Review: h working to save her marriage....alone...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
I have read a lot of cheating books but I have never read one where the h apologizes more to a cheating H.  Every other paragraph was an "I'm sorry" from her.  It was nauseating, absolutely insane.The h finds out that the H had an affair years ago with her best friend that lasted two years.  Now the best friend is dead and the H and h are left with the reality that the H fathered a child with the other woman.  I expected the H to at any point and time feel completely horrid for his behavior but that never happens.  When the h attempts to wrap her mind around the affair the H refuses to give her any information or talk about it repeatedly saying "what's the point?"  He decides that is how they are going to deal with it, "end of."  Who cares what she wanted or needed?  Shortly there after, the H takes a why-can't-you-just-get-over-it attitude with the h.  Every time she attempts to talk about her feelings he says things to her like "Please.  Just get off my back" and "God, not again Alex!"  Those are direct quotes, not exaggerations.  I could not believe an author would write that of a H that was supposedly feeling remorse for a two year affair.  He was over it therefore she should as well.  He behaves in this unbelievably selfish manner the entire book.  I found no redeeming qualities in him.The h is constantly apologizing for her feelings that his infidelities caused over and over again throughout the whole book.  The only logical conclusion that I found was that the author wrote such an unredeemable H that the only manner to make him a bit less repulsive is to attempt to make the h seem guilty of something.  Yet this h held the H's hand the same night that she found out about his affair and child.  The same h that had opened her home to the living reminder of the infidelity.  He recognized how difficult the situation would be for her yet still demanded that she set her feeling aside and support him and accept the daughter conceived in his betrayal, no matter how painful it was for her.  Somehow she was made into the villain by him and all her friends for needing a little support herself during such a difficult time.  Then when she finally speaks up and tells him that it would be too painful for her to pretend that everything is ok at that right now, instead of feeling guilty for putting her in that situation his reaction is ""Fine," he barked, "Whatever.  Don't come, then.""  No worries, the h apologizes for that too.  The h never considered leaving her husband, never considered a divorce and she fought tooth and nails to get through the painful betrayal all by herself with no love or support from a H that was so busy building a relationship with his new daughter that he never considered his wife.  I am still asking myself, what did he do to reassure her?***Spoiler***  In the end, the h apologizes for having any doubt that the H didn't love her after hearing that he had a two year affair with her best friend and for being so hurt that she could not make things easier for him.  This is where he realizes how much his actions have hurt her and that he doesn't deserve her or her apologies, right?  Nope.  He accepts her apology and doesn't give one of his own.  At this point I wanted to finish reading the book to see if World War II was the h fault too and if she was also going to apologize for that as well.  I got this book free and since I can't get my money back, I want my reading time back.