All Comments on 'Gone Away'

This was a good one, right up to the last paragraph. That was a definitiv letdown.

How droll. 3* because it was a decent read and a little different than the usual crap on this site.

Femdom agitprop. He gets a second shot and burns her. Good man, tough, smart.

Found it hard to read. Did not like the ending no vote

She reads like mental illness of some kind. She is a lonely and unhappy person destined for disappointment.

How sad, obviously the marriage died along time ago, Sophie's actions just discovered the corpse and arranged for burial

This was very good. The dual was bordering on genius

A dose of reality.

Well written tale of two people drifting apart and unable to face up to the challenge of trying to repair the damage and coning together again. No real heroes or villains, just imperfect human beings not behaving as well as they might. Sad but more realistic than most stories on this site. I thought the end was a little too abrupt but maybe that was the author's point - hubby also chose to run rather than talk.

LA

To anony one month ago:

It wasn't two people drifting apart.

There was not enough communication either way, sure, and their life was not roses and wine, but she hid her discontent.

She pretended everything was alright. She lied by omission and abandoned the relationship long before she abandoned the marriage, so he was always none the wiser, could make no effort to improve their life if he never knew there was an issue, and was thoroughly blindsided.

That destroys any chance of repairing the damage, there is no reason for him to even want to let her back into his life. He would be a fool to do so.

Harry was a villain. He had no business pursuing a married woman. Too bad he was such a loser that he couldn't hold her interest.

Sophie was a villain. She stole from her husband, lied to him and betrayed him.

She had deceived him effortlessly, she was probably deceiving him with her confession.

Surely if she were that unhappy, she would have shown some sign, if she didn't already have something to conceal. Surely she would mention something to try and show her husband that she needed some spark to reignite her happiness, if there wasn't already a reason to keep him in the dark. Even a semi-conscious statement in frustration at a low point.

No, what is more likely is that Harry rekindled their connection, which she happily enjoined, and THAT led to her dissatisfaction in her home life. She obviously felt no respect for Neville, to have made her plans and vanish like a thief in the night.

As a last point... her parents knew where she was all along. No parent would show little concern when finding out that their daughter has seemingly vanished from her marriage and home. And if they didn't know, within days... no, within a day, they would have been following up. Anything could have happened, but he didn't hear from them again, which is not possible unless they knew she was safe.

Her parents are ugly people. No wonder Sophie turned out the same. Nobody gave a moment's thought to Neville's welfare as Sophie went on her big adventure.

Neville was right to run... no, walk away.

I hope Sophie has issues trying to get a reference to continue working in education. Again she falls to her standard habit of deceit if she claimed a breakdown. Maybe having a breakdown would make a prospective employer cautious and forgo hiring her. That's all she deserves.

A well written, but very sad story about 2 people failing to communicate in any way that would bond them together.

I am so blessed that I have found someone in my old age that is making me happier than I have ever been because we are able to be so close in all the ways that are important.

Two disillusioned and lost souls. What a waste?

What a bunch of hogwash

Don't blame Neville for not taking her back but he burned as many bridges as she did. I do wonder what his parents had against him for naming him Neville? Sometimes human nature can be so screwed up it's hard to figure out how we continue as we do.

Mature and Resigned. (The last stage of grief?) Remorse? Divergent paths...