All Comments on 'Second Chance, Book 02'

I'm still trying to overlook the stupidy of the wife(job at hometown); but when are we going to get the story of her nickname at the club?

And when do we find out that the sister is jealous of her husband?

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After such smash, to put shattered pieces together will require strong glue and the cracks will always be there to see and/or to feel. Sometimes little parts cannot be glued together or are missing, making the stability of what once was now very shaky. Like here, where has her stagename come from ? That wasn't adressed, yet. Suppose the last of her "exciting" adventure hasn't been said. Also, after June's call she started to think about what to tell Brent, what she could tell Brent. How it all started isn't enough, only the complete and honest truth can do. It's convenient to blame the "other Jeanette", the one that needs to know other men think or tell her she's desirable. And need her ????? She just has to make Brent understand that ????? Sorry, she doens't seem to see, yet, the depth of the trouble she has caused. Looking forward to the rest of the story. G.Belgium.

Looks like poor old stripper mom is in for a close encounter with brain surgery or chemo.

Torg

Im also interested in the nick name and how she got it.

This is really fine, entrancing writing. I love it.There are so many problems in the future for the whole family. The fact that Joanne brought the advert, went to look it over with her, and then did not take the job, screams set up at me. The fact that the only person Jeanette could think of to call is another sore thumb. Finally there is the BeeJay bit and the question of how Ron knew about the fact she was coming on stage and how he managed to provoke the group into going there for the birthday celebration. Then we have whole new company, a new city and home. Lots of miles ahead

An enjoyable read, looking forward to the rest. At least he didn't catch her having a 3-way with 3-convicts in his own bed and then wimp out like so many of the sick stories in Loving Wives..

I have been a big admirer since your first story and this is another interesting read. I also can't wait for the "Bejay" bomb to explode. However,I would find it somewhat illogical if his enemy spread the gossip about the stripping and left out the part about the meaning behind the nickname OR did spread that part and nobody told our protagonist. That being said, I think you are one of the very, very few really top notch new authors.

Don't think anybody is really understanding how hurtful this would be. The grandparents, friends that know, the kids all act like its not that big a deal, yet she destroyed their lives in this town and possibly their lives together depending what else he finds out and what she does next. Great writing and I can't wait for the rest. Thanks!

Can't wait for the rest of the story! You are one of the best writers on this site!

I am certainly looking forward to what they discover in their therapy. I have met very few men who can have control and theorize while facing a devastation of a love. This is the hardest part for me to acknowledge along with the idiocy of this wife. There sure wasn’t any discussion on how she really felt thrusting and gyrating her self around and how she handled the customers in her three-week gig. I would expect the husband would have some very pointed questions on this subject.<P>Thanks again for the entertainment.<P>PT

This one is coming along just fine. A well constructed and well told story by a very good author! Looking forward to the rest.

I absolutely love this story, it flow like a stream. I can't wait for the next chapter. You have me on the edge of my chair.

Tim

It has captured my interest and I am trying hard to look back over all the pieces and see where this is going. That's my favorite way to get engrossed in a story. Keep the installments coming!

<p>I read the reader comments and I'm baffled and at a loss for what they have been reading so far here? I've read "nothing", absolutely <b>nothing</b> that supports reconciliation up to this point, other than the story supporting two members of the family for gaining sainthood upon their deaths. I just can't believe they missed these points:</p>

<p>-Implied, before showing me (as a reader) that they were going to reconcile at the start of the second chapter (ex: June <i>He'll be there soon, Jeanette. He'll call you <b>and then you two can start to put things back together again</b>. Don't get down on yourself, Jeanette. You'll work it out together. I know you will</i>. This really implied, to me at least, everyone still felt that Brent was making a bigger deal out of this than he needed too. They all recognized he was "hurt", but they all felt he'd get over his mad and get over <i>his </i>selfishness that a hurt ego brought on. This started me down the road of making me dislike "Brent" as a character and so far you done completely "nothing" to make me start liking Jeanette at all, after you spent most of chapter one making me disliking her. She still has no real clue of what she's cost the family and everyone else is paying the price for her actions: The husband lost a good job he was building up too, the kids lose friends and activities they've been in. What has Jeanette lost? Nadda. But she has cost everyone else so much. Again, why should I like her character? Maybe if there are more chapters I'll like her, but for now we're into two chapters and I don't like her and she's doing nothing to make up for her actions. Other than crying a lot.</p>

<p>-Jeanette never got past her selfishness. Comments in the story by Jeanette like <i>"The other Jeanette needed to prove something to herself. She needed to know that at her age, she was still desirable and men would still want her. On that stage, she knew that the men in that audience wanted her."</i> only shows that the only thing that was important to her was how other <i.<b>men</b></i> saw her and not how her <i><b>husband</b></i> saw her. She was willing to let other men see and rub herself on them all so she could see how worked up she could get them. Still not liking Jeanette.

<p>-Jeanette breaking down and crying at their first meeting after Brent finds out she's a stripper at a club that just "barely" acknowledges the rules about dress and touching of customers. And she starts crying at her first meeting with Brent since he found out? And the way the story read was that Brent started to cave soon as he saw her like that. Again, this does nothing for me, and than to start to dislike Brent more. At this point in the story I'm wondering why anyone should respect him if he doesn't respect himself? I can see putting others first, but to the extent when they walk on you, you find your self asking them if you hurt their shoes? This is when I started seeing Brent as a doormat for his wife. I'm not going for revenge here, but at least some self respect by Brent.</p>

<p>- Again I have to ask <i>"WHY THE HECK DID BRENT GET MAD IF HE HAD NO INTENTIONS OF DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT?!?!"</i>. I mean comments in the story like <i>I can't leave you on your own and I can't stand being away from the kids. I guess we're stuck with each other." There was a hint of resignation in his voice.</i> pretty much start to destroy him as a valid character for me. I just don't understand why he let it bother him if he was going to act like it really didn't matter all that much she was a headliner at a strip club while he was busting his butt to provide for his family so she didn't have to do things like this. Or comments like this later in the story <i>"He had overcome his anger and hurt and had thought about what was important to them.</i> So no one is still looking out for Brent. And his wife is expecting him to put everyone but himself first, as he's has apparently always done, even though she was doing destructive selfish actions of her own? Just why did Brent bother with getting mad again? It still feels like he's the family doormat and everyone expected him to get a "little" mad then it would blow over.</p>

<p>-A few days later (exactly 3 according to the story), and after finding out she was up on a stage stripping, they are back in bed together going for a good old nightly romp? Again, why the "heck" did Brent get mad again?!?! Its like the thought of his wife doing this secretly turned him on and he didn't want anyone to know. I know you didn't say or suggest this, but this is how it comes off to me when I read it.</p>

<p>-Both of them go to a psychologist? For her actions of stripping for personal gain? Hmmmm, nope, Brent is pretty much dropping off the radar as a like able character. Brent isn't reacting like a "normal" person would act. You have this character acting like a saint about 4 days after finding out his wife is a secret stripper. Someone "this" hard to believe isn't a likable character.<p>

<p>- Why is everyone trying to protect the Mother when she was doing something so selfish and destructive to the family unit? Is she secretly insane? I mean <i>"Andrea nodded her understanding. Inside, she was distraught. She would be leaving her friends behind again, but she was determined not to let her mother see her pain. Mom had enough to worry about."</i> or even <i>Dad ... I'm ... I'm scared. I mean ... I'm scared for Mom," she said</i> What 16yrs do you know, who let someone selfishly turn their life upside down and then take it in stride? Scott was the only believable character reaction here.</p>

<p>-The "daughter" admired Jeanette for being a stripper? Your kidding right? <i>Oh wow. I would never have thought ... I mean ... jeez mom. You're hot for your age, you know ... but ... wow!" she finished, wide-eyed.</i> Really?!?! Andrea stopped being real to me at this point</p>

<p>I'm not sure what the future holds for this story, but right now you have 3 unlikeable characters as family members. Of those 2 react unbelievably and are hard to like because of it and the other is too selfish in what they want to be liked. Only Scott the son, current actions seem believable. And story said that he wasn't mature yet. Does maturity mean that he as to act like Andrea, and if he doesn't then he's not mature? What about Jeanette actions? Why do they call her BJ? Still didn't answer that point. Is she dying of a brain tumor? Bet she is, or is at least sick enough to have something serious. Please tell me your not going to use that to try to make the reader feel sorry for her?</p>

<p>Sorry, but this chapter did nothing to make me like anyone and wonder when Brent and Andrea are getting their halos?</p>

-Risq

This "BOOK2" offers many hints of being a really BAD ending with TONS of unresolved issues.

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For example Brent was "CRUSHED" and humiliated in chapter 1... stays away for a few days come back fome and they are having SEX again?

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ITEM 2 There is FAR tooooo much emphasis on the wife and How SHE is sufferring and Not enough on Brent.

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Imagine this family being in the Next town. How do they all get past this and move on with their lives? Every day the kids will know we are here because Mom decide to play fantasy stripper whore...

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ITEM 3 They go to their Parents house... tell tem and the Parents are OK with what happened? The grandparents might lose access to the grankids b/c the wife played fantasy whore at a strip club... and they are fine with this?

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<i> It was no surprise to Brent that both sets of parents were mostly supportive and generally non-accusatory as they heard the story....</i>

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and Note folks that NONE of the unanswered and key question that many readers talked about in the feedback section in chapter 1 have been answered .

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But you have not addressed the nick name. And the husband hasn't 'talked' to the sister yet. One small complaint why come up with the old idea of a mid-life crises. Many people who reach a certain age don't go off and become strippers. They don't get paid to take thier clothes off in front of a crowd, a crowd that let's be honest doesn't really care who or where she comes from just that she has a pair of breasts and vagina. That's all they care about. I hope in the next chapter the wife at least begins to understand what she did was wrong. I also hope the sister gets her life up rooted. And last but not least let the husband have some back bone. I am an old romantic fool and I want them to get back together, But not untill the wife knows what she has done and that the husband has some sort of revenge.

I have a hard time swallowing the stories premise that a 40 year old mother of two suddenly decides to exhibit herself as a nude dancer at a strip club. I hope there is a better explanation of why she chose to dance nude than we have been given by the wife so far.<P>That being said, the story is interesting with a lot of ramifications on family life, business opportunities, and marital consequences to be explored. The author writes very well and has developed the husbands character to the point where he is understandable. The actions of Henry and Lloyd to help Brent and at the same time ease him out of their business seems reasonable and realistic. I also thought that the reactions of the 12 year old son, whose world revolved only around himself, were well done. At the same time the reactions of the 16 year old daughter were too sophisticated and accepting for me to find believable.<P>The therapy sessions should be quite interesting. I would love to read about how the wife felt while she spread her legs for the viewing pleasure of her audience or what it was like for her to give lap dances and feel the erections of men other than her husband press against her groin. Any explanation she gives will surely be inadequate which will only add to the tension in the story.<P>I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this tale.

<br>When Coaster2 first started posting his stories, I looked forward to reading his stories, because his characters reacted like real people do. They lost their temper, they felt pain, they would not hold in saying something that needed to be said, etc, etc...</br>

<br>I really enjoyed reading his stories. I rarely ever thought to myself why did that character do that. Whether it was a male or female "lead character" you understood why reacted they way they did</br>

<br>But his last few stories have "lead characters" that I can barely believe let alone can try to relate to. And the male characters are starting to get weaker and weaker. His "lead characters" male or female are starting to lose their back-bone and seem to hold everything in and not reacting like his old characters used to.</br>

<br>I am afraid that this story may end up with the "sainted man" character. It seems to happen eventually to authors on here. They start creating characters that no longer reflect how a regular person reacts.</br>

<br>Their "lead characters" (male or female) either become saints full of forgiveness or weak people who cave in. The emotions seem to leave their "lead characters".</br>

<br>Please, I ask you author to return to your old style of characters. These were characters we could relate to.</br>

most of the previous comments I have the same questions,and will await for the answers.The only thing that I will say is that if she only took the job because of her own low self esteem then she really does need psychiatric treatment,because no one in the right mind would believe her.

but I just can't get past the premise of this story. I am aware and appreciate that your effort here is genuine. But, honestly, for me this story stretches credibility beyond the breaking point. I concur with 'Orion623's' difficulty in accepting that a 40 year old mother of two, apparently heretofore chaste, would choose to strip at a club before an audience of strangers.<p>This wife, hoping to accumulate vacation money and supplement the family income, decides that employment at a nude strip club is the answer. What a novel solution. And she somehow allows herself to be persuaded by her sister to mutually engage in said employment but doesn't think anything odd when that same sister opts out of joining her in this endeavor? Perhaps she's fortunate that her sister hadn't suggested robbing a bank. I think this wife missed her true calling as a rocket scientist. And did she honestly think that what she was doing was not going to be observed by someone she knew? The first chapter describes the place as <i>notorious</i>. That usually implies that it is well known, somewhat sleazy and very well patronized. Maybe she considered as long odds that someone she knew might saunter in and recognize her. Augmenting the family income notwithstanding, any doubts and possible concerns were seemingly squelched by the collateral benefit that she would be reassured that she's still "got it." I guess that makes it all worthwhile. After all, what woman wouldn't find flattering the admiration from a room full of leering, drooling, alcohol imbibing patrons. That her family had to subsequently uproot itself and move; her husband to begin employment elsewhere; and that all other family members would be stained by her actions seem of little consequence. Her vanity has been assuaged. To justify this amount of upheaval, that had better be one hellacious vacation.<p>The wife was aware of her duplicity here. She concealed from her husband the fact that shaving her genitals was for show at the club and not for him as she claimed. Apparently, she didn't want her husband to know about her new job. That doesn't ring of innocence to me. She was well aware that he would be upset upon learning of it.<p>coaster, I just didn't buy into the characters and the dialog. It appeared that everyone blew off as minor her transgression. Unless this husband were harboring a fantasy unknown even to him, I would have thought his reaction to be certainly more strident than you portrayed. The wife's continued brow beating herself feels superficial. Considering how little thought she gave beforehand to anyone but herself, what did she think would happen when all of this came out? Furthermore, the reaction of both sets of parents confounds me. Either the four of them are slated for canonization or they don't have a clue. Supportive and non-accusatory? That's understanding taken to the "nth" degree. And the children? Well, at one point, the daughter mentions how "hot" she thought her mother's actions were, and the son adopted an "all about me" attitude. The dialog for me reeked of saccharine. It would have been right at home in a racy episode of "Ozzie and Harriet."<p>Please know that if this story continues, I will read it. I respect you as a serious contributor to this site and admire you for being so. Besides, I'm really curious to see where this tale goes. Maybe we, the readers, will learn why she had the nickname "Beejay." And for me, an even bigger question. Maybe we'll find out why the husband hasn't elected to find out as well?

Like some of the previous commentators, I was mystified by the wife's behavior. Feeling undesirable as middle age approaches is a common theme but the wife's solution here seems... um... novel beyond belief. I suppose that stripping and erotic dancing for a hot 40-year-old house mommy is the stuff of fantasy but it doesn't hold up under the harsh daylight of reality. If she was chaste and faithful as claimed, why would she even contemplate such a public display? The need to suspend disbelief is too great, and it damages the storytelling.

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I'll reserve further comment for the conclusion of the story. Thank you for your effort.

Its perfectly within your rights to do as you wish but cmon.<P>

She's weird without explanation. My real disappointment is with you author plus him and the parents.<P>

The only family members acting as humans would are the children. Why is that?<P>

It is expected that the story would be parceled out as Book 1 indicates at least a Book 2 but after that would it be too much to ask for a "To Be Continued"?<P>

You are not a rookie so my expectations are admittedly higher. Given that there are ponderous questions raised but pushed aside illogically hints that the story is being strung out with fill and not your usual quality flow.<P>

Who in their right mind wouldn't ask if she lap danced and how was she dressed - or not. Was there backroom or elsewhere sex with customers or the management? I mean thats pretty basic stuff. The BJ mention wasn't introduced by you to be ignored by him in the first meeting.<P>

It could smell more than a little contorted at this point were it not for my summer cold.<P>

You do get more rope than another might but please don't take advantage - it isn't credible on you.<P>

With Concern & Hope

This story is so stinkingly bad that I have decided not to waste any more time reading it. I know you have more talent then this, how can you put your name on this trash? anon jerry

The wife is a moron, if her reasoning for accepting that type of employment-- in hopes of contributing to the family vacation; how was she going to explain the extra income to her hubby? Why didn't she apply for employment at Walmart or a gas station? Why is her stage name beejay? Why would she take relationship advice from her whore of a sister? when her sister is obviously jealous of her marriage. I personally don't understand how she felt sexy & wanted taking her clothes off in a room full of guys? I actually did this before I was married, I had a job plus I was going to school but my fiancé & I was trying to save up for a house so I thought the extra income would help, well I actually discussed this job with my future hubby & he wasn't too happy with it but the club I chosed had clothing optional, my fiancé actually sat in the audience and watched, I decided I didn't care for a bunch of perverts gropping me & definitely didn't enjoy the attention, so I quit an hour later. I don't like being touched by other men so it was quite easy to walk away, the wife is an attention seeker, she tries to rationalize why she was able to deceive her husband of 18 years, strip naked for a room full of guys--- I'm wondering if the husband seen the extra income? Where I talked with my soon to be hubby about my brief employment as a pole dancer ; she hid her job from her husband. She hid it because she knew he'd flip, I didn't hide mines because I don't keep secrets from my baby. If she would've told him I'm sure they would've had a good laugh but the way he found out was both humiliating & hurtful. I actually answered an ad for a brothel ( massage/spa) of course I wasn't aware of this until I accepted the Job & then I was told what my job duties would involve I immediately drove home & told my husband what I found out, of course he wasn't a bit surprised since he went with me to fill out the application & the guy took a polloard picture of me & the fact that the job sound too good to be true --$1,000 a week! Till this day my husband & I laugh our asses off & he know does background checks on places I'm applying to. The brothel was actually shut down due to a police raid,my husband & I watched on t.v as rows of whores was lined up only in their thong & bras in the business complex. Seems it wasn't the first raid. Women who start feeling old & useless needs to get a hobby, when they have too much time on their hands they start to dwell on things that doesn't matter, this wife was feeling ugly --I get it, I've had those days, but how I handle it is by spending the day at the mall & salon. I don't seek outside attention. I'm sure the guys that were paying her attention was just paint her ass & pussy attention not her. She's trying to justify her actions but I'm not convinced of her logic for doing this. She should've talked to her husband about it. How can he trust her when she's been lying & living a double life for weeks?

Let's count her stupid acts:

1) Goes to the club on the advice of her irresponsible sister.

2) Goes through with it even though her slut sister doesn't.

3) LIES about her shaved pussy. That might be the worst. You can MAYBE explain away the stripping as a poor mid-life crisis decision, but lying to her husband was a conscious decision that is hard to accept.

So - it's OK for a man to visit a sleazy strip joint, but it's not OK for his wife to perform there?

This illustrates the hypocrisy of many people, surely?

If we, as a Western society, really believe in gender equality, this application of "moral outrage", dependant on the sex of the individual, cannot be right.

I realize logic is out of bounds for your female mind.

No double standard in story

A male can go to strip club at insistence of clients and stay far away from entertainers. He can easily avert his eyes.

A wife working at such a club cannot avoid intimate contact with customers.

Not to mention husband remained clothed not so for wife

Husband was there because of business.

Wife was there to be aroused!

how is it equal that she is there to display herself. He did not go there to display himself. I could see equality if she went there to watch the show, but not to work there?

She went there to perform, to feel attractive to herself. She didn't go there because her girlfriends threw her a party. She needed to feel that others still found her sexy, and pretty.

There isn't any equality in their actions because of the mind set of the husband vs. the wife.

He went there, not because he wanted to, but to keep up good relations with his co-workers and customers, who, from what I read, setup the party mainly to celebrates his b-day, not my choice to have one there either.

Thinks not taking responsibility for your own actions is totally acceptable too. Going to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to find out why? I'll tell you why, it's because she was selfish. She knew it was wrong which is why she kept it a secret, but she wanted to do it anyway. She got excited just describing it to Brent. Selfishness. Not thinking about her husband and family. It was not just a job. That's it.

And we still have heard the whole story I think. Like how BeeJay got her name. Why is it that this has been ignored. If she takes off her clothes for other men to get praise it's certainly not a stretch to assume she would go further.

If we had gender equality in the US, we wouldn’t elect a President who thinks it’s OK to “grab women by their pussies.”

But the comment re gender equality still stands. Maybe we (Canadians) wouldn’t be so besotted with a PM cuz he’s so cute (despite his intellectual shortcomings) applies in Canada???

Don't see the same equality, if she was in the club with some business associates, that would be equal. If he decided to become a male stripper that would be equal. I guess that is too much for you to comprehend. My question to the author is how everyone is so understanding towards his wife. Bit of a plot hole in my books.

The wimp thinking behind it really keeps me wonder wtf were you thinking when you wrote it. No one reacts the way people would do in real. Life. Trying telling my mother that my wife was acting as a stripper and see how she reacts! And the daughter? A 16 teenager being so understanding? You write about unreal people. The husband is the worse. I could understand if he wanted to stay bc of his kids, but leaving the wife off the hook so easily? Especially when she didnt show any remorse atall and did nothing to explian her actions or do try to fix the damage. He's pushing her all the way to do the things that should have come from her in the first place.

His life in ruined and he acts so cool? You really fucked up in this one you wrote a RAAC of the worse kind.

The premise is interesting, if a tad hard to swallow. But, as long as we have a heretofore virtuous milf stripping without her husband's knowledge, it would have been far more interesting to read of the husband watching her complete stripping performance, and having her see him watching her. Watching would not mean he approved, it would mean he needed to see all of what she was doing. It would have allowed the protagonist to experience the rawest of emotions while viewing his wife's exhibition of her breasts and genitals to others, and her ultimately seeing him watching her would have been a worthwhile matter to write/read about.

Wow talk about cuckish behaviour this Guy is quite mind numbingly pathetic. Ok you've been stripping for complete strangers I was told you've been giving out sexual favours so the solution is let's move to somewhere else that doesn't know your a lying cheating whore? Like seriously WTF 🤣🤣🤣🤣

BRENT IS A CUCK!!

TYPICAL OF THIS CUCK WRITER TO WRITE ANOTHER WEAK WIMPY CUCK MC WHILE HAVING A CHEATING SKANK WIFE GET AWAY EASY WITH HER WHORING

2 stars - I really do not understand why this writer chose to put a middle aged woman (who has two children) up on a stripper stage. It is so far beyond comprehension, that it is actually ludicrous.

If she is not mentally incompetent and has the guts to get up there and dance - why not just leave her alone - she is happy. The biggest problem she is going to face, is that she chose to do this without advising her husband. That is a complete lack of TRUST, plus the lying and deceit she would have had to use to get away with it for several weeks. Then there is the interference of her sister and that opens up a whole different can of worms.

However, the real crux of this problem is the husband's tenuous employment situation and his feelings of shame. He was on the edge of getting the promotion he had worked so hard to achieve - now that is gone. It was his idiot wife's stupid selfish action that destroyed his career. How is he supposed to just forget this and move on. I know I certainly could not and it would have just gotten worse over time, until the love in the relationship was gone.

But this writer will probably turn it into a RAAC - even though we still do not know if she crossed other lines like blow jobs or sexual favours, as part of the deal. I think I might just skip to the end and find out.

Wen you get cancer you cut it and get rid of it- then heal and move on... I am movin on from this drivel.