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Mar 21, 2018PimaLib_NormS rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Jen Waite has written a beautiful, terrible book entitled, “A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal”. This is a rollercoaster of a book, alternating between a beautiful, head-over-heels, I’ve-found-my-soulmate love story in chapters titled “Before”, and a terrible story of lies, deceit and betrayal in the “After” chapters. In the Befores, the author’s joy just leaps off the page, and it is natural to be happy for her, for them. Then, along comes an After, and one cannot stop wondering why a person would behave so badly toward someone to whom he has expressed his undying, everlasting love. It is important to note that this is only one side of the story. I wonder, what would the husband say in his book? I guess he would attempt to explain it all away, as he tried to do with his wife. However, it does seem clear that he was the one who cheated; therefore, I would be more inclined to believe the cheat-ee rather than the lying, sociopathic cheat-er. Surely, writing this book was a cathartic act for Jen Waite, but opening up one’s life for the world to see and scrutinize and judge, takes uncommon courage and an openness that not many of us have.