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Indeed it does. You're right the situations do matter a lot and no one situation is the same. I can understand the reasons she may cheat on him. I really can. You're right some have a partner just to do certain things they don't want to do to or with or for their husband ... you know things that might make hard for them to look the one they love in the face the next day... I understand that too.

I want something to happen to my MC either he get's fished out of the river, or collapses while walking somewhere. Either way something bad happens to him.

If the husband is dead to her I'm really thinking she wouldn't care she wouldn't worry about where he is etc.

I've read stories where a husband leaves a cheating wife and goes walking and she'll blow up his phone or call his friends and family trying to find him but only to tell her side of events, or keep things covered up, or basically some selfish reason.

Actually I read one (that's the only one I could find) where the husband left, wife tracked him down and what he saw was basically her being forced into a extra marital liaison (blackmailed really). She didn't want a divorce and they get back together again. She was actually worried about him. But that was a rare case. He wasn't dead to her, she still respected him.

Other stories the husband is dead and the wife looses all respect because the husband is weak or has lost sexual attraction. Which goes into that Dark Triad theory stuff.

But I still find myself without a lot of examples to work with to come up with a reasonable plan of execution or to ascertain a sound answer.

However I do thank you for taking the time to respond.