A Day Early: Epilogue

Most of this chapter reiterated what had already been said. So many people though, wanted every last & tiny loose end tied up, so the author has obligied. I did like the reconciliation side of it, happy endings are nice

Except there's another chapter!

Touching

A very genuine and touching story. I have a friend who's wife had the same thing after one of there kids were born and she was on meds for several years and she had to be watched to make sure that she didn't harm any of the kids. This story rely makes you think about love and forgiveness, yes she hurt him and yes she destroyed there marriage but she was sick and the husband did understand that and he did what he had to for his and his daughters sake but once the healing started to take place he wasn't afraid to forgive. A touching story , well written and with feeling, THANKS

BH

Skip the epilogue

Too bad the stories are in the wrong order, but I did save the epilogue for last. That last chapter is unnecessary.

Ruined

Your dialouge isn't great. It doesn't flow. But when you had a psychiatrist break patient confidentiality? COME ON!

Wow! What a convaluted mess.

I read your story in chronological order and still really have no idea how you were trying to portray Julie, much less how I feel about her as a character. Her statements in the different chapters are so contradictary, especially about Richard, that I felt almost like she was written from two different perspectives. Throw in one of the weakest endings ever and you've got a story that, considering it's length, doesn't give a lot of "bang for the buck". I'm sure you'll just disregard this comment as "negative" instead of constructive criticism but I think even you realize this is a very flawed work.

WOW AND WHY

ALL THAT TROUBLE AND TIME, WASTED... AND NOW HE WANTS TO RECONCILE. I GUESS MASOCHISM IS IN HIS BLOOD. TK U MLJ LV NV

Enjoyed

enfoyed the story

ATONING FOR ONES MISJUDGEMENTS

should not be a "FREEBIE" or a "I'M SORRY". TK U MLJ LV NV

An Excellent Four Chapter Story

Which has really underlined the conflict of mental sets in current society as well as the old question of should you reject everything else that someone has done because of something specific that they did wrong? The general emotional response is yes. The act characterizes them as a slut, a muderer, or a hero, and what went before it or after are irrelevant. But I do wonder. Thank you Celt for making me wonder wherever you may be...

What Happen???

Did they remarry or what????? Weak ending.Thanks for sharing.

I liked this very much.

It is a fantasy, but it seems to be a beautiful fantasy. Well done Celt.

Just another cheating slut - using the depression excuse.

However, she did manage to manipulate the wimp husband into giving her 1/2 of everything and taking care of the kid full time - the slut pretty clever from that angle.

SWEET JESUS, HAD TO CALL GRANDAD AND SINCE HE'S DEAD I JUST THOUGHT.

BULLSHIT!!! My Grandad and I were pulling a calf out of a real swampy area and he said this winter I'm gona spread enough shit here that this will never happen again. Kind of like that doctor if you cover it in shit no one knows It's there

Unrealistic

I can't see him going back to the wife. Too much disrespect, not enough affection. Too much betrayal, not enough retribution. Fuck her.

Raise your hands and save your watches...

... because the bullshit is mighty deep in this one. I thought that I'd heard some psycho-babble before but come on, man, this is ridiculous. Top ten worst of all-time.

Totally believable

Because in this writers world children don't need love neither do men, just woman need it, and all is always forgiven, its a lovely world with a "im sorry" easy fix.In this place there is no karma because the writer cant think that hard teh-hehe.. no one gets mad at any women cant they are so sorry for there problems teh-hehe all is forgiven time for all good moms and wives to go spread std's to there families teh-hehe.

HAHAHAHA more great make believe

Stop stop im busting my gut, where are the pixies the unicorns because the shit is in no way close to being sexy or believable haha but a great fairy tale, witch turns nice knight believers her and the brat grows up without scares haha.

I don't get it.

Why do people who obviously don't agree with the story, read it, especially after vociferously tearing apart the previous chapters?
For what it's worth, there is a kernel of truth in her PPD diagnosis. I mean, come on. If PPM can drive a woman to kill her newborn kid, it could certainly twist her enough to cause her to cheat.

Hey POD I have seen it in real life and this story brings out a great human interest item very well written I might add.

I enjoyed the intrigue and drama as well as the human interest surrounding this tragic story.

Stop reading

I agree with Polylvr. If you read previous chapters and don't like them, why do you keep reading? Just like the cheaters in these stories, you have a choice to say no. I don't really like humiliating cuckold stories. When I am reading one where the guy is getting humiliated and getting disrespected, I find another story. Sometimes I can put up with it for entertainment sake, but sometimes I can't handle it. So I stop reading. I wish some of the people on this site would do the same.

BS Deserves to be Excoriated

When someone writes unrealistic trash and no one who dislikes it either comments or grades it as a 1* effort, the author and the unsuspecting public think the approval rating for the story is much higher than it is in truth. Many years ago as a young law student I clerked for a general practice law firm. Part of the case load was divorce and custody in contested cases. The degree of passion and anger is simply not understood by many authors. No-fault makes the legal proceedings much tamer today but the underlying emotional destruction has not changed. The wronged party is not turn-the-other-cheek or lets be fair but more like the German Army on the Russian front especially where adultery and children are involved.

Self cuck so the whole piece of shit gets a 1/5 fuck off

You ruined your own story. Write what you want to write, not what the sick cuck lovers want.

A future worth fighting WTF, was her family not worth fighting for?

I did not like this chapter at all it was just a reiterations of all her psychological excuses. Richard was not good sexually but she still went back time and again for more. This did nothing to help this story, again it only rated a "2" because it was just more psychological excuses for her actions.

I realize that this is long after it was posted

and the author seems to have silently slipped away. but this, as an epilogue, was less than satisfactory. it seems like the author tried to appease all readers and ended up leaving all a bit disgruntled.
where is honest abe when you need him?

Loved it

A fitting ending. Five stars.

Denial

Sounds like a bunch of denial and hogwash. I have seen women act out and cheat to hurt their husbands / boyfriends. They never really thought that the marriage / relationship would last, they were just getting their parting shots in and drive the final stake through the heart if it. So, as far as her mumbo jumbo goes...I am dubious. Women have a way of turning a situation around where they become the "victim" to gain sympathy and wiggle off the hook of responsibility. How can she explain cheating on her daughter? Yup that's right she cheated on her daughter and cheated her daughter out of an intact family! Nah! Not this time honey, she was just a selfish turd.

Story hasn't advanced much since Ch. 2.

We had a hint of possible future reconciliation in Tom' decision to see the shrink later.
We're still at possible here.

Let's be realistic here...

Sure, she could suffer from post partum depression... and that would explain some of her actions...
The two problems I see though are this...

One, she started treating her husband as an enemy because of something a doctor said about being careful with sex so as not to injure the baby - we're supposed to believe this was because of her subconscious, but exactly how stupid are we supposed to believe her subconscious is...?
Clearly she's not a stupid woman being very good at both her job and at learning her new job. Why would we belIeve her subconscious could make those leaps?? Nothing I read gave the impression that was the way her subconscious worked so why believe it suddenly out of the blue...? You want me to buy that give me some insight into how her subconscious was formed...

And second... at what point did any of other actions indicate depression...? Anger yes, depression no.

Hard story to like.

But maybe that was the point. However, the woman did not sound depressed or manic what she sounded like was that she was mean and vindictive and that she let the birth of her baby, which she probably didn't want, to be an excuse to let her evil side loose. Some people are just that way and the sad part is that they look just like the rest of us. They work, they play, they have families but usually under the surface the families are abused and merely there as an outlet for the evil within the abuser. This type of person has no respect for anyone else in general and unless you slap them down, sometime literally, they lose all respect for the weakling they see you as and often become overtly abusive, physically and emotionally.

Of course, since a psychiatrist was brought into the story the woman was not "evil, wicked, bad and nasty", she was not responsible for her actions, it was someone else's fault, she was as much a victim as her husband and daughter, maybe more because all they lost was her, she lost everything. I wouldn't let that crazy bitch within 5 miles of my kid and the thought of him wanting to get back with her, even to date, is far fetched, to say the least.

Well written, as always, but again too much psycho-babble and unreasonable premises.

loved it

nicely done, I'm glad they're getting back together.

let that bitch. ..

Die in a fire, after breaking every bone in her body.

Ha

And then she woke up and realized she was still in the crazy house.

She had a very real disease and some simple minded comments cant see that. Mental illness is real, So ignore the dumbasses and look to the big picture. I imagine most of the simple comments are from younger people who dont know to much yet

@gdjohn52

Checking out your bio it appears that you are younger than I am. It also seems you don't have much experience being married and betrayed by a cheating wife. That kind of negates your comment about younger people being critical. Her mental problem was caused by her own insufficiencies and was easily treated, should she had taken her husband's advice. So gdjohn, stick to your critique of the tale instead of other commenters.

I thnik in these cases where mental health is conceirned it would be better to let professiionals judge,BTB is an opinion i do not share aspecially in cases like this where mental health and the subconscious mind is conceirned
Btw profiles,favorite storys and the alternate names say a lot about people and theyr motives for exprssing theyr opinion one way or the other

I've always thought you write very well, but ..

Mental problems or not, Julie is contemptible. And while I appreciate the "real world" sentiments here (Tom does not go "special forces" or anything) and have nothing against reconciliation (in fact, I'm a big fan under the right circumstances), you have Tom roll over too easily. What must be a wrenching decision sounds like a man choosing a rental car. The reader loses a lot of respect for Tom, and you have proven that your main character deserves whatever Julie does to him.

loved it

I've read this before, and it's still good. I like to put myself into the stories I read, if the writer gives enough insight into the character. in the story, there was no mention of another woman or dating on hubbies part, so I can see, or rationalize he still has a lot of feelings for his ex-wife. considering the general population seems to think it's ok to run down a family if your on drugs, or kill someone for 40.00 to get a fix. I cant understand why some of your readers would hold someone accountable who was diagnosed with a sickness, that made her do things. I'm glad they are getting back together. there's a lot more to gain in getting back together. love wins

Thoughts

“I was sick, yes, but that was no excuse for destroying our family and our marriage." – Bingo! Especially since Tom essentially BEGGED her to get some help.

Not sure how I feel about this one - On the one hand it seems to be heading towards some sort of a Lifetime movie happy ending, which as much as Tom seems to be happy about it I'm just not so sure that it is deserved. On the other hand, the writer doesn't seem to be willing to actually COMMIT to the "happy ending", possibly afraid of the backlash?

Another skim read,

hey, I like the way you write just not most of the forced reconciliation you seem to have such a propensity for. He just couldn't be allowed to have any pride could he? I am beginning to wonder what is buried in the author that causes he or she to have such a rabid disrespect for the husbands who just want to have a good and faithful wife and children. I know this is the loving wives section but that doesn't mean it has to be the gutless husband section too. Oh well, too bad. I've gotten to the point where I start skimming a story by certain RAAC, slut apologist writers. Sad thing.

Do you ever read what you have written?

Another zero believability reconciliation.

more repetition

and attempted justification but saying the same thing over and over doesn't make it true or easier to accept

yes, she was portrayed as being depressed
yes, she was in therapy
however
psychobabble from non professionals is never satisfactory.

Second time through...

Too repetitive.

Revenge

Where is the revenge? That can be so much fun in a story.

What is Romance?

All these juvenile (meaning: stupid) rednecks vying for revenge should look up the meaning of the word romance. Romance is not the same as sex, as most of them seem to think. And where does revenge come into romance?

I think there are just too many readers on this site, which I would actually consider mentally challenged - repressed, hormonal problems or whatever.

good story

read it before and still good. I don't think that this story could have been put into a straight timeline, only because the players were split at the beginning, each one doing, going and thinking different things for different reasons. would any reader think that if they got back together, that it would ever happen again, some may actually think yes, I don't.

Nope

Wrong ending

No Way!

While this entire story is well-written,as evidenced by the emotions it stirred up in me while reading,there's just NO WAY,at least in my mind,that Tom can ever have any interactions with the cheating twat and not feel like hurling! First,he walked in on her fucking another man in their marital bed.Strike two would be her laughing,smirking,and insults after being caught. And STRIKE Three,the fact that her sole purpose in cheating was to inflict emotional pain on Tom. She's out!!!
(And to hell with all the excuses based on another fabricated affliction,one of many that lawyers use as excuses to get felons off from serious charges! )

Destruction of a good story

You just had to go the RAAC way - and destroy a perfectly good story. When trust is broken there is NO way back. And depression is just another excuse - not a reason - for cheating.