num_pages: 272
description: What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When it could never happen to me does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband--the father of her infant daughter her best friend the love of her life--fits the textbook definition of psychopath. In a raw first-person account Waite recounts each heartbreaking discovery every life-destroying lie and reveals what happens once the dust finally settles on her demolished marriage.After a disturbing email sparks Waite's suspicion that her husband is having an affair she tries to uncover the truth and rebuild trust in her marriage. Instead she finds more lies infidelity and betrayal than she could have imagined. Waite obsessively analyzes her relationship trying to find a single moment from the last five years that isn't part of the long-con of lies and manipulation. With a dual-timeline narrative structure we see Waite's romance bud bloom and wither simultaneously making the heartbreak and disbelief even more affecting.
language: English
title: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
publisher: Plume Books