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妊娠検査薬が陽性反応を示したのを見て、アナリスは呆然とした。私たち夫婦は子供を持たないと決めていたのに。だが時間がたって動揺がおさまるにつれ、愛する夫との間に子供ができた喜びがふくらんできた。あとは夫のドミニクにもそのすばらしさをわかってもらうだけだ。アナリスが打ち明けると、子供は欲しくないと彼は言い張った。子供に束縛され、今の生活を変えるのはごめんだと。なぜそこまで頑固に反対するのかといぶかるアナリスにドミニクは突然、信じられない事実を明かした。妻にさえ秘密にしていた衝撃的な過去を。★先月刊「愛を禁じた契約」（Ｉ－１９９２）のヒロインだったリアンの双子の妹アナリスの物語をお届けします。予想外の妊娠をきっかけに夫との間に溝が……。夫が子供を拒む理由とは？★
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First published April 1, 2008
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Barbara McMahon
407 books175 followersBestselling, award winning author Barbara McMahon has written more than 80 novels which have sold more than 16 million copies world wide in more than fifty countries in twenty-eight languages.
Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.
Barbara lives in West Michigan with her husband and two fur babies. Her favorite passtimes are genealogy research and taking her dogs on walks in the wood behind their home.
Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.
Barbara lives in West Michigan with her husband and two fur babies. Her favorite passtimes are genealogy research and taking her dogs on walks in the wood behind their home.
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July 22, 2020This book is about a couple who are already married.
I do love a good story about married couples who face some kind of a problem, but the thing is that so few of them portray couples who are happily married.
This book starts out with the couple married for 5 years and show them as content and happy with their lives. At the outset they have decided that they are not going to have children and in the time that they have been married, they have not changed their mind.
The book opens with the Heroine Annalise taking a home testing kit and seeing it turn positive. To be on the safer side, she takes two more tests and both of them give her the same result.
The Heroine has a twin sister Lianne who has her own book and is also pregnant.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
The Hero is not happy at this turn of events. It so happens that the hero has unresolved daddy issues. His father blamed the son for everything that went wrong in his life. Plus turns out that the hero’s been married before. It was a shotgun wedding because his girlfriend was pregnant. That baby was a stillborn and the hero blames himself for that. Soon after that, they divorced. So there’s a whole lot of suppressed baggage that he’s carrying and it all comes out when he hears that Annalise is pregnant.
The heroine is angry at the Hero, for not having told her about his previous marriage, as evidenced by this -
“ Her anger simmered each day. She was unable to have it all out with Dominic, and yet unable to let it go.”
“ The thought still made her angry! She wasn’t sure exactly which was worse—to learn he had been married before, or not to have been told earlier in their relationship.”
“ How dare he carelessly throw away five years of marriage? Even suggest it! What about the bond between them? What about love?”
“ She wanted to smack him. They were having the most important crisis of their marriage and he was ignoring it for work.”
“ How dared Dominic just walk off and not fight for their marriage? Dozens of arguments sprang into her mind. She was not going peaceably away. If he thought they were over, he had another think coming.”
“ If she’d thought she was angry before, she’d been fooling herself. She was so mad now she could spit nails. How dare he?”
The heroine’s sister Lianne gives some real sensible advice -
“Who knows? But you have a history together, a basis to build upon. You have similar interests, similar passions. Find a way to reconnect. He’s an only child from an unhappy marriage. Then he himself had an unhappy experience with marriage. Granted, he’s been thrown in the midst of our family since day one, but at the end of the commotion and chaos you and he return to that ultra-serene flat and the tranquility that’s there. No kids crying, no toys strewn everywhere. That’s what he likes. And this expected baby threatens to change everything—from a couple to a threesome, and from a luxury apartment to a house that looks horrible right now. I’d be nervous about the entire situation myself,” Lianne said.
Lianne continues to be the font of wisdom throughout the book.
The heroine wholeheartedly embraces the pregnancy and due to her new found nesting instincts, buys a new house in the time that the hero is on an out station trip. This also doesn’t sit comfortably with the hero. Plus the house turns out to be a real fixer upper which also brings back unpleasant memories of his unkempt house in his childhood.
The Hero then takes a trip down memory lane. He visits his father and for the first time questions his father about not having done anything about his unfulfilled dreams after he moved out of home. He then visits his ex-wife and finds her married again. She has two children and is happy in her marriage. Lastly he visits the graves of his mother and daughter and a paradigm shift takes place within himself.
He comes back and explains about the past and how much it had shaped his perceptions about himself. He then convinces the heroine to give up the idea of an independent house by presenting a lot of well thought out and convincing arguments -
Dominic smoothed her hair back from her cheek, tucking it behind her ear. “In light of my being frank and open with you, maybe you should consider that we don’t have to have a house when we have a baby.”
“ Our flat is large enough to expand our family.”
“Couldn’t we fix up the spare room as the nursery ?” he asked.
Annalise pictured her house as it would be when completely renovated. And then pictured a jumble of baby things in their flat. She knew there was an inordinate amount of work to be done to make the house as she envisioned it. And Dominic had never shown any interest. How important was the place? It was just a building.
Not as important as her husband. Not as important as harmony and love in her marriage.
“The house is larger than the flat…” she said slowly. She hated to let the dream go.
“The flat suits us. Our friends know how to find us. We know almost everyone in the building, in the neighboring shops. We like going out to dinner on the spur of the moment, walking around the area. That house is isolated. We’d need to drive to go anywhere. We won’t know all the neighbors, and the houses are far enough apart it won’t be easy to get to meet everyone. And I really do not want yard work. In that I guess I’m like my dad. We talked about our house. He moved there for my mother’s sake. He’s happy in his apartment. I’m happy in ours—aren’t you?”
“Don’t you see our lifestyle changing when the baby is born?” she asked.
“To a degree. But, Annalise, think about it. We’ve established our routines as we like them. Travel, visiting and partying with friends. Going to the beach. A baby needs to fit into our lives. We are not supposed to rearrange everything for an infant.”
“So why it is so important to have a house? We can make our place perfect for a family of three.”
The pang of not finishing the house, of never living in the rooms she’d already renovated, struck. But was a house more important than her future with Dominic?
“I love you, Annalise. I want to be there when our child is born. I’m going to do my best to always be there, though there will be times I have to travel. But I see no reason you can’t accompany me. Traveling is educational. And it’s one thing you regret about being part of such a large family—never time or money enough to take the entire family on trips anyplace but the shore.”
And the heroine gives up her dream of that lovely little house.......
And then they lived HEA..........
A sweet little romance.
I do love a good story about married couples who face some kind of a problem, but the thing is that so few of them portray couples who are happily married.
This book starts out with the couple married for 5 years and show them as content and happy with their lives. At the outset they have decided that they are not going to have children and in the time that they have been married, they have not changed their mind.
The book opens with the Heroine Annalise taking a home testing kit and seeing it turn positive. To be on the safer side, she takes two more tests and both of them give her the same result.
The Heroine has a twin sister Lianne who has her own book and is also pregnant.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
The Hero is not happy at this turn of events. It so happens that the hero has unresolved daddy issues. His father blamed the son for everything that went wrong in his life. Plus turns out that the hero’s been married before. It was a shotgun wedding because his girlfriend was pregnant. That baby was a stillborn and the hero blames himself for that. Soon after that, they divorced. So there’s a whole lot of suppressed baggage that he’s carrying and it all comes out when he hears that Annalise is pregnant.
The heroine is angry at the Hero, for not having told her about his previous marriage, as evidenced by this -
“ Her anger simmered each day. She was unable to have it all out with Dominic, and yet unable to let it go.”
“ The thought still made her angry! She wasn’t sure exactly which was worse—to learn he had been married before, or not to have been told earlier in their relationship.”
“ How dare he carelessly throw away five years of marriage? Even suggest it! What about the bond between them? What about love?”
“ She wanted to smack him. They were having the most important crisis of their marriage and he was ignoring it for work.”
“ How dared Dominic just walk off and not fight for their marriage? Dozens of arguments sprang into her mind. She was not going peaceably away. If he thought they were over, he had another think coming.”
“ If she’d thought she was angry before, she’d been fooling herself. She was so mad now she could spit nails. How dare he?”
The heroine’s sister Lianne gives some real sensible advice -
“Who knows? But you have a history together, a basis to build upon. You have similar interests, similar passions. Find a way to reconnect. He’s an only child from an unhappy marriage. Then he himself had an unhappy experience with marriage. Granted, he’s been thrown in the midst of our family since day one, but at the end of the commotion and chaos you and he return to that ultra-serene flat and the tranquility that’s there. No kids crying, no toys strewn everywhere. That’s what he likes. And this expected baby threatens to change everything—from a couple to a threesome, and from a luxury apartment to a house that looks horrible right now. I’d be nervous about the entire situation myself,” Lianne said.
Lianne continues to be the font of wisdom throughout the book.
The heroine wholeheartedly embraces the pregnancy and due to her new found nesting instincts, buys a new house in the time that the hero is on an out station trip. This also doesn’t sit comfortably with the hero. Plus the house turns out to be a real fixer upper which also brings back unpleasant memories of his unkempt house in his childhood.
The Hero then takes a trip down memory lane. He visits his father and for the first time questions his father about not having done anything about his unfulfilled dreams after he moved out of home. He then visits his ex-wife and finds her married again. She has two children and is happy in her marriage. Lastly he visits the graves of his mother and daughter and a paradigm shift takes place within himself.
He comes back and explains about the past and how much it had shaped his perceptions about himself. He then convinces the heroine to give up the idea of an independent house by presenting a lot of well thought out and convincing arguments -
Dominic smoothed her hair back from her cheek, tucking it behind her ear. “In light of my being frank and open with you, maybe you should consider that we don’t have to have a house when we have a baby.”
“ Our flat is large enough to expand our family.”
“Couldn’t we fix up the spare room as the nursery ?” he asked.
Annalise pictured her house as it would be when completely renovated. And then pictured a jumble of baby things in their flat. She knew there was an inordinate amount of work to be done to make the house as she envisioned it. And Dominic had never shown any interest. How important was the place? It was just a building.
Not as important as her husband. Not as important as harmony and love in her marriage.
“The house is larger than the flat…” she said slowly. She hated to let the dream go.
“The flat suits us. Our friends know how to find us. We know almost everyone in the building, in the neighboring shops. We like going out to dinner on the spur of the moment, walking around the area. That house is isolated. We’d need to drive to go anywhere. We won’t know all the neighbors, and the houses are far enough apart it won’t be easy to get to meet everyone. And I really do not want yard work. In that I guess I’m like my dad. We talked about our house. He moved there for my mother’s sake. He’s happy in his apartment. I’m happy in ours—aren’t you?”
“Don’t you see our lifestyle changing when the baby is born?” she asked.
“To a degree. But, Annalise, think about it. We’ve established our routines as we like them. Travel, visiting and partying with friends. Going to the beach. A baby needs to fit into our lives. We are not supposed to rearrange everything for an infant.”
“So why it is so important to have a house? We can make our place perfect for a family of three.”
The pang of not finishing the house, of never living in the rooms she’d already renovated, struck. But was a house more important than her future with Dominic?
“I love you, Annalise. I want to be there when our child is born. I’m going to do my best to always be there, though there will be times I have to travel. But I see no reason you can’t accompany me. Traveling is educational. And it’s one thing you regret about being part of such a large family—never time or money enough to take the entire family on trips anyplace but the shore.”
And the heroine gives up her dream of that lovely little house.......
And then they lived HEA..........
A sweet little romance.
May 29, 2013
Türkçe adı: Baba Olmak
March 11, 2021
This is the journey of a married couple trying to define their relationship , find love in their five years marriage, and discover what they really want in life. The plot is good but was very repetitive, and the ending was predictable, but the fact that the author wrote a clean romance about a married couple was a plus.
February 6, 2018
No ame al protagonista, fue muy egoista pero sigue siendo una linda historia
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