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What happens if the person you loved and trusted suddenly breaks that trust?
From Harper Collins:
Sarah Price is thirty-five years old. She doesn’t feel as though she’s getting older, but there are some noticeable changes: a hangover after two beers, the stray gray hair, and, most of all, she’s called “Mom” by two small children. Always responsible, Sarah traded her MFA for a steady job, which allows her husband, Nathan, to write fiction. But Sarah is happy and she believes Nathan is too, until a truth is revealed: Nathan’s upcoming novel, Infidelity, is based in fact.
As someone who is married and have a child, I can relate to what’s going on in this book and author Leah Stewart has described in an honest, raw and realistic way. Maintaining a kempt, orderly home while both husband and wife working, without any outside help even with small children around? I’ve been there and I don’t even want to recall those ‘dark times’. We all get married starry eyed and hopeful that somehow, our marriage will be different, that it will be the best there ever will be because we believe in happy ever afters and that as long as you love each other you will be ok but the truth is, as the author said in the book: we all end up the same. We go through the difficulties of mortgage, balancing work and home and we have spats with our spouses.
There are spats but then there are the major ones. Those that you feel you can’t take anymore, that you want out, like what happened to Sarah Price in the book. I’ll not spill any more details on how it goes and ends but I’ll go on a limb here to say that infidelity is something I strongly believe breaks the essential part of marriage, of partnership between husband and wife: trust. How can one go on with their lives with the knowledge that the other spouse cheated on them?
Find out how Sarah and Nathan handled their dilemma in Husband and Wife: A Novel
Giveaway!!
Harper Collins will send one (1) copy of Leah Stewart’s book, Husband and Wife: A Novel
For you, what is the most important element of marriage?
I’ll close the comments in a week and draw a winner by random. US only please.
Disclosure: This post was written for Harper Collins who provided the item for review and will provide one copy to giveaway. I was not compensated in any way.
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Oh man that’s a hard question…… Shared beliefs and interests? That’s the best I can think of.
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After 30 years of marriage, I would have to say communication. It is not possible to have a good marriage if you don´t talk to one another. VERY important, at least in ours.
Would love to win this book. Looks good.
Honesty and love and communication. After 11 1/2 yrs this is what I have found to be true.
We’ll be married for 4 years this summer, so not a lot of experience, but we do have a good focus on communication and what’s working and what’s not.
For us, it is honesty, trust, and communication. You really can’t have a good, loving marriage without those three things. This looks like great book, I have been eying it for awhile. Thanks for the chance. bekki1820cb at gmail
I need to read this after three divorces…
You know I love books…
most important… probably never giving up.
I would say trust above all else. Love can only carry you so far but when the trust is gone nothing else is there that will matter. I have had to handle somthing the same and would like to read the book and see how this was handled.
I would say the most important element of marriage is trust-Humor, love, and romance are great and all, but are obsolete without trust as their foundation!
Thank you for this opportunity
I would say communication, humor and lack of jealousy. And of course Love.