Classics from the Loving Wives category

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No better place to see The Human Problem than in what we fetishize. Literary erotica is mostly wishful thinking and revenge. The "Loving Wives" category is either hotwifing from people who secretly hate their slut wives, or men (mostly) trying to analyze where marriage, casual sex, and divorce went wrong.

• A Good Friend
• All in Good Time
• Alice Screws Up
• Already Gone
• Already Gone
• America's Watching
• Anniversary Cheat
• Another Chance
• The Architect
• Ask Aunt Agatha
• The Best Revenge Is a Life Lived Well
• The Bridge
• Burning Down the House
• Caroline Alone
• A Cheated Woman's Fury
• Cheating Wives Always Slip Up
• Checked Out
• Christmas Biology Lesson
• The Cost
• The Crumpled Letter
• Dawn: A Cheating Slut Wife
• Devil Inside
• Did You Really Mean It?
• A Dirty Little Secret
• Divide and Conquer
• Driven to a New Beginning
• Fair Weather Friends
• First Love
• Fortune
• Four Year Itch
• Ginger Snaps
• Gone Away
• Grey Rock
• Hall Pass Blues
• Home Early
• I Knew The Bride
• I'll See You In Dreams
• Insecurity Cost Her Everything
• Intervention
• An Interview With Superman
• I Stop Losing
• It's the Same Old Story
• I Want To Hold Your Hand
• John and Diane
• Karen and Mark
• Kathy and Gregg
• Let Go
• Let's Zoom
• Look of Lust
• Lost at Sea
• A Matter of Trust
• A Mighty Pen
• My Fragile Male Ego
• My Wife Goes on a Date
• Newtonian Meditation
• No Anniversary
• Now It Ends
• One Bad Year
• A Real Surprise Party
• Reevaluating a Wife and a Life
• Requital
• Second Life
• A Shortfall of Intelligence
• Sleeping With a Stranger
• Something Lost But Something Gained
• Squash Blossom
• The Talk
• Time Is the Ultimate Revenge
• Time to Trade Up
• An Unexpected Reaction
• The Unicorn Necklace
• Was It All Worth It?
• Was It Worth It?
• The Water Drop
• Where's Buster?
• We Need To Talk
• When God Closes a Door
• Why Are You Trying So Hard?
• Words
• Work Wife

Stories in this genre, other than the usual lit-erotica trope of an idealized man having lots of sex with multiple idealized women who fawn over him as if he had purchased them, take one of two forms: reconciliation at all costs (RAAC), or burn the bastard/bitch (BTB) in which the aggrieved and victimized innocent spouse, a husband (cuckold) or wife (cuckquean), embarks on divorce or separation with some element of retaliation or revenge.

A few new types have emerge. Burn your former life (BYFL) means destroying or stealing your net worth and escaping to a new identity, country, or lifestyle, and divorce and get on living a good life (DAGOLAGL) means simply escaping as best as possible. Much of this genre is fantasy and consists of cheating wives eventually realizing their mistake and ending up in pain. There is also a lot of sodomy and rage.

From a forum thread about literary erotica. To my mind, this is a fairly complete list but the real gem of this thread is the theme analysis and news stories which follow, some of which echo LW tropes. Still one of the best sections on this site, LW is controversial but let's face it, marriage is difficult and probably controversial too.