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Did not care for it.
The first chapter was very good, but the ending just felt tired and cliche.
We are who we are!
I enjoyed the story if not the unhappy ending. Both characters were sympathetic but regrettably predictable. Shannon was vulnerable to seduction and Stan was committed to a path. It seemed inevitable that she would be unable to make it past her weakness and he, in turn, would have to know that she had changed.
Well done!
He's lying to himself
To wait 10 months to lower her resolve and then give her a "supreme test", it is clear that he didn't want her to pass. He had no intention of ever taking her back, and he was looking for a excuse so he could CLAIM it is because he is a man of his word with great integrity. There is no integrity involved in the planned deception with Charles. He is dishonest, and he doesn't deserve her any more than she deserved him when she strayed with their agent.
Justifiable consequences!
Good story by a great author. Hope the husband finds someone who deserves his trust. The ex-wife is a simplistic slut at best - who earned her final dispostion.
I don't agree
with the other comments. In my view the husband could not leave for one year with this kind of condition. He had to take the matter up when he came aware of it, and not behave like a stupid jerk. In my opinion HE did not deserve her. He could not keep her satisfied, and had to string her along for a year on a wage promise. If I had been in her place, I would taken the divorce option he gave her and got on with my life.
A defferent perspective.
I liked the story ... innovative ending.
Regards, Jack
wrong
stan wanted no needed her to fight to get the marriage back & shannon just didn't have the intigerity to do so.
Consequences - 2
Wonderful. Intelligent test. He is losing his sexual libido and the 10 month wait is an excellent test of whether she will be able to resist as he becomes less and less capable/interested. We know he can't live with cheating, so this is a great test of what the future will bring for her and her will power. Well done, celt.
Isaac
Good
is it unfair to ask somebody to wait a year? depends why.
Testing a loved one
is never a good idea. This story didn't really go anywhere. She cheated and he left. She was supposed to waste a year to see if he was willing to try to get past it? She should have gotten laid the first night he left, and every night after. The problem was avoided and after a year, who cares how it turns out?
I'm not here to talk moral values...
I'm just here to say that your story(part 1&2) was engaging; I couldn't stop reading.
I look forward to reading more of your stories
Well done
I don't think the marriage had a chance at all. Whether it was 1 month, 12 months or a couple of years I think this would have happened anyway for two reasons. First her disatisfaction with the staus of the marriage was obvious in chapter 1. She wanted more sexually and maybe otherwise than she was getting. She was sort of in denial about it, hence telling herself she didn't know why she was cheating with Marty. Also, she so easily fell the second time, seduced by his looks first of all, then his charms, wealth and life style, and then of course the sex. She was remorseful the first time and wanted Stan back, but I think she really just missed the life style, security and comfort she had with him. She had no guilt the second time. Her attitude was Stan will never know so no harm done. That smacks of total disrespect for Stan and contradicts her claims to want to resume the marriage and stay faithful.
The second reason I don't think they ever had a chance was because Stan could never get over the hurt and betrayal from the first time. Maybe making her wait 12 months was not a wimp out on his part. Maybe it was his way of getting back at her. He probably knew her pride would make her wait. Several times she thought or said things that indicated how humiliated she would be if the truth of her affair became known in their social and work circles. Maybe he was never going to take her back. The "test" might have been done just to show her what she really was and that he knew it. Hope he spent the time away from her having some fun of his own! Like I've said in previous comments on other stories, I'm no expert in this area, no prior experiences like this so please don't blast me over what I've typed here. However, as usual I love your stories The Celt, especially the "Consequence" series. They are all different and entertaining and that's what I'm here for. Thank you for another enjoyable read! Keep them coming. Lisa
Very contrived
I liked the first part, but the proceedings have turned out to be another "get the wife" tale without any plausibility. I guess reading something like this makes men feel superior to women, or something. Ken
Not bad!
Good story overall. I feel that the test was more like entrapment or a set up than a fair test. Anyones libido will be running a bit rampant after 10 months. Still a nice change from the norm and well told. Thanks.
Either/or?
I have liked many of the stories in the concequences series. They are well plotted, thoughtful, and realistic. You develop the characters so that what they say and do seems reasonable. However, in this story I did not feel like I really saw this as an event that could happen. I read the story twice. The second time, I realized my sympathy was with the wife. Against my better judgement, when she cheats in part 2, it seems to be the reasonable thing to do. We are in her head, not his. We understand her anguish, not his. We feel her longing for him, but also her frustration and loneliness. We do not feel his. In fact, the whole set up was a coldly, calculated attempt to prove she was a whore. He wanted her to fail. He chooses someone, an irristable man, when she is depressed and has no support or love from him. (There is no evidence that in fact he is being faithful - I suppose that since he is so perfect, we can assume it. But is that good writing?) She would not have gotten into this situation had he not set it up. When she cheated the first time, he should have left if he did not love her. Since we do not know what he is doing or thinking, the only reasonable conclusion is he has lost his love for her and this is just a way to punish her. Month after month, he left her alone and refused his love. What did he expect? You only get love by giving it. If he really wanted her to succeed, he would have stayed and loved her. If he wanted revenge, then we the readers should have been a part of it in his head, so at least we could follow his motivation and maybe feel some sympathy for him. The plot fails to do that and since he separated from her, why should she not go on with her life. In fact since we really do not get to know him, the only thing I can conclude is that he is a cruel, selfish, self-centered bastard who did not get his way and childishly set his wife up for failure. And since we are in her head, we know she loves him, misses him and tried. The real failure of love in the long term was not her, but him. He deserves to losse her love. Life is rarely either/or, black or white, but is filled with inconstistency and confusion. For those who feel that she is a slut and cannot be redeemed, then that is it. She is gone. But you did not leave it either/or. You made her sympathetic and forgivable. Her cold hearted husband is a fool to loose her. One final comment is that the ending feels wrong: hurried, unsurprisig, and without passion. Again, I think this is because "HE who must be righteous" is not really there.
Not very good
Stories where the cheated spouse gives another chance only to find out that the cheating happens again (or never stops) are not a great idea imo. Seems too much like the guy (or girl) is being played for a sucker for not having the nerve to get out when it first happens. Maybe not reality but this particular scenario doesnt work very well in fiction in my opinion. Seems too much like kicking the guy (or girl) when he's down when second chances fall apart. Just doesnt make compelling fiction for me.
I also dont think this belongs as a consequences story. We have the wife crying about losing her husband at the end but thats bullshit. How in the hell are we supposed to believe she cares deeply about her husband or marriage in a situation like this? If she doesnt care, there are no consequences except for the husband. Saying she loved her husband so much and her consequences are that she has to live without him doesnt make a lick of sense. Some people dont have a lot of self-control but everyone has more (self-control) than this. Its simply not believable that she cared enough for her husband to be despondent over losing him.
All in all, the whole story (part 1 and 2) was poorly conceived and pointless imo. You could have written the whole thing in a single paragraph. "Wife has long term affair and husband gives her second chance (sorta). She keeps cheating so he divorces her. She is really sorry."
Still like your writing even though this one was a turkey. I seem to be writing that a lot lately wrt your stories but its true. I will keep reading your stories because I do think they are very good even when I dont agree with every aspect of the plot/characterizations.
Testing to fail point
I see some of the comments about how the husband was wrong for testing her that way.
As a firefighter when we have a piece of equipment fail we repair it, if we don't simple chuck it. After a failure and repair we don't just hop right into it and go. No, we test it thoroughly. Just as he was testing her. We don't just test it in "normal" operations, we also test to failure. We put extra force on it to make sure it can withstand the "normal" activities. And that is what he did, he tested her under greater than normal stress, since that is where failures occur. And like a faulty piece of equipment, the repair didn't hold so you get rid of it and try to find a better made one.
Good Story and I loved every minute of it...
My comments at the end of Consequences-Shannon Ch. 01 were she is a cheat and will always be a cheat. He cannot be trusted and the best thing for Stan to do would be to divorce her then and get on with his life. I also mentioned that the picture of her infidelity should be shown around and perhaps put on the Internet.
Now a year later, Stan finally decided to divorce her since she cannot be trusted. What's new ! ! ! Another year later and the divorce became final. So Stan actually gave her $300,000 to prove to him that she could be trusted. Boy is he dumb. However; a good story with a good ending and I hope other men read this story and don't let it get out of hand as Stan did. Men sometimes think with their little head rather than their big head, but she thought with her pussy rather than her head. She must really be a bitch, but a wealthy bitch that can laugh all the way to the bank.
Loved it.---BUT
Stan did nothing more than set her up . To leave her alone for ten months and then put her in a position with a man who is good with seduction.He is a wimp and a coward.
What silliness was this?
A celibacy test for year? What silliness was this? And then, when the time is almost up, a final test, a setup so that she can commit adultery again. This is the scheme an honorable husband would conjure up, would execute on the woman he loved? No. She failed his test but why should a woman want to be married to such a man as this. Better to have dissolved the marriage immediately than to have perpetrated this cruel plan. He dishonored himself and sunk to her level.
Making a point in the story
I found the story interesting. I tend to believe that she is better off without the older famous artist husband. She is completely loyal to her husband until, at the end of the 1 year penalty period, she's subjected to the charms of a younger, sexually aggressive man she was unable to resist. I feel that the husband is playing a game of sorts. My conclusion is simply that she now will be able to improve her social life and live a happier life (we only live once). After all, she's still young enough. However, I need to remain myself that this is one of Celt's "consequences" story; therefore, for the sake of variety, Celt may well have posted (published?) this story because it is different in outcome from his other consequences stories, and he wants readers to judge for themselves the wife's actions. To me, this story presents one instance in which I feel the balance tips in favor of the wife. RAG
FUCK!!!!
Even I would have fallen for Charles.....and I'm a guy.
What kinda of test was that?
Shannon's problem was stupidity
She hasn't seen or heard from her husband in almost a year. She knows he is not able to trust her (for good reason). A dude obviously in the same circles as dear hubby mysteriously calls.. DUH! If she had an IQ over 90 she would have smelled the trap. Of course, Stan is better of without her, in fact, they're probably better off without each other. Great story, though.
Who cares if he set her up?
Its beside the point. That he would do it, and that she would succumb, proves that they didnt have much of a marriage to begin with. With such a weak marriage between two people who didnt love each other, there was no consequences. All the stuff about him being a jerk for testing her and setting her up are also missing the point. She was only with him for his money, or fame, or what he could do for her career, and that makes her worse than a cheater. It makes her a parasite.
Why feel bad for a parasite who is willing to whore herself out to an old guy she obviously didnt love? The husband being a jerk is secondary. It wasnt like a guy twisted up with hate set unreasonable expectations for his loving wife who tried her best but still failed a test that she couldnt be expected to pass. It wasnt like the guy humiliated a good woman who made a mistake and was trying to correct it and prove her devotion. A guy proved to himself that his wife was a parasite and you blame him for it? She had already shown that her words didnt match her actions in the slightest yet you expect him to just say "OK honey, lets live happily ever after. You say you love me and thats good enough for me no matter what you do when Im not around."
Seems unreasonable to blame the husband for exposing the wife for what she was to me. The user got exposed and that should count more than how he went about exposing her for what she was. If he had just taken her at her word and lived out his life being sponged off by a parasite who laughed at him behind his back for being such a trusting fool, would that have made people happier? I would have felt cheated knowing the bad guy won and the dupe of a husband lived out his life in blissful ignorance. No need for shit like that in fiction.
As I always
do I enjoyed this new story of Celt's.The stupid woman was given a second chance(something that most cheating wives are not given),and she blew it big time and got exactly what she deserved.I was,however,pleased that her first cheat episode was not all her fault and that Marty should have refused to fuck her.For a moment I thought that she was the one who opened her legs willingly but she said it was his fault.With that kind of reasoning ,she should enter the world of politics.
Bullshit
No consequences for this whore, she cheated with two different guys during the marriage. She never cared for her husband in the first place. There are no consequences, as soon as she thinks about it, she'll be back over banging the rich guy. Your stories are turning to shit, just like the rest of the world. Shame on you.
Bullshit
No consequences for this whore, she cheated with two different guys during the marriage. She never cared for her husband in the first place. There are no consequences, as soon as she thinks about it, she'll be back over banging the rich guy. Your stories are turning to shit, just like the rest of the world. Shame on you.
Oh, my lord!
tears of pain, sorrow, regret, and agony,,, they are streaming down my cheecks. life is such a bitch,,,, consequences,,,, it is such a bitch and, I, Shannon,, I am such a big bitch! I am so sad for me,,, poor me!
actually, the story turned out to be many times worst and more lame and idiotic than I had first thought... this is a woman READING A SCRIPT, a badly written script, I might add! any one who thinks this "consequence is a bitch" where Shannon is concerned, or that Stan has been CRUEL, they need to have their little brains examined!
making, or attempt to making, Stan a resolute, confident, loving, foreceful, and manly man at the end there and making Shannon a PHILOSOPHER-level thinker who's able and willing to think of her vagina-driven mind and reflect on the sorrows she had sown.... that's the icing on a very rotten cake.
from a very good author, this is as lame as you can get, in terms of sophistication, dialogues, plot, twist, etc.
alot of great comments posted
I posted a comment earlier today and have since read some of the other reader comments. There are many very good constructive comments. If there were to be a record kept to determine if Shannon or Stan were the better spouse at the story's end, it seems to me about 50:50. We have some really top-notch authors posting (publishing) their works in "Loving Wives." The Celt is one of these authors. We have to believe that he knows his Stan and Shannon characters very well, and I bet that if he himself were to comment now that he would tell us that he would have pretty much predicted that the comments would be as they are. I think that we need to offer support and constructive/critical feedback to the top authors in "Loving Wives." RAG
Hmm!!
Good story celt. What I can't understand is all these comments about poor Shannon being "set-up" is ludicrous. True she was tested, but think about it this way.
When you put a worm on a hook and dangle it in the lake, it is the fishes choice whether to grab that worm or, to leave it ALONE.. She was (tested) not (forced or tricked), she had a choice and she chose the wrong one..
Keep um coming celt.
Paul
Double Standards?
A riveting story Celt well written and well thought out I had to steal myself from reading the ending after Shannon had met with her 2nd. lover. I would however ask a question of the authors who have commented on your story. How many agree with the companies that send beautiful women out to seduce unsuspecting husbands into commiting adultery? I would wager none. Then why expect that a beautiful vibrant artist to behave Mother Theresa like when a weak, wimp of an excuse for a man does the same?
Very Good Story
Well crafted and interesting. I liked it.
LH
Ouch!
It always makes my day when I see TheCelt listed under new stories. I enjoyed it as usual.
to Drooge in Aussie land; your analogy is crap
Droodge your analogy is real bullshit ... I hope not everyone in Australia is not as obtuse as you.
How many agree with the companies that send beautiful women out to seduce unsuspecting husbands into commiting adultery? I would wager none. Then why expect that a beautiful vibrant artist to behave Mother Theresa like when a weak, wimp of an excuse for a man does the same?
Look stupid did you read chapter 1 ? Shannon did NOT have a 1 night stand of cheating. She fucked MARTY for months and sometimes in her Marital bed.
Yet you think this is some sort of double standard issue?
Second for MOST humans while having a 1 night stand is Techinically the samew as adultery for MOST people the term Adultery implies
1 cheating with someone you and / or your spouse knows and/ or
2 a long term event NOT a 1 night stand
I see LW Blame Hubby NAZIs are out in force LOL
what is SHOCKING is that IF in this story Stan had thrown her ass out right away (chapter 1) Many of these same posters would STILL be attacking the husband for NOT giving Shannon a 2nd chance !
But in this story the Husband does... she still cheats and guess what !?! It is STILL Stan's fault!! LOL!!!!
Desert Pirate :
I feel that the test was more like entrapment or a set up than a fair test.
so it is unreasonable for a hsuband to wonder if his wife...who has had a 3 month affair... has learned anything or chnaged her ways?
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Testing a loved one by Anonymous wrote
Testing a loved one is NEVER a good idea. This story didn't really go anywhere. She cheated and he left. She was supposed to waste a year to see if he was willing to try to get past it?
No you dolt.... Shannon was suppose to use the year to figure out WHY she cheated in the 1st place. The fact that she never figured out why she did with Marty for 3 months is WHY she cheated again
She should have gotten laid the first night he left, and every night after.
she did you asshole. Read chapt 1 --- she did THAT for 3 months
But my real rage is saved for this exceptional MORON
SIMPLE49er who wrote
We do not feel his. In fact, the whole set up was a coldly, calculated attempt to prove she was a whore.
um she was...for 3 months. read chapter 1 you idiot
He wanted her to fail. He chooses someone, an irristable man, when she is depressed and has no support or love from him.
where was HIS support during the 3 months of her fucking Marty? Oh thats right according to this idiot all cheating by all women is ONLY the husband fault
She would not have gotten into this situation had he not set it up.
OM MY FUCKING GOD... Stan forced her or TRAPPED her in Chapter 1 to Cheat with Marty?
When she cheated the first time, he should have left if he did not love her.
I agree but imbeciles like you would blame stan anyway!
If he really wanted her to succeed, he would have stayed and loved her
Stan DID stay and love her you asshole. Its called being married and he did stay and did love her for Years faithfully.
In fact since we really do not get to know him, the only thing I can conclude is that he is a cruel, selfish, self-centered bastard who did not get his way and childishly set his wife up for failure
only to the incredibly obtuse like you
HarryinVA is caustic, but has a point
It is obvious that the group that feels that it is always the fault of the husband will be annoyed by this story. The hypocrisy will shine through easily here, and to that extent HarryinVA is quite correct. My only criticism of Harry is that his tone and language distract from the point he is trying to make. Leave out the ad hominem in future.
To clarify this, let us swap the genders in this story. Now we have a husband who had an affair for 3 months. His wife finds out and leaves him, saying that she will be back in a year to see if he has learnt anything. It is also a test of trust - if he can remain faithful for a year, she will know that he does love her and wants the marriage to continue. If he doesn't care he will have sex on the side.
So the husband goes 10 months, and the wife decides to test his resolve and commitment. Accordingly, she arranges for some hot super-model woman to try and seduce her husband. He falls for it, and the wife decides that he isn't her type - if his word of honour isn't good enough for monogamy, she can't trust him.
Thus ends a fairly unremarkable LW story in which the cheater was the husband. It would pass with little comment about the plot, except maybe a few gripes about originality. But see what happens when the roles are reversed, as thecelt has done here...
Now the action of testing the spouse's faithfulness becomes "cruel and deceitful". Funny how husbands aren't allowed to test wives, but wives are allowed to test husbands. Blatant sexism? I think so.
For some reason there are readers on this site who blame all infidelity by wives on the husband. "He can't have been much of a man", they say, "if she cheated on him." Really? In that case any wife who has a cheating husband "can't have been much of a woman". Wow - suddenly the crass sexism is much more obvious to even the most dim "Nazi husband" crowd member.
As for "wanting her to fail" - do wives that test their husbands in identical ways want their husbands to fail? Or are they genuinely trying to discover if their relationship is strong enough? Why is it that wives are always noble while husbands are devious?
Enough of this rant. I am of an age that all sexism is repulsive. Those that are biased in either direction know who they are. All I can say is - your attitudes and opinions are discriminatory and wrong.
There was no reason for a second chance at all!
The woman had carried on a cheating adulterous affair for three months before the husband discovered it. Why with such blatant disregard for her marriage vows, her betrayal of trust of her husband, and disrespect for his value as a man and as her husband, should the husband give her any chance of having a marriage? He did in a very serious way give her a chance to prove her new fidelity to the marriage. She in very quick order was seduced basically in one meeting by a man she had never previously met. Doesnt speak very well of a woman with any morals or ethics, much less love of her husband and fidelity to her marriage contract. Whether the husband asked a friend to tempt her or whether she just met someone on her own and cheated doesnt matter! She cheated, very quickly again when given the opportunity proving she was morally or mentally unfit to be a wife. If I leave a piece of candy on the table and a diebetic picks it up and eats it, it isnt my fault they ate it, only that I left it out. This also provides more ammunition to the arguement about men and women cheaters. Once a cheater, always a cheater, it only requires opportunity, and an excuse to rationalize the acts. Cheaters are basically individuals with defective social behavior skills, can they be changed, yes, some can, just as some alcoholics can get on the wagon. But a cheater has to always remember, once a cheater always a cheater, and keep always on the straight and narrow. Time is to short to always be checking up on someone to see if they are cheating!
On commentators
Any of these men so ready to condemn women's infidelities under all circumstances who believe that they could never be seduced should take a reality check. There are many who could resist but they are people - of both sexes - who are quick to forgive and slow to condemn.
One more time
Just one more time was way too many.. I don't understand.. All my life I have understood woment to be pretty cold for the most part.. So where did all these women with the such base cravings come from?? Were we lied to for the last 70 years?? Every woman I ever knew would have had no trouble waiting for the man she loved... BUT, regardless, she failed the test.. It was just too much for her and she didn't need to be plied with booze, either.. YUP, just a coupla more months and her haven could have become her heaven again.. Had she realized it to start with, she wouldn't have been in that predicament, anyway.. Good story, Celt, and I would kinda like to have seen what would happen had she NOT succombed to temptation..
Not as good as other "Consequnces" stories
This one got off track in part 1, and then limped along in part 2. In 2, it was obvious that she was going to cheat and then regret it. But the real problem is part 1 -- the leaving for a year and giving her power of attorney. This shows incredible trust at the exact moment she has proven to be untrustworthy. At any point she could have sold the house, raided the bank accounts, and taken off with Mark (or some other mark). So he trusts her and then tests her?
Great story once again!
Wow! I seem to learn something new every time I read stories on this site.
I am amazed at those readers who comments about this story are that it wasn't fair for a husband to leave his wife for a year, and then have a sexy man test her resolve. Good Lord! What world do you folks live in?
As someone who served in the US Navy, I am painfully aware of the fact that many thousands of young couples are split apart for long periods of time, up to and including a year. And yes, many of these marriages are unable to withstand the long periods of time apart. But I also know that many, many more of these couples are able to keep their love alive.
Yes, they do share letters, emails and phone calls, but it is not a three month love affair outside their marriage that has forced them apart, either. And whichever spouse is left behind is able to control themselves.
Is it the fact that the husband asked a handsome, rich man to test his wife's fidelity that bothers so many readers? Would it be a fair test if the husband asked an old, poor bum with no teeth and certainly no money to try to seduce her? Let's face facts: most attractive women are going to be hit on by attractive men. Having her be able to resist someone who was unattractive to her isn't much of a test, is it?
As several others have commented, it seems to be OK for wives to test their husbands fidelity, but horribly unfair for a husband to do the same.
Great story by a great author. Again.
A compelling story
I’ll have to say, the biggest element of surprise for me was in… readers’ feedbacks, and not necessarily in a good way.
You could find problems in this story, yet, being overly or arbitrarily surprising’ could not be one of them; both from the reader’s perspective, and on the level of the character of the wife. After all, not even the wife, after overcoming the initial painful realization that she had been correct after all in her initial gut level suspicions (i.e. that she was stepping right into unusually dangerous situation) claimed to be truly surprised. She did go through her traditional (by now) mourning over lost opportunities, ritualistic self flagellation and pouting, but that’s as far as it went. What the wife demonstrated is the typical narcissistic pain - here in the form of anger at herself, when the realization hits her again that she has shortcomings, like seeing a dangerous situation and stepping right into it, regardless. A surprising and unfair test? I could not see here any.
For me, the story was humming along just fine as the months were passing by. Predictably, yet nevertheless in a way that only a well plotted punishment could – very pleasurably, the wife was growingly feeling the angst or the heat being grilled on the small fire of uncertainty and being held in the dark ( a good and constant reminder to her own vice). Still, she was holding in to a minimally dignified behavior (by not adding more to her past offenses). As I explained in my comments to the first chapter, if the husband was truly seeking the possibility of reconciliation, leaving her on her own was the wrong move. While staying technically loyal, she did not spent any time on expensive couches of therapists to try and understand then put in check the cheater inside her which could break into a cheating behavior under particular circumstances. True – he was not around to support or even give her an ultimatum to do it. As I said, based on the husband’s ACTIONS, I never thought he truly saw (maybe even unbeknown to him) real future prospects to their relations.
Then comes the whole issue of the testing of the wife. Let’s first clear the questions of legitimacy and fairness. The people who were protesting the test unfairness reminded me of a running joke in my high school days where one of our teachers would let us know that the following week there might be a “surprise” quiz…Didn’t she all but received an official warning that the coming months would be an probation period for her? What is so unusual and unfair in that? It’s done all the time in both legal and therapeutic settings not to mention in any other home. Wasn’t she ‘testing worthy’ after her past indiscretions? And what sort of ‘real life test’ was it any way when she was told in advance that there is going to be a period of time in which her actions are going to be examined and judged? So, IMO, the husband’s testing suffers from no Illegitimacy or unfairness.
I still say though, but for different reasons, that the story would have better of without the testing episode. I’ll try to explain. IMO it would have been more economic to end the story without the testing in the sense that there would have been no repetition of the same plot device twice (we already know that she is prone to fall into temptation and has no breaks when faced with the appropriate stimulation, so why doing it twice?) In addition why test her when she is known to be prone to vulnerable to temptation and husband behavior through the year was not on the path of supporting her reform? Seeing that she was not capable of gaining insight into the reasons of her behavior, the remaining rational for his departure and the way he chose to do it (keeping her in absolute dark and not even a polite hallo) could ONLY be explained as a punishment.
The ending without the testing could have been astonishing IMO –and all in the writing of the author except for the final paragraph. All through this year she was left in the dark and with no choice in the outcome of his pending decision – just the way she did to him before she started her affair and all throughout its duration until she became aware that she was caught. Then the year till his return is fully appropriate, seeing that the punishment for an actual offense is usually more severe, not simply symmetric to the offense. Finally, coming back and true to his word - after a year, he would have let her welcome him enthusiastically. Ceremoniously she would have announced her decision that she has decided to stay with him (as if it was not a forced choice, driven by a humiliating exposure, and in fact aimed at cutting her losses). At that point he would have thanked her politely for the welcome, and then he would have followed with his own announcement, stating that in forming his decision he fully relied on the principle of reciprocity which underlies all adult relations, he simply took his cue from her. In her decisions to get into her affair she never consulted with him never gave his opinions and views any weight and of course it was all managed in a unilateral manner. With that in mind, her decision now regarding the future of their relations carried no more weight in his decision about it then the weight his opinion about fidelity in their relationships carried in her mind when she entered into her affair.
Her decision was a unilateral and so would be his. Just like she decided unilaterally to step out of the marriage and into her affair with no regard to him and his opinion so is he now going to decide unilaterally and with no regard to her opinion to step out of their marriage -for ever as she have destroyed their trusting bond.
great
she got what she deserved ..to bad shes still rich ...i hope hubby at least took half ...hope he has been getting a lot better pussy than she was
LOVED IT!
Shannon in the end had to find out who she was. For her, a Charles would always be out there because she really did not love Stan. It was obvious in how she felt about him sexually and socially (he did not want to party anymore) that they had two different sets of priorities. I did think her beating herself up after she finds out that Stan knew was silly. She knew what she was doing and why she did it. Only to Stan and herself she wanted to maintain this illusion of a faithful wife. This story points out how shallow and superficial those stories where the wife cries for a time and then they get back together again.___________
I love this series! Thanks!
LOVED IT!
Shannon in the end had to find out who she was. For her, a Charles would always be out there because she really did not love Stan. It was obvious in how she felt about him sexually and socially (he did not want to party anymore) that they had two different sets of priorities. I did think her beating herself up after she finds out that Stan knew was silly. She knew what she was doing and why she did it. Only to Stan and herself she wanted to maintain this illusion of a faithful wife. This story points out how shallow and superficial those stories where the wife cries for a time and then they get back together again.___________
I love this series! Thanks!
Minority Opinion
As a Big Fan of thecelt ,I was disappointed in this story. The wife was unbelievably stupid, the husband was condescending and the entire story seemed artificially contrived.The lovong wife spends 10 months searching the world for her one true love and in month 11, wealthy man offers her huge sum to take private photos` She doesn't question his motives even when he asks her to make love to him. Dunb-Dumb You could have at least omitted her attraction to his wonderful scotch. Disappointing story.
60 year old George
Wimp's Revenge!
At least he didn't take her back, but it's no small wonder she cheated on him. Watta WIMP! But; "HEY" makes for a good read. At least Shannon was able to get in touch with her inner-slut. She will make some lucky guy a fine "fuck buddy."
Yes, it was wishful thinking!
I left my comments on chapter 1, before I read chapter 2. I was glad to see that the Celt was realistic enough to know that the plan laid out by the woman's husband was doomed to fail. I think had the couple been of average, or even poor income, the chances of her staying celibate would have been better, but being wealthy as they were, made her chances of doing without something that she wanted very badly, not very good. She seemed to be a little spoiled, by her riches, and couldn't deny herself long enough to save her marriage. Thank you Celt for an interesting story.
Not a pleasing effort
thecelt is a favorite author but this tale is not up to his usual quality. The plot is contrived and illogical. IMO, the hubby's gambit to wait one year for his wife to grow up is a silly waste of time. If she's not committed to the marriage, no amount of time will remedy that. He should heave ho and on to divorce court, sooner rather than later.
a simple no thank you
she knew the man (stan) and her impulse was to ignore
those quesy feelings. charles was being charles when he inquired if she wanted to stay. shannon may have cared, but not quite as much as she thought - when presented w the seduction. the thing is that stan let so much go, including money that was his. as you say, consequences. her price, can't calculate it.
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