No marriages were ended, no cheated spouse left, they got their cake and got to eat it too. At least Kate Winslet's husband never caught on because my guess is he didn't care but the cheated wife figured it out helloooooo you're the bread winner get yourself outta there nothing to lose!
what does the book say?
''the cheated wife figured it out helloooooo you're the bread winner get yourself outta there nothing to lose!''
Apart from her husband and the father of her child-jesus such a bleak view you have of marriage-you talk about it like it is a financial business arrangement. It's not always that easy just to walk out on a marriage or a relationship just because the other person cheated, many people try to salvage the relationship when the other person cheats especially when kids are involved-it's not always that easy just to just walk out and end it.
As for your initial post well this was not a soap opera-it was not about an affair revelation and the dramatic showdown and of course the affair had massive consequences-it meant that sarah and brad were finally ready to grow up. It was about revelation to oneself- sarah and brad saw through their adultery what really mattered to them and were finally ready to grow up and stop acting like 'little children' by facing their responsibilities and putting other 1st. They finally saw where their responsibilities lay-sarah with her daughter and with that she could begin to try to rebuild her marriage again as she was just as responsible for its failure as her husband.
Brad on the other hand too could finally put his skate fantasies behind him and understood that he was a man in his 30s with a wife and child to take care of and he was no longer a teenage boy.
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Love the post, one small addition. When she's suspicious and asks why he never called, he retorts that he could've used a cell phone. I think that comment was meant to show that she blamed herself somewhat for the state of their marriage and their affair. Note, she never confronts him just probes extremely passively.
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Call them ISIL. Isis is an overloaded term that has many other legitimate uses.
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after reading a summary of the book, I feel like I understood the story a little better, I'm planning on reading the book eventually. Brad and Sarah are both just sort of average people who are in unhappy stagnant circumstances where they both conveniently find each other to meet their respective unfulfilled needs. it's not so cold so that they're using each other......and they aren't bad, evil people.....but it's not like they are creating some genuinely passionate life changing romance either. the affair that they have, the reasons why they even start doin' it, is actually more about themselves than each other, if that makes sense.
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