge to withdraw from any future nomination for a public position.

I liked that Jeannie got it, and that Clark’s act gave her a little bit of retribution as well.Ao9

Why did the kids go against him. Maybe 2 out of 3. It would have been better if you explained their reasoning. He had every right to divorce her and she never begged or appoliguized but 4 years and raising another's mans kid. I would not go after the judges nuts. I sue him in open court for back child support and let the press destroy him. F--k his career .

A good story, but it has some issues (pointed by some of the comments) that weakens the story as a whole...However a good reading...3*

I liked the story but would have preferred more bad things to happen to the wife and the judge.It seems they got off pretty easy and the wronged husband owed no goodwill to either of them.

"finding out who Traci's partner in crime was became the second task" - Huh? You KNOW who her "partner in crime" was!

"Can't we just leave it as a mistake from the long-ago past, and let it go at that?" - No, because you cheated and got pregnant!

Plus, they still had sex on the lake trips, that only stopped when George told Jeannie.

It's significant that she didn't confess the truth after she spoke to Marissa. She HAD to know he would find out, yet still kept quiet.

"I figured I owed her the courtesy of a chat." - He doesn't owe Jeannie SHIT! She owed HIM the truth when she found out.

When Jeannie was telling her story, she said that she knew that "Jeannie" wasn't a gold-digger! She obviously meant "Traci"!

If the papers will be ready Thursday, why wait till Friday to serve them?

"A well-dressed young man was on the porch" - Thanks for not doing the gum-snapping girl or the middle-aged guy in a rumpled suit, LOL!

The two older kids are shitheads, and he is well served to have them out of his life. You don't have to agree with what one parent or the other does, but you can't take sides. If you MUST take sides, you should side with the offended parent.

It's telling that the one child on his side is the one that's NOT of his blood!

@onbothsides - Yeah, I would have told Jeannie about the lake "outings"! Suitable revenge for not cluing him in when she found out.

@Ximand - Her punishment was losing her husband. Her older kids might come around and resent what she did, Marissa probably already does,though she may still have a relationship. It's probably not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but she'll probably need to find a new pub, lol.

@ReedRichards, where do you see BTB? He never touched her, gave her a fair divorce, didn't expose her to shame and ridicule. What would it take for it NOT to be BTB for you? Invite the Judge down for one more fuck so that he could have sloppy seconds? And his right hand? He's already got replacements lining up! She cheated on him 20 years ago for FOUR years, only stopped because the Judge wanted to climb the ladder. It was established that if the Judge was single, or would divorce his wife, she would have left hubby in a heartbeat!

He hasn't lost his entire family, he still has Marissa. Actually, I'm confused. At the end he says that nobody in the family is speaking to him, but when he first found out Marissa seemed to be on his side, and she contacted him for Jeannie.

@Anonymous Re: "Good story but" - She most certainly WAS still in love with the Judge. Even before the DNA test, if Jeannie died and the Judge called, she'd have dumped Hubby in a New York minute!

@ReedRichards, you don't have to have been cheated on to want cheaters to be punished. Do you need to have your car stolen or house broken into to want people who do that to be punished?

@Pappy7, I hear ya! I have no problem with the cheated on spouse not coming between the cheater and the kids, but I certainly wouldn't discourage them if they wanted to tell the cheater to fuck off!

Some have taken the position that Husband was a wimp, because he didn't give the asshole who had seduced his wife, and who is wife still loved, advanced notice he would kick him in the balls. That's a joke right? That would have been stupid. He wasn't there to have a fair fight he was there to hurt and he did. Really he should have done real harm like letting the public know what kind of a bastard wanted to be a Supreme Court Judge but H chose not to go that route.

Re, H forfeiting his happiness: also Rubbish. He didn't choose to learn his wife had a long term affair, had her lover's child, would not say she was sorry or show any remorse or really act like she wanted H. It is likely that H would have been happy if he had not known he had lived a lie, and raised and paid for his wife's lover's child but only because he didn't know it. Once he knew it and W displayed her attitude H really had little choice about what to do if he wanted to retain his self respect. W essentially told H she loved the Judge more than him. How could he feel the same about her and live with her after that.

It is one thing to have a short term fling but to play Russian Roulette with pregnancy on a long term basis and not care about the chance of having your husband not be the father is a very different matter. Also, don't forget the Wife did not stop her love affair and would likely be carrying it on today if her lover had not called it off. How low would that make any husband feel.

Re, the children: They will either come around, assuming they have any sense at all or they are not worth it. If they cannot understand how their father would feel and react, especially since he did not even try to hurt W in the divorce, then he is better off with his pride intact and without the ingrate children as well as his wife. I believe that in reality the children would likely in short order see it their father's way and turn on their mother since she was the sole blame. Wife, made it clear she was just settling for H. A man H's age and with his money has a very good chance of a happy life without having to live with someone who has made it obvious she did not care for him and was only staying with him for convenience since her lover was not available.

anon.1

Tell George that if he doesn't try to run for office his past won't be made public. Deprive him of the thing he obviously wants more than anything else. Only thing is, not sure how much of a threat that is in modern America where men who cheat on their wives can get elected president.

This is a question based entirely on how he would feel with her vs. without her, since according to the story they will both be just fine financially.

Your feelings are what they are, and you can't make yourself feel something you don't. Nobody in the family is talking to him except, ironically, the daughter who is not biologically of him but who turned out to be more of him than those who were. He says he's OK with that and has what he sees as a good life ahead of him, so in his case the answer is that he's better off without her.

Or Maybe Not! after the Ball Shot he took to the Family Jewels.

Criticizing Clark for divorcing Traci don't acknowledge is this wasn't just some fling , this was a full blown love affair where Tracy gave her heart to George and proved it by giving him up to allow him to get his career , she basically threw Clark away but then used him. She is so cold she can't apologize for the affair or being willing to dump him over, in her mind and heart she feels like he is lucky to have her, and in the end she doesn't care about his hurt, she cares that George isn't hurt or his career, and in the end blames clark, not herself, for the end of the marriage.If Jeanette had died or divorced George, you can bet she would dump Clark like a hot potato, she never truly ever gave her heart back to George, only her body and presence, george was her servant pretty much. The woman in the bar read it correctly, but there are a lot of women out there who think an 'affair of the heart is sonething special and think the injured spouse (a man of course, if a man did this they would want him boiled in oil)

I definitely would have found away to get them together with their spouses and tell his story.

See what their husbands/wives think about their attitudes toward fidelity!

He didn't wimp out... GREAT.

Personally I would destroy judge,

but your solution was OK.

5

Tells the same story over and over with slight modifications about Traci's affairs being exposed after a very long marriage. I don't think I can say that any of the stories conclude with a satisfying ending and I have to wonder where the "real life" story thread comes from? In every case the husband is a loving husband and the wife a cheating slut so, where is the common thread here?

I guess you wanted to keep it a short story, but I'm surprised he didn't spend more time and effort to see if there was some basis to save what had been, in his mind, a good marriage. Divorce is as great way to end a toxic relationship, but a stupid way to punish someone you still love. It appears he no longer loved her, but it seemed kind of sudden and formulaic: oh, you fucked another man, my love just evaporated. I just wonder if there was not some way to either give the issue more time, or at least get a better outcome in terms of his children and the judge's compensation. "OK, you treated my wife like a whore. Now, I'm going to act like her pimp. I want a thousand dollars for every time you fucked her." I also wonder how his children would have reacted if they had time to really appreciate the gravity of the betrayal, with maybe some input from their own spouses. Traci didn't just cheat on him, she cheated on her entire family, especially the bastard daughter. I would have enjoyed seeing how all that played out.

Its probable Traci would have divorced him eventually anyway, since he could no longer treat her with love and respect. And of course, their marriage was always all about her. She would have put up a good front for a while, but eventually her ego and self-image would have required that he either forgive and forget, or she was out of there. Same ending, different impetus.

Anyway, a thoughtful and compelling story. Thank you for your time and effort. And thank you for allowing anonymous comments.

It's almost always futile to rail about the cowards who hide behind their anonymous cloaks of invisibility to toss out random rants about cuck shit and other trollish excrement. It's not just futile, in fact, it's exactly what they want, it's why they ply their onerous trade, hence Rule #1 of the Interweb: Don't Feed the Trolls. It applies in spades to Literotica commentators, whether anonymous or named (such as the pair of all-star, hyperactive trolls in the LW commentariat who take great delight in stoking the BTB-vs-RAAC wars).

But a third-string troll has gone too far in this thread with his smarmy efforts to foment outrage. Searching for an appropriate villain to compare with "the anonys who say they’d have crippled George," he passes up Hitler and chooses a much more contemporary figure: "They’re so very anonymously brave, like Nikolas Cruz." While hundreds of family members still grieve the 17 shooting victims in Parkland FL, and thousands of students and parents are still traumatized by the events of just two days ago, he feels it's perfectly acceptable to invoke the name of the man who committed this atrocity to boost his own ego by gathering angry responses.

He's not simply a troll, he's a sociopath, and we all are tainted by his presence.

Clinton might appoint him? no, he is dirty enough though

Clark let everyone off a little light. Shoul have ruined George and destroyed Traci. Strange that the only kid standing by him, is the one not biologically his. As for old Reed, lucky for you that you didn't run into a man for whom revenge wasn't just a fantasy. They are out there. To compare a man whose wife has destroyed a marriage to an insane, murderous punk, is going way too far. Even for you.

RR, you fucking low life , comparing someone to Nikolas Cruz, Damn him to hell, in a porn story site! Mods need to remove your comment immediately. You sling words around around pretty indiscriminately, just to get a rise out of people. This one went too far, loser. Wish you were still able to sniff around my wife. I'm 60, but I believe I could show you revenge that's not a fantasy.

Nothing brave about Nikolas Cruz, killer of children, and the ultimate coward. Unfortunate that he did not eat a bullet like the Texas church shooter. Your comment doesn't belong here.

If you haven't already, check out Hook's "Best Moment to Nightmare and Back." He uses a somewhat similar 20 year gambit to much poorer effect.

He handled this as well as anyone could. The wife really pissed me off. The emotional response is a sign of a good story teller. 5

Should of destroyed his career. The judge had 1 ball left so didn't really lose anything. And he just divorced the whore so didn't gain anything there either. So really no point.

The ruling class in the US has so much power that siring an illegitimate kid and breaking up a marriage would not prevent the judge from Supreme Court, regardless of which party he belongs to. The Senators and Judges are accountable to nobody.

This was , to me anyway , very similar to a series of stories here in LW that I've wished someone would do a FTDS style treatment to . The story I'm talking about is 'Revelations ' by Alex_Lover .

Both are about men who find out later in life that their wives had been involved in both , emotionally and physically , longterm affairs with their old Bosses .

Although I think your protagonist was a bit younger than the other, it's still one of the most intriguing and perplexing storylines that are used in this genre .

What would one do if it were you ? Both alternatives stink . To me , it is a true conundrum . It makes me ponder . Which is the Hallmark of a great story .

Well done Author . Thank you for sharing this with us .

5*'s.

Agreed with anon a little better than a 1*, good story telling but no content, a non story with a rushed ending, feels unfinished.

Could have been outstanding. The cheating prick judge should have destroyed by the affair, the cheating wife should have been left penniless and for the kids that sided with the cheating mother, they must be cheaters themselves. Like I said, could have been outstanding. Oh well, maybe next time.

But very depressing.

4*

Realistic and believable. Compact and well edited. Thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks. I hope to read more of your stories in the future. *****

betrayed!

Well written by a talented author who made me feel very sad.I'm very lucky that my wife is incapable of cheating on me as I am on her.We have known each other literally all our lives and grew up in the same house.Its comforting to know you are totally loved and totally love.This story is very sad as he never had that.

many of fathers have been raising a child not of his blood.. some wives get by with the wool being pulled over her husband. This is a great one in my opinion