All Comments on 'Sign of the Times'

Great🤙🏽

I try to make people think I'm hard and tough.

I'm not. What's funny is that my wife knows I'm not and she loves me with all her heart for these 67 years so far.

She's my life in every sense of the word. She has convinced every one that I'm a lover and she laughs at me knowing that I like women and flirt a lot. She also knows I would never do anything to hurt her. Ever.

I found my self Identifying with your story husband and as I got into the story, I identified the wife with mine.

It's a wonderful story and I felt vindicated as I progressed through it since I was realizing the love the husband had for the wife, no matter what. I felt that for my wife too.

I am a fan of Burn The Bitch, but your story made me feel different and convinced me that my initial thoughts are not justified. I have no criticism, and want to commend you for a story that drew me in and actually taught me something about myself.

I loved it. What my wife knows and no one else does, is that I'm a romantic and always have been, but I hid it feeling it was a weakness. Now you know too.

Best story I've read in ages!!!!!

What an asshole

Cale seemed developmentally disabled. Everyone seems to treat him with kid gloves, including his own children. It is insane that Cale’s parents hid his brother’s evil from everyone. Unaddressed trauma doesn’t just disappear. Just a bunch of nincompoops in this story.

So is Geena his daughter or his niece? And most importantly what engines, towing packages, and wheels do the trucks have. It's so disappointing when authors leave out the important details. The Stellantis vehicles should have been assigned to Chris. It's a crime to be driving foreign vehicles and he sure has a criminal's profile. Death by disease in Leavenworth is too good for someone who drives vehicles made by a Dutch headquartered company.

Unusual plot, worth 5 stars

couple of pages to long but good. Most liked the idea that She chose Him way long ago and still choses Him.

WOW! this was like following the yellow brick road over the river and through the woods!

So many odd twists and turns. Daphne couldn't explain being in the hotel without exposing

Cale's brother as being a rapist asshole, and Cale's parents knew the entire time and hid the

truth even after their marriage damn near exploded., and we have an entire novel detailing each

and ever negative thought Cale has from every point of view as he analyzes his manhood, ego,

performance and everything else. A perfect example of analysis Paralysis! still a fun read overall.

5 stars

I think in reality she would have told him the truth. What is she really protecting? A rapist? Yes, he loves his brother but explain to your husband that you say you love to protect your marriage. So what if he finds out what happened. She has witnesses to prove that she is not lying and why would she really need a witness? Husband should believe her. She will have to explain why she kept this secret for so long which would take time for him to forgive but t avoids a ton.

Other bit of reality would be once she made the counter proposal any husband in that situation would take the divorce!

Four stars for the tale. It would have been five, but the story was too damn long, with content all over the place that didn't advance the story. I skimmed a lot through the middle of the tale. It could have been a rockin' 5 os 6 pager.

JPB

I like happy ever after stories. I've been happy ever after for 62 years. Alone now but I have my memories.

Anyone who wishes to find fault with spelling or grammar must be young and have no imagination.

Thank you for your hard work.....

I like the story. The MC not so much.

Long story but a good story.

I had to quit reading this shit on about page 6. The MC is the biggest whining sniveling pussy I’ve ever encountered. The story could have easily been cut in half just by removing the redundant passages when he sits around crying and moping. I gave it one star and feel like I was too generous.

A pretty good story with a unique twist at the end. Very nice. On the other hand, it was way too long for what it ended up being. Four pages, five at the most. It seemed to me that the author spent more time chasing rabbits than he did advancing the plotline. The result was an over abundance of minutiae that led nowhere. Like ‘My sister drives a Durango, her family favors Chrysler products. I’m a Chevy guy, I have a Chevy truck, standard bed with a dual cab.’ Like I said, minutiae.

To the commenters below who think Daphne cheated: read the damn story you morons. She was eaped by his evil psycho brother before their marriage and had to live with it in pain and felt she had to cover it up to the point it challenged her sanity. Then asswipe Ralph pressured her into saying a lie for him to cover up his ATF sex for information crap with a madam, trying to coerce Daphne into saying she gave him the STD, and telling her otherwise he would tell the MC the whole rape secret involving Daphne and his brother. She snapped and hence could not function properly. Nor could she lie to her husband because she isn't built that way with her husband. She adores him and CANNOT even fathom hurting him, but she got caught between thr slimy Ralph who threatened her secret ordeal and her undeniable need to keep her rape by his older brother an eternal secret. Her sanity literally depended on keeping the secret quiet and asshole Ralph threatened that, causing her to snap inside. When hubby fled, she tried to commit suicide and then coutnerproposed the egregious (to her) terms of the separation. She would rather be separated from him than hurt him with the knowledge of his brother's vicious rape of her when she was a virigin, right before their wedding. She probably though disclosing the secret would not just hurt her husband terribly buy make him ashamed to be with her. Hence she felt stuck. Clearly the rape and subsequent act of keeping it secret meant she had a mental disorder and PTSD which she hid well but cracked through like crazy after the Holiday Inn sighting and the MC fleeing like a wuss (which even he admittted). Got a bit weird.when she was living in the basement, but shows what she was willing to put up with as a sacrifice to be near her family and take care of them including her husband, and yet she adamantly refused yo disclose the secret. She was trapped because she couldn't explain what was going on in that hotel room without shedding light on the past unless she told an outright lie which she couldn't do to her husband. Trapped she mumbled some strange stuff about it not mattering and not meaning anything. She was technically correct while desperate to keep the secret. When he learns the truth from his parents and confronts Ralph (who turned out to be a real slimy shit), he knows if he tells her that he knows what happened all those years ago she will likely snap completely and end up in an asylum or kill herself. The trauma she went through is that bad. Sad story. Bit disjointed in some parts but central idea was powerful and dark. MC acted with honor and integrity when he told her rhat he knows nothing happened and he was wrong for even think that she had cheated. Was masterful as it gave Daphne's sanity a way out. And to those readers who think Daphne cheated: what story did you read? Poor Daphne is the definition of a true loving wife who did her best to overcome an immense personal tragedy and yet spare her husband the terrible knowledge. Daphne may be mentally afflicted buy she is a true loving wife.

A real love story.

Garbage, cheating is 10 times harder on men, it is hard wired into us the only way to ensure paternity is to invest in a faithful wife, cheating wives need to be kicked to the curb period no matter what the cost, because the alternative is to sacrifice his character, honor, morals and self worth. All because women refuse to take responsibility for their actions feeling only self entitled

You told a true loving wife story. This was such a sweet story and to find out she did not actually cheat was a refreshing part of the story. I do think they should have talked about what happened in the past so she could know he still loved her, but hated his brother. Well done.

Okay, I suppose the geek guy gets the “best” gal every now and then. Hard not to like that entire family. Okay, okay, I admit it. Great story. 5*s.

MC should have told Daphne everything rather than let her live with her dark secret.

Good stuff all the way through. Thank you.

I thought this was going to be one of your usual RAAC stories. But no, you wrote a good one here, one of your best and from me that’s saying I got something. We have crossed before, you probably don’t remember.

Buts thanks, a wonderful story well told

5/5

Wow, you got me. Unbelievable story. Incredible. I'm in awe. Brought me to tears. I love these two. Fictional or not, they are in my heart. I don't think I would have made the exact same choices here, but wow, mad respect for these dear ones you've created. You know, sometimes you read a line or phrase that just pops out to you, and gets ingrained in your being. This story is that to me. I'm a different person after reading it. Thank you carvohi.

Too long. Another story where the mc doesn't sit down and talk to his wife of many years. Instead he runs away and blubbers.

In real life he would have confronted them at the hotel. However, the conclusion was unexpected and quite original. So for that I gave 3 stars.

Your main character is a pussy.

It always the same, where possible get all the facts before taking critical action.

You're the best, not sure how you come up with this stuff but you've sucked me in with almost all your stuff, thank you

10 pages of wimpy bullshit when all he had to do was get Ralphie to spill his guts. waste of good reading time. 2*

Absolutely idiotic, both the way too long story, and he keyboard operator that produced it. A wimp mc like no other. Why did wifey not just ask him on a date, why al the totally inane manuevering for so long? How can the completely idiotic parents think they are doing well by keeping secrets and presenting lies and mis information.

What sort of normal ler snae individual would let the required and necessary conversation goo unsaid and unresolved for so long , and not force a tough talk? Completely dis serving to the reader, people do not operate like this. How is physical illness, damaged the stomach, a potential ulcer, and overall greatly increased stress even remotely and effective trade off for the truth. Just abysmal, condonoing lying and secrets by omission is still condoning.

simply too long to tell this tale because a good percentage was fill in and did nothing for the story, in fact made a reader lose interest. I do believe a good yarn takes time to tell but in a way that a story will flow.. JZK

Its fiction and sometimes complicated just like real life.

One further point: does he really think that allowing her dark secret to go back into her subconscious is going to be healthy for her in the long run?

It's been crucifying her for all these years and it resurfacing in combination with him pussying away almost resulted in her suicide. She has to be told he knows and it makes no difference to their relationship.

3 star rather than 1 because in the end love won out, but there was way, way too much padding put in (it was almost crossed with a cookery show at some points plus hypochondriac levels of self-indulgence by the hub re his weak stomach).

If he'd been any more a pussy mummy would have had to breath for him. There's a big difference between shedding a few manly tears when wronged and turning into a bawling baby every 5 seconds. If he'd faced the problem square on and spoken to Ralph right at the start most of the train crash wouldn't have happened.

A story about a whiny sniveling wimp. And 9 1/2 pages too long. And 5 stars is ridiculous for a story only worth 1!

Seriously?10 pages.Way too long

5 stars, wasn't sure where it was going and thats a good thing. Was fairly sure the missing brother would turn out to be dirty, kinda expected the eldest child to be Chris's or that he was blackmailing the wife with Ralph attempting to help her. Pretty good story, yes the husband was a wimp but not everyone is strong. If I had a complaint it was just how unpleasant the lawyer in the story was, she seemed the cruelest person in the story.

One or two things stretched the limits of credibility for me. The most important one was Daphne's refusal to tell Cale what she had been doing with Ralph in the motel room. Her wanting to avoid telling him what his brother had done to her is compelling but not to the extent of it costing her the marriage and her children their father. And would an otherwise well-adjusted woman try to commit hari kari over it? I think she would have told him or told him enough to divert further inquiry. Nevertheless, you are an excellent writer and the above criticism is minor when considered in the context of the story as a whole. Besides that, if you know about the 1432 Crackerbox Circle Hero, then you probably also know about the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero. That knowledge alone makes up for any minor downgrades and leaves the story in the top of the charts. (In addition to the Bobby Russel original, check out the performance by Bing Crosby and Glenn Campbell.)

I’m sorry, but I think my grass grows faster than this story moves. I read 3 pages and couldn’t handle any more. Maybe I’ll try it again another time, maybe it’s just my state of mind. Who knows.

I really enjoyed this story and I couldn’t put it down. 5 stars and added to my favourites.

hubby was a wimp,from the start.talk about killing himself and whinning.female leaning story.no man in hubby.

Really good story. The dead older brother twist was interesting

This author has a thing for hang-wringing-what-do-I-do men and Disney endings.

To the anon "10 pages of noting". I appreciate your comments, but they, l like my stories (as you say) are a little redundant. I have a sneaking suspicion you're skimmer, and you remind me of the Todd, Mark, and Zola in Grisham's book "The Rooster Club". I wonder, did you go to Foggy Bottom Law School?

carvohi

10 pages of nothing. Just a weak willed tortured man. Almost all of the author's stories follow the same formula.

Read it again. This really is an exceptional story. My only quibble is that really is no reason for the motel room. I get the reason for the meeting, but it could have been the park or any number of public places where a quiet conversation can be had.

loved this story

Try writing a story about a man who actually has self respect and you just might earn more than 1 star.

Story is OK, but I hated that relationship. The wife doesn't respect her husband (nobody in the story does except his sister), and the husband is a total wimp who just wants a substitute mother he can fuck and won't even try and help her heal from her trauma.

What the heck was this? Long, confused, unreal characters....

Not good.

Are all the men in your stories so ultra-feminized? ... I mean they can't talk to a woman, they all are afraid and even petrified of their wives, can't make rational and firm decisions, they throw up, and they ball up like babies and cry and whine. Then somehow they end up being the virtuous hero... more like whimpy, spineless cuckolds... All I can figure is you must be a female that hates real men.

A bit too long but the ending made it worth reading. 5+*

Parents were almost as guilty as the brother. Nobody wondered where the brother was at the wedding? Still, love a good RAAC and this was one. And no cheating!

5 stars

Too long by half to tell this story.

Very well done and clever story. Quite the tale. *****

The entire plot has holes like Swiss cheese. Why did Hillary initially think Daphne was having an affair? Why would Daphne keep privately meeting Ralph to talk about a rape that happened years ago? Daphne would have a therapist for that! Why would Ralph think that telling Geena that it was ok for her husband to have an affair with a friend and get an STD? Why would his parent not tell him that his brother was in jail for murder? Why wouldn’t Daphne telling him that his bother raped her? Why would Daphne date his brother if she liked him. Everyone in their school knew that his brother was a weasel when dealing with women.

Great story, a carvohi special, that I really enjoyed. I just couldn't find any empathy for old Cake though. Just not my notion of a man.

love the story very good

Loved it. Lol A nice gentle love story.

Crap

Loved it

5*

Just a query, " Why did the sister poison his mind ?"

The guy surely had some awful siblings. One a rapist and the other a liar.

A nice romantic tale. 5* and thanks for sharing.

That's an unhealthy relationship if I've ever seen one. It's obvious his wife has zero respect for him, and he lives in a constant state of semi-resentment for not being able to make himself heard.

He'll eventually break or spring back with a vengeance. A sequel about the second case should be interesting.

Not a bad story thanks. Cale was like a 14 year old girl and the family had too many secrets. But I still enjoyed it,

His wife was, indeed, too good. In the end everything worked out well.

You led us down the cheating path. Thank goodness Stevens manned up and cleared the air.

Great work, great story, well done!

5 🌟s!

Very well done! Thank you.

She obviously cheated and it's likely her paramours bastard .

Pathetic .

The only honest one in his life is his sister.

A WIMP story 1 star.

An unlikely but lovely story.

THANK YOU CARVOHI FOR ANOTHER EXCELLENT STORY. LOVED IT!

Loved the story even though it went somewhere out there.

I see that @Dlh143 has made their usual comment. I can't believe that there are people out there that are as stupid as this person is.

Wonderfully beautiful! 5 Stars

I do agree it was way too long but the story is a good one. I enjoyed it.

As for the anons who call him a cuck, rest assured they havent been with a woman since they found hand lotion and tissues.

Just a wimpy cuckold is all! The rest is smoke and mirrors. 1 star.

BUT A BIT WORDY! CUT IT BACK TO 7 PAGES AND MAKE HIM NOT SO WHIMPY!

JUST A COMMENT FOR THE FIRST 3 PAGES. THIS STORY IS GOOD SO FAR, BUT LONG WINDED. COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT MOST OF PAGE 3'S SELF ANALIZATION. GET ON WITH THE STORY!

And a moronic, wimp, cry baby for a husband! He lost his balls after his one and only fight as a Senior in College, defending Daphne's honour. What a shame.But....

" Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive"

Had Daphne not mistakenly kept the rape she suffered at the hands of his brother from him, so he could go through life idolizing an out and out douchebag brother, her life would not have got so complicated. .

Good story but cluttered up with irrelevant detail and continuous moaning and crying by Cale! 3*s.

over long and drawn out

Daphne is truly a wonderful wife and mother. A wonderful story. Thank-you!

Yes, it's degrading and disgusting. Story killer.

People as sweet as Daphne are rare, but they do exist. I know at least one person who would never hurt others to protect herself. Beautiful story.

I was ready to vomit at how pathetic this guy is Brain dead a Wimp and the biggest pussy I have ever come across. In this case it's no wonder she stepped out on him and she isn't the least bit sorry either.

It made me even cringe at the kind of decisions he constantly was making, she only married him because she knew she would be the one in control.

Cale has some major deficits in his social skills, ability to process his emotions, capacity for empathy and capability to deal with conflict. Nonetheless he is very skilled at financial analysis and excels at his job under the supervision of an understanding boss.

He is an idiot savant - a Forrest Gump of sorts. Most likely he falls somewhere along the autism spectrum but it is possible he has an unusual variant of mild mental retardation. It is interesting to observe how gently and carefully he is treated by most with whom he interacts. Of course no one treats him more kindly and lovingly than Daphne, a remarkable woman who truly adores him for all his strengths and weaknesses. Cale is a fortunate man.

Thank you for this story

My main problem is Daphne's behavior doesn't pass the reality test. Cale is pretty unlikable and that further complicates Daphne's weird characterization. You decided to use rape to provide context and insite. That isn't an issue on it's own but her proceeding actions, behavior, decisions over the long term are highly unrealistic.

I fell asleep at numerous points in this story. 10 pages that dragged on, with Cale's spine slowly liquefying and him becoming the very embodiment of a sniveling, whiny child. (Not unlike the author of this story)

Ok story; kinda long and a little boring in parts.

The Hallmark Channel is changing its name. It is going to be called the PMS Channel.

She choose Cale because he is a good guy. She could've got an important and high payed job, but decided that for her, it is important to have a good husband with whom sge can build her perfect family. Cale seems to be like a kid when you take away his toy, he pissed me off in more than some ways. And maybe Daphne didn't made the best choices abouy her rape and the motel meeting and after that. I liked the story.

I gave it up after the third page no man cry's that much unless he's light in the shorts.

Story was well written, but was absolute SHIITE!

What kind of moron would think this remotely possible?

The author does his readership a disservice with this disrespectful piece of shit.

Too many stupid plot holes, idiotic assumptions by the actors, lame legal crap and idiotic 'solution', and then we get to the letter from the grave. Give me a fucking break!!!

Nice twists, good development, but a little verbose.

The problem with a Carvohi story is that you have to get past his enormous ego long enough to stomach it.

I've rarely seen a writer with a more over-inflated sense of self-worth. The pretentiousness oozes through each paragraph and your overly complicated and convoluted plots only serve to slap the reader with condescending, self-aggrandizing "life lessons".

I do, however, hate Cale.

This guy is so clueless, it makes me want to rub chilli in my eyes.

The convoluted, over-verbalised and highly unlikely plot feels engineered to allow a blame-free reconciliation. Well, blame-free for the couple at the centre.

My issue is that he really has no personal power. He may have tried to assert control, and he did succeed to a degree, but it was really all on her terms.

Just lucky the situation was as written, because if she happened to really be of bad character, he would have ended up destitute or dead. Even his winnings would have been part of her winfall.

Not saying that it shouldn't be shared power in a relationship, but in his case, his whole history, he was just along for the ride.

Man woman whatever you are. You did this...🥰😇💕

The idea that Ralph has to convince Daphne to lie to his wife Ginger about having an affair so Ralph can explain getting an STD is crap. First off Ginger would ask Cale if he has the same STD from his slut wife. When Ginger found out that Cale didn’t have an STD and Cale determined that Daphne never had one, then Ginger would know Ralph was lying. This entire scenario is bullshit!

Okay this story was really hard to take! I mean so many things were happening and Cale is just driving me crazy with his mamby pamby foolishness. But it turns out that he is a Loveable Fool!

You got me good with the whole raped by his brother and Daphne desperately keeping it a secret. It made him wrong for trying to divorce her for adultery and therefore his inability to stick by his plan was okay because he was wrong to be punishing her. Still, he is never going to grow a pair and Daphne is still going to run everything because he really is a weak but lovable fool!

The wife has severe trauma. The only right thing is to shower her with love and try to help her, just as the main character decided to do. Seeking professional help was a good choice. She hasn't done anything wrong, except for hiding her pain from her husband, but that is both excusable and understandable in her circumstance.

It seems clear to me, that the secrecy has to stop if she is to heal. It is also hurting their marriage, clearly.

I would be pissed at my parents if they hid something like that from me. It nearly cost their sons marriage, and very nearly cost Daphne's life. They seriously need to learn to butt out, as their decision making skills are questionable at best.

I also found it weird that the main character was as childish as he was. I wonder why he was written like that? Was it just a cheap and easy way to explain how much he needed his wife, or was there some other reason? He seemed much like a small child, not only in relation to his wife, but also to his boss and his parents.

If he had been given some child-like qualities, along with some destinctly adult ones to offset them, it would have been a much better read for me.

4/5