by Tinman_1903
No one cares about a man’s struggles or pain, the only women that will ever love you unconditionally is your mother, all the rest are just bumps on the road
Huh. A good man whose only crime was being a simp and not seeing the writing on the wall, made to suffer for years just to punish someone wicked who didn't even know what was happening at the time.
How very biblical of you.
Gawd here is hoping anyone going through something similar and reading this. Then please see how terrible miserable this fictional person life was and don’t let your life imitate art.
Really sad and emotional.
Only 4* because the bitch Jessica didn't get punished.
I have no sympathy for your protagonist. He was not viable and therefore had made a consequent decision.
An excellent, well written story. Many thanks. Of course, the fact he turned out to be weak and of low self esteem, that led to him diving into a bottle, is just part of life's reality. Not everyone can "right the ship".
Of course, in hindsight, he should have realised that her "finding herself" was the final straw and he should have been firm about it right from the start. You know "You go away to live with that slut Jessica and our marriage is over. I'll file immediately". But that's where the the weak willed among us fail badly. Thanks again. Cheers.
Well that was depressing. I understand the idea of a wife "finding" herself but this wife/ex-wife character takes it to the extreme. I know people die of a broken heart. But you really painted thd husband as a very weak willed man. I think that is what makes this story so sad. There are no redeeming features in any of the characters. If that was your intention then well done.
Wow, what a depressing tale. But really well done, it had my rapt attention and was apage turner. 5*
Too young and stupid to marry. Good story telling though. How can a man act like this for 14 years. Soaked in self pity and despairing with a feeling of self pity. Have seen many love hard in their lifetime but only the insecure let it kill them at 35. Again good story. BTRH
Chelsea is about as disgusting a human being that can exist. Nothing but a slut cum dump that only cares about herself.
Damn this is one sad story ! It broke me down and made me tear up . You can spin a tale of woe better than most ! It’s too bad we can’t cjooss whom we love because Chelsea didn’t deserve anyone’s love especially his !
Awesome. Sad, just like you said.
Thanks for putting this out for us to read.
Wow....I am speechless.
First off - great writing. You had me so involved in this story. What a sad, sad story. I fell in that same pit after my divorce. My current wife was my Julie, only I still have mine.
Well written story, quite depressing though. It'd be nice if you'd written sort of Part 3/Epilogue, including Chelsea's accidential meeting and confrontation with Jessica - that could be some closure for MFC at least.
A sad story about the loss of two loves and the loss of the will to live.
Wow!
Every once in a while someone surprises the hell out of me in a good way with a story in LWs...
Sad but absolutely reads like it could of and has happened....
Thank you.
Well written and touching story.
I thought I would need a score card to keep track of whom was fucking whom and when and a bit of why though.
But, if Peyton Place could be put into a story on Literotica then this was it.
Well done and great story line. Thinking outside the box is always refreshing here no nitpicking from me
Well told story. Felt very credible and real. Sad story of two people that had potential but just couldn’t get it together and focus what is important.
It should have been sick minded selfish bitch Chelsea who died. Brad was weak and couldn't see how much better he would have been without such an evil person as a wife. Sad story, well written
Well that sucked. Why would you write something so depressing?
Chelsea was a stupid self-centred slut and Brad was a fool for trying to turn a whore into a housewife. Him drowning his sorrows after Chelsea reverted to her sleazy ways was pathetic.
What a pair of losers.
The dumb shit invested his future in a whore; what would you expect the pay out to be? Then he drifted away from life and reality in regret, rather than restoration. Darwin has a tar pit reserved for useless genetic material. Its good this guy never had children, the gene pool is polluted enough. Thanks for the effort.
Real life insanity. Naturalism style of writing at its very finest. 5++++/5!!!
Good story but with deeply flawed characters. Brad loved Chelsea so he didn't want to leave her, that is fine. But when it's over, it's over. Move on buddy. Stop channeling Adele. As for her, I feel nothing but pity for such a self-destructive person. It's hard to hate a character who keeps on screwing their own life. Of course, the thing that I hated most about this story is actually the comeuppance that Jessica deserved completely but didn't get. 4 stars.
Well you accomplished what you said you wanted to do. Great story, but in my humble opinion you ow your readers something a little more uplifting. JK thanks for the story
What a pathetic and weak stupid silly human being. He shuts down his entire life for YEARS over some one who doesn't want him. Boohoo hooo
Harryin Va
WOW! I can imagine it happening in real life but it seems we find reasons to move forward with our lives, like I did. Sure I think about it but I have a life, a great life! 5 BIG FAT FLUFFY TWINKLING STARS!
As most readers I knew where this was headed right away. I wanted to stop reading, but couldn't, or at least didn't. Chelsea couldn't blame it on her sleazy friend, she made the decisions. *****
Great story that seems like it could be real. Glad I'm not any of these characters, that makes me feel good
That story was so freaking sad; I tried to stop reading it but, I couldn't stop...stupid me. Well written but I don't know what to rate it. Can't say I loved it or even liked it. How can you like a depressing tale like that.
Did the dog get run over too? Parents died in a plane crash? Both siblings dead before the age of 40? House burned down killing the cat?
Inquiring minds need to know!
Good story!
If you intended to stir up some emotion in your readers, you succeeded.
Good job 5/5
Man, that was tough to read, It was like a car wreck that you can’t look away from. I knew there was going to be a catastrophe, but I couldn’t stop reading it. I enjoyed it but hated it at the same time. Great writing, especially if you can stir up these kinds of intense emotions. Thanks. KS
the main thing i liked about this story is that the selfish egocentric entitled bitch got what she deserved. The biches always cheat, always need to find themselves(a bigger dick, a richer man) who knows what the cunts want, I bet serious money they dont know themselves and they don't give a shit about the feelings of the people they screw over. They are all about me me me me ( as toby says, me, i, my , what i want what i like what i know). with emotional quotients that low and blaming everything on their insecurities not their stupid decisions and choices, no wonder so many of the useless sex vote dem. whooo, ok, so what i liked is thes she got shit on as badly as she shit on brad multiple times, i hope her cervical cancer comes back w/ a vengeance and her kids still too young to take care of themselves. yeah mean but w/ her genes , best eradicate any of her progeny asap. rk
Great read, tragic characters. Chels a sociopathic slut, and Brad, just a lame sad man. But superbly written story, and a great angle in a very densely populated category of plots.
Why??!!
Simply can't understand men like that. Had some in my family!!!
Life goes on !! Hiding in bottle never helps! Your writing was great if describing a totally wimpy man and slut. If writing a romance and empathetic characters total shit.
What a great story it's. I never felt crying just reading a story before.
The character named Brad really happens once in a blue moon but the character named Chelsea often happened who doesn't have her own say on her life. This type of character should be controlled by a dominating character like Chris otherwise they become prey very easily for a predator.
I'd have given 10 star if there's any option.
No thanks. I see the real world every day, I don't need to read stories that are even gloomier.
What a story. Readers may not like the conclusion and how it all happen but this is an emotional well written 'real' story.
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We are conditioned to want/expect that Hallmark moment and Superman saves the day - but this is reality - sad as it is.
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6******, Hooyah, Salutes to the skillful writing!
So sad and true to life. I grew up not 40 miles from where the story is written about. I also had a friend who died a couple years ago that could have easily been the real life main character of this story....his real life almost followed the story detail for detail....this story really hit home like no other story on here before. Now I'm sad and a little bit depressed, just remembering just how many of my family members and friends have passed recently....last 3 years...
Heart touching....
Sad, emotional with deepness of Love
Wish! If I can rate more .... 5*
Clearly the moral of this story is that love creates morons and sluts, to much like real life.
Well done but very sad. It never fails to amaze me how people can self destruct.
Sad but wonderfully written. How easily one's life can be screwed up with the help of the wrong influence.
I felt every sentence of both those chapters.
Terribly heartbreaking.
Superbly written, thanks for sharing.
Really well written. Really soul crushingly sad. The construction of seeing both perspectives via letter and her thoughts was amazing. Wow she was a trainwreck. She just as well pulled the trigger of alcoholism that killed her ex. It is surreal how he just lets her get a separation so easily. He should have pre-empted with a divorce filing. Might not have worked the way he would think but would have saved him some pain of betrayal.
Good story.. one to make ppl think... Good and bad... Keep it up. Your good..
Haunting. Chelsea was mentally damaged. Made a bad decisions at every turn and fucked up her ex's life almsot continually. Depressing. Odd how she fell into full slut mode then out of shame, fell harder causing her to rationalize a need to ghost her husband. Poor guy. She is a head case.
He should have fired off a divorce filing when she said "if you think it will help". The only way back from that would be is she was afraid of losing him. She was buy into Jessica's bullshit and then cheated on her husband 3 weeks later. Probably wouldn't have worked but at least get things going and try to head her off at the past. What a self-centered bitch.
Brad is just another dipshit, fem boy easily manipulated excuse. The world is full of them. Chelsea are everywhere now. It is how other react to them , if they have any self respect. Brad clearly did not. The future is fairly bleak as we have narcisstic enabled females protected by government and laws, and we have men who are at fault, according to the world, for all that is wrong.
I prefer to think that the final italicized words are actually Brad’s. Jesus, if ever a character needed to grow a set and move on, it was Brad.
The story wasn’t just sad it was pathetic. This is a lack of communication between husband and wife on steroids. I didn’t learn anything from the story and I felt frustrated with it.
The pateticness of the MC and the uber selfishness of the female MC really drives this story to unparallel levels of disgust!
Unbelievably sad. Yeah Chelsea was a nutjob who messed him up, but then he found the one in Julie and she was taken from him. I suspect a lot of commenters on here who claim he should grow a pair and move on, have little idea of how tragic his life had become. While some can pick themselves back up, many would fall to the bottle or the needle. Be honest.
Brad was letting his cock rule his brain, if he hadn't been stupid he would never have got back with the bitch in the first place.
Chelsea was an idiot. Brad, after losing Julie, I can understand. Lost my first wife when we were in our 20's. If I hadn't needed to care for our daughter I might have completely lost myself in the bottle.
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As it was, I used to "self-medicate" at night after she was in bed for the next 6 months or so. Not to the intoxication stage, my friend Jack was more like a mild tranquilizer. Can't imagine what it would have been like
without the need to care for our daughter.
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So I can'r really blame Brad for drinking himself to death. Not a good choice, but a very human one.
Well that was frustrating. A weak otherwise good man and a shallow self absorbed woman likely have lousy outcomes.