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Click hereAnd then I silently looked across the yard again and thought, "Well, as complete as I can be."
We must have a soul-to-soul connection, all I did was think of Jeremy, and he turned and waved across the lawn.
THE END
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End Notes:
I'm posting this as a Romance, because that is how I see it. Two people fall in love, but find insurmountable obstacles in the way of their finding happiness. In a classic romance, of course, they overcome the obstacles and live happily ever after, which is not how this story ends. They both find happiness, but not with each other. It is a story of regret and star-crossed lovers.
Randi referenced the authors the book by Graham Green 'The End of the Affair.' I didn't like the book, to be quite honest.
If I can compare Green's book with a mystery where not all of the evidence is given to the reader and suddenly at the end, the detective reveals that he has known something all along that was not shared with the reader early on.
Green does the same sort of thing. The book finds the lover whining and moaning about how his affair with a woman ended and he doesn't understand why. He attributes all sorts of bad motives to the woman and spends the entire book speculating on what went wrong. Then, suddenly she dies, and the truth comes out, revealing that the spurned lover was wrong in almost all of the particulars!
So rather than start at the end and make the reader pick up information slowly throughout the story, in my story, I've tried to write about the beginning of the affair, how it progressed over time, how both of the protagonists knew that it was doomed from the beginning, and how it finally ended. At the end, Jeremy is happy with his new love; Ericka still regrets the lost relationship, but has determined to make her life as happy as she can. She doesn't have her secret lover anymore, but she may have a piece of him in the shape of her son.
Not totally happy in the romance novel paradigm, but at least not unhappy!
- COMMENTS
Anonymousabout 1 month agoWhat you consider as love is nothing but cheating and selfish behaviour to the fullest!
I am surprised that you have a confusion in even defining love and the difference between love and lust! Love is never selfish…love ensures taht we are willing to sacrifice for our love! What did the two sacrifice?? Nothing! Instead they went ahead and continued cuckolding their partners in their innate requirement to satisfy their selfish lusts and desires!
If they each loved their spouses then they would never have got together.. its a simple case of ressiting temptaions! Thousands of common men and women do it daily in their lives!
Vice versa…if they felt that they were e truely in love with each other…then they would have been true to themselves and told their spouses and demanded a divorce!
What they did does not even come close to love…it was pure lust and cheating!!
So i seriously ask u to redefine ur understanding of the difference between love and lust!
Struckwrong10 months agoThey were and continued to be pure excrement.
No problem cuckolding her husband lying to their partner.
Tom wouldn't be that idiotic mind you it was an unlikely plot device.
Pickles728711 months agoLoved the story…the passion, the struggle and the mostly happy ending. Looking forward to reading your other stories.
Anonymousabout 1 year ago5 *****. I don't vote based on whether this is how I would have written the story, I vote on the writing, the character development, the story etc. The purpose behind this story seemed to be that the end of the affair didn't have to be violent, unhappy, accusatory, or causing divorce. I personally like the drama caused by having to accept the repercussions of ones actions, which didn't happen here. Still the story was extra-ordinarially conceived written and carried out.
Anonymousover 1 year agoYour cheaters prosper and a good husband is cucked! Disgusting! Zero for this pile of shit!!
Drgwngalmost 2 years agoThe absolute worst thing to do to a man is have a child by another. Then maintain the lie and subterfuge endlessly. Here we glorify deception, lying and infidelity. Of course the new moralists see no problem here, she got away with it, all is well. Women cannot be tricked into parentage, so they cannot identify or understand a male viewpoint on this. These kinds of stories just advance the cause, let’s just make certain women can continue to spread legs at will with no repercussions, great is it not? Easy times breeds weak people. As cuckolding, wife sharing etc gains more and more mainstream acceptance, it is certain there will be nor downside for society, correct?
jsch1947almost 2 years agoBrilliant, beautiful.
I'm kind of surprised, (just a little bit)
that Tom didn't reveal that he knew.
There was security cameras, microphones, GPS, in the house and cars,...
Yet no tap on the phones.
He never suspected any hanky panky, not even once.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoTwo loathsome garbage hollywood characters being glorified for backstabbing their partners and lying to them in the most despicable ways.
With an overlay of rotted honor after all after spreading her legs for anothers insemination and getting her husband to raise her lovers child as his own. I mean she didn't do anything sordid like have the biological father take responsibility for it.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoA brilliant piece of work!
Something about Erica leaves me with a sense that she really is a pathetic character.
I feel, in some way, she actually never really grew up.
She definitely did not deserve the great husband that she had.
Her nearly criminally deceptive means of conceiving a child by another man is truly Despicable. and not forgivable.
Our brilliant pianist should have had better moral character than the hop and the sack with Erica as well. At least in the end he correctly assessed the situation and did the right thing.
chilleywilleyabout 3 years agoIt had the ring of realism, the entitled wealthy patrons, Erica’s affair with or without her husband’s tact consent, and the end of it as Jeremy settles into monogamy.
It’s easy to take monogamy as the only way, but in reality it’s but one of the choices in life. Erica, Jamey, Hellen and Tom benefited, and no one was harmed. The very wealthy have different rules than us simpler folk. Again, excellent storytelling
Chilleywilley
