Hello,
The Type is my open marriage serialized novel here on Lush. It follows a married couple of thirteen years in modern New Jersey, beginning the day the husband realizes his wife has been cheating. He soon forces and receives her full confession, and together they agree to difficult, destabilizing terms going forward.
Garin is thoughtful, analytical, emotionally restrained; a rising corporate executive shaped by responsibility, ambition, and long hours. Exhausted, often distant, but a dutiful dad, he believes in loyalty, structure, and choosing bounds over chaos. Faced with betrayal, he decides not to explode or implode. Instead, he tries to understand, to negotiate, to reciprocate, and to stay standing inside a reality that no longer makes sense to him.
Lyrou is intelligent, intimate, disarming, compartmentalized and conflicted; a highly educated Frenchwoman who became a stay-at-home mother to support her man’s career, and slowly vanished inside the role. Once underappreciated, under-stimulated, and quietly lonely, she had spent years suppressing parts of herself before crossing a line she couldn't uncross, and refused to pretend to herself it didn't change her. She is neither villain nor victim, but something far more dangerous: honest for the first time.
And there are their paramours; the hypermasculine master of his domain Tom, the what-could-have-been first girlfriend Lindz, the camgirl sugarbaby Andrea, the performative urban llanero Paulo, and more lovers who not only leave their marks, but bring out sides of Garin and Lyrou nobody else sees.
Will their marriage survive like this? Should it? Are they even the same people anymore, or are they, finally, more truly themselves than they have ever been?
And could you or your spouse ever be the type?
-Pierce Amor
P.S.
This novel is completed and posts weekly on Lush. The prequel series, Cheater's Anthology, covers Lyrou's decade of extramarital affairs and flings before unsuspecting Garin knew her secret world. Cheater's Anthology will begin posting once The Type series has concluded.
Thank You!
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