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letter From My Ex
Wow a real tear jerker anouther good one Celt
me me me me me me me me me me me
a selfish manipulator stays selfish to the end.
it seems well written, but i just don't care for the attitude.
Great Story
Great one Celt.
Wonderful story
All three previous commenters are correct. It is a wonderful story, but it is all about her. She says she is sorry, but it was really his fault.
Keep them coming.
Communication
is the key to a good relationship. This letter shows with all clearity how bad it can turn if no meaningfull emotial communication excist.
Another great one
Celt, I always find your stories unusual, interesting, extremely well written, and enjoyable. This one is no exception. Some critics don't like the wife, but this is fiction and she is as you created her. She is a vehicle for your story, our entertainment. It (you) causes us to think and, just perhaps, relate it to ourselves, our lives and our attitudes. In my mind, that marks an excellent author, one who causes his readers to search their souls and just perhaps find where they are wanting. I thank you for this. Looking forward to your next story.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
So he' a lucky bum, she cheated on him, now he knows. Rub salt in the wounds, hell he was ONLY HER HUBAND
The Depths Of Consequence --- For Each
Impressive weaving of emotions about what was and what could have been.------One thinks that in time he will reflect on her words and attitude and realize that her letter mirrored her continued choice of selfishness and shortsightedness.--------Perhaps then he will finally be able to put it away and go on for him - hopefully.--------Thanks Author. You are appreciated. ----- With Very High Regard
Well she put in a knife and twisted and twisted.
I did this because of you. It was your fault you were earning money instead of being in bed with me. I chose not to tell you so that part if my fault. I went out got laid and enjoyed it, then it was over and you should have forgiven me for chosing to lie, betray, disrespect, and dishonor you. All so someone could hold me, you are a man and only your ego is in the way. Why would an adulterous slut who believes in God and the church think she was going to heaven. Does she not know she commited many sins. Breaking her marriage vow, a sin. Committing Adultry, a sin. Not forsaking all others, a sin. Baring false witness, lying, a sin. The woman was a sinner and slut and planned to go to heaven, how strange she is. And this last act of knifing her exhusband again. She thinks this was a loving act? Making him walk thru her shit and giving him blame for at least 50% of it? Get real. At any point she could have done what a loving spouse does, talk to her husband, first and foremost. She could have said no the breaking of intimacy with her husband and the sex. She could have divorced her husband before becoming a slut and betraying a man who loved her. No she had no love for her husband, as she said it was only for herself. Her final act of self gratification and revenge was this letter, designed to ruin his life again. Yes it is true, women are much more cruel than men!
she made a bad mistake
she paid for it ....thing is hes still alive with money to enjoy it ...be thankful and now find a really good woman to have those kids with
sad but fine
What a sad story but with a lesson :
Forgave even the most unforgaving thing before death because after it will too late !
Interesting
A different take on the usual. Somewhat typical attitudes, she willbe heard, he doesn't want to hear it. The reasons are never good enough for cheating and hers were weak. Lack of communication is a bigger problem than most know and this is a perfect highlight. The letter is just so one sided and hurtful that I can't give a 100. That's probably more me than your writing.
nice take on a tough subject
Celt, I'm sure that some of the critics around here will savage you and call the wife all sorts of evil, but you touch on a very interesting subject in this story; the causes for an affair.
In this case, an argument can be made that the couple emotionally divorced long before the affair. It often seems that a frequent cause of a real life divorce can be the emotional separation caused by one or more of the spouses putting their job and "success" first in their lives. I've seen too many situations where "things and possessions" take the place of an emotional connection. That is one reason I think that the divorce rate among successful business people, doctors and lawyers is so high.
Does this forgive the cheating, of course not, but it can help to explain it. There is a quiet desparation about the way she describes her feelings before the affair that I find very true to life.
Good job.
as usual with a CELT story NONE of it makes sense
as usual with a CELT story None of this makes ANY sense. There seems to be this overwhelming sense from ANY writers in the UK to ALWAYS attack and blame the husband no matter what.
Time after time after time.... the scenario from these UK writers is the same.... Husband is working too hard wife is lonely or hurt or being ignored..... but never says a fucking word. Thereofre its his fault...
The story opens with the husband still in deep anguish over his loss... the cheating the pain the divorce and her cancer. So he gets a letter that Begins..... with essentially "FUCK you Harry I will blame ALL of this on you..."
so HARRY Keeps reading? for God's sake why the FUCK would Harry keep reading?!?!?
I do this, not for your sake, but for mine. What I'm going to tell you will probably not give you any peace, but it is for my benefit that I write this. See? I see now that it's the same in death as it was in life, Harry. I guess I always do what I think best for me, not for us. So, fair warning. Don't read the rest if you don't want to know why or you just don't care now
Her DEFENSE....
Harry you were working too hard
I wanted a lot more attention... emtional and sexual.
I never told you any of this
If you were a real man you would be able to read my mind
Therefoe I had a right to cheat
How dare you hold me accountable for my actions....
How does Hary feel now? His wife 's vile awful hateful letter from beyond the Grave just killed him again.... which as the letter plainly says was her intention
Harry should take solace from the fact she got cancer went through a great deal of sufferring and died slowly.
I would
Harry in VA is one sick SOB
Good story, Celt. Emotionally charged and real-feeling.
Harry in VA is one mysogynistic SOB. Some woman really must have done a number on him. Or he has a dick about 3 inches long.
sure Bullet
whatever you say. You write some of the worse Rape fantasy shit ever written here... and you call ME sick?.
Good call.
a wife that goes out f her way to INTENTIONALLY hurt after she is dead.... No problem for YOU.
Why...
...given that Thecelt doesn't say where he lives, sets all his stories in the good ol' USA, and uses debased American spelling and expressions, does the moronic chauvinistic misogynist HarryinVa assume that he's a Brit? Oh..the story - it's OK, but not up (or down) to the standards of male self-abasement that we in the UK tend to look for... But look on the bright side, Harry, if we Brits weren't all masochistic submissive cuckolds, where would George W Bush find allies to screw?
Not much here but self-pity and no spirit
It is so sad that even facing death this poor deluded self-centered soul can still not take any blame for her actions. Nothing she wrote came close to accepting that all her life she really did whatever made her feel best. She says little things like it was my fault followed by BUT you know it was because you couldn’t read my mind and you should have known that. It was really all someone else’s fault.---------------------
This man Harry is a fool who let his wife run his life and still does from the grave. It is sad he has done nothing but wallow in his own self pity instead of standing up and saying I know there are people out there who know real love, a love that makes you put the other person and the couple first. Not expecting the other partner to do whatever makes them happy is a shared relationship not an excuse of if he loved me he would do all I want. That is just a one sided love of oneself only.-----------------------
I see people like this all the time who think that if they don’t get what they want then something is wrong with the world. These people need to get off there arses and work for what they want in life. Love is not a free ride it is a job like any other job. You have to work for it and work hard to make it become the most wonderful thing in the universe.----------I don’t know what the idea of this short story is except to show how stupid people can be to think it is always someone else to blame for their life not being what they want.--------Good writing but not much here but a sad man who you would hope has at least a few friends who might get him out and join the real world and find it can be fun meeting new and worthwhile people.-----------
PT
two unbelievable characters
Neither husband nor wife is believable. They haven't made love in 2 years, yet he thinks nothing is wrong?! She loves him so much she has to blame him on her deathbed?! She loves him so much she has no empathy or sympathy?! After 5 years of no contact she thinks she will win him back? The only letter she should have written is to ask forgiveness.
Bullshit
Piss-poor.
Great story, awful characters
This is another superbly-written, emotional grabber from a very gifted writer, although let's face it, there isn't much to like about either of these people. She's a selfish, manipulative bitch who can't stand to not get the last word in and does so from beyond the grave. And he's stuck in a tar pit of self-pity and loathing. Ah well, all of our characters can't be appealing. It always amuses me to see the trolls trash a writer's characters and their motivation, and then infer that because of that, the story sucks. In fact, this is a great story simply because the characters are so unappealing. Sometimes, there are no winners in a story, and this is one of those stories.
Side with Harry
The writing is good, but as usual, the characters are weak. How can you not blame the author? They are HIS frigging characters. Hell, I'd rather be under the bridge with Harry than alined with the rest of you wussies. Harry would be useful in a firefight, the rest of you would run or surrender. After reading such a letter and she admitting everything was always about her, he should go take a shit on her grave.
The assistant Troll
Thought provoking
Superbly written. I think that the letter was just the avenue you used to get across the point of the story. It shows, in a condensed version, what each of us is thinking when some trauma comes across us in our lives. What her thoughts were over the 5 years they were apart and the 2 years prior. Life can bury you, emotionally and literally.
Interesting Story!
Well written but she sure was a selfish bitch! However, we have not heard from that idiot "Alvaron53" yet!
Delightful!
While I did not read all of the story "Letter from my ex-wife" I did read the comments. Sorry to say Celt but I lived parts of your story so I don't need to read the synopsis of a distructive relationship. The comments were very entertaining AND the fact that your story engendered so many impassioned feedback comments vindicates your ability to evoke emotion in your readers - WELL DONE!
Jack Straw raises a GOOD point
Yes Mr Straw is correct the story is well done but the characters weak and unlikeable.
But for me the MOTIVATION on the ex husband's part IS a BIG deal. Look they were not having sex for two years... then she cheats... he freaks out.... they divorce... which happened 5 years ago.
SO in other words there was NO emotional conenction for between these two over the last 7 years.... so WHY is he reading a latter that in the FIRST paragrpah openely states "Harry this is all your fault..I get to have the last word and I want to stab at you 1 more time now that I an dead...."
am I really being THAT unreasonable here?
Perahaps IF the gap had NOT been 7 years... That is a LOOOONG time... or if the author explained WHY his wife from 5 years ago still had such a pull on him even though she cheated... I might react/ think differently
What would you like to hear, Anonymous?
I'm a fount of useful information. Here's a suggestion: go to your room and leave the grown-ups to chat in peace.
there.....
better not be any sequels/take/another POV of this.
Celt, while I appluade your efforts............
....I can't say that this was my cup of tea
At first I thought about all the reasons I didn't like the story, but then I thought a minute and said "Maybe the Celt is trying to say "This is the way she (my character) felt and thought. Not necessarily the way I think. But even then, I just couldn't get behind it.
Let me explain, several hundred thousand people each year love Steven King. I'm not one of them, but I'm aware that they don't agree with me on that. Does that mean I don't have good taste or any taste at all because I don't like horror movies? Does it mean I'm a troll if I tell someone that Steven King's movies and books hold no intrest for me and here's why, trying to explain why I don't like it? Nope. It just means that it's not my cup of tea. That doesn't mean I expect Steven King to write it my way, just that I don't expect anyone to king I go for Horror.
Now if Steven writes a "comedy" I might give it a once over. (^_^)
That's the way I see this story. If I read the story as the comments of a selfish person, who to the end felt betrayed by everyone, and only as that, with no hidden meanings, I suddenly find myself with no one to root for or feeling any real emotion for.
The ex-wife as written was selfish till the end. In one part of the story she claimed to take responsiblity for her actions, all while explaining why his inablity to get past her affair, his pride and ego (the word ego I threw in), and his refusal to see how much damage he causing by not forgiving her for her *tiny* inconsequential affair cost them a marraige not her. She was well past the affair because it held so little value and felt unfairly judged by all, including her parents.
The husband pretty much seemed to agree with her by the end of the story. Or that's really the impression I got when I finished the story, that his pride was more of a reason for the marriage failing than the downplaying of her affair.
That reminds me of something I heard recently that a woman told a man who was cheating on her and told her the other girl never mattered to him. She said:
If your willing to take something that I hold in high value, makes me feel special, and do it with someone else, all while saying that it holds little or no value too you and never meant anything too you while you were doing it with them, then how much value do you think I believe it holds when you do it with me?
And I do say I have to agree with her
But again, that might not be what you were after, but while I think the story showed a good side of a one sided selfish conversation, it still left me not feeling all that invested or involved with either character.
But thanks for taking the time to write though
-Risq
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Disappointed
I wish I could like this story, but I don't. While it's technically sound so far as punctuation and grammar are concerned, the thoughts behind the story are fuzzy and incomplete.
Lately, it's become stylish to create characters who are nothing less than caricatures, and this writer carries on that new fad without even attempting to explore the characters he has created. The betrayed husband is a blind fool, of course, and he never has a chance to grow into something greater. The writer doesn’t let him. The wife is narcissistic and probably could have been diagnosed as what laymen know as sociopathic. If the wife in this story has any redeeming qualities, they certainly aren’t explored. Both of the people thecelt writes about are entirely one dimensional.
When a writer restricts himself to caricatures, he restricts himself to one of a very narrow range of story lines and, in this case, thecelt went down the path of blaming everything on the husband. He was blind; he was never there; he worked too much; he didn’t read the signs, etc., etc. Now, I suppose thecelt could have done this on purpose so as to point out the stupidity of such reasoning, but it just didn’t “work” in this story. In the last scene, we have the thoroughly manipulated husband blubbering as he finished his deceased ex-wife’s letter. He’s accepted every premise she proposed – hook, line, and sinker.
So, in the end, we’re left with nothing positive at all in this story, save the suggestion everything will be made right in heaven. I guess that’s okay, but even that judgment is based on the dead wife being able to manipulate God. To me, that’s just not a very attractive resolution to the problem.
Ron123XYZ@anonymousforever.naturally
Sometimes I wonder
thecelt,
As usual a very interesting and well done story. Sadly, it comes very close to touching some real circumstances in more than a few lives, lives missed for "good" reasons. You have tapped into this very well.
Sometimes I wonder, how people can claim there was not enough character development, when in fact this story is not about characters but people as written by one woman dying and regretting her choices.
Truly, amazes me sometimes the criticisms that are leveled in the Loving Wifes section. Keep up the good work, I come here to read this site because of authors such as yourself.
To the Anon poster below me who said........
.......this:
Sometimes I wonder, how people can claim there was not enough character development, when in fact this story is not about characters but people as written by one woman dying and regretting her choices.
Where I come from this story was riddled with what we often called Backhanded compliments all through it and various people didn't view them as positive things. A Backhanded complement is often defined: "It is generally used to belittle or condescend, or often one uses a backhanded compliment when one wants to insult someone in a subtle way.
Let me give you a few examples:
-You are an excellent artist, which is a relief considering what a poor cook you are
-I very much like your dress. It does wonders for your figure. Though I am surprised they had it in your size
-I hate you for divorcing me. For allowing what I did to destroy us. I was wrong, yes. I betrayed our marriage, yes. I went behind your back and did something that I know, as a man, you could never accept, yes. But I wish you could have accepted me with all my faults, all my mistakes, all my betrayals. I wish you could have forgiven me and understood why I did it.
Those are all Backhanded Compliments or Backhanded statements. The story does have a lot of them in it. That's what most of the people are commenting about. On one hand she say's how sorry she was and how it was all her fault the hurt she caused, then half a breath later she is pointing out how he shared some of the blame for not being more forgiving, not getting past it to save the marriage, divorcing her and not understanding the why (ala' Nici), and even for not forgiving how her for how inconsequential and unimportant the guy she cheated on him with was, because he was beneath both of their notice.
Don't tell me you missed those as to why?
-Risq
most don't get it
Judging from most of the comments here I have to think that most of the readers don't get the point. It's not about the characters, It's more about the regrets we all will someday face for our actions, even though at the time one might not think of the long term repercussions. I know for many (myself included) this story hits VERY close to home, having gone through a similar situation. This is one of the rare stories that actually cause the reader to think, and alot of people don't like that, they just want to read a story and be entertained. All said, just a very well thought out story,....well done.
What we lose
This is a beautiful tale of love. Not ideal, romantic, or like a teen age myth; but The real stuff from deep inside where we hope no one ever looks. This is a tale of mistakes and of consequence. It is evident that they both loved each other but gave their partner secondary status in their daily pursuits. And, as a consequence they both lost that which was most precious to them, not love, but the loved one. I thank you again for such an insightful and meaning ful essay on people, lovers, immature seekers ignoring real treasure seeking for material rewards. A wonderful piece.
She stabbed him in the back again.
I love the way you write, but this turned into a horror story the moment she wrote that GOD will let her be with him. I think Harry would be better off in hell. I think suicide is very possible for Harry. Harry crying at the end made me think that.Regards Luis
Definitely NOT my cup of tea
I know there are always at least two sides to any story....
BUT, why do we have this gang of man beating authors who always have the husband assume 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the blame no matter how stupid, devious, spiteful or selfish the wife is?
A wonderful character study
The letter was a wonderful character study of the wife's rationalizations for her own actions. Not being able to fact up to her own fault in the matter, she rationalized her behavior and tried to lay much of the blame on the husband. Not being able to accept the consequences of her action, she rationalized it was her husband's fault. Well done. Your story laid bare her emotions and thought process in a believable way. Those who criticize your story seem to believe by explaining the character's thinking you are endorsing it. You were not. Well written piece and I look forward to reading many more.
Almost as many comments as Nici's stories . . .
Well-written, strong emotions. What is not explained is why the husband does not make love to his wife for two years. When a man does not make love to his wife for a long time, a number of reasons come to mind. Sometimes he has "E.D." and he does not wish to discuss his "failure" to get a good erection, so he avoids love-making entirely. See, ladies, guys can have headaches, stomach cramps, and well, sometimes we are just not in the mood! Not! When a man is not in the "mood" for 2 years either he is not well (E.D. can be a sign of a variety of medical problems including depression), he no longer finds his wife attractive (is he seeing someone else? Does he love his wife any longer?), or maybe he is passively-agressively getting even with his wife for something (maybe all the times she was not in the "mood" lately). There might be other reasons as well -- he's really working for MI-5 and takes frequent, secret trips to galaxies far, far away . . . . I personally know of a couple that stays together for the sake of their young children, but there has been no love-making for the last 5 years. I don't know the reason, but knowing both of them, I can make an educated guess. I think it affects their children, maybe in some sense as greatly as if they simply got divorced. Of course, in TheCelt's story, there were no children (also unexplained if by choice or due to infertility).
Thank God She's Dead!
Even in her final ramblings she tries to blame her husband for her being a slut, and him not being a wimp. What an evil, evil bitch! I'm sure there is a very special place in Hell for her.
Not What I Expected
When I reached the middle of it I thought the ending paragraph would be ( Harry's newest wife asking him what he was reading and he would respond "It was nothing, just junk mail." as he dropped it in the trash and kissed his Loving Wife.)
Tom
Alvaron53 - need spelling lessons?
Glad to see the idiot Alvaron53 is back to enlighten us with his usual bullshit. However, as the self-proclaimed "master" author; he should use spellcheck. Perhaps he was having a moral moment? LOL
My apologies to everyone for the OT postings
Anonymous, if you need a spellchecker, I'm sure you can find one on the net. You don't need my help for that. Or, if you do, you need a lot more help than I can provide you.
Do you have anything insightful to say about this story? If not, then please stop polluting cyberspace with your noise. Nobody is interested in your random blatherings so do the world a big favor and shut your pie hole.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled smut channel. This has been a test of the Emergency Bullshit Detection System. This is only a test. Had this been real bullshit, you would have been directed where to tune for news and information.
Excellent
Again we see that lack of communication can easily destroy a marriage. Very sad. Very sad that she felt as she did and committed her infidelity and very sad that he let her down, left her without love for two years. Two Years! How many women can accept that. Most would wither away. I guess Harry realizes, at the end of the letter, that he was just as responsible for what happened to their marriage and their life together as she was.
Okay read
I have read a couple of your longer stories a while ago. Since this was a shorter one I thought I would revisit. The theme remains the same. A structurally well written story that is nonetheless quite depressing because of its subject matter. Somewhere there is a real affliction with regards to women.
*sigh*
its her. well done, author.
All About Her!
Celt: Very nice effort. The variety of responses makes equally interesting reading. I agree that this a story of love and regret, but of a different tint than some have postulated. (PP) I found neither protagonist to be very engaging nor sympathetic, especially the wife. The wife admits in her letter that her wont is to put herself first always. She cedes that this assertion is the reason for the letter; the reason she confessed her infidelity. Both were for HER. She acknowledges that she knew he would experience much pain from her revelations, but that her admissions to him were efforts to assuage her guilt. Her infidelity is not the result of a moment in the heat of passion; not the culmination of an unintended yet undeniable romance. No it was the fruition of a cold and calculated scheme to seduce and manipulate some male who was susceptible to her wiles. Someone who she would be her "tool." Did she heed at all the consequences that await her consort? Probably not. She was interested only in what would be best for her. She was aware of what would be her husband's response once he learned of her betrayal. She admits that her telling him was an act that "made me feel better to dump my indiscretion on you...Whether you would forgive me or not didn't even occur to me then." No matter, as long as she felt better. Then she hates him for doing exactly that which she had expected. Throughout the letter she first affixes the blame to him, then accepts it herself, again and again. The letter becomes an emotional teeter totter of fault and faultlessness. She admits that her straying was wrong, but impugns him for not being forgiving. She regrets her mistakes, mostly because of their grievous consequences, not for the pain they caused. Two words I did not read in her letter: "I'm sorry." (PP) The husband's share of the blame for the dissolution of their marriage can be attached to his reticence to discuss as to why no intimacy with his wife for so long a period. I can't imagine how he could not have assessed that his wife would not be concerned. As to his post divorce behavior, he should have sought some kind of counseling to help him work through his emotional pain. To do nothing except to wallow in it didn't reflect well on him. (PP) I believe that of all that she wrote, the most pertinent was that she didn't forgive him. This letter was one last opportunity to pull his chain. If I were he, if indeed there exists a hereafter, and if she, in her passing, were to be invited when coming to that fork in the road to eternity to take the path leading North, then, when shedding my mortal coil, I would consider taking the path heading South. How much worse could it be than spending an eternity up North with her?
Alvaron53 - check your own comments, idiot!
Yikes, Alvaron53 - are you so vain as to not use a spellchecker in your own comments? Tsk, tsk. Perhaps if you checked your previous comments under this story, you will find that you are not as perfect or masterful as you proclaim to be. LOL
A Second Reading Reveals
Another reading shows the power of your carefully chosen words. Getting beyond the preconceptions allows the insight to 2 humans who lost their intended way.--------.
Except for supposition, we only know him through her interpretations of his actions sans the emotion of the stories end where he has the right to be sad for what could have been regardless of fault.----------.
The 2 years is a mind bender which can foretell fault to each or both.--------.
Business can become a mistress - again due to either or both sides full or partial fault. Misdirection to occupy oneself rather than face the mole hill becoming a mountain can be work or her outside activities or both.---------.
While not mentioned, it is no surprise that pride was to blame for not being the first to say "we need to talk".--------.
Lastly, from what we know, it would be simplistic to say that there wasn't fault on each side as is normally the case. That doesn't mean equal fault or forgiveness just there isn't any snow driven faultless person.----------.
Author - how challenging and provoking this is. You are appreciated and of course there is hope for more.-------.
With Very High Regard
Nicely done, the ending can be read as you like it
He didn't necessarily agree with her summation, just that there might be a God and that God might be forgiving. Or not.
Sure he cried - he's human and it was sad. They were equally at fault in not communicating, but only she was unfaithful. In a way it would be a hell of a bitter thing for a woman to do that to a man.
Writing was great and it sure brought out the emotions.
Regards, Jack
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