All Comments on 'The Heart Wants What It Wants'

5* all day long...

The story is a bomb, this has not come across here for a long time, bravo!

No offense to Hooked because he’s writing what he wants for people who enjoy it, but this story’s rating is much higher than it deserves. I’ll admit I skimmed it but it’s standard Hooked fare. The hero ends up living happily ever after with another woman that was already lined up so there’s not really any drama to be found.

That’s just what I like though. I like reading the heavy drama and emotions that arise from infidelity. This story seems to have struck a chord with others though so I’m glad folks are able to enjoy it.

Quite the tear-jerker

A beautiful story and and an even better friendship. How many people can say they have that?

tears.....

5 STARS...NUFF SAID!!

Masterful missive, worthy of thousands of stars... Can't say much more, can't see the keyboard,,,

AD

Here I was hoping for a pregnancy, not cancer. Absence of kids makes the story even sadder.

Good story, touching although you could have let them have a few decades together or at least one child. I guess you were in a "tragic" mood when you penned this one. Thanks for the effort.

Damn it you had me crying with this. Having faced their own cruel turns, they find each other, then they get hit by the final blow.

What a nice romantic story, with a sad ending and a few almost tears. Excellent writing. The title of the story says it all. There was some criticism when one of my grand daughters married a man a bit younger than her. I told her to ignore any neigh sayers and also told her the same as this story, the heart knows what the heart wants..........................

5 tears. Great story.

You horrible fucker. This story killed me. Such a beautiful tale and you never took the easy way out. Simply amazing.

Excellent.

Well done.

Just wonderful! Brought tears. Absolutely loved it.

Ouch. That one hurt to read. Extremely well written. Those 9 weeks are a period that challenges the partners and never really leaves. You nailed it.

That ripped my guts out.

One of your best

What a wonderful love story. Thank you.

5*

A great, incredibly sad story.

Easily one of your best!

Wonderful. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great Story!! Loved it!! Brought tears ..

What a heartfelt story. Touching and full of love. 5*

This one is good, damn good... It also hits very close to home as I've got cancer, in remission, buttttt...

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6******, Hooyah, Salutes...

Absolutely beautiful, the ending was so emotional.

Excellent work. Right in the feels.

Hard to comment, hits too close to home. I only had her a year and a half. Got a 5 from me.

WOW!!

Well damn.

You got me.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great story, hit all the buttons going up and down.

Excellent, a sad love story well written, thank you.

I can';t see to type through the tears ,..... Great story even wtithout the required happily everafter

Thankyou

First of all, very well written. Second, I'm hoping for a sequel, where he finds a woman who would appreciate what he had to offer and gives him kids, since he sacrificed a chance to have kids by staying true to someone who he wasted most of his life loving (and yes, loving someone who doesn't love you is a waste, regardless of their quality as a person).

Loved it, but damn, it made my cry like a baby.

Thank you. I haven't read the likes of this in a while.

5*

Damn - Double whammy for me. I have a co-worker on short term disability recovering from colon cancer. He was very lucky they caught it early enough he didn't need chemo. He is wearing the colostomy bag until it's healed. Similarly, another worker's wife passed away in her 40's to stomach cancer. She only lasted a few months from diagnosis until she passed. Touching story - 5*

Wrong category!!! This was a ROMANCE, and one of the best damn ones I’ve read in these fora in all the years I’ve been coming here!!!

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Easiest 5 ***** I’ve ever awarded!

It was a sad story but I really liked it.

Buggar you made my eyes leak, a fantastic story told by a master.

Thank you

Easily an all-time, top-ten story! This author is a stunningly gifted storyteller! Thank you, Hooked! Five stars ⭐️ for this one.

A well-written, heart-rendingly beautiful tale about two very lovable people.

Thank you! Keep writing, please!

Thanks for sharing.

I cried like a baby

Great story! 5 stars! Yeah, that’s a FIVE STAR story all the way.

It’s also a record setter in a way I haven’t seen anybody mention yet—at the time I write this there are 147 comments without even 1 really negative comment. Never thought I’d see the day in Loving Wives.

One last comment: I may not have cried when ‘Ole Yellow’ died, but this one had tears dripping.

Surely it must become the highest ever score on LW. cd

Damn it Hooked, you made me cry. Well done & Thank You!

If she hadn’t bought into the brainwashing of the skittles people, they could’ve been together for most of her life, and had several children.

Also, the divorce rate is higher for same sex marriages, and, the domestic violence rate is highest among lesbian couples!

ZK

After all a great love story. Probably your best work.

A great story, very sad in the end, I was hoping Cat may have fallen pregnant and given birth to a daughter before tragically passing away.

Damn, just damn

Five stars isn't enough. What a great story!

Wow what a great story. Super sad ending. Thanks for writing, keep it up 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm speechless and still shedding tears. Thank you.

Too sad an ending. A better ending is living a happy life with kids.

Ah hell man! Just go back to burning Traci will you. This was just so far above LW’s usual that I almost couldn’t finish it. As someone who lost a mother and sister to cancer, it hit me hard. You have always been on the top tier of Literotica authors, but this sad, beautiful story takes you to another level in my estimation .

Wow what a beautiful heartbreaking story! 5*

DAMN! This one hurt bad.

Reads like a CW song.

5 stars! It's amazing how, as you get along in life, you realize how much time you have wasted and how little remains. I suppose that these two regretted not having come together sooner, and that they must have always had the possibility of a relapse in the back of their minds. The moral is to make the best of what time is left because realistically you never know how much time that may be. Still 30 odd years true friendship and 9 years happily wedded is a record not to be sneezed at.

Yeah. Thank you.

Great writing, I really enjoyed it!

Many thanks for a well written, moving story. My only slightly negative aspect is the premise laid out to all the beta type males who might read this: That they can exist in a one-way love arrangement as long as you hang on for years and years. It seldom works that way. The beta says "Walk all over me, control me, treat me like dirt... and I'll wait in the background for you like a good little simp male".

Yes, the story was beautiful and lasted most of HIS lifetime... but not hers!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Exceptionally well told story

😢😢😢😢😢

Wow, great !! I highly recommend!! DerMtMan

Great story

A great story.

Not much I can say that hasn't already been said. Roller coaster ride for sure.

Thank you for a great story.

@sbrooks103xabout 12 hours ago

"I knew you were assuming we would go to homecoming together," - Yes,he should have asked, but even she admits that she KNEW he was assuming they were going, so she should have checked with him before accepting a date with someone else. -

Yes she probably should have, but she (lame as it was) explained why she didn't.

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Is it "Lauren" or "Loren?" - Lauren.

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"Lauren said she seemed to be a bit flirty when we were out at the dance club the other night." - Why didn't he tell her that he had concerns about her flirting also?

Julian and Cat had discussed the flirting.

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I figured the beginning was him leaving a grave site. I also expected them to get married then forher tohave a lesbian affair. Batted .500! -

Well of course you did, you wouldn't have it any other way.

Amazing, loving, difficult, wonderful life

Well done

Five for you

Great story and excellent writing. 5 stars all the way👏🏻

Jesus Hooked I have never had so this amount of grit in my eyes before 5 stars + this one is a classic.

Perhaps your best LW story, and you have had some excellent ones.

Damn, You sure hit a grand slam with this one!!! Thanks again for sharing.

An Old Curmudgeon

Well written but just not the type of story I want to read in the Loving Wives section.

Damn you you made me cry.Absolutely magnificent a real talented author

Using the cruel cancer trope to engender sympathy from your readers does not become you. Neither does it add to your story.

Wow! Hooked knocked this one out of the ballpark. Great story, I wish I could give it more than five stars. Keep up the good work.

Thank You.

A rough one on the readers, but a good story.

You missed out the part where he and leiutenant Dan made millions on the shrimping trade. Gender swapping and trading one ailment for another is not creativity.

Without a doubt a classic from one of the best storytellers on Lit

Magnificent. I can't stop crying. Well done.

Damn you !

You pierced my shell...

...yes, I cried at the first cancer diagnosis.

I'm living with a similar situation and have no real idea of how long she has, so I'm trying to make as many memories as we can.

"Well done" doesn't say enough... 5 stars.

Some day, you should find the thing inside you that brought this love story out and write the novel that must be hiding there to share with the world.

I am truly in awe of your talent...

One of my very favorite writers here. Thank you, Hooked!

Wow, that fitted like a glove. I openly admit that this story is one of those that hit me emotionally. Excellently told and savored the whole spectrum of human feelings. Who says that a decision about preferences, once made, cannot be reversed? It's a pity that only 5* are possible, but you really deserve it!

You son-of-a-bitch! Randi warned my wife about this story, but we read it anyway. This is now in our top 10 of all time. Anyone who knows the sports figures like you is tops in my book. Seldom in this category is there a story even close to this topic, as well done as you've put into words. Fantastic, albeit sad, story. 5 * doesn't do it justice.

That's your comment, vhasst?

There is nothing new under the sun, I know that. There are countless BTB stories, cuck stories, RAAC stories that all share similar, if not identical elements.

Similarity to another story does not mean that the author did not have an idea, and thought it worth creating and sharing...

that he was inspired to do this work, and then to offer it for others to consume, love it or hate it.

This one story stands out among the many here, because it recounts a true friendship, true love, selflessness and a life long commitment to respect someone who is special to you, without him needing to be a spineless cuck.

He was not 'different' like Forest, which was probably the real thing that kept Jenny from taking Forest seriously.

Julian was a 'normal' guy, with normal opportunities, but he didn't let her disinterest embitter him. He stuck by his own feelings, morals, standards and beliefs and never betrayed anyone, and that... being the true meaning of selfless love... ended up opening her heart against her own natural inclinations such that she could fully return his love.

This was a fine, honest, heartfelt tale, and if you're that cynical that you can't be touched by it, I feel sorry for you.

Do me a favour, stop kicking your dog. If you learn to open up to the poor bitch's total dependence and devotion to you, you might find yourself rewarded with some unconditional love yourself, and like the Grinch, your heart may grow a size or two.

Hooked1957, you fucking asshole. I really don't appreciate having so much emotional involvement and tears forced from me. Damn you. That was the sweetest story I have ever seen on this site.

A Winner. Nice Job, Thanks.

Sweet story!

5

Oorah

You did it all

Once in a while a story comes along and I think, this is too pure for Literotica. Tx Tall Tales' "Charity Begins Next Door," Cat5's "Sales Team," Blackrandi1958's "Someone to Love Us" and "Vagabonds," Dreamcloud's "The Promise," Leapyearguy's "Aiding and Abetting." All of those are top of the charts for me, and I am adding this one to the list. You get all the gold stars and I wish I could give more.

A nice romantic "Love Story" story. Might piss off some Lesbians, since Cat apparently wasn't really one, and the one she lived with ended up being a cheating deceitful cruel bitch. Guess I could feel sorry for the beard who wasted his life and his possible children on a woman who for most of his life didn't want him as a life partner. In fact he was her consolation prize since the woman she really loved kicked her to the curb. So in the end it was a pity marriage, with pity sex, and a pitiful ending. How much fun was that? Thanks for the effort.

Cheap shot.

Good advice for any aspiring story-teller; end your mediocre story with a tearjerker, and you'll easily raise it to 5/5.

As with all great stories, it's the writing, stupid. 6/6

She reads like Jenny from Forrest Gump.

I really didn't like this story. This guy wastes his life on someone who couldn't or wouldn't like him back, as she fucks myriads of others. Eventually, after suffering a betrayal of her own, she magically has an epiphany and all of a sudden loves him. Then she dies. Depressing and stupid.

I'll probably make it through. But paused and considered not continuing after a confused 12 year old boy was made to apologize to the person who assaulted him by his own mother. Tired of this gynocentric crap. This mysticism around "not understanding the female of the species" needs to end too. That ended long ago. Freaking boomers, man.

I liked the story, sad ending though. I can understand the concept of the very young first love idea, the one you remember the most. You have reached the top of the list authors to read, even before this story. 5/5 BR is second.

Feels like such a waste of his life, and a downer overall.