Are You Being Completely Honest in Your Relationship?
Have any of you read The Bride Stripped Bare?
Well, I just finished this-anonymously-written novel several days ago. In the Afterword, the author revealed that she chose to write it that way because it was the only way she could write it: as a mother, a daughter, and most of all, a wife.
This novel explores a woman’s secret life. To all who know this woman, she is the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But then she finds out that her husband had an affair with her very best friend.
She then decides to start a “new” life and meets a Spanish-English virgin whom she teaches-practices sex lessons to. Yes, she’s having an affair as well. Many afternoon-lessons affairs.
But later she realizes the new feeling for her husband. Something she isn’t expecting. That she still wants him. She doesn’t want to lose him and desires their marriage to last.
One day, her husband asks whether she has slept with that man. She says no.
That’s because she doesn’t want to ruin their marriage. She wants their love to come back like it used to be.
…Ummm, that’s all about the book review.. I think I’m not really good at it :)…
I just want to know about your opinion here. If you, happen to have an affair with someone whom you feel so contented with, but you have this once-a-beautiful-marriage, what would you do?
I know it’s hard, in a relationship, to be completely honest… just as the author says.
But would you be honest if you are this woman? Or what would you do about this situation?
Well, you may comment anonymously, too, if you wish. Hope you’re not offended with this post, my dear readers…
Thanks a lot for reading…
PS. I just checked out at the Amazon that the novel now has the P.S edition. And the author is actually Nikki Gemmell…
August 31st, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I’d never cheat to begin with. Not that I’m perfect or anything. I’m really messed up in a lot of ways but I know what it’s like to be cheated on so I could never do that to someone else.
Interesting post.
August 31st, 2006 at 11:30 pm
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Adwina
September 1st, 2006 at 9:23 am
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September 1st, 2006 at 10:16 am
I don’t think I have the guts to cheat on my spouse. I am not a good liar and I think it would give me an ulcer to lie to him.
I would hope that my relationship is based on honesty and trust. If my husband were to cheat on me, I would hope that he would tell me so that we could heal and move past it. I had a very dear friend whose husband cheated and left her when she was 4 1/2 months pregnant with their fifth child. It destroyed their family. If he would have opted to stay, she would have forgave him and would do everything possible to move forward and forgive him. I think there are alot of forgivable things in marriage and I certainly hope that this could be one of them. Maybe it is because of her situation and seeing first hand what dishonesty and disregard can do to a marriage, I think a little differently about this than most.
A “once-beautiful-marriage” can be beautiful again with a little tlc.
One of my favorite quotes is “The grass may be greener on the other side, but it is only because they take better care of it.”
September 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
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March 19th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I know how you feel my husband cheated on me with my best friend to. She denies it and that’s why I hate her for it. But my husband and I worked things out.
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