Burning Bridges

Brutal. Visceral. I liked it.

Sad

Sad story. circumstances are frighteningly realistic. When it comes to substance abusers my best advice is to cut them loose. I have seen too many good people pulled down by self destructive losers. If a substance abuser is going to clean up, and stay clean - it is all on them. They got themselves into that mess, it is up to them to get themselves out of it. The parents were to blame in this mess, they should NEVER have sacrificed one son for the other. NEVER. Never missed graduation, never pressured him to help his fucked up brother - that was on them. They were shit parents. The wife in this story was a typical dumb, poorly educated woman with little life experience. Her woman's ego got in her way. She got off on being better than the loser, and being able to use her femininity to "heal" him. I have actually know women that have thought that sex, without love could heal a man! Wrong! It is all about ego. The good news is...there is a whole world full of people out there. 51% of them are women. About 10% of them are saints. That means that if he looks carefully he should be able to find one of these ladies.

Scary in it's reality. Well done.

Oh wow. Shit that hurt

That was just so emotionally brutal, what a totally fucked up family he had. A worthless druggie brother, an extremely stupid wife( who the hell fucks her brother in law because she feels SORRY for him) & parents whose only redeeming grace was their caring for Teresa's son, the only truly innocent one in the story. Doug's attitude whilst understandable, was surely the cause for both suicides; will he be able to live with that for the rest of his life, not positive I could. Brilliant, 5*****

Wow, so depressing

Well that was depressing.I have to give it a 5 for depressing me. Personally, I would forgive the wife, but I would not claim the child as my own. She and whoever create the child should bear all responsibility for the child. I would view the child as a nephew at best, because I don't want the emotional attachment that goes along with raising someone else's child. There are stories out there of men paying child support for kids that are not biologically theirs. Life isn't going to be fair, so I'll do anything to keep myself safe from being taken advantage of. That means paternity test for any future children I might sire.

this is too dark and twisted

for Jerry Springer

The author is a moron who shouldn't be allowed to write a grocery list let alone a story.

This bullshit about regaining honor through death is absolute crap. Why the funk would she, or anyone, want to be married to Doug is beyond me. If she was that devoted, she wouldn't have cheated. So don't piss down our backs and say its raining. And there is no way people would have stayed listening to his little speech. I don't care what kind of jackass you are, keep your damn dirty laundry to yourself. If "Martha" set you up, then deal with Martha but leave me out or your little drama.

Now Doug. Dear old Doug. Such a fantastic specimen of manhood. This paragon of justice, this epitome of selfless heroism, was such a catch, such a man that his exwife couldn't live without him. His brother was wrapped up in guilt over hurting him. Really? Does he walk on water? Did Doug solve the Middle East crisis? Does he shit gold and piss pure silver? Because there is no way some woman would kill herself for him. He's not rich enough to act like a jackass and he's not handsome enough to be a lothario and if brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose. So exactly WHY would his exwife and brother commit suicide?

POT AND ALCOHOL DOES LOWER ONES INHIBITIONS,

but stupidity tops them all. TK U MLJ LV NV

Excellent!

I was afraid at the end that he was going to commit suicide.

I'm glad he didn't, I hope he finds a good woman with a brain, unlike his ex who thankfully removed herself from the gene pool.

Good story

The saying "you can't fix stupid" comes to mind when talking about the wife. Death and stupid always leaves the survivors to deal with the remains.

Loser

What a fucking loser. This guy thinks the world should revolve around him.

Excellent story....

It highlighted the tragic effects of cheating, no matter the reason.

5*

A fantastic read from start to finish. Looking forward to what you have for us next :)

Very good...

Almost a 5 *. What was wrong? How could a wife that loved his husband go for a junkie? How could she go against his will and make him accept the brother in their house? If the parents loved him so much, why didn't took him to their house? These the weak llinks of this story...

Don't give many 5 stars...

... but this one was worth it.

All to realistic

I read the comments of some who are trashing this story because they don't think real people would do things like this. Well, I am so glad that they have lived a life sheltered away from people like this. I work in an area where the population is poor, mostly white and I regularly deal with people who's lives make this story seem mild. I read it and thought, "brother's baby?" Well that's not so much considering what I run into on a regular basis. If you really want your hair to stand on end, go sign up with CASA or Guardian ad Litem, as it is called in some states, and you will see what I am talking about.
There is nobody to like in this story. Every character has deep flaws and makes bad choices. That doesn't mean that it is not true to life. Don't trash the author because he told you the truth. If you don't believe that he is telling the truth, you need to get out more.

anon - fantastic story

Appreciate the praise man but I had to kill the comment. Something I've never done before and never want to do again.

Fully agree with you that I never want to see LW turn into a willing cuck only category. But attacking the site admins (anon as well) is like shittin' in the pool. Makes a hell-of-a-statement until you want to go swinning again! LOL. Smple fact is their sandbox, their rules. Hope we get our own category someday. Thanks again for the comments though.

Outstanding

Yup, also brutally honest.

Doug doesn't claim to be perfect. But he has realistic and valid expectations about some things. He expects his wife to be faithful. She wasn't and all her reasons are bullshit. She was essentially a spoiled brat who did what she wanted. She didn't want to be held accountable for her behavior. She WAS a lousy wife and mother. She cheated on her husband and abandoned her child. Suicide is a coward's escape and she took it.

His brother is the same. He lives a losers life and everyone excuses him for it. Doug simply walks away from him, not accepting his brother's betrayal. Did Doug push him to suicide? Maybe a bit. The guy was a drug addict and he overdosed. What NOT a surprise.

The busybodies are an interesting diversion as well. They know what is good for Doug and push when they are clueless about what he went through. The slap down was well deserved and well delivered.

In the end you have a choice about how to deal with losers like his brother and his wife. You can stick with them and end up drowning with them or you can cut yourself loose and live.

I also like that, while Doug is obviously deeply hurt and upset, he is getting about his life and not whining his way through the day. It's also a good point that it's hard to get over an ex's betrayal when she is stalking you with the help of your "friends". Hopefully he can now begin to heal.

Good, short, sad tale...

Thought provoking and just the right length for quick consumption :)

Note: I had a long drawn out response to the comments dissing on the Doug character, but in the end you either understand his responses as written and agree with them or you don't. People these days make very little sense to me any more. Warped in their value judgements and expectations and far to willing to "forget" thinking that means "forgive".

Life

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Pure Pleasure

Perfect for LW and nicely written.

Another great story

Thanks DFW, I really enjoy your work. A very emotional read.

It's ***

A read.

Wow this one is heavy

The strange thing is that I really also felt sorry for Teresa but Doug has no guilt in this . I am sure that people will strongly this disagree and say that he should have never run away from the problem, but, it has no solution.

she said he was her soul mate

I'm fairly certain that you don't throw mercy fucks to your soul mate's brother.

****

I liked it. Too bad some of today's teens on weed and meth couldn't get a lesson from it. Good writing and good reading. Cheers!

it does happen

1. To the author, forget about ''anon'', he trashes every story in here just to get attention for himself.
2. I actually know a woman who gave birth to her husband's nephew. It screwed up things so much that he killed another man years later because she was trying to get him back while fucking the other guy. Sadly he did not waste another bullet on her

Good but dark

I liked the way you write and I even liked the story. Its probably closer to real life then most of the other stories.

Really?

A woman stays with a man who rapes his daughter-in-law? Doug allows the chid to live with them, without notifying child services? Even if it isn't his, would you allow a child to be brought up by such a man? He should tell his mother, if you want to bring up this child, you need to leave the rapist and make sure he never ha anything to do with that kid.

Read this before was it posted somewhere else?

Must have read this lately some other site it's still fresh in my mind.

Dark, but good

Kinda like chocolate!

What is Anon 'Really' smoking? Hubby's Dad was misguided, but it was his Bro who knocked up Sweetie!

I think the question of whether Hubby survived until the next day (after this story ends) depends on how good his swimming endurance is! It IS left as an ambiguous aspect, which is good story-telling, IMHO!

4* (a bit too much 'Cannery Row' for my taste. BTW - it might also depend on how many hungry sharks are in the area!)

Great story

To hell with all the critical anons. This was a well-told and realistic story. Very good writing and excellent ending.

More stories like this would be great

5* simply to piss off the haters! Point is: he did what he needed to do!

Reality is folks that
sometimes life gives you situations where the best choice is still a shitty one.

I, for one, believe the right thing to have done was:
1) never acquiesed to parents in the first place.
Afterall he had stolen from them before.
It was enough of a reason.

But after the fact, he should have:
1) shot off brother's dick (leave the balls so he has no outlet for his needs)
and
2) divorce the cunt.

He got it half right. ))

As to all you haters, if SHE couldn't live with the kid as a reminder of what she did and she's the MOTHER, how in the f*ck could he be expected to have remained?

5 for 5

Great read. Man had to do what he thought was right for himself.

Well Written Tragedy in the Classic Sense

Everybody lost in this fore-warned dark story. I agree with the comments about the wife's stupidity. However, she should have sucked it up amd focused on raising HER kid. Sooner or later she would have found another sucker I mean husband.

Hiding your head in the sand won't encourage the site admins(aka Laurel) to wake up to reality.

Pond scum like frontlinecaster have Laurel convinced she's doing the right thing by pushing the cuckold lifestyle on the rest of us. You'll probably delete this, but you need to grow some balls and make a stand.

Take a look at the highest scoring LW stories of all time. Not a single cuck story among them. Do you get it now Laurel?

The Parents

They're so fucking concerned for the doper that they pressure his brother to take him in, but THEY won't take him in?!

If YOU don't want him in your home, how in the world can you even THINK of asking, yet alone pressuring, someone else to take him into theirs?

Mustang?

If there were a Mustang in this story I would suspect it was written by StangStar6. The storyline is similiar.

Guys!

That's right! Look at all those highly rated revenge stories! That's proof they are better, not that there is a dedicated little crowd of anonymous assholes who consistently downvote anything that is about cuckolding without reading it! Those are the people Laurel should be listening too, the people who spend all their time whining and bitching about everything that gets posted in LW and never contribute anything of their own while sending anonymous death threats to authors.

Good call anonymous asshole #2378, I'd have a conversation with you about it but you are too lazy and too afraid of being called out on things you say to actually register for an account.Seriously, this site and this section will remain completely toxic and worthless to LW authors until anon comments are banned and voting is either removed or fixed.

Sad, but True

If you ever had a brother you would not want anything or anyone to harm him, however; this is a very different case. She killed Billy, herself and destroyed her husband. I thought it was a very good story and it shows you what and can happen if you get a cheating wife involved with a drug addicted brother-in-law. I feel sorry for the child, but life is full of it ups and downs.
Now, it is time for Doug to get on with his life and find another soul mate that will not cheat on him.

Damn

A tragic tale. It only takes one mistake. One time infidelity can destroy a life together. Also drug use can destroy a family. This tale has it all, plus suicide and an overdose.
Well written and you can feel the emotion.

Five Stars

Sad but True

A sad tsle which is could be a true tale some whete out there.
After I hsve that US TV programe Cheaters it really opened my eyes to whst some will do in order to cheat.

A very sad world

OMG!

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING!

memorable stories have unbending characters, rightly or wrongly

in "real life" we have enough of the garden variety character types.

this is fiction, and in good fiction, we need to have men and women character who don't bend with the wind. we need heroes and heroines who are willing and able to no to a tough situation and mean it, no matter how painful it may be to the self...

of course, in this story, the woman was also equally tough. she realized her profound mistakes and was willing to trace her steps back, as it were possible, to the man she loved, someone she knew she could not and would not live a life without.

and, as she said to her audience, she did her humanly best, to win him back. and that's what really count in life: do your very best and see where the chips fall... knowing sometimes your very best is not going to be enough; but you do it anyway...

it was a tragic end, for both. but the bittersweet, tragic story highlights how twisted & fickle love could be, when it is veered off course, for whatever reason...

Good job!

I have enjoyed your work so far. I look forward to whatever else you do. In fact my only complaint was that you didn't really touch on anyone else and a portion of teresa's pov was unnecessary since all it did was rehash what was already known.

Almost the expected outcome

It was never going to end well. Sex with the husbands brother would poison any marriage. Sad but believable.

Damn!

That was sad!!

He was already living without a soul mate, he just didn't realize it

If Teresa had really been his, she never would have fucked his brother.

This was definitely a sad one.

Heavy handed and full of remorse on both of their parts. Even Asshole Bro had some remorse, but how much is the word of a drug addict worth? I won't say that Wifey got what she deserved. She deserved to live with the fact that she had trashed their marriage.

My brother might be an asshole, but not even he would stoop that low. He knows better than to even try. lol

5 Solid Stars. Good to see you back, DFW.