"Over the top." "Like a teenage Penthouse letter." "Harem."
Okay, now, listen..if you've ever read the sequels written by FinishTheDamnStory on Literotica (sadly, I don't think that he made it over here to SOL, nor did Damon X for some reason), you'd know, however well-written his work was (and it was very well-written), what "over the top" really is.
I mean, come on, which is more plausible, that the man who would find solace in the arms of his boss and his wife's now rather distraught former friend who realized how crazy Danielle was, or that the main character would sink to Danielle's level, kidnap her and her lover, murder Ramone slowly through privation, and then work at giving Danielle a case of Stockholm Syndrome?
Really? How is my stuff any more "over the top" than that? Again, Finish is a damn good writer and it was well done, but it defies plausibility and requires far more suspension of disbelief to picture such criminal, vigilante justice that puts him on the same moral level as Danielle than to imagine that, after being treated by doctors and nurses (which he should be), he takes the week off, tells the boss lady his sorrows, files criminal charges, seeks a restraining order, and files for divorce? Or that he would tip off the cops that he had just seen Ramone?
One pet peeve of mine, of course, is this tendency in stories to have the cheated husband go celibate for months at a time while his vows are long since broken and breached, absolving him of any obligation to be "faithful" to his cheating spouse, to have him be a fucking martyr in stories and never go for the booty, the pussy long denied him, never discover that perhaps monogamy was a steel trap and he was now well rid of its jaws.
Meanwhile, the wife is having all the fun in the world and it never occurs to the husband that a good bit of ruthlessness can tilt the balance in his own favor? Like tricking her into saying something that can be used against her and land her in jail as she deserves in this case. In other words, why is every husband in these stories not only more patient than Job, but dumb as a ton of bricks?
And you call MY work unrealistic and over the top? Get out of town!