Blind

a leeson in unconditinal love...excellent story

i think that we all learn a lesson from this...MEN ARE LAZY!

Hmm...cant say I would spend (waste?) my life over this bumm. He doesnt seem to have any goal in life and his happy with the status quo because his wife lets him get away with it.

i guess people relate the ultimate happiness in life to doing your own thing. but if you really dont know what it is that you want to do, then its responsibility you should be thinking about. else, you get wasted, and you would not deserve any "support" from your spouse.

I feel really sorry for this lady and also angry. Why should she sacrifice so much for one who gives her so little. I think she could possibly enjoy her new role as carer. She may find it empowering.

Did no one else come to the immediate conclusion that hes gay? I mean, come on. A guy interested in interior design and making jewelry that will no longer sleep with his wife? Seems obvious to me. It seems obvious as soon as she mentioned that hes prettier than her. And, I guess the saddest part is that she has no idea, and possibly never will.

The woman in the story is really keeping to her side of the marriage vows - shes sticking to him for better or for worse, how many other people in our selfish world would do that for a lost bum like her husband.
I like the story, and it leaves me hoping that she will see him through and that he will find himself again.

If this story is based on her personal experience, I hate to break it to her, but her husband is gay and its got him terribly depressed.

This is more like a woman journaling in her private diary than a short story. I did not get any sense of compassion for either party. The characters had no depth, and all I kept thinking was "Who cares?".

It seems to me there is one crucial thing missing from this relationship...communication. Excellent story.

Enjoyable.

I think this story needs to be longer to get more into the details of the story. Hopefully the author has more about this story in her head than appears on her two pages. It seems flat, as though a diary entry, as another points out above. The story needs depth, even if some are right that he is simply gay and she is not aware of it. Did not really enjoy, but writing is about constant rewriting, which sometimes requires hearing the opinions of others. Best of luck in future creations.

When she said "if it was not love it was good enough", you can tell she just settled in order to fill a void.
I also get the feeling he is gay and deep inside she knows. Like many people in this world she rather be blind.

Lolin

very dissatisfying story. of course hes gay but perhaps its a phase too.but you dont feel anything for the characters and therefore the story doesnt really hold.

Sorry, but your husband needs medical help. Things will be alot better once he comes out of depression.

Title of the story - Blind. And boy, is she?

I like this story alot. I love the wya the narration tells us so much about the narrator.

He has had a nervous breakdown over his sexuality (he is gay) and she is in denial. Quite sad but these things happen. Infact they are both in denial together.

haiz...dun really understand. But if i was her, i would divorce him..

Is it called blind because she is blind to the fact he is a homosexual? Hes not going to movies alone.

Intresting story. The title descibes the dilemma quite correctly. There is absolutly no communication. I just wanna shout to her "Talk to him! I can´t belive you are just accepting this!". That´s not unconditional love.

She is being far to patient towards him, this state of affair could go on forever - sad but I dont think I would stay in the marriage myself, Id have to leave him for my own sanity

I guess there is much more to their relationship than meets the readers eye: its changing, maturing, if you will.
Next time round, without first making a trip to the bedroom, their new-found love will consume and uplift them (or so I fervently hope).

I wouldnt put up with that much longer, he can work and pursue his hobbies(my wife did it). Another thing, did it ever accure to you that he is going to the movies with someone else?... Or you sexlife is down?... Or the reason why he started crying when you confronted him about him not wanting to sleep with you?... I think at the very least you give him some money for a movie and ask a friend and/or DIY to follow him to the movies and see if he meets up with anyone else.

This isnt a story, its a journal entry.

I believe that men who think that are better than woman shouldnt be able to even smile. When a woman knows that the men looks better than her... then she should just let him move on and not even take a glance back as he walks away. At the time I am 18 years old and Im in many relationship im not planning at being faithful at the time why? Because I have to have fun in my life before is to late and is time for me to get serious. Maybe later on I would change the way i think but, at the moment im just sticking with what my heart tells me.

The first thing that came to mind to me was that he is sick. He has some life taking disease and he is simply not talking about it. I think this because it reminds me of relationships I have seen personally. I do not understand why he would not talk about it. That part is confusing to me.

im in the same phase as the wife right now. the hanging-on-maybe-hell-change-because-i-love-him phase. this story is more real than you guys might think.

Brief and but leaves a lot to the readers imagination.

Her husband could be gay, could be just mentally depressed or he really wants a change in life but has lost the motivation to do so, especially since he knows that his wife is around to spoon feed him!!

Tony Chananthara

I believe this story, although quite realistic, is too blunt. There is little, if any description and the characters seem static to the point where the story looses interest.

Either he goes to the Doctors office for a check-up (agreeing that the wife goes in with him so he wont leave out anything) or ask herself "let me get this straight...he doesnt bath and shave too often, he doesnt clean the house or after himself, he doesnt contribute financially, nor do I receive any affection or sex, I have to provide financially for both of us, clean the house and after him and look after daily operations of the house..he is how old? 2? no I have no children nor any hope of getting one if I want one." Just ask yourself or you better off with him or without?

The story would have been more interesting for me if he were simply depressed and the signs pointing at his being gay were less obvious. The wife seems pretty detached.

My mind has been working on this story for a whole week since I read it and eventually I had to come back to it. I think that this writer is very subtle and even kind of abstract. Does anyone else agree?

This story has such a modernist Kafka feel about it that it is a painful pleasure to read. Is the story about having the courage to love someone more then you love yourself or not having the courage to hold you spouse to standards or is this relationship really a marriage. Whichever the case the fact that the writer forces the reader to look at all these angles is a testiment to the power of this piece.

Mo

Very appropriate title. Although Enabler might have been more appropriate. This seems to be a very accurate depiction of what happens when one half of a couple becomes depressed and the struggle the other partner goes through.

Calling someone who is dealing with a depressed spouse an "enabler" is like calling someone whose spouse has cancer an "enabler"--"well, if she would just get out more and stop acting like a sick peron, she would get better!" Depression is a sickness IN the body; its not something that a person chooses or doesnt choose to pick up, to feel. There are always actions that people can take to improve their condition (like a cancer patient can get treatment), but real depression doesnt often work like alcoholism; it works more like a brain tumor.

That said, it seems to me that the husband is obviously gay and also obviously overwrought by the idea of communicating this to his wife. (This is also not a situation where "enabler" would be appropriate, though she could do more to attempt to communicate with him.)

Watching oprah? Interior design? Mixing and matching? This man is definatly a homosexual

Is Christopher going blind? Is the wife refusing to see that because she finds it hard to accept the fact? Author, enlighten me.

I Didd understand why this story is named "Blind".Bt I think the lady in the story was excessively cooperative to his Husband,he should have talked to him for once and tried to know his problem.By just giving him Financial Support only she can not go into the root of his Depression.She never asked why he left the Job? this is what I WONDER.

Its all been said, Hes had a breakdown and is in depression (Get him a shrink) she is too, over his gayness. Where is the love, honsity, trust and communication? get help or get out!!!

I found this story so sad and somewhere it rang true with my own experience of living with a depressed person.
I would not agree with the ending though. He may need your support, you think, but the most important thing is to talk to him - open some line of communication, its the only thing that will save you. Maybe he doesnt want you to sacrifice your time, money etc for him...

This story, is one story that really happends in the reality . maybe he had a deception in his work.

There are a few importnat things that need to be done immediately:

1.You need to talk to him to find out what is going on
if you dont get valid answers then..

2.Find out if he is going to the movies alone or with someone

3.Find out some facts before sympathising with your husband

At firstI thought the man was going through some mid-life crisis, but the author makes me believe that the real plot is that the wife is blind because she cant see that her husband is sexually confused.

Theres a lack of creativity in this story, im not fond of using typical elements that define what a gay man is. Whether you did it intentionally or not,it just didnt work for me here. Ive met normal people who are gay and I wouldnt have thought they were unless a friend of theirs mention it to me.

Either way, you had a good plot here. Good luck with other writings.

When I read this story, I feel like I was reading a fairy tale because in fact the kindness of the wife is so impossible and out of reach. There is no such undemanding women right now. Getting married means more responsibilities. Sometimes loves just aint enough, baby...

Adhit
State University of Malang

Blind

Yup, thats it in a nutshell.

A good lessons, plain( which is not a characteristic of a story- it must have movement, fluctuations). i felt t like i was reading an unfortunate wifes diary

This story is terrible. The characters are stereotypes, the details are generic, and the plot is a cliche. The author seems to condescend her narrator (down to the very title of the story) and the narrator condescends the character of the husband, which only makes her even less sympathetic a protagonist than she already is. I could not bring myself to care about anything in this story.

i real dont know if he is not gay or may be he is but the other possible reason could be because he cannot have a child yeah may be thats a reason he is so depressed.

The stuid woman is way too passive