The EPT Test

Thank you

I enjoyed reading your story.

Thank you

Much Ado about ' Something '

If the shoe had been on other foot & Shannon had found used rubbers in their trash; she would have had some heated questions for her vasectomized hubby. Bet your bottom dollar on that. It may have been innocent, but it damm sure didn't look that way.

Good concise story telling by DG, in addition to laying out the bait trail of bread crumbs. I,for one, was snookered with ease. That's ok when the read is as solid as this one. Happy ending trumps all...this time.

Happy

I'm glad there was no cheating. The husband jumped to the wrong conclusion and went about revealing it in the wrong way but what did he know? He had no experience with an unfaithful wife. Anyway, all's well that end's well.

Not bad

A stupid conclusion that could have imperiled a stable marriage. People do the dumbest things. He would have been smart to have gone to her Christmas party.

Stories

Every story i read the DG Hear writes is excellent this one is no exception

The only thing I didn't believe

The wife's reaction. She is the biggest fantasy in the story: an understanding spouse who get's over a mad quickly and easily and wants to have sex.

If you find one (probably riding a unicorn behind Santa Claus and a Man Loving Lesbian), please let me know and I'll trade my model in.

That said...good story.

Loved it

A great story about a truly loving wife. He should have had the common sense to at least consider this as a possibility. But what can I say? Most men are insecure and would jump to the same conclusion. Especially if they spend their days reading loving wife stories on this site. It takes a good story like this to remind us that not all wives cheat on their husbands. Thanks.

Reasonable man

Given the circumstantial evidence he was right to believe that a loving, trustworthy wife was pregnant and had cheated on him. She stayed out all night for the Christmas party, she was cold to him after the Christmas party, he found two pregnancy tests in his garbage after it had been knocked over by dogs - his wife normally never takes out the garbage, he had a vasectomy, she had kept a secret from her husband about her friends pregnancy, she didn't trust him with the news. The fault is hers for putting doubt in his mind. She betrayed her marriage by keeping a secret from her husband. His only mistake was his timing, but due to the circumstances it is understandable that he would not be able to contain himself for long. Then his wife and the other couple give him shit and lay a guilt trip on him? I would have straightened them all out in clear and simple terms that assholes like them could understand. Do not keep secrets from your spouse - or do not stay married. It is that simple.

she could have been guilty

drinking, out all night, and 2 positive kits too many cllues. she could have been guilty. too bad she didn't tell him about the tests.

Actually was a reasonable conclusion . . .

Why didn't Anna dispose of her own pregnancy tests in her own trash? What were they doing in Shannon's trash? The story was good but this plot device seems a little forced. Thanks for writing.

DG Hear

Thank you for all the comments. The story shows that it's easy to jump to conclusions. When I first started writing this story I was having the wife as cheating on her husband. The more I wrote, the more I thought how mistakes can happen. The story could have went either way. I prefer happy endings.
DG Hear

Well done.

My reaction was that he goofed by not throwing the tests on the kitchen table, but, it made for an interesting story. I am in agreement with FD45, this was quite a loving lady....
DG Hear's commentary caught me by surprise... I never had any doubts about the ending and I always thought that authors made lady or the tiger decisions before digiting the story.

sorry i agree with some others

two sets of the other womans EPT in your trash, get real. Someone is lying and it wasnt the husband. It is to easy to get an abortion with almost no residual problems. After she forced him to talk about what was bothering him and her being upset at him if it was an innocent thing is being very stupid. All of it adds up to she was cheating whether she got pg or not.

good story

But i think the wife did cheat and was scared to death...

I have to agree with Vulcan

First, he should have though something was wrong....she took out the trash, something he always did. Then why would you take the test at someone else's house? I don't want my man to know so I fuck up you marriage.. Good story DG

4****'s

Would have given a 5 but you wimped husband out at the end. I would want a DNA test of the tests to see if it was a lie. Appears that maybe both are pregnant and she would have known way before feb 14 if knocked up dec 25.

Um NO....- Reverse the story. Suppose wife found 2 condoms ...

yeah I get what DG HEAR is driving out here. Tthe author is striving for realism in the LW Genre . He is trying to show how a decent honest and loving husband might jump to the wrong conclusions based upon some actions behaviors includes which COULD mean one thing... But which also might mean something else.

That being said perhaps it is the suspicious nature of readers... Perhaps it is my previous background as a private investigator... But there are some real issues here.

FIRST suppose that the wife went though the trash and she found 2 condoms ?
" oh no dear they are not mine... they are my friend at work... he is seeing this escort and he doesnt want his wife to know.."

yeah that would REALLY work...

SECOND.. Why does the wife gets sexually turned on in the hotel room at the end of the story after being falsely accused of being a slut a cheater and a whore? 99.999999% of all married women do not operate or react that way.

The wife's girlfriend Anna and boyfriend Ryan were not living together at the time the Christmas party... so WHY was it necessary for Anna to come over to the wife's house and take the EPT in secret? Sure it could happen that way... But WHY ?

THIRD ...WHY was it necessary for the wife to hide Anna's pregnancy from the husband for two or three days once the positive result was known from the test? Again there might be a reasonable explanation for this but within the confines of the story there are not.

The husband and the boyfriend -- Ryan -- at that point were not good friends and they did not associate with each other.

Even if one believes all the wife's explanations... there is No justifiable reason WHY she should not of told her husband about the Anna's Pregnancy .

Herd Animals

The easiest explanation for the test being done at Shannon's is that women act like herd animals at times. They go to the washroom in public places together. They go shopping together, have you ever called up one of your male friends and said, "Hey let's go shopping"? Anna was testing for pregnancy something she would have probably talked about to Shannon. So off to the mall to buy the tests and then back to Shannon's to take them. This story was a definite *****. DG Hear has one statement by Shannon that is particular important to the message of the story.

"She also said that she would never go to another party without me. She didn't want any doubts in our marriage."

This is something you do not hear many couples agree on and it is a very important point to make. Misunderstandings happen in marriages because partners put their marriages at risk. In my first marriage I lived by the statement above, my wife did not and that is why we are no longer married. A simple rule, I don't party without you.

A lovely story about a happily married couple who

when the husband screws up, work things out together.
Unfortunately, that doesn't satisfy the freaks who read the stories on Literotica who want to rewrite it to become just another tale of a cheating wife so they play with themselves while they condemn it.
Get a life people! Because this was truer to real life than all of those!
Okay, the quickness of her forgiveness was a bit much - most women would have sulked for a day or two at least - but other than that it was excellent and well deserving of as many stars as we can give it.

another great story dg hear..

why do those comments made by some always want the wife to cheat so they can trash her and make the women into less than a human being. here is a women who did no wrong only to get comments fron the nay sayers of her infidelity. if any one jumped to conclusions it was the husband not asking the wife. so, he was wrong and some wanted more from this story than there was. are all these people who write these remarks women haters????????

Unfortunately, the husband's conclusions were perfectly valid.

She's at a party pissed at him. She treats him poorly. He finds test strips in the trash. For Gawd sakes people, what should he think. She owes him an apology. Frankly, DNA tests might be appropriate.

5*****'s

Thank you for writing. tom anon

Well done, but...

When he asks her why she didn't say anything about her friend's pregnancy test her answer was bullshit. There is absolutely no reason she couldn't tell the husband something like, "You can't tell anyone but..." To make not not telling him plausible the author would have to show the reader that the husband had a history of not being able to keep his mouth shut. Admittedly, most women would take a pregnancy test at home, but it's not implausible that she would want a friend there for support.

I disagree .....

"Thank you for all the comments. The story shows that it's easy to jump to conclusions. When I first started writing this story I was having the wife as cheating on her husband. The more I wrote, the more I thought how mistakes can happen. The story could have went either way. I prefer happy endings."
DG Hear

ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY ( SEE YOUR OTHER STORIES) .. I WOULD CONCLUDE YOU PREFER STORIES WITH CUCK/WIMP HUSBAND ENDINGS!

whadda bunch of whiny infants

OMG, a female character in a fictional story makes a decision, right or wrong and the perpetual adolescents that haunt the commentary's throw their usual hormonally driven hysteric tantrums.

Demanding that the author, crucify the woman, for failing to grovel before the stubby weenies of patriarchal ignorance and narcissism. I understand, you guys were raised to believe that your micro-penises are the center of the universe.

I leave you with this quote from Robert A. Heinlein: "The worst lies a man will tell, are the lies he tells to himself."

Beautiful Story

I enjoyed your work. I would have preferred that the storyline be a bit more tawdry similar to what you suggested. The way you constructed the story, it would have been easy to make the wife cheat and be pregnant, as you say. Perhaps Anna takes the test but there was no vasectomy and Gary impregnates Anna. Or Shannon cheats with Ryan and becomes pregnant and Gary romantically pets Shannon in their valentine suite and eats her out and declares himself to be the father like a hungry lion :)

Yeah, he jumped to conclusions, but she was NOT blameless.

As one commenter wrote, what if she had found condoms in the trash. There was no good reason for the tests to be in their trash. None. There was blame for all (well, maybe not Ryan), but it was all heaped on him.

Great Story

I think you did a good job with this story balancing the 'burn the bitch' type that most writers post. Sometimes we forget that the partners in a marriage must keep temporary secrets from each other.

Excellent

Always great to read a TLW!!!!! The EPT being in their trash was very plausible since Anne told Shannon at Gary and Shannon's house.
Again, nice to see a story where a communication failure did not lead immediately to cheating, the subsequent confrontation did not lead to revenge. And really glad to read the hot make up sex. Not all stories have to be BTB's.
I thought Shannon let him off the hook a little too easy, how embarrassing for her, Anne, and Ryan. Yet instead of taking the low road, she really loved him and forgave his stupidity. He assumed and we all know what ASSuME means. And boy did Gary make an ass of himself. Nice, having Gary stand up at their future wedding.
Communication and talking to your spouse, what a concept.

Great TLW DG!!!!!! 95% of the time an enjoyable read. The remaining 5%, still fun.

Thank you,
M1

it's your own fault!

If you had made the characters a little bit less real or less likeable. If you had managed to make the story flow less smoothly, it could have been just another cookie cutter story like the rest of us write. But as usual you stepped up to the plate and knocked this one out of the park. So deal with it. Seriously...great story as always. You have this way of making it seem so easy until the rest of us struggle and come up with things that aren't nearly as natural or as good. SS06

Great Story

Just as enjoyable as the story are the comments and the various views that are presented for the story, pro and con. What is wrong with people like Fanfare, who feel people are not entitled to an opinion. Does everyone have to parrot his/her views. I find the disparaging of other peoples comments repugnant.

Taking sides

Sweetie is not and was not preggers. Anna is! BUT, I'm with several who see a plot flaw in this that could have been easily fixed. Anna has driven Sweetie to work when there was a transportation problem, so presumably lives near Sweetie (or is in-line to their work)...but they are also not portrayed as BFFs - despite booking a room together for the office party!* Anna going to Sweetie's to pee on a stick is remarkably awkward...and the kids are there.

Make Anna the sister, or at least a BFF who helped Sweetie get that job. And mention they live in the same block. If Anna thinks Ryan may be willing to marry her, why would she want to toss the EPTs? Ryan or Anna might want to keep them as earliest evidence of the future family.

Why not wait? Pregnancy can't be hidden long. If Sweetie were going to abort, she would probably have taken the 'morning after' pill. If she seems to be scheduling a more 'traditional' abortion before she 'shows' then have her do an EPT then. Even a good bit afterwards, it will still show the pregnancy reaction!

*Ryan booked his own room for the office party? Or were he and Anna planning to share a room from the git-go? Sweetie knew she was going to be alone that evening? If the couple were NOT originally planning to share a room, would a young bachelor really book a room in an expensive hotel so he didn't have to drive home after the party? Too many unanswered odd aspects for this to get a great score!

3*

A Marriage Primer!

I did enjoy the story, so much so that I gave it the full five star salute. I think that its greatest value though is not in how good a story it is, although that's certainly the case. I think its greatest value is to serve as a warning what NOT to do.

Two things are of vital importance to a healthy marriage that went wrong here. Communication is perhaps the biggest. It is vital that two people talk things out. He should never have hammered her in a public setting like he did, regardless of the "evidence" he had. If he had that much distrust built up, he should have at least investigated the situation on his own if he couldn't bring himself to address it directly with his wife.

It is also important that as spouses we avoid even the appearance of evil, or to put it another way, the best way to avoid trouble is not to get in a compromising position to start with. She was wrong to keep this secret from him, just as much as he was wrong in what he did. As another commenter so wisely pointed out, the husband and her friend's lover were not friends or even acquaintances. How foolish to take the risk of him getting the wrong idea for no good reason.

Shady

There is something very shady about the wife's story. Why was her friend taking a pregnancy test at her house? I would have requested an immediate explanation and would be on the look out for a sneaky abortion.

like i said - dna the piss - maybe the two women are having ghetto twins - that is where one guy knocks up two different women at the same time. you don't need the wives dna - if it comes back to two different women then you know.

Another good story from DG Hear

A good paced story with a very nice twist (actually a double twist), it is very refreshing to see a story where problems in a marriage are overcome by love and trust which of course are earned over time. Usually such a story on this site has a marriage that encounters large problems die because of greed, ego, deceit and just flat dysfunctional spouses.

And the crowd chanted...

"Bullshit! Bullshit!..."

Treats his wife like absolute shit, shows absolutely no faith in her whatsoever, humiliates her in public, and gets rewarded with hot sex? Nice to see you don't feel the need to buck the double standard trend. Any wife who behaved like that with her husband as the innocent party would have gotten her ass kicked to the curb. I enjoy the BTB stories, abd goddamn, I wish authors would make it work both ways.instead of this senseless double standard. Either you love your wife or you don't. He clearly does not as he does not trust her, and can't even be bothered to talk to her or prove that she's done anything wrong first.

Four stars for an entertaining story. Should have been five, but losing a star for maintaining the tired old misogynistic standards where being a truly Loving Wife means being a stupid bitch who will smilingly eat any shit her husband dishes out.

Nice

I for one am happy with the happy ending. Great story, DGH

Agree with SS06 - good story

DGH stories are like good port - smooth and full of good flavor. I too like a happy ending.

Great story

Anna leaving her ept.in their trash is a little weird....and why would the wife try to hide them by taking the trash out like that,when if he had found them she could have told him then...She would have to be pretty dense not to realize why he would be upset.If this was really hush hush why didn't anna simply drop them in a public trash can?

I agree he acted badly,accusing her in public like that,he should have told her he felt she was being distant since the christmas party and so forth and she probably should have acknowledged she didn't handle it well either....but it doesn't matter,a great story of a mistake and reconciliation:)

A good story with a happy ending

Nicely done!

Well written and edited with a very good storyline.

It seemed as if I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, (for him to find out that she did cheat on him at that christmas party,) but I liked this storyline better than if it had been a cheating wife story.

Thanks for the read.

A comment about a comment

One comment said he didn't love his wife because he didn't trust her and behaved like a jerk. That's harsh. If you're a couple and don't have daughters living in the house, then upon finding a pregnancy test the conclusion is almost inescapable. If you immediately confront your wife and she says, "It's my sister's but you can't say anything because she's getting an abortion.", do you believe her? Instead you just might wait to see if she tells you about it. After all she did hide it from you in the first place.

I don't think it's implausible that he blows up and lets the cat out of the bag when she isn't forthcoming. As to her forgiving him and having make up sex right away, that's reasonable. A little reflection might tell her that if her friend wasn't getting married and wasn't keeping the child her husband might very well be wondering which of them really had the abortion. The thought that she might have put her marrige at risk would be sobering.

I remember the last time I humiliated my wife in front of her friends...

Funny, she did the same thing, gave me a Viagra and asked me to fuck her up the ass. Then I forgot to take out the trash, left dirty dishes in the sink, same thing - Viagra and assfucking. Finally a realistic story in the loving wives category!

Good short story

The finding of the pregnancy tests would get the spidey-senses tingling, all right. But, he had no reason to think she had ever cheated, so assuming the worst was a sign of disrespect to the wife. Hubby was a good, stand-up guy, but an emotional weakling. Some attention is given to the drinking on the night of the confrontation, maybe that clouding his thinking more, impaired his judgment, and loosened his lips enough to say some stupid shit.
The story, of course, depends on his trust in his wife being shaken by provocative, though far from convincing, circumstancial evidence. But, the author erred in having him realize that he needed to discuss it with his wife asap: "I figured the best thing would be to just ask Shannon. Surely there was an easy explaination." But then, decide to do the most stupid and pointless thing he could do, "I decided not to show them to Shannon till Sunday morning." Thing is, he realizes it is a stupid thing to do:
"The worst that could happen is her asking me why I didn't show her earlier so she could explain."
I read some of the comments, and it amazes me that some still think the wife might have cheated, or that she wronged the hubby by keeping her friend's pregnancy test results a secret from hubby. WTF? Whomever leaves these comments must fall into one of three groups: those who have been so seriously burned by a woman/women that they have a pervasive hatred of women; the immature and emotionally stunted who have a deep and abiding fear of women; or the insecure, controlling assholes who could only have emotionally abusive relationships with women. Whichever is the case, count yourselves lucky that you won't ever be in the narrator's shoes: you ain't likely to be married to a good woman for 10 years.
Like I said, good short story. To make it more credible, you should either keep the guy clear-headed (mostly, as you wrote him) and increase the evidence till he blows his top (something said during the double-date, etc.), or make him more like a Slirpuff protag (short-fused and kind of immature) so his reaction is more in line with his character, as developed.

Wow Bttap, you almost wrote an entire story to actually say nothing.

Terrible story

This belongs in "Non-Erotic", not "Loving Wives". There's nothing erotic here at all, just a stupid misunderstanding. A story doesn't belong in LW unless the wife is getting fucked by someone who isn't her husband.

Story suck'd!

I expected more since you haven't posted a new story in quite awhile--but what I got is a story that really didn't belong in LW. I expected fireworks but I found it boring & non interesting. Hope your next story is better than this.

No sex, no glory?

Well, it seems that it would be better if non-sexual or minimally sexual stories carried a paragraph warning the reader about the lack of 'bang' (as is sometimes given) - otherwise folks get a bit ticked off.

BTTap gave some very good feedback, despite the sniping. I'd be delighted to get thoughtful advice like that for one of my pieces.

Good Read****

Lucky man not to many wives would have been that easy on him. Thanks for sharing.