by DG Hear
....silly little love song but this author can make a stone weep.Pistolpackinpete
and I'm still on the floor, thanks!
I liked how you wove Willie's song into your story. Another enjoyable reading experience.
Boyd
Great song choice, one of my all time favorites, but I wish the author had written one more verse, as it ends all too soon. Nice story woven around the songs message.
My blue eyes were definitely crying over this story, thank you.
but I really HATE Willie Nelson. Since you linked your story to him so much, with my hatred of this 'entrtainer' so strong, I could not with good conscience give this tale a higher score. Thank you for the effort though.
I don't have blue eyes, but they are wet with tears. Really you can make a stone weep.
<p>Strongly reminiscent of <i>The Notebook</i>. Well written and sentimental.</p>
<p>One minor flaw: an anachronistic reference to "Mad Cow Disease" about 40 years before such a thing was known. Sorry, it's my history background that makes me touchy about such things.</p>
Thank-you for saving my marriage. I had come to work thinking about leaving my wife of 33 years. I truly love her very much, but the stresses of life today have caused too much tesion between us. She is not happy with my moods and ups and downs. She has always loved me and has been supportive all my life. I have become very difficult to live with the last five years or so. She is now having a tough time with it all. I don't want to cause her any more pain or suffering. Maybe it's my way of doging the issues.
Your story just reminded me of what a great woman my wife is. She's not asking me to leave. She still loves me everyday, no matter how strained my life is. She always asks how she can make me feel better. I love her more than life itself.
Thank-you again, and now I need to go hold her, kiss her, befriend her like she deserves.
Thank-you for saving my marriage. I had come to work thinking about leaving my wife of 33 years. I truly love her very much, but the stresses of life today have caused too much tesion between us. She is not happy with my moods and ups and downs. She has always loved me and has been supportive all my life. I have become very difficult to live with the last five years or so. She is now having a tough time with it all. I don't want to cause her any more pain or suffering. Maybe it's my way of doging the issues.
Your story just reminded me of what a great woman my wife is. She's not asking me to leave. She still loves me everyday, no matter how strained my life is. She always asks how she can make me feel better. I love her more than life itself.
Thank-you again, and now I need to go hold her, kiss her, befriend her like she deserves.
You brought tears to my eyes many places in the story.It was a wonderful life that they had. Interestingly enough it sounds almost as if it was in the genes....
This is perhaps your best work. I have admired your past writings. The flow of the stories you write. The emotion you put into each one. With this one, you moved to a way to show love and true love at that many do not see or imagine. To envoke confliction of emotion between the happiness of love and the sorrow of loss is a challenge for many. This was accomplished within this story. I commend you on it and state that this is perhaps even one of the best writings i have read in a long time.
One of the best, if not the best story you have written. Keep up the good work.
One of your best DG. A superb flow between flashbacks and current times.
A truly moving and joyful story.
Thank you,
Norman
Another one of your great stories. This one definatly is your best. One great tear jerker. Keep up the good work.
DG Hear's stories are always well written, but he has outdone himself with this one. Heartwarming romantic story about two people who truly love each other. Congratulations!
60 year old George
What a day, submissions by Papatoad, Itmgr and DG Hear. Three different styles but all of them great.TY for writing, Jenny
Thank you for a wonderful love story. I appreciate all of your work, but this may become my favorite. I do have a few bones to pick with you though. 1st, there was no 911 to call in 1959. Second, we did not send in combat troops into Viet Nam until 1965. Prior to that we had advisors but few combat deaths. It would have been very unlikely that several of his high school buddies died there. Minor, but things that pull one out of the story. Thanks again. I can't write a story to save my life, so my thanks are heartfelt. Ttom
An uplifting,sad,wonderful story. Just right for father's day. Thank you.
you have another winner, my friend. It will be exciting to read what the other authors come up with for this Invitational. I'd better go polish mine up a bit more to compete though. Kudos DG.
The best story you have ever written DG. I have nothing to say about it but G R E A T. It is a lot like the movie "Notebook" with James Garner and Gina Rowland. I cried when I saw it as I did when I read your story also. A Story does not have to have 29 episodes of sex in each paragraph in order to be a masterpiece even on an erotic site. Thank you so much for keeping an old man from that era entertained. My story didn't have such a happy ending as my first love was married and had a kid when I got home from Vietnam. A "Dear John" from her was the reason I volunteered for duty in a "Hazardous Zone." Oh well, I didn't get my one true love but I gt a good woman and a great daughter.
A BIG THANK YOU! I never know how my stories will be received and I just want to say Thank You for all the wonderful comments. I can't tell you how wonderful it makes a writer feel to know that readers took the time to respond with such nice comments. It makes all the hours of writing and worrying over a story worth while.
With respect
DG Hear
that said there were no combat troops in VietNam until 1965, I say there were not supposed to be combat troops before 1965. I left two dead friends there in 1961 in the "Hazardous Zone where I volunteered." When I sent mail home, my letters were blacked out when I tried to explain to mom and dad where I was and what I was doing. Dad, being a combat infantryman in the 96th Infantry Division in Leyte and Okinawa in WW2 knew what it meant and surmised that I was somewhere where the military did not want known where I was and what I was doing. You are right and correct in pointing out the absence of the 911 service in 1959. Had I been editing I would have just said , "Called an ambulance," but that one little mistake made no difference in the story line. It was still DG Hear's all time best work.
Gary
This reminds me of my parents. My dad died first and then my mother died 3 months later. I think she died of a broken heart.
Terrific story
Another great story, sure to become a classic story of a life lived with true love between a man and a woman. A fact once so common, and now such a rare and beautiful thing to behold....gives some hope, it such a sad comment on the world today.
great story , wish my life would have been like this . love is rarely like this in a marriage , you write stories so realistic that they play at all emotions ... awesome !!!!
This is one hell of a good story! Damn it's well written and I like the storyline. A very different look at a life or two, the perspective really works.
Wonderful story of a "Loving Wife". Its good to occasionally read a story without cheating and all. Beautiful writting.
First you pick one of my all time favorite songs and then you write a wonderful story. You have always been on of the best writers here, but this one is among your best.
A wonderful story by a great writer with a very unique and special gift.
Tugs at the heart strings ... but with a smile at the same time.
Well done, thanks for participating in the invitational.
Regards, Jack
OK, I'll just come right out and say what a lot of your readers really feel. You should ignore the rest of your life and devote yourself to writing more stories for us. Thank you.
As Always DG, you are the man! Your stories always leave us feeling better about our lives and loves. I always look forward to your next one knowing it will be worth the time it takes to read it! Thanks again...
DGHear how the hell did you get so good. I remember your first story and was amazed it was a first story. If you get any better just become a professional and at least get paid. I loved this story. Of course it made me tear up.Thanks for the entertainment. Luis
I am living this story... lost my love to brain cancer.
I see her in my mind.
I feel her in my being,
I fee her love is in my heart,
I will love her forever and ever and ever
love it SEE I FELL IN LOVE AT 17. I ONLY SAW HER FOR A FEW MINS. BUT it was all it took that was 1974. we have twin girls and 5 granddaughters not once have I EVER BROKE OUR VOWS. And I GET ON MY KNEES AND THINK GOD everytime I hold her in my arms. 35 years and we still have sex 4 times a week.WEVE had ups and downs over the years but Man I never knew any regets . Thank you for a great story
This story was the best Love story I have ever read in my 59yrs on this earth. I had tears in my eyes from the middle of the first chapter to the very end.
Stories like this give the heart such a warm and glorious feeling. We don't get those strong feelings like we did when we were younger.
I hope that the author of this will continue to write wonderful Love stories that can be shared by all.
Thank you so much for warming my Heart.
As a husband for 58 years who drives 40 miles every day for the past 3 years to be with my Alzheimer wife, this story has exceeded anything I have read in the past. I hope that Bea and I will be with Mary and John.
You always write a good story DG. This one is better than most. It's good to read a story about a couple who remained in love and in a monogamous relationship their entire marriage. It would be difficult to improve on this story. Thanks.
DG Hear, you are one of the best authors on this site. Your loving wives stories always touch me to the soul. However, you should have made a miracle happen and save Mary from dying :)/
I have read all of your stories and you are clearly one of the best writers on literotica.com. This story touched all the right places. Although Mad Cow was around back then, it wasn't known to the general public.
Sorry, I know it's such a minor point in the scope of the story. Anyway, please keep writing. You bring satisfaction to all those who read your stories; even those who don't like them. They get to complain. So there is something for everyone.
I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but it never did. This should have been filed under "mature" or "romance". This was okay, but not outstanding. I have seen many better non-erotic stories on this site. I have no idea why it seems to be one of the top-rated "loving wife" stories. Good but not great, and really kind of boring.
DG
I thought I had read all your stories, but on revisiting, I find that I hadn't. A beautiful Story, and yes it is erotic and is a true loving wife story, no infidelity, no distractions and apart from a couple of faults that have been picked on by a couple of nit pickers very true to life. Yes there are couples like John and Mary, maybe not as many, but they are still out there
Thank you, DGH . . . thank you for your witing this love story.
This story reminds me of "The Notebook." Very well written and full of heart. Keep up the great writing!!
Great tear jerker. This story is done with such great feeling a guy just has to let loose a few tears after he has finished reading it. I love your work.
One can only hope to find , let alone live such a good life . Well done !!!!!!
DG writes everything with sensitivety, skill and class. It is always a pleasure
to read his stuff.
My wife is very much like the Mary in this story. We married at 17/18 have four children. Lost one and adopted one. She has cancer and is dieing a little more each day. It hurts to watch the love of your life have to go though this. We never cheated on each other and have been married over 44 years. She put up with my years of drinking and my recovery. I will miss her so much. Reading this story brought back so many memories and I cried because I'm living the ending now. My wife may have a few weeds or a year or more but I will be by her side though it all.
We all are human and this type of stories help us to find our ways to come back to our designated path even after we might have strayed. After all we all are human. Love has the power to put an ordinary man above others. Nice story DG Hear!
There be a couple lessons here, one about faithfulness
well now that I start to say different things I guess the second thing is about faithfulness
What more can one say other than this story is simply WONDERFUL!
are not the ones with monster dicks or tits, nor seeing how many the main character can boff or get away with cheating. They are the ones that show the power of LOVE and all that must be done to nurture it.
DG, I have liked your stories for years but this is one of the best you have done. Great Job!!! I look forward to more of your work in the future.
...and a lump to my throat. A story like this one seems a little out of place on Literotica's website. It was an unexpected pleasure to read. I give it five stars.
I was all ready for a hot, sex-filled story and you blind-sided me with a bittersweet love story! I'm a man, but, dude, you had me in tears. I feel the same way about my lovely wife and hope I never have to go through something like that. However, time marches and brings us all to the end whether we want to or not. I will be truly blessed to have made the journey with her.
Thanks for an outstandingly good read! 5*
This is one of the best stories on this site. A wife that loves her husband and stay with him to her death, and she didn't fuck ever big cock along the way. Faithfull till the end.
There were no 911 back then nor did 911 exist in the 1960s, 1970s,or 1980s. If an author is going to write fiction, it should at least be possible and, if the writer is going to write about events in the 1950s, he or she should at least have some knowledge of the time.
I have read your comments on many author's stories. If you are so good, write a story yourself, let us read your brilliant creations. Otherwise, pay attention to the details, this was the story of a couple that graduated in 1959. On another note -- one you would do well to remember -- there is a reason they call it FICTION you moron.
His writing name is x-JohnDoe-x.
it may fade with time, but will meet again. TK U MLJ LV NV
This was as good as any story I have ever read anywhere. I clicked on the fifth star but it wouldn't take my vote???
I really felt this one and I could read ones like this all day. I actually prefer them over the strong sex stories. Excellently written and thank you for sharing your art with us all.
and this was a true loving wives story.
I do hope you that have NOT experienced this will realize the scope of separation of a soul mate by death... I am there now,,, I know she will be as Mary is ,,, waiting for me ... I suggest you read on After Death Communications.... it is awesome
DG,
I have been married to the most wonderful woman in the world for 28 and a half years. She puts up with me so much and I love her more just like John loved Mary. I cannot ever see my life without my wife. I will be like Johnny Cash after his wife died and he passed 4 months later. You have touched my so much, DG. Thank you for reminding all of us, men, that we really do need a good woman with us.
And you got it right a True Loving Wife story -
No critique is appropriate beyond thank you so much -
Brought tears ot my eyes. Forget your sex and cheating stories, this genre is where you excel.
Wow is right. What a wonderful story, pulls on the heart strings in you are a well balanced human.
On another note, Dwornock, I am going to have to hunt you down and Kill you.
Just Joking. But Really, where do you live? Heh heh heh.
just letting you know.
of a couple who had a life similiar to this one . Their name is Helen and Ivan. They never had children. Both were teachers in the days of one room school houses an coal stoves to heat them. Their whole life was just like this story. Maybe someday I will write of them. Thanks DGHEAR for your stories.
My wife of over 40 years waited for me. I am so honored that she did.
Well it was a tear jearker,but worth all the sniffing and wet eyes,Thank You!
reminded me of the song "Green Green Grass of Home" by Johnny Cash
This is the way a marriage should be. Love each other forever and to the end.
A wonderful tale of love. You actually had me getting misty toward the end.
5 stars The storyteller could've been longer it was just that good. I loved the emotion and feel. I would've like to have heard more about Mary eventhough it worked extremely well as it was written. Perfection always has unique qualities to wiggle one way or another and that's what this was. If you ever experienced real love this is a familiar. Thanks author well done!
What a touching tale of life and love. If all who live can experience love such as this the world would be a much better place. God Bless.
The story makes me realize how lucky I am to have a wife like Mary.
Emotional, very well written...surely one of your best. % Stars. Nothing more to say.
You lost me at that point. The cops and prosecutors have a saying "the first hit is free"; but Mark is on the ground and he continues the attack and all that happens is an "oops"? The dude would be in prison for assault.
I doubt that would have been true anywhere.
I don't usually cry reading a story, but this one is special. Hard to believe a 64 year old Marine would cry reading a fictional story, but in truth, I have my own Mary. Thanks for writing it.
stories like this really get to me. my wife and I have been married well over 40 years. As we approach 70 together the thought of losing each other weighs more on our minds. the thought of losing her is hard, but the thought of her losing me is even more traumatic. I have seen the sorrow in her face when her parents passed. The utter grief I saw in her lovely face was almost more than I could bear. I pray that at my passing, The Lord will give her the peace that only he can bestow. Thanks
Our 43rd wedding anniversary is today. What a fitting tribute to the love of your life...............and mine.
A marriage that lasts 45 years (like mine) is a tribute to a good woman!