Couple stays together for the kids...

[Zeb_Carter]

Here's an idea I had a while back and I'm pretty sure I will never get around to writing it... so whoever wants it:

A husband catches his wife in bed with another. He files for divorce and splits everything down the middle. (this happened before the no-fault divorce was foisted on everyone by a screwed up sense of fairness) The wife wanted everything. The husband laughed at her. Her lawyer went into maniac mode. He tore up every divorce decree she handed him to sign. His lawyer went into maniac mode. Neither was going to win. There were young children involved. He stayed. She didn't like it but agreed they would live together until the children were old enough to decide their fate.

Now that they are still living together:

Do they still have sex with each other?
Do they bring home a lover? Pretty certain that would be a no, with young children still in the house.
Do they take turns going out to get some on the weekend?

How does the rest of their families take what is going on?

 

[CuttingEdge]

There was a short-film like this on sites a few years ago, and was semi-cockholding in that the wife and husband both knew each other was sleeping around. In any case the husband went to a house to meet up with a wife of another man (wife swapping), but her young son needed his mom which created a tense, awkward moment as the man realized cockholding and wife swapping had serious implications for families...but he stayed the night and sex with her anyway.

It was a different side of cockholding not often seen in a movie, and really added some tension and drama into a short film.

Here's an idea I had a while back and I'm pretty sure I will never get around to writing it... so whoever wants it:

A husband catches his wife in bed with another. He files for divorce and splits everything down the middle. (this happened before the no-fault divorce was foisted on everyone by a screwed up sense of fairness) The wife wanted everything. The husband laughed at her. Her lawyer went into maniac mode. He tore up every divorce decree she handed him to sign. His lawyer went into maniac mode. Neither was going to win. There were young children involved. He stayed. She didn't like it but agreed they would live together until the children were old enough to decide their fate.

Now that they are still living together:

Do they still have sex with each other?
Do they bring home a lover? Pretty certain that would be a no, with young children still in the house.
Do they take turns going out to get some on the weekend?

How does the rest of their families take what is going on?

 

[PattieD]

Great potential for a Hallmark movie

 

[LupusDei]

Now that they are still living together:

Do they still have sex with each other?
Do they bring home a lover? Pretty certain that would be a no, with young children still in the house.
Do they take turns going out to get some on the weekend?

How does the rest of their families take what is going on?

Depends heavily upon their living conditions, the size of their house.

If they're living in a two room flat, not two bedroom, two rooms total, where all children share one room while parents sleep on living room couch transform, there's one bathroom next to a tiny kitchen (and said living room might even be walk try to the children's room) -- as was fairly typical city accommodations in my childhood (in late Soviet Union) -- so, they are still forced to share the same bed, it's one thing.

They may effectively reconcile, perhaps making the relationship open. They may not have sex, but would need some level of intimacy acceptable or it would be ongoing hell for everyone. There's definitely very little chance to bring a lover home, even though teenagers still managed to do just that (we had no cars to fuck in), so maybe they may try more of the same, carefully scheduling activities when the flat is free. Unlike teenagers they can do that actively, send the rest to a movie so to have two hours for a fuck with a guest.

On the other end, if they have five-plus bedroom house, so that they can move out to split bedrooms (with a bathroom each) while each child has a room for themselves and then there's at least one free guest bedroom still, it's another story. There they can live as roommates and household union but otherwise almost strangers.

They still may even fuck too, going for irregular visits to one or another, but it can be more akin casual dating, again, and they can even enjoy that, again. Bringing a lover home, there's all the possibilities of non-traditional family quite open. Sure, children aren't stupid and would quickly determine "uncle" Ben, the frequent house guest, aren't sleeping in the guest bedroom all that often everyone's pretending, and is in fact mom's boyfriend.

But at least until brainwashed by religious bullshit too much, children are amazingly flexible, and they do have the concept of discretion, at least as long there's no open lies. And as long the two daddys don't try to determine who can hit other's jaw the hardest all too often (once in a great while even that's fun, as long mommy is cheering them on and not crying) it's a pure win: if one daddy deny something, you can go beg the other.

Or they may find an unicorn, a live in "nanny" who's paid in sex with one or both, separately or together (but perhaps not "uncle" Ben; also, there's a reason girls ready to do couples are called unicorns).

 

[sirhugs]

...

Or they may find an unicorn, a live in "nanny" who's paid in sex with one or both, separately or together (but perhaps not "uncle" Ben; also, there's a reason girls ready to do couples are called unicorns).

they are called unicorns because they are horny all the time?

 

[sirhugs]

I just stopped by to make a superglue joke ("stick together") but haven't had my coffee yet.

 

[sirhugs]

I just stopped by to make a superglue joke ("stick together") but haven't had my coffee yet.

Guess we have to wait for Carney.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Depends heavily upon their living conditions, the size of their house.

If they're living in a two room flat, not two bedroom, two rooms total, where all children share one room while parents sleep on living room couch transform, there's one bathroom next to a tiny kitchen (and said living room might even be walk try to the children's room) -- as was fairly typical city accommodations in my childhood (in late Soviet Union) -- so, they are still forced to share the same bed, it's one thing.

They may effectively reconcile, perhaps making the relationship open. They may not have sex, but would need some level of intimacy acceptable or it would be ongoing hell for everyone. There's definitely very little chance to bring a lover home, even though teenagers still managed to do just that (we had no cars to fuck in), so maybe they may try more of the same, carefully scheduling activities when the flat is free. Unlike teenagers they can do that actively, send the rest to a movie so to have two hours for a fuck with a guest.

On the other end, if they have five-plus bedroom house, so that they can move out to split bedrooms (with a bathroom each) while each child has a room for themselves and then there's at least one free guest bedroom still, it's another story. There they can live as roommates and household union but otherwise almost strangers.

They still may even fuck too, going for irregular visits to one or another, but it can be more akin casual dating, again, and they can even enjoy that, again. Bringing a lover home, there's all the possibilities of non-traditional family quite open. Sure, children aren't stupid and would quickly determine "uncle" Ben, the frequent house guest, aren't sleeping in the guest bedroom all that often everyone's pretending, and is in fact mom's boyfriend.

But at least until brainwashed by religious bullshit too much, children are amazingly flexible, and they do have the concept of discretion, at least as long there's no open lies. And as long the two daddys don't try to determine who can hit other's jaw the hardest all too often (once in a great while even that's fun, as long mommy is cheering them on and not crying) it's a pure win: if one daddy deny something, you can go beg the other.

Or they may find an unicorn, a live in "nanny" who's paid in sex with one or both, separately or together (but perhaps not "uncle" Ben; also, there's a reason girls ready to do couples are called unicorns).

In my mind I saw them as an average American family back in the 60s or 70s with a four bedroom house where the wife moved into the fourth bedroom. The wife and husband had to share a bathroom so each of the kids got their own.

I didn't see either being vindictive enough to have a live in partner. Just maybe a overnight partner on the weekends. While during the week they might have, seeing as how they are comfortable with each other, sex two nights a week together.

 

[Carnevil9]

I just stopped by to make a superglue joke ("stick together") but haven't had my coffee yet.

Guess we have to wait for Carney.

I want to hear more about this "cockholding" thing.

 

[LupusDei]

I didn't see either being vindictive enough to have a live in partner.

Vindictive? Or carefree?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Vindictive? Or carefree?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

 

[Hypoxia]

A husband catches his wife in bed with another.

Easy out: Hubby says, "Move over and pass the lube." Maybe he invites his GF in for the next session. There's a LIT plot bunny.

As Lupus said, living-space and/or economic situations strongly influence the outcome. When my middle-class suburban USA parents divorced, Dad moved out, but not very far away, and the folks' families lived nearby, so we kids regularly saw all our relatives.

If we had lived in a double-wide trailer when Mom cheated, and if nobody moved away, it would have been dicey, with three teens of varied genders stuck in bunkbeds in one little room, while parents and their lovers took the larger bedrooms for noisy sex. Mealtimes would be torturous.

Another plot bunny: Bob and Barbie and their 3 kids live in a redneck-trash trailer park. Alva and Alice and their kids are in the next trailer on one side while Dave, Debbie, and their kids are on the other side. Bob catches Barbie in their marriage bed with Alva and/or Dave so Bob takes up with Alice and/or Debbie in one or both of their trailers. Nobody can afford divorce fees. Do all the kids become common-law step-siblings because the varied parents are shacking-up? When older kids turn 18, do they join in the fun?

I'm reminded of a joke. If a couple in Arkansas divorces, are they still brother and sister?