There are . In "Ascending Lauren" You have children. In fact many stories have children as props
I don't know it might but I think ch 34 kinda felt very close to what first 8 chapters.
Mostly financial, I realize, but I was just pointing out that it isn't just a tool for a writer in a fictional setting, there is some basis in fact for relationships with small children ending.
Dan's marriage broke down during the financial crisis. Financial difficulties and Sarah have already left Dan. Chapter 20 proves Lester's conquest. I hope Dan's computer, which is very modern, gets something from Lester's network. It's a top-notch PC; the Sentinel staff also gave it to Dan, but it would be complicated if it contained information beyond what Dan works on. (It would be very amateurish of the company to give a computer, with the possibility of the entire company being hacked or all the projects being taken over by a freelancer.) Am I the only one waiting for sex between Dan and the Sentinel girl? It would be nice for the employee to say that Dan is her work husband. They could work together for a few hours and everything would be fine.
Exactly in fact Lester being rich and Dan being poor is what would have broken rhe marriage
In Lauren Ascendant, we have a significant age difference between the couple. The husband is 61 and Lauren is 48 and has erectile dysfunction. As a man, I don't understand why they go through so much humiliation. Could it be emotional dependence? A woman accepts her husband's infidelity (for family, financial dependence, when the man is very manipulative and emotionally dependent), but men find it difficult to accept this. Here in Brazil, this open marriage business isn't as common as in the US; most infidelities lead to the wife's murder.
Open marriages shouldn't be confused with infidelity/cheating
1. The way I see it, the moment you take that monumental decision to share your wife, you should know you stand the risk of humiliation, possibly losing her completely or other complications. This is why I have little or no sympathy for Dan
My harshest take is bcuz such stories touch a chord in men they deny. A reality that males are afraid to admit bcuz no man wants to appear powerless.
I understand your point of view.
Thank you. Glad someone finally stepped up and said it. Ethical non-monogamy and cheating are not the same thing. At all.
Its the ultimate betrayal of the marriage. The womb is absolutely the one thing that, throughout history has been promised in matrimony. In fact back in the days before full out civilization, when everything was just little communal groupings, the entire purpose of marriage was to have babies to make your grouping stronger -- not to mention the amalgamation of the two groups the marriage came from, as they would go from two small groups to one larger group. This is also the reason for incest fetish - incest would not make the groupings bigger and therefore not as safe and quite detrimental to future society. Blue bloods proved that incest isn't harmful in its own right, they had babies that were fine, but that taboo was firmly in place through centuries of making ourselves safe, same with the womb. If someone allowed another to fill the womb that would be a detrimental strike toward the safety of the grouping that could not be undone at that time. Many groups would consider it such a blow to the group's security that death was the only answer.
AMEN, MAN(Long time TA reader, first time poster)
I (and my SO) have been reading TA together for some time now, and have also become dissatisfied with the story.
I don't personalize the story the way some people do - it's a fantasy story after all - so I don't come at this from a place of personal investment. I don't particularly care about the characters per se, but I do love a hot well-written sex story, and those aren't all that easy to find.
To me, the objection in later chapters compared to earlier chapters, is that the earlier chapters seemed to focus on Sarah's journey of exploration, pushing personal boundaries, the uncertainty around that, her vulnerability as she proceeds, how her and her husband shared that, the raw emotion and sexuality around that, etc. Combined with the author's ability to write a far above average sex scene, and that was a story to enjoy.
Now in the later chapters, we seem to be focused on Sarah in a repeating infinite loop of very similar sexual acts, and at the same time becoming a sadistic pig. She's simply becoming an unpleasant main character, and we're somehow to reasonably believe that this is naturally buried beneath some sort of sex addiction/nymphomania thing that she can't control even one tiny iota, every single time an obnoxious 300 pound fat hairy asshole shakes his cock at her - at the expense of her career, her marriage, her children, her home, etc.
Herein lies where the story loses me. Well, two things. One, the sheer unbelievability of the whole scenario, and many subplots within the story. Again, I get it - it's a fictional story. I liked Game of Thrones (first several years anyway), and I never truly believed a fire breathing dragon was going to actually show up in my neighborhood someday. But there are just so many instances of Sarah especially (but Dan also) just behaving in a manor that is simply silly and not at all even a little bit plausible. I won't list them all, but they've been discussed in detail. There are many examples. Sarah and her old boss. Sarah and the janitor at her workplace. Sarah in the scummy theater. The story loses some of its impact when the plausibility factor is near zero.
The second thing, is that the story has simply become numbingly repetitive. Lester waddles in, waves his cock for a half a minute, Sarah loses all reason and has 14 orgasms. Wash, rinse, repeat. Even her verbiage during the sex scenes has become repetitive. Another example, Dan being "frozen" the first couple or three times he sees Sarah getting fucked....sure, that's a solid story theme. But when Dan is frozen for the 3,592,145th time in a row....it gets hard to swallow after awhile.
A lot of people have talked about when the story jumped the shark, but to me, it was when Sarah left work and went to Lester's hotel....and then proceeded to get fucked in a pile of Cheetos. The two of us literally laughed out loud when reading that silliness, and in fact, that was the last my SO read of the story. She gave up at that point, so now I follow TA solo.
There were a couple of points earlier in the story, where the author touched on how Sarah 'got her way' when arguing with Dan, or that perhaps she didn't fight fairly or with honesty (the scene with her parents after the theater thing). That's an angle that I wish was explored more in the story. It could have explained Dan's actions more than the "Dan is a sad defeated pussy" that we're kind of left with at this point.
Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion.
I am thinking the story needs a real break.
