Hi Ian,
Ah.... so that is, in fact, what happened. And yes, that is something for you to feel good about. (Sorry about the slow response. For some reason or other I neglected to follow your thread here in the "Wife Pix" section.)
It sounds like Fran has her head on straight with respect to you vis-a-vis her lovers. It's good to hear she resisted John's "possessive onslaught" even though it meant a less than pleasant vacation. It sounds, in fact, like the real purpose of John inviting her to join him for a trip to Spain was to separate her from you and Mike, so he could convince her to run off with him. Had Fran done so, she would undoubtedly have found herself with a jealous man who would have insisted she be monogamous with him.... and possibly treated her abusively, as well.
On the whole, John sounded like bad news.
It's good to hear Fran cut him loose.
—Custer