Well that's kind of the issue a lot of people are having. The wife is actually committed to a husband
that for all intents and purposes is a complete idiot. They just have intimacy issues due to the move
and financial pressure. Plus he is a semi insecure jerk that wants her to stay at home while he does all
the "man stuff". Hence why she doesn't initially tell him about her job. That's the first bump in the road
most people have. The why didn't she just tell him? Because he didn't want her to have to do that as was
rather adamant about that. Plus it was at a place she knew he would not approve because of social biases.
Right or wrong of him to have. So she wasn't being a deceptive bitch, she was trying to ease the conflict she
knew it would cause.
The second plot hole readers tend to miss, though not their fault it's the bad pacing, is that the wife is
trying her best to solve their intimacy issues. She loves having sex with her husband and before the move
they had a strong, passionate and fulfilling sex life. She wants that back. She confides this to her best friend
who in turn does the wrong thing and tries talking her in to cheating. Which she continues to refuse to do.
Even though the story is so fractured she is and she isn't. The one and only reality in A Wife's Life is she
is being sexually harassed and assaulted at work. Whether she is actually being forced to do things with his
boss is left up to a broken path system. So technically no. Unless the MC keeps fucking around. Literally.
If the MC fucks the bosses daughter, the boss warns him what the consequences will be. So if you do...
He will fuck your wife and ruin you. if you fuck your secretary and ignore you responsibilities, he will
blackmail and ruin you. But the pathing is broken and left unfinished. So what you get is the kinetic
baseline.
The focus IS supposed to be on the wife and the husband's paranoia. But instead it's focused on making
the MC as unreal and stupid as possible. Meanwhile his wife is going through hell while he willingly ignores
it while spying on her for no other reason to masochistically drive himself (and the reader) insane.
On the positive, it's absolutely amazing how this trash fire has gathered such a great group of people around it
here to discuss it together
If the dev sees anything I hope it's that. They they have a potentially really good thing here if they just
stop, rethink, fix and adjust. Not because we say so. But because it's true. Don't just copy some other
bad story. Make a better one readers love. A Wife's Life still has that chance.