I am looking for authors that write about heterosexual couples that have major issues in their marriage but after time reconnect finding what is missing and reconcile
I am looking for authors that write about heterosexual couples that have major issues in their marriage but after time reconnect finding what is missing and reconcile
I did that exact search today and came up with a total of 8 stories i don't know if the search is broken but I just searched again and came up with 23. Just RAAC is 24.
LOL! A number of my stories revolve about that.
Rough Waters
Her Apple Pie
Return from the Dark Side,
to name a few.
What about Ellen (aka Ellen Trilby), Joerg Isebrand, Can't Pick Your Family, In Her Genes, Suddenly Rich Kid?
In neither the three you named - nor the five I just added - were the couple actually married when things went pear-shaped. They only got married once they'd worked through their problems. In the story Bitter Pills, a couple almost split up but manage to work it out.
Most of Coaster2's stories are in a similar vein.
todd_d172's The Shack series has some examples, in Monster a couple divorce before finding their way together again, then there's "Pogo and Spooky", Nobody, and "Pogos Very Long Day".
Brendan Buckley's "Path to Glory" has the couple splitting up for a couple of years, then getting back together and marrying.
The 'cheating' elements implies most being after the marriage is already over (i.e. the 'bitchy' ex walks out, leaving the protagonist on their own, trying to figure out how to rebuild their own lives, though the whole focus lies in 'paying the bitch back', rather than working out wtf went wrong in the first place. So revealing the marriages breakup would essentially undermine the basic plot elements, as then the reader and the protagonist would have ample evidence of precisely where they failed. Thus most prefer forgoing that element entirely.
In todd_d172's "Monster", she left him because she could not stand his "job" and that he was away so much - no cheating involved. She later took up with someone else but that went really badly until her Ex decided he did not want his kids in a situation like that and got himself involved.
Most of HardDaysKnight stories fit the bill. example we-can-work-it-out
About a third of Just Plain Bob work
Boston to Birmingham by qhml1 and a few of his other ones.
Metamorph by Jezzaz -one of the few stories I actively hated.
There are many reconciliation stories on here but few have a RAAC tag.
Yeah, 'working it out' is the antithesis of the traditional 'burn-the-bitch' stories. Thus, that's a whole different category, yet … mostly if it's not a BTB story, then basically ANY story qualifies (i.e. there's no need for a separate classification).