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Just_WordsJust_Wordsalmost 5 years ago
Very powerful and very sad.

I found it to be completely believable. Good job. Great story.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 5 years ago
WOW

Out of all your stories which are very good, this one is excellent.

YouamiYouamialmost 5 years ago
Wow...an emotional tsunami

Slirpuff

An emotional and very moving piece of writing. I know it touched me as well as many of your other readers. This truly was quality mayetial and is one of the main reasons I still read and participate as a Literotica member. Power to you!

26thNC26thNCalmost 5 years ago
Hurt

That one hurt me. Such depth of sadness in a story.is rare. The only saving grace is Jim's fate. I hope he felt a lot of pain before he died.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 5 years ago
I'll tell you why 5 stars

I have never read a story that more accurately presented the angst and despair of losing a child. Everybody, but especially the mother, hurts beyond belief. Slirpuff accurately presents that hurt and pain. The infidelity is often the result of this kind of loss because neither the wife or the husband are in a position to be supportive of their spouse. Outside support by a preditor, as in this story, ends up destroying everything.

Excellent writing of a very difficult genre.

detroitdave

Freddog6601Freddog6601about 5 years ago
Depressing

This is one of those stories I wish I hadn’t read.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 5 years ago
Depression is a deep dark hole

and changes the whole mindset; perceptions, responses, attitudes, self talk... just everything going on in the mind of the +sufferer. That said, she still knew right from wrong and was aware at least on some level that she was making poor decisions.

While the husband would probably have been able to forgive, he could afterall understand and empathize with her pain, reconciliation may have been a bit much. It would have had to start with her accepting responsibillity for her actions and most importantly seeking treatment. I can see no way for the husband to allow her back into his life in any more than the most superficial manner until she had done so and been at it long enough to show her commitment and dedication to her recovery.

The root problem was that the wife's grief and guilt made her unable to forgive herself, something that therapy would have helped her with. Truly they both should have gone following the child's death, but the husband was in a no win situation when she refused. He still should have went even if only for his own grief and help dealing with her behavior.

Sadly, with the wife gone the husband is left with only guilt and self recrimination and unless he avails himself of some help he too will slip down into that deep dark hole, probably crawl into a bottle to hide, and die there. Slow motion suicide.

AnonymousAnonymousover 5 years ago
Fuck "All is forgiven..."

She fucks her boss, gets pregnant and he forgives her? Not a chance. She made the right choice.

More cuckold trash.

Mauser45Mauser45over 5 years ago
Wait...

I just realised that this was a Slirpuff story.

Pathetic. As usual.

Mauser45Mauser45over 5 years ago
.......................................................

Pathetic

AnonymousAnonymousover 5 years ago
It's sad

A good story, but I can't help but feel personally that your moral missed the mark.

"Why didn't I just forgive her." That's almost too easy to answer. Grief over her death wont change her actions and behaviors towards her ex-husband. He was there for her, and she lashed out. She betrayed him, and he moved on. He did nothing wrong, and him second guessing himself now is cruel, but a normal part of grief. He lost his wife much earlier when she cheated on him emotionally and then physically. He's had to grieve for her twice, one too many times. If she didn't take her own life, she'd have a chance to make it up to him. Maybe she'd have to wait. I know, it's crazy that a woman isn't allowed what she wants immediately. It's sexist that she has to put his happiness above her own need for involvement. But what can you do in such a horrible patriarchy? Men and women have equal opportunity in the west, and women even have slightly less responsibility and slightly more opportunity. Such a male dominated space, ugh. But I'm ranting. She never got a chance to learn from her toxic attitudes and choices because she threw in the towel when the work needed doing.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 6 years ago
Ended just right

For the selfish slut.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 6 years ago
TRYING TO TURN THE TABLE

Cheating doesn’t deserve redemption not matter how well the devil defends herself. Let’s not mince words here, Making the husband’s ‘what if’ a plot device is trolling in a petty, shameful way.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 6 years ago
Powerful Piece

A moving story (as one commenter said “That plays out somewhere every day”). It demonstrated the actual cost to actions and decisions made. A loss to many and devastating to some. You only hope that the husband can eventually find some way cope with the loss and not blame himself. The coulda/ shoulda/ woulda blame and remorse situation could end up causing him to make the final “end game” decision she made. Fine story by the author, thanks for sharing it.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 6 years ago
Sad but true

Sadly, this story plays out for real somewhere in the country everyday

mark73107mark73107almost 6 years ago
So sad

You have written an excellent story of infidelity and sorrow.

Sad beyond belief but well done.

dragonmann72dragonmann72almost 6 years ago
Kind of a late chime in here

but as I read this story, yes the husband tried his best to communicate with his wife up until he barged in on her and the snake. When she finally woke up from her self induced pity party it was to late. If life hadn't dealt her a loosing hand snake slapped her again with the how many others have you been sleeping with. predators feed on the weak and know just how to play them. It was sad that her depression was so deep she chose to take her own life.The only problem I see is John will never be whole again either.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 6 years ago

Sad story, but the wife was an imbecile to fall for her boss' bullshit and a bitch for taking out her grief on the husband...

calflashcalflashalmost 6 years ago
sad

It's sad that those who are left behind suffer the most

AnonymousAnonymousabout 6 years ago
'Twas the best of times, it was the worst of times,,,,,

My first wife gave birth to a "bastard" daughter. I wish I'd flipped the table on him, beat the ever living fuck out of him, do 3 to 5, get a dishonorable discharge from the Army? But I would have beaten his ass to within an inch of his life- from both directions. Even after 34 years the bitterness and hatred? I'd fucking cut her brake lines,,,

AnonymousAnonymousabout 6 years ago
RESPONSE TO tazz317 's UNBELIEVABLY STUPID COMMENT on 02/18/18

You, tazz, are what's commonly known as a blithering idiot. You run off at the mouth, babbling that he didn't try to communicate with her when his attempts to talk to her was one of the things that was causing ARGUMENTS between them.

I won't ask if you're stupid because the moronic comments you posted provided conclusive evidence that you ARE. That being the case, just shut the fuck up and try to focus on what you're reading so you'll stop missing so much.

iT'S A GOOD ONE. 4 STARS

Schwanze1Schwanze1about 6 years ago
Powerfu

and brutal.

tazz317tazz317over 6 years ago
A MANS EGO AND FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

until the bitter end where its too late except for the pain, TK U MLJ LV NV

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
Response to comment by Anonymous 02/04/18

You wrote: ((( And the end implying that he may have gotten away with murder is good for completing a revenge but killing is wrong, and apart from that, seems a bit out of place in a piece focused on grief. And beating someone up so bad they can't be recognized would probably seriously fuck up teeth. How the hell do you do that, anyway? He must be Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think these elements move us on from the touching letter too quickly, washing the palette clean of sorrow before its time. )))

He had weeks and months while waiting through the asshole's divorce,to wish for something that resembled JUSTICE, for what that asshole had caused. As for the physical damage, a Louisville slugger will do one hell of a job, when meaningfully applied for an extended period of time by someone who has his heart and soul in it.

It was a sad tale with no way for her to undo the wreckage she'd made of their love and, instead of living with the consequences, she took the coward's way out. But at least she left the letter of explanation confessing what she'd done.

I gave the story 4 stars because he didn't keep him alive longer and take two or three months beating his soul out before cutting up his carcass and running the scraps through a bone chipper.

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
things you can do

When you have a short story you can get away with making all of it the climax, although nothing seems missing. As touching as it was at her death to say those things, I have to say it was just grief and not a real change of heart. I doubt he would have taken her back, or done things differently. And thats his choice. He's going to be pretty messed up for a while before he can move on.

And the end implying that he may have gotten away with murder is good for completing a revenge but killing is wrong, and apart from that, seems a bit out of place in a piece focused on grief. And beating someone up so bad they can't be recognized would probably seriously fuck up teeth. How the hell do you do that, anyway? He must be Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think these elements move us on from the touching letter too quickly, washing the palette clean of sorrow before its time.

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
Heart-wrenching

This story is well written, but so sad. Losing a child can be absolutely devastating to a family. Many marriages do not survive it as isolation and sometimes irrational blame just take control. The emotions and reactions portrayed in this story are very realistic. Did the wife's actions make sense. Absolutely not. However, when it comes to grief, they rarely do.

One or both spouses pushing away is a very realistic emotion. A person seeking solace from someone else than their spouse happens. When a person shares their vulnerability to someone of the opposite gender, unintended consequences happen. The husband giving up on the marriage after he finds her cheating while he did what he could to be a source of strength to her is understandable. Him having doubts after his ex-wife's death is very real. Her death is permanent and there's no way to bring her back if he wanted to. We all do 'what ifs' when tragedy happens.

So kudos to the author for a very realistic, sad, heart-wrenching story. I couldn't rate the story. It's very good, but I can't give a five to a story that makes me feel so sad, but it doesn't any less either.

etchiboyetchiboyover 6 years ago
Loved this story. Just one question...

... what happened to the pregnancy? Time frame between her finding out she was pregnant and the suicide is not given. I would assume she died pregnant, or aborted the fetus then suicided. I hope she didn’t “have the baby” then suicided. But it’s not clear.

Otherwise, perhaps a Literotica Classic. Anyways, 5-stars from me.

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
It happened to a friend of mine

only that after her child died, she first went into depression and then a group of single and divorced friends took her out trying to cheer her up. She started to live the single life and her husband had no choice but divorce her, He lose his son and his wife in less than a year. She is not remorseful though, she hooked up with some guy se met while she was still married with him.

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
tragic statistic

After a child dies 95 per cent of married couples end up divorced

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
SWEET TO THINK....

That unlike so many of these stories, the assholes responsible paid the ultimate price. When you have righteous indignation, that kind of punishment makes sense.

BuzzCzarBuzzCzarover 6 years ago
Second Read

I think this is one of the better written stories on this site. T'is quite hard to get me to feel sympathy for a cheating wife but this one does.

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
Just A Thought

Firstly, I would divorce anyone that cheats, even one time, yes it is that bad. It depends on your mind set and many will disagree with this statement, many will agree.

He was a gold digger and he paid the consequences for his actions, but it takes two. Yes I am aware of depression, mental illness etc. and its affects but it is still cheating.

Of the story I feel she committed suicide, it may have been a one off sudden emotion as she drove past the railings and to force the car to drive through them. At that point I do not feel she was in a sound mind.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
just one thing

She was warned numerous times about predatory boss but chose to ignore husband in favor of boss.

The sex was not as big a problem as the transference of loyalty

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
Rehnquest

With such an understanding husband like yourself, your neighbors must be enjoying ....If you know what I mean.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
Kelly

You seems like a cheating pussy too.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
Harryin VA

Man, you think straight. No bullshit.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
Thebullet this world

Is become a worst place because of men like you. I wish I live in your neighbor to have your wife you sorry ass cuckold.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
Ooo zed0

You look like a genuine man. Thumbs up6596

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
John is

A bloody cuckold whimp. And her excuses are bullshit. Carrying other's man child and telling your husband that she love him. John will be a nut to believe this bullshit. Killing a boss does not make him a man. Killing a cheating bitch does. She was not raped she went up with her sweet wish. Total whimpy bullshit story. 0*

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 7 years ago
a fan, but not of this story

I'm a fan of this writer, but disliked this story.

John had plenty of reason to leave. There's no reason for regrets. I understand being sad, but the wanting her back in the circumstances of this story, even at the memorial service, is something I couldn't identify with at all-and there was certainly no other character to identify with.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 7 years ago
well written but

if you think people will feel sympathy for the slutty whore dead scumbucket wife , i suspect you may be mistaken .

AnonymousAnonymousabout 7 years ago
Cheating

Because their baby she forgot what a great husband she had and didn't realise the he was hurting to. Then she got tangled with a male coworker talking about things that should have the province of her and her husband All the coworker wanted was to get into her knickers. After he did things took a turn for the worse for her.

ptolmetptolmetabout 7 years ago
Sadness

I think the measure of the skill of an author to bring an emotional response in the reader. You certainly have done that in this piece. The sadness of the situation is palpable. The wife and husband are both deserved of the concern of others and the emotion of each is so well illustrated here.

Very good story. Very well written.

Thank you for sharing.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 7 years ago
good story

not sure if we're supposed to feel sympathy for the wife but i find that impossible

argusx2002argusx2002over 7 years ago
Very well done

This is a great short story. Sad but great.

auhunter04auhunter04over 7 years ago
Love

It is one for those strange words that is both a noun and a verb. The noun describes

the action of the verb.

No matter how much love you give(offer) someone they can always refuse or diminish the offering. It takes acceptance and returning that makes it a verb

I will leave it up to you to decide if there is truly a verb in this story

AnonymousAnonymousover 7 years ago
good story 5*

don't know if we are supposed to feel sympathy for her? but from a male perspective she did everything she could to destroy her husband and marriage. hard to believe a woman can act like that and still claim to love her husband.

AnonymousAnonymousover 7 years ago
This missed the mark by a mile

Everyone ended up exactly where they should have been. The cheating slut in a car crash and the asshole beaten dead. She blamed her husband for all her problems but would listen to her boss, have lunches with him, and go out to dinner and dancing. She wasn't in mourning, she was trolling for another cock to fall on. A truly pitiful pair. His display at the funeral was wimpy at best and mostly pathetic. 1* all day long.

AnonymousAnonymousover 7 years ago
Sorry tale

This story or similar has possibly happened many times in real life but not always with the same sad ending.

silentsoundsilentsoundover 7 years ago
Hard to sympathize

She stabs her husband over and over again and then fucks her boss and gets pregnant after telling her husband she isn't ready to make another baby with him?

Sorry. She should have tried becoming a human and raising a child that didn't ask for a stupid slut, bitch for a mom or a disgusting asshole for a bio dad.

I only feel for her unborn child. She was scum.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 8 years ago
Sad piece of crap

She made her bed. Then she took the coward's way out. Pathetic.

Tootight1Tootight1almost 8 years ago
good story

Why, because I liked it. It flowed well, and worked. In most stories, readers will try to associate with one of the characters in it, as I did. I found it relevant that he went to the funeral, and read the letter, along with his admission that he still loved her and wanted her back. The compassion of his mother and father, says a lot of their maturity, and understanding of what had happened. I don't remember the actual time or age of there marriage or if it was stated, but they seemed pretty young, maturity wise. a reader could also see the maturity and wisdom growing in the grieving husband. Good story overall.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 8 years ago
What a sad bastard you are Krvnik. This was a wonderful story.

It was full of emotion and pathos. 5*

KrvnikKrvnikover 8 years ago
1 star

For every story where you manipulate the husband into forgiving a wife and wishing he forgave her, I will rate it 1 star. Because this is utterly disgusting. Have you no shame? Where are your balls? Where is your pride? Where is your self-respect as a person, if not as a man?

AnonymousAnonymousover 8 years ago
Gave it 4 ☆

Would have been five if you had not used "Babes" again. Sup wit dat anyway? Very compelling story.

sbrooks103sbrooks103over 8 years ago
Re-Reading

He has no call to blame himself.

She pushed him away, pooh-poohed his warnings about her boss and lied to him!

She brought it on herself, and took the coward's way out.

sbrooks103sbrooks103over 8 years ago
Thoughts

“Sometimes we talked for hours about what I was feeling” – Why does she talk to her boss but refuse to talk to anyone else?

“I needed more time to mourn my child before trying to make another one.” – You don’t need to be trying to make another baby to make love to your HUSBAND!

He shouldn't blame himself. SHE shut him out and turned to others when she should have turned to him.

laptopwriterlaptopwriterover 8 years ago
always the best...

from Slirpuff. Rarely does he get less than 5 from me and this is no exception. 5 stars all the way.

sugnasugnaover 8 years ago
It Takes Two

While I definitely believe that we are all responsible for our actions, it is undeniable that all human beings can be influenced and manipulated by other people. Yes she was a cheater, but it was probably more out running away from pain and loss than seeking lust. Her husband was a constant reminder of her own failing as a mother (in her own mind). Her boss was a manipulative opportunist that was all about enjoying the sense of power of controlling a weak person. Yes, she is a cheater but the real evil lay in Jim the boss. He deserved his end, she did not necessarily deserve hers. I am not advocating reconciliation with her husband. There is another possible outcome. She can be forgiven not for her marital crimes, but for her sins. By the only one who can forgive sins. She ended her marriage but her life did not have to end. If she had been raised to know God, she could have turned to him and asked for forgiveness. It would have been enough to keep her alive. It would have been enough for her to survive and grow. Yes, the marriage was over but if you repent you can be forgiven and you can grow as a person. Once a cheater, always a cheater is true, but like an alcoholic who knows her weakness, she can continue to live with the knowledge of her weakness avoiding temptation. As for her husband, he will have to let go of his anger and loss or be dragged down by it. He too is in danger being controlled by sin. Giving into anger and despair will ruin your life as surely as giving into the temptation of adultery.

Tw0Cr0wsTw0Cr0wsover 8 years ago
church doesn't ring quite true

If the people at the church during the funeral are so righteous why do they hate him for not taking a cheating wife back?

She says her "friends" "ratted her out" so clearly her cheating is not a well kept secret.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 9 years ago
same old story.....

" I loved him with all my heart, hE completes me, my soulmate, lover, friend, confidant, protector, my very life........... THAT'S WHY I SHIT ALL OVER HIM........ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xtchrxtchralmost 9 years ago
I Just Don't Understand!

I guess I'll never understand the cheater's logic that they really love their mates-BUT it's only after he/she is caught. This 'loving wife' (sarcasm) made a lot of decisions and choices to exclude the man she really 'loved' from her life. She was a shrew to him for months, she went to dinners/parties without telling him, she brought a change of clothing to hide from him, etc. The husband tried to warn her about this guy but somehow she saw it as the husband's fault. I don't believe for a minute that she didn't know what was happening. She made too many choices to end up in the room with the guy. Oh wait, let's blame it on the alcohol. She chose to sneak to the party without her husband, she chose to keep drinking without her husband, she chose to cheat without her husband.

This husband did nothing wrong. He was the only one trying to save the marriage, she had already thrown it away. Yes, they lost a child-but they both lost the child. He could not save the marriage by himself. Then after all this, she was upset that he didn't forgive her and take her back. He should be sad that she killed herself BUT he should move on. That woman had no 'real love' for her husband.

krosis666krosis666almost 9 years ago
"You were my knight in shining armour..."

"You were supposed to help me. You were supposed to save me."

Yeah, and you were supposed to keep your legs closed! Slut.

betrayedbylovebetrayedbyloveabout 9 years ago
You Know

It's stories like this which make you think of the consequences of your actions. Sometimes stupidity just clouds everything and everyone. Don't cheat.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 9 years ago
justice was served

she got it, jim got it,,,,john got rid of a wacko woman.

get over it and star living again.

3 stars

Huedogg2Huedogg2about 9 years ago
re: It`s all his fault

did your parents have any kids that lived?

Drbeamer3333Drbeamer3333about 9 years ago
Loved it

a sad tale. Five stars.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 9 years ago
Stop it!

New rule on LE: The use of the word 'Babes' is hereby prohibited.

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
Pfffttttttt............

No need to be sad about it, shit happened!

It was all her faults anyways, so yes she deserved it.

Husband should just move on, no need to shed any tears for her

Tw0Cr0wsTw0Cr0wsover 9 years ago
exactly Domeric

@Domeric has the start getting at of the heart of it.

What these people that think that the victim should "be a better person" and take them back are forgetting is that a better person deserves better people in his/her life than that.

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
the sub human was the lover boy jim.

he started the trouble.

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
So sad

This has to be one of he saddest stories I have ever read.

George in Omaha

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
What does the word "Bastard" mean???

Sub-human or something like that? An innocent kid who didn't ask to be born, but brought into this world nonetheless?

Ashley lost a child and killed another one (the sub-human). She got off easy, should have lived a long bitter life. A completely unlikable person. Psycho mambo-jumbo my ass.

Slirpuff, please try not to kill babies for the sake of the story, sub-human or not...

tazz317tazz317over 9 years ago
IF AND WHAT IF

look at the scattered and damaged lifes left in the ruin. Weep for the living. TK U MLJ LV NV

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
Hahahahah

Serves the slut right. What the fuck did she expect, that her husband would raise a bastard? No. Fuck you. Fuck you for writing it in a way that says he should have forgiven her and taken in a bastard child as his own. Fuck you for even insinuating that betrayals should be forgiven. Her husband was always there. Always willing to support her. But she found it easier to spread her legs for another man and let herself get knocked up.

Fuck you, one last time.

Tootight1Tootight1over 9 years ago
5*

there is a saying, "walk a mile in my shoes..etc." I believe it's appropriate here, for the nay sayers.

x_witless_xx_witless_xalmost 10 years ago
The comments on this story are worth a comment in themselves.

LW gold. Where are all these great commenters now. I'll give you a clue. At some latter stage of the commenting some cunt who shouldn't be able to access a computer introduced the word cuckie, applying to John. It was the day LW fell apart.

x_witless_xx_witless_xalmost 10 years ago
Oh god. Brilliantly portrayed Slirps.

The unremitting horror of hindsight. Dear John indeed,

I'm not 100% sure the hound dog was actually a real predator, he maybe genuinely cared for her. But for hub who had lost his son that would never be justification. He trashed the motherfucker and bad - and I can't condone it, but I guess I get the why. 5*

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 10 years ago
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Is it a mans fault that he is unable to forgive a situation where his wife dis-respects him, cheats on him and neglects him? He warned her what was happening, she ignored him , hid the party from him and then makes him feel bad for not being the knight in shining armour she needed. What about what he needed.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 10 years ago
this tale

most of your stories have some sort of a "feel good" ending. For me, this one didn't. In fact I found John to be a pathetic character grieving over her. I would have pissed on her grave.

I can't get over the audacity of her to think John owed her support financially or otherwise. I guess that's the definition of hubris.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 10 years ago
It`s all his fault

After all, he was the one that killed their baby by breathing too much, leaving no oxygen in the room. He was the one that held her down, and forced another man`s dick into her. He was the one that ignored her for months, and put a gun to her head, ordering her to have an affair. He was the one that turned her into a lunatic. He was the one that pushed her car off the cliff.

What a crock of shit! She blamed him for everything that happened in her life, because she couldn`t face the choices she made. And to top it off, she lays the blame for her suicide at his feet, saying he should have forgiven her, ensuring that he will feel guilty for the rest of his life.

Suicide is for attention seeking cowards, and their notes are written to make sure someone else feels shitty forever, because even in death, they can`t accept responsibility for their own actions.

Loosing a child is the most painful thing that can happen to anyone, you don`t get over it. It hurts everyday of your life. You find yourself thinking at odd moments "What would my little angel have looked like now?". Every happy moment for the rest of your life is tainted with regret and sadness. That does not give you an excuse to become a shitty, selfish person! You get up in the morning, picture her smiling face, and vow to be a good person for her. She might be gone, but you be the person she would have wanted you to be!

JounarJounarabout 10 years ago
no mistakes in this story onlt shitty choices

Sad story but hubby had nothing to feel guilty about. Ashley choose not to accept any help over the death of their child and pushed John away time and time again. While this would be a major problem for any marriage it could of been repairable except for the fact Ashley choose not to.

She then choose to sneak around behind her husbands back over and over again with a man she was warned was a snake. Worst of all, she choose to take the cowards way out and then lay a guilt trip on a man who had more than suffered enough, which imho is totally unforgivable.

KarenEKarenEabout 10 years ago
He's got nothing to feel guilty about

He tried and tried and tried to help her through her grief, she pushed him away, never acknowledging his grief.

Then she ignores his warning about her predator boss until she cheats with him.

To expect him to forgive her is too much, and she took the coward's way out.

sdc92078sdc92078about 10 years ago
Suicide was the final proof he was right to get out

Not only was she a cheater, she was unstable.

sdc92078sdc92078over 10 years ago
Suicide notes are all about making people feel guilty enough to forgive you

It's the old "you'll be sorry when I'm gone" ploy. One last chance to turn the knife she stuck in his heart.

The one good thing about the ending is that if her suicide was only a couple of months after he had her served with the divorce papers, it probably wasn't final yet and they were still married. He gets to keep everything.

DepopuloDepopuloover 10 years ago

cantbuy is right on the money here this is a man saved from self cuck but the author makes him feal guilty, shit they story should have him doing a dance on her coffin at the funeral and pissing on her grave.

1/5 for self cuck

1Thinkingman1Thinkingmanover 10 years ago
I hate when you catagorize it as a mistake

Adultery is not a mistake. It is a systematic betrayal of someone you are supposed to love. It is hate pure and simple. Whether it is a man or a woman does not matter. There is nothing you can do to a loved one that is worse, accept have someone else child while committing adultery.

I do not agree with this attitude: "Why didn't I love her enough to forgive her and start over again?" What he should have asked was why his wife did not love him enough to not cheat, to not close him out in her grief? That is what this story is about. Women think that because they carry the child they are the only ones allowed to grieve. Men grieve for both the lost child and the mother. It is in our genetic make-up to be protectors of the people we love and when we lose them or have to watch them grieve we grieve as well. There is no excuse for cheating and his wife was cheating from the moment she started to distance herself from her husband and seek solace in the company of another man. It is inexcusable and the outcome is unforgiveable. John did nothing wrong and will pay for it the rest of his life. So while you are feeling sorry for his wife think about that, she was a coward and took a coward's way out. He is left with the ashes. I gave this story a **** it could have been a five but had to much of the self recrimination crap that does not fly in reality.

AnonymousAnonymousover 10 years ago

she cheats on him and gets knocked up, then blames him cause he's not her knight in shining armor this time around.

He actually does the intelligent thing and gets rid of the cheating bitch.

She commits suicide.

Now he feels bad and wishes the whore was alive so he could have her back... wait wait lets change that last sentence.... He throws a party celebrating that the whore made the divorce easier.. that's the appropriate ending there.

2/5 for non appropriate ending.

AnonymousAnonymousover 10 years ago

You're a wanker cantbuymy

OneShotOneOneShotOneover 10 years ago
Took him for everything he had?

In a no fault state the wife would get half the marital assets child support and if she didn't work some alimony but as the ex boss had no job that's a wash. In an at fault state she may have gotten 60% of the assets 65% if the judge was her aunt.

The ex lover winds up dead beaten to death and the cops in that town are so incompetent that they didn't ask themselves and then the dead man's family and friends "Hey is there anyone who may have wanted old Jim here dead?" I'm pretty sure the person at the top of their list would be the man he cuckolded and whose wife offed herself. And I know the Literotica revenge trope is that every cop who comes across a dead or beaten Lothario had a wife/GF who cheated on him so he looks the other way. But that's weak and slirpuff you're better than that. Most times.

JounarJounaralmost 11 years ago
3*

A good if sad story but points docked for turning hubby into a wimp at the end and also for all the people in the church giving hubby shit as him being blamed for wife fucking up their lives just seems nuts.

EgoTrixiEgoTrixialmost 11 years ago
Emotional

Wonderful story, hardly readable without the one or the other tearfilled eye. 5*

BfreetorunBfreetorunalmost 11 years ago
Very sad. I do not know what I would have done under the same circumstances.

Except for the taking care of the seducer, that was justice. I hope he suffered before he died.

AnonymousAnonymousabout 11 years ago
Another good, if sad, story

Another one of your pieces that I enjoyed. I will say this - you do seem to elicit a large number of comments about your stories and reading them provides a great deal of humor in and of themselves. You have a gift of "firing" people up when they read your stuff. Keep on writing!

betrayedbylovebetrayedbyloveover 11 years ago
Second Comment

This is one possible outcome of cheating. In the end, nobody wins.

Danger09Danger09over 11 years ago
This story was heart wrenching

I actually cried reading this story, it was so sad. I'm a little confused as to why everyone was looking at him with hatred, did they blame him for her death? This story was so realistic I felt like I was there, I could feel the wife's pain as well as the husbands. The wife was depressed about losing her baby, even when her husband tried to console her she refused to let him help her. The husband even suggested she see someone in order to deal with her loss but she refused. What the wife failed to realized is that she wasn't the only one grieving, she wasn't the only one who lost a child, she somehow didn't think/or feel like his feelings or grief mattered or that her grief was more extensive than his. As a woman I know exactly how she feels, she felt alone , angry, depressed and she blamed herself for the death of her baby, but she couldn't see that her husband was feeling those exact same thing it's just that men hide it better than we women can, men puts on a brave face for us, they try to carry the enormous weight on their shoulders for us women but the wife was so caught up in feeling sorry for herself that she neglected to recognize this . I understood the wife's anger but I can't understand why she pushed her husband away? If what she wanted/needed someone to know what she was going through he would know. I don't think the husband was being an insensitive asshole, I think he'd do the exact same thing my husband would do if we were in this couples shoes, he tried his best to help her but she didn't want help she wanted to continue to blame him for everything. I actually would've liked for them to get back together--because this wasn't plan, she wasn't all there, & I'm pretty sure she wouldn't of did it again. She was obviously remorseful unlike most of the cheating sluts, I don't classify her as a slut. I think she had problems that she could've worked through if she tried. She didn't cheat on her husband in anticipation of hurting him, she was depressed & drunk. Not that this is an excuse but. I wished they ended up together. Maybe the husband could've been more forecful in getting his wife some help but he didn't want to drive a bigger wedge between them. Men are different than women, we women have this intense bond with our unborn child, we are the first to feel them move, the first to feel them kick, the first to feel their heart beat, so our pain is much intense/stronger when we lose that little person we have come to bond & love with from the moment the test strip turned blue. Whereas a men will grieve but they will eventually move on, and some insensitive asshole husbands will get annoyed that the wife isn't moving on also, this husband wasn't like that, he put up with a lot of bullshit from this wife & yet he was still there for her rather she knows it or not but for anyone to say he was an asshole for divorcing due to her infidelity is a moron, after everything she's done to push away & keep him out of her life, why would he just ignore/forgive her affair? Maybe if she wasn't this utter complete bitch he might've been able to forgive her. I don't blame him for divorcing her. I think they both needed someone to talk to.

AnonymousAnonymousover 11 years ago
Total

Total BULLSHIT CRAP--She was a cheating whore skank slut. She should have got on with her life. She blamed her husband them spred her legs to FUCK and got what she got. HA HA HA HA

AnonymousAnonymousover 11 years ago
great work

Another outstanding story.

You have a talent for dragging emotions from your readers.

Now i feel like i should take off and go spend the day with my wife.

Thanks again for another wonderful story.

Huedogg2Huedogg2almost 12 years ago
It was a good story

In the end everyone loss, but as far as some of the stupid ass comments like from phd70, so its his fault that his wife pulled away from him and cheated. I'd hate to see what you'd saw if she keep the bastard child.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 12 years ago
Idiotic.

There isn't enough time or words to explain the inconsistencies in this story. Her refusal to accept her responsibility WITHOUT blaming her boss, her husband or life in general. Her suicide as an act of contrition is equally stupid. Suicide is never about "contrition", it is an attempt to avoid consequences. Who the fuck reads a letter like that at a funeral? Does that pathetic excuse of a man pretending to be her husband actually believe that he is sorry she is dead? He hard her so much that now she's gone we're expected to accept that he forgives her? Bullshit! That sharia cocksucking, goat blowing Muhammad can kiss my ass.

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