- Loving Wives
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by ttt59
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The reality of what disrespect and selfishness look like. Thanks for sharing.
Common trope, expertly told. Discovery method was new (to me at least). Husband telling the kids was refreshing, as most of these type stories try to “protect” them. Giving the slut a shot at confession was a bit confusing….why should that matter given the evidence? But I suppose he could have seen it as the embers of true remorse…and he did tel the kids if she volunteered the truth he would try.
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Liz is living in a hell of her own making now. Reputation ruined; kids can’t stand her; guilt likely eating her soul away.
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Nice job.
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5 *****
Good thing the storm uncovered the betrayal.
I dread thinking Liz and Henry would grow old together with Henry still being the clueless cuck.
One thing I don't get is why the cheater always wants to 'fix' things they themselves destroyed.
I somehow expect they would be jumping for joy if the wife was the cheater, she would be planning and lining those penises she wants to try out and counting the money she would get.
Asking for professional counselling, what a piece of rotten female.
Great story, hate cheating and cheaters! 5 BIG ASS FUCKING HUGE FLAMING NOVA STARS! Thanks, your story was very well written. Others can take your story as an example of how writing is done well!
It was okay, but the ending felt a bit rushed.
The best part of a loving wives story isn't the husband playing private detective. It's the emotional confrontation with the cheating spouse, then the aftermath, where the vengeful husband destroys her self-centred world.
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The showdown was fine, but there wasn't much contrition on her part, or any explanation or attempted justification for why she repeatedly cheated on him.
Keeping ownership of her lakeside fuckpad was weird. Why give it to the kids? Most betrayed husbands would want to see that place burned to the ground, or at the very least force it to be sold.
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I also personally hate it when a story ends with the husband still reeling from the divorce. It's far better to end on a positive note, with the husband recovering and moving on with his life. There is no better way of sticking it to the ex-wife than replacing her with someone younger and prettier.
Well written and, sadly, pretty realistic about the outcome. There is no justice in the courts. The wife's paramours suffered a bit but they are probably back at it wherever they landed. Moral outrage against such people has become muted so they keep behaving badly. The wife is sad and detached from "family" and has a "loose" reputation but got off well financially.
The husband does OK but will find it hard to trust any women going forward. His wife cheated on him twice flagrantly and he had no clue. That is going to shake any guy's confidence about his relationships. How could he ever be sure? That's what his ex stole from him, his ability to trust others.
The great thing about the "Loving Wives" stories is that they often deliver well deserved justice that can't happen in real life. This was more a "real life" type of story.
Sad ending but Awesome read. Results were obvious. Hard to over betrayal like that.
Keep writing I enjoy your stories.
Pretty standard fare for an LW story.
Decently written.
Probably would have given it 4 ⭐ but, several glaring editing errors knocked a ⭐ off.
This story was told very well. It's a familiar formula, but a new means of discovery. The whole story reminds me of how some people can live two separate lives and behave like two different people and yet somehow keep them apart. It makes you wonder who the real wife was?
"I'll cheat! After all, how could my spouse ever find out?" Well, this is one way. Nicely told.
Well told story. Always love how the cheaters only love their husbands when they get caught.
Don't know how you could have improved it, it was a quick and fun read.
Calling Western Union! Calling Western Union!
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We all knew, the instant that the main character was described as, "I opened my own shop specializing in DNA analysis," where this was going. The only surprising part is that he is not mentioned as having the kids DNA tested. It was something of a surprise that he discovered and inspected the trash, so you do get a point for that one.
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"Bedtime would be another issue but there was no way I was going to have sex with my cheating skank wife. I had no idea what Lester boy may have passed on to her, and no way I wanted sloppy seconds no matter how much time had passed."
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If your wife or girlfriend wasn't a virgin when you met her, then if the standard is "no way I wanted sloppy seconds no matter how much time had passed," you've already had them.
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In the end, RHT found out that Liz had fucked another guy five years ago, and Mr Lester months ago, yet somehow, some way, her pussy was not 'spoiled' for him afterward; he noticed no difference.
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Then, despite all his resolve, he was, supposedly, going to stay with his wife if she had just confessed and begged forgiveness. How does that really make any difference?
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"Liz would probably land on her feet financially, but she'd not leave this marriage with her reputation intact." This is the part that always amuses me. It's 2023, and women's reputations really don't suffer from having a lover on the side. That just means that she's a hot babe!
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Whose reputation does suffer? The husband she cuckolded! Why, it's asked, did she have to step out for sex? Was her husband just not good enough, not taking care of business?
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In the end, for so many men, it's a matter of winning and keeping score. If he's fucked her 5,000 times, and no one else has snuck in there, he's "won" by a score of 5,000 to 0. But as soon as the high school guy slid in, five years earlier, he lost, 5,000 to 1. If you don't throw a shutout, you've lost!
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Then Mr Lester nailed her a few times, so now RHT has lost 5,000 to 6 or 8 or whatever.
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Women are simply more practical about sex than are men. Women can, and usually do, get over their husband's adultery if it was just sex, as long as he wasn't falling in love with his side piece, because women are better at seeing the whole picture, and that the entire marriage and lifestyle and family are important, while for so many men, if the wife screws around even once, that's all they can see. Women are smart enough to know that 'scoring' is way, way, way important to men, not just as teenagers or twenty-somethings, but into their fifties and sixties. Men, on the other hand, no matter how smart they are in everything else, can be just plain stupid when it comes to sex and 'scoring.'
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"Liz fought it for a while, but in the end it was inevitable. The divorce was pretty much 50/50 down the middle. Henry's lawyer Tom was correct. You can slut around on your spouse and the courts will reward your infidelity and punish the victim." In the majority of divorce for adultery cases, it's the husband who has screwed around, not the wife. But in reading this paragraph, the only thing I could think about was that the author was a divorced man whose wife had a side guy, and that he was a "victim" because the courts hadn't punished her. I could be wrong about that, but that's how I saw it.
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But the family courts don't exist to punish anyone; they exist to settle the legal issues between divorcing couples with as little drama as possible, with no one punished to the extent that he or she becomes a welfare case, because that costs the state money.
Mr Sworder wrote, "The best part of a loving wives story isn't the husband playing private detective. It's the emotional confrontation with the cheating spouse, then the aftermath, where the vengeful husband destroys her self-centred world." But that's just it: in destroying her self-centered world, the cheated on husband also destroys his. He lost his wife, he broke up his family, and he lost the lake house, even if it stayed in the family, because he couldn't stand to go there again.
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That's actually an interesting point. If a guy discovers that his wife screwed some other guy at the Hyatt Regency at 350 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio, does he have to move out of Columbus, or is he choking back bile every time he passes that hotel?
It was well written, but somehow also stale and too formulatic for my taste. Just more of the same...
I find it weird that they chose to disclose all the condemning conversations, conveniently just when MC installed a surveillance system.
I find it a little boring when authors just make up stuff they obviously don't understand, like getting DNA in a private lab and somehow, someway, without any explanation, identify that person within hours.
And I find it a little exhausting by now to read the hundredth story about how divorce courts rape husbands, like that's somehow an established fact outside this echo chamber category.
Solid 3/5
Well written same old, same old.
LW is a tough category to come up with original material. The regurgitation of the fairness of our court system is unnecessary as it adds nothing to the story.
Finally a story where the husband takes direct action not some type of revenge plot / black-ops tail.
Thanks. 5*
He wants a divorce without "ranker"? That was a good one. No one was ranker than the wife.
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Very good story. Thank you.
I admit I have trouble with the authors' willingness to make the husband the total hero, with this last chance if she ever tells the truth on her own...... No matter if she confesses in the end, it doesn't change at all the double betrayal, multiple lies and disrespect.
Ugh. I swear, you BTB kids all share the same pathetic template for your "stories".
I disagree with the notion that a 50/50 split is rewarding a cheater in this circumstance. They had a 25 year marriage. Yes, the wife was a self absorbed bitch but she was also his partner and coparent for all those years. That's very different from a short marriage where one spouse was never faithful and took the other for a ride.
I will ignore the clichéd alien of affection and threats to show pictures. I do want to highlight the confrontation though. Quite often in stories like these, those arguments focus on strange points of contention. Disrespect, disloyalty and dishonor give way to complaints about never having received anal or a blow job. The writers focus on the sex act only as if that is really the problem in the relationship portrayed.
Those statements by the husband were reasonable and I could believe someone saying them.
Very, very solid. I like that you didn’t make her some absolute monster, just a person that made bad choices and didn’t think of the consequences. Those are usually the more interesting stories to me, although I would have liked to delve into her mindset a bit more.
It has all the right ingredients, but its kind of a box cake mix story. Adequate, predictable, average. Average is a "C".
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Husband drinking booze to soothe his feelings, then puking to demonstrate his anguish, then claiming that if the wife will just be honest and confess, well, maybe he can forget that she has been a lying cheating self-absorbed slut, for years. Really? And then you add the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde theme where the wife is the perfect loyal loving faithful wife around husband and family, then somehow becomes an unethical immoral roving eye whore with complete contempt and disrespect for her husband and children. Yet somehow after years of marriage the husband can't discern the soulless monster he's living with? Yeah, just another shallow tepid distant marriage down the drain due to lack of attention. Whatever.
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You also engage in a lot of pointless details and side issues that grab the attention for the moment, but then turn out to be irrelevant. What difference does it make how he progressed in business, how the wife worked part time then full time. Its a Short Story. If a detail doesn't feed into the plot or the story why distract the reader with it?
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I guess all the technical surveillance equipment was part of the box cake so you through it in. He claimed if the wife fought the divorce he would reveal her fucking Lester. You then state the at first the wife fought the divorce, but you never mentioned video of her fucking getting to her kids or family. Not even a few still shots? Wouldn't he need to provide some video evidence before suing the Clubhouse? Did you forget?
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And maybe its just me, but why would he or the kids want to keep the Lake House where his wife was getting her clothes ripped off and her brains fucked out, for months?
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Overall a solid "C" performance. I look forward to reading better work from you in the future. Good luck with it.
Love how he told the kids and also the other husbands. I would tell everyone though and I don't see why he doesn't share the recording of her confession to all her family. Hear her own words about the "hot" guy etc.
Nice read, why you all harp on about the 50/50 split is lost on me, someone cheats that's life real men never bitch like whining bitches, they dust themselves off, looks the world in the eye and gets on with living life to the full. He is responsible for his happiness not someone else and especially not the government. Been there done that have the scars and the T-shirt. M
Yes, as others have said, very realistic. However, I noticed you didn't mention that Henry would have to buy out Liz's 50% share of THEIR business, unless he was willing to pay 50% future yearly earnings to his ex-wife. of profits to . It would be classed as Marital property.
Well-written, well-paced, enjoyable to read. Creative way to discover the cheating. Mature, adult dialog. Well done!
Just a bit too convenient. He happens to tune in to a live fee and within minutes he hears everything he needs. Would have been better with a more realistic gathering of evidence -- no incriminating conversation, just screwing in the lake house. Then a PI follows the molester and sees the two other cheating wives. As for the earlier affair, it's just evidentiary overkill. There are ways to have it come out. He remembers stuff from the past and wonders. He asks around. His wife has an enemy at school who tells him what she saw. Etc., etc.
A different way to find out. Nice idea. A little too much formula for the rest. A solid B.
1. The opportunity to confess was pointless. Was never going to happen. She's been lying and cheating for months. She doesn't want him to find out. Until she is cornered with proof, she isn't going to volunteer anything. No one in that situation ever does. It's simply not human nature.
2. "I would have forgiven her, if she would have confessed" is silly. It asks something unnatural from the cheater and assumes an unknowable future for the betrayed. An honest husband in that situation cannot know how he is going to be able to handle the cheating over time. A simple confession seems pretty cheap penance.
You know I fine it very interesting that adultery, in essence being in breach of contract, carries no penalties what so ever.
Our culture holds this contract is no regard whatsoever.
Why do authors think that the egregiously wronged spouse needs to utter some nonsense about possibly working things out? It comes across as imbecility and weakness...gratuitous "virtue signaling".
Really enjoyed reading this . Wish it could have been just a bit longer .
DK . 4 *
I liked the story because it didn't take 10 years and "acting like a loving husband" to handle business. It's interesting reading comments trying to pick apart his thinking. It's not the sex that kills the marriage, it's the betrayal, lies and lack of effort by the wife to save it.
"Liz, I've been honest with you our entire marriage. I've never lied, never deceived you or misrepresented the truth. I'm not perfect, far from it. I don't always get it right but being completely open with you has always been one of my top priorities in our relationship. So, one last time Liz, is there anything you need to be honest about with me?"
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Except as readers we know this isn't true. After he returned from the cabin, he lied about why he didn't want to have sex with Liz. He also wasn't completely open. If Henry was that delusional about his own behavior, since he is the one narrating, everything else from his point of view is also suspect. Was their marriage really as good as he portrayed? I'd love to read a follow up from Liz's point of view. It seems like there are some hidden pieces to the story that Henry is unaware of or unwilling to acknowledge.
"my wife was defiantly out of sorts." - Definitely, not defiantly.
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Rancor, not ranker.
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How did he identify Lester from the DNA? You need something to compare it to.
You left out the part where the MC uses his x-ray powers to determine who was banging his wife. Why did I use the phrase "x-ray powers"? Well, because he must be Superman to figure out who was doing the deed, Just because you have a sample of DNA doesn't mean you know who he is.
ReedRichards is a classic example of why the world has so many lawyers. Vows and promises are just verbal diarrhea him. Meaning absolutely nothing. Just say them and pretend you mean it until something better comes along. He's the kind of guy that if you're in the same room with him it makes you want to go take a hot shower to get the stench off of you.
pretty much a pure formulaic retelling of 99% of other LW stories, but okay for what it is.
it is an 'established' fact. In fact, a big law firm in the state where I live runs radio and TV ads constantly about it. They only represent men, fighting for their rights and child custody and visitation fairness, because the courts are so one-sided. For you not to know this is a reality, implies you either benefit from that bias and are quick to defend it, or you simply have no idea what you're talking about.
You know it's bad when your spouse is "defiantly out of sorts." Gotta love Auto Correct!
As for a divorce without ranker: It turns out Les was responsible for maintaining the fishermen's leader board in the club. Thus he was a ranker. Hubby didn't want him involved in the divorce, hence a divorce without ranker.
re: Superman x-ray vision.
Yeah, but if you have a lot of DNA results in your records, and a good computer, you might find several relatives that you could home in on the fucker. Or, easier, Fucker has been incarcerated in the area and the club submitted his sample to Hubby’s company in his employment application!
Agree with Grimmer. Also the epilogue was unnecessary.
Leave something to the reader's imagination.
I enjoyed the story.
A couple of comments:
1. It isn't explained how he figured out it was Lester that was with his wife. Presumably it has something to do with DNA but what database did the main character have access to that had Lester's DNA?
2. In this case, knowing of two different men and this latest one being ongoing for several months, why would the marriage potentially be saved if she came clean with him after he's made it clear he knows there is something she should be telling him? It doesn't make any sense to me.
3. Ok, a third comment. If they split and he'd cheated, she'd get 50%. If they'd split and nobody cheated, she'd get 50% When the split after she cheated, she got 50%. How is a 50-50 split rewarding her for cheating?
3.5 stars for the guy not being a cuck. It's a commentary on sad state of the world in general and LE's LW section specifically, that I considered giving 5 stars JUST for that :( I almost gave it a 4, but then rememberd he STILL was planning to keep the marriage if only the piece of shit told him the truth.
-1 star because zero BTB. The bitch even kept relationship with kids AND made out like a bandit financially.
Great story, thanks for sharing. Loved that last line, "It took a tornado to uncover the real storm."
Ok story, the tornado was a new twist..
In terms of the DNA , the story does stretch things more than a bit..the only way he could match the DNA would be he had a sample on file in a db, or he could somehow hack into a sitw like 23 and Me and trace it. Even if he has access to law enforcement DNA db's, Les DNA would not be there, they only take DNA samples when it is something like rape or murder where the guy was a suspect, they didn't routinely get DNA the war they do fingerprints. So it would be hard to find who someone was from the DNA ,would take time.
1*. An absolute cut and paste cheating wife story. Not an original thought or premise in it. Of course hubby could do his own DNA and had FBI contacts! Very juvenile. The usual LDM will be jacking off all over themselves though.
A DNA sample can tell many interesting things, from ethnicity to potential physical characteristics. That can really narrow the field.
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The possibility of an relationship match in an ancestry database could leave only a very small number of people to check.
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Though illegal, cops do this all the time. Once they an zero in, parell construction leads to probable cause to to get a DNA sample for formal comparison.
Sorry Angelrider, the bitch/slut shouldn’t be rewarded for breaking trust, abandoning fidelity and basically betraying someone who loved her, she chose to do wrong, generally if you lie, cheat and steal you get punished, I would have used the videos to destroy the whore anyway, shouldn’t hav got married if she still wanted to sleep around, glad one arsehole got beaten a couple of times, should have happened to the Lester arsehole as well
Only error I noticed is you used ranker when it should have been rancor. Nothing over the top on either parties part just another sad story about life.
Well written, but nothing new. Had to be throw to the curb BTB to get such high ratings. Nothing new.
For the people who missed it…. When the neighbour mentioned Lester he said he’d got in trouble with the law but was turning over a new leaf.
If he’s been in trouble they’d be records, if he’s been a model citizen they would not be a record on file.
The Mc runs labs doing this sort of works so thinking about it he’d find a match when he ran the DNA from the spermicide sample.
The writer should have clarified that but people asking how her miraculously ‘ knew’ weren’t thinking about it. You probably struggle with TV detective shows too lol
I find it hard to believe that Liz didn't catch on that Henry knew. He comes back from the lake with a whole new attitude and she doesn't have a glimmer? Otherwise a pretty goof hash of LW tropes. Nothing new to be sure but well told.
A new and different way to discover a cheating spouse, I think, as I don't remember another story where a storm and science uncovered the adultery.
Cleverly done, with a "5" for the tale.
While it is obvious the author intended to have Liz deny the affair when confronted, it also seems rather probable that Liz could have or should have that the jig was up and tried confessing. What did she have to lose?
1) Henry turned down sex THREE times in one week, turning down sex is often a red flag for cheating and if you (ie Liz) are cheating I would strongly suspect either he (Hanry) is cheating OR he (Henry) knows/suspects you (Liz) are
2) there is a distinct lack of normal loving interaction from Henry (loving touches, loving words, etc)
3) the picture(s) in which a picture of the ziploc is prominent
4) being confronted by very serious Henry upon your (Liz) return from the lake house and Henry all but saying "I know your secret
gave it a grade of 5 but it's a weak 4.6
could of been a little better; with more exciting parts of the story.
writer's choice; so you got your grade of 5
Well written and the story flows very well. I still can’t imagine sitting on the knowledge your wife cheated on you for days until finally confronting her with the truth.
You wrote hubby as a pontificating self-righteous prick. I give this story a 2.
Good story especially the parts on what a fucked up court system we have when adultery is involved. It is effectively a breach of contract and should be treated as such.
Great story with the very rare, in LW stories, new way of discovering the cheating. Too bad he couldn’t burn the bitch completely, but he did get to Lester and Jensen with some professional and personal pain.
Another cheating wife story. All seem to familiar originality is very rare these days
I understand the idea the wife would have put no special effort into hiding her richly doused with DNA clothing since she knew the trash would be picked up before anyone returned to the cabin. That logic does not explain, however, why said clothing had been hermetically sealed in a ZipLock storage bag. Why would the wife have done that? Aside from that quandry, it was a great read for me. Many thanks to the author. Please write another soon.
Thanks for this!! Always enjoy your tales. And thanks for including an epilogue. Always like to know what happened after the fact. Looking forward to your next one. :)
Reed, I don't know if you're being deliberately obtuse or what, but having sex with a non-virgin is NOT the same thing as "sloppy seconds." I don't know if there is any specific time period, but just the use of the word "sloppy" implies that the other man's semen is still in the woman's vagina, indicating recent sexual activity.
"my wife was defiantly out of sorts." - Definitely, not defiantly.
She was defiant as well he jumped his shit when he asked if all was ok.
How did he identify Lester from the DNA? You need something to compare it to.
Lester had served time in prison, all prisoners are swabbed.
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you are no better than lester or jensen or any other prick that goes after married women!
Entertaining story, the glitch that cost you a point is the discovery of Lester’s ID thru DNA. What database had Lester’s DNA detail on it? His crimes were never serious enough to warrant the state to obtain or keep his DNA. That was a big hole in the tale
Scores 4/5, l enjoyed it the tale was quite imaginative.
Reed, you’re getting too much of my anonymous ranker. I’m going to have to up my game.
A good tho ultimately sad story. Along with a commenter below, I ask why the wife put those clothes in a zip-loc bag when she thought the garbage would be picked up. If not for that, the rain might've taken care of the remnants of her cheating. Either way, she doomed herself by that action... which led to everything else. 1st story I've read from this author but will look at others. Tho the action's expected, writing kept me interested. 4 stars Bob
Good story. As for the DNA critics, Lester went to prison for B&E. Prison. Who knows what happened there, the author didn't delve into it because this story wasn't about Lester. Besides, you may think the gov. doesn't have DNA on everyone, and you would be right. But I bet they are getting closer every day. Giving 5 stars.