I know what BTB stands for, but can someone please tell me what RAAC means? Thanks in advance.
The only one I know of is the Royal Australian Automobile Club which is a very old organisation people join for roadside help when their car breaks down.
LOL. Context would have helped...sorry. I have seen it in the context of solutions for cheaters. The opposite of BTB, as it were.
Without context it could mean anything. Try this, maybe one of them is what you are searching for.
It means Reconciliation At All Costs and is only really used in variations on BTB (Burn The Bitch) stories.
I sometimes resemble that remark most of my BTB story starts stay that way, but occasionally the muse makes it a RAAC
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I sometimes resemble that remark most of my BTB story starts stay that way, but occasionally the muse makes it a RAAC
I can see a way to combine both.
The woman cheats and then she is the one that wants to reconcile at any/all cost(s). Make her husband demanding about it to the point she has to become his slave if she wants to reconcile.
But most of the time in these stories it is the one who was cheated on that is the only one to pay any costs in the process of reconciliation. Makes them as reprehensible as the BTB stories IMO.
But most of the time in these stories it is the one who was cheated on that is the only one to pay any costs in the process of reconciliation.
True, but by what reason does it have to be that way? Make the cheater the one paying the costs, the one who wants to reconcile at all costs and you have a more interesting story.
I've read several StangStar06 stories meeting that description. Usually there's no reconciliation but sometimes there's a partial reconciliation, even friendship.
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Usually there's no reconciliation but sometimes there's a partial reconciliation, even friendship.
It doesn't have to be a reconciliation in the traditional sense. That's why I suggested a combo RAAC / BTB. They end up still in a relationship, but it's a very different relationship than the one they used to have.
The story Second Best (mostly about older teens forming couples, but also the relationships between the various parents) contains a related scenario, but not involving cheating.
Wife grew up with a very strict father and equates love with rules and discipline to enforce those rules (only subconsciously at the start). She constantly spends more than they can afford, dumps on her husband verbally all the time, and punishes him with lack of nookie.
Of course she is so hung up on the most restrictive Victorian view of sex that when she does put out it isn't any good for either of them.
The kids convince dad to put his foot down and stop taking no for an answer. Husband was very uncomfortable with a strong dominant role, but by the end of the story, they've gone TPE* and both are happier for it. She realized along the way that at least in part she was doing what she had been doing to her husband in an effort to get him to put his foot down.
A similar scenario could be built around the woman cheating as part of punishing husband/boyfriend for not being alpha male enough to put his foot down and punish her for her behavior.
*Total Power Exchange.
True, but by what reason does it have to be that way? Make the cheater the one paying the costs, the one who wants to reconcile at all costs and you have a more interesting story.
RAAC for the cheated makes them a doormat, while RAAC for the cheater is a natural cost of even entertaining the notion of putting up with them any longer. Just because the cheater WANTS to get back together wouldn't mean they'd succeed.
A classic example would be someone who not only cheated, but threatened their children (either through drug use or by exposing them to dangerous individuals. In trying to reconcile, the estranged parent could force their partner to sign a 'Custodial Parent Agreement', so that if/when they cheated again, they'd lose access to their kid.
I sometimes resemble that remark most of my BTB story starts stay that way, but occasionally the muse makes it a RAAC
If every story ends the same way, then they're hardly original, are they? Creativity means going where the story takes you, regardless of what others expect or demand. Though it's a warning about venturing into that particular sub-genre.
Blood From a Turnip and the two follow up stories by Cpete explore this arc. Includes shooting the ex, having her jailed, then reconciled to a friends with benefits level. The author makes it work.
All cheating wife stories and the occasional reverse cheating husband version, have a limited fact set to work from and a limited number of outcomes to the relationship. They are 'slice of life' stories.
Full novels can have cheating and its consequences as a plot thread, but its not everything thats going on in the characters life. In a cheating wife story the cheating is central to everything that happens.
Making the story original enough to be interesting and plotted and populated with likable characters to obtain buy in from the reader is probably harder than in other genres. Insults such as 'cuck shit' regularly thrown at authors in the comments on Lit's 'loving wives' category indicates some of the readers are seeking real life catharsis, not just temporary entertainment during down time.
Some want vengeance and smiting. Also biblical plagues. The final judgement and casting into eternal hellfire would be barely enough. Others want things to work out right, the family to pull back together, forgiveness sort and given.
The two sides will never be reconciled.
Some want vengeance and smiting. Also biblical plagues. The final judgement and casting into eternal hellfire would be barely enough. Others want things to work out right, the family to pull back together, forgiveness sort and given.
The two sides will never be reconciled.
There is middle ground here. Forgiveness need not be unconditional. Punishment is not incompatible with forgiveness. And pulling the family back together doesn't have to mean everything goes back the way it was with no changes.
How about a different slant...?
Wife cheats majorly, husband finds out, kicks her out, she pleads to reconcile, he sets terms, she abides by them, they do reconcile. Obviously this takes place over time, at least months maybe a year.
A year or two later their kids are old enough to move out and do so, without looking back, disgusted at their mother for cheating and at their father for taking her back into 'their' home and lives.
Just a thought.
Thats been done to a certain extent. Adult children ghosting their parents is a fairly common theme.
Normally its by siding with one parent and refusing to interact with the sinner, even when the sinned upon want the family to stay in touch. Of course the opposite has been tried, with kids who ghost the sinned upon for failing to forgive / accept immorality.
Then there are the kids who are ghosted by the sinned upon for failing to inform, the kids who are ghosted by the sinner to allow a totally new life, the kids who are taken and turned against the sinned upon, then abandoned by the sinner. There is nothing new under the sun or in Loving Wives stories.