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Infidelity #2

The Breaking Point

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I thought I had it all; a loving husband, two wonderful boys, and a job that made me feel like I mattered. But on the night of our tenth wedding anniversary, one careless comment from Aiden’s old college friend changed everything. It revealed a betrayal I never saw coming.
The Breaking Point was the moment I realized the life I’d made might be built on a lie.
As I try to make sense of my marriage, I’m forced to face everything I once chose to ignore; the cracks I covered up, the quiet moments I dismissed, the illusion of perfection I clung to. With therapy, time, and more honesty than I ever thought I could handle, I start asking the questions I never dared to before. Will his infidelity be the breaking point of our marriage or the beginning of something new?

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2025

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Profile Image for Tmstprc.
1,270 reviews163 followers
June 27, 2025
So the cheating in this one is questionable. He put himself in a difficult position-completely drunk in a strip club the night before their wedding, but between his “friends” harassing him and the stripper basically forcing the sex, it’s definitely questionable. Ten years later, his friend drunkenly spills the beans.

Marriage in trouble issues… their lack of communication, daddy and mommy issues, and built up resentments.
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857 reviews96 followers
June 19, 2025
I decided to come back and lower the rating because after thinking about it and re-reading the scene, I believe the H was raped. He didn't go there with the intention to cheat, and he also pushed the other woman away mutiples times saying stop and enough.

2.5 stars rounded up

I'm not sure if this is really a 3.5- 4-star read, but it kept my interest...

I won't lie after experiencing the flashback from Aidens POV Im not sure if i would classify it as cheating...it seemed more like rape..should he have been there no but he did push her away mutiple times and he stopped as soon as he realized it wasn't his wife the dude was that drunk. I dont think that was explored enough.

I also wish the issues with Kate's parents were addressed. I needed more than the hospital scene.

All in all, if you enjoy cheating (not IMO) reconciliation books, then i would recommend picking this one up.
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Profile Image for I’m a Paula too… Thompson.
1,205 reviews3 followers
June 23, 2025
It was SA…

Here’s my take on what I read. He was really drunk, and the waitress kept on going after him. The rest of the guys egged him on and basically almost forced him into going with her. This was coercion. Then the waitress took advantage of his drunkenness and put a condom on him. He is not without some fault but she assaulted him. And I can’t tell you how much I hate his frat “friends” for how immature they are…

I certainly have a different opinion than others, even the author! Another review mentioned that the “scene” was changed but it still looks like assault to me. He was under the influence and couldn’t consent.

KU read. Had this been viewed from an assault standpoint, which it clearly was, I would have rated this higher. I’m sorry but if this had happened to a woman, no one would have called it cheating.

Or did I miss something?
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756 reviews15 followers
July 3, 2025
I Legit Hate These Gaslighting Therapists, This Book Is How NPDers Snatch And Abuse BPDers

Wow, Aiden just gets to blame his hard childhood, and yet she had a much harder childhood, and didn't cheat on him.

Wow, I thought this was going to be about accountability.

Instead the therapists gave Aiden lovely new vocabulary to shed accountability or any emotional growth.

Remember, Hurt People Do Not Hurt People, But Hurters Of People, Are Allowed To Weaponise Their Hurt, To Keep On Hurting.

This book wasn't about growth, this book is about men getting away with not being consistent, when love is explicitly defined, in fhe DSMs, as long term, consistent choices that facilitate a person feel loved.

This book literally tries to convince women that the reason they do not cheat, is the same reason men do.

Patriarchial Parable of bullshit.

Where mens choices are never his own, but a situation to be explained, and waste more of her oxygen.

Not only that, the book also pretends that Alcohol makes sex easier? Ahem, for the gaslit bitches in the back, Alcohol is a SEDATIVE and does not make sex or impulse more likely, it actually makes it less likely, and makes getting an erection, and putting it inside someone else, more difficult.

Dr Brett gaslights her about her parents. So much I wanted to give him a Glasgow Smile.

How dare he pretend that her parents were "just being honest" with their neglect and abuse, when they didn't neglect and abuse the elder kids.

How dare this therapist gaslight her into pretending that Parental Responsibility goes in ANY other direction.

Dr Brett gaslights her into parenting herself, again.

Nice, fuck your social and emotional needs, self soothe one more time, iver how he DIPPED DICK INSIDE SOMEONE ELSE AND PERFORMED FOR YEARS.

Remember, all NPD dickheads like her dad will show up for the Boy Scout Badge.

They didn't do any of the work but they still demand the Boy Scout Badge.

She'd have had a better life had her mother DIED the day she was born and her father followed. He was alreasy neglecting her before she turned one, thus denying her ANY ability to form a thick skin.

Abuser.

Toxic Assholes.

And Aiden was attracted to her lack of thick skin, enjoyed that she took his emotional neglect over and over.

I'm sure you feel really accomplished, blaming her for his abuse.

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1,586 reviews824 followers
br-on-the-rocks
July 5, 2025
Due to reviews calling it sexual assault and not cheating, it seems author edited the scene to make H look more culpable.

I mean, not sure that’s better for the h. He went from being the victim to just being a cheater.
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1,150 reviews77 followers
September 28, 2025
This was a weird scenario cheating book. The couple are high school sweethearts. She gets pregnant they stay together but she sends him off to college. They have another baby a year later. He’s still off at college and she’s in a local college. She raises the kids at home while he’s away. They finally get married after they finish their degrees. Now it’s 10’years later and a friend of the H’s tells the h that Aiden her husband had sex with a stripper the night before they married. The fmc is devastated. This couple has been Togo for like 18 years married for 10. They both have high end jobs. There’s been a lack of communication throughout the relationship. They are both hiding abandonment issues from their parents. It’s a lot of lack of communication. This all comes out in therapy. I’ve read a similar book that was basically a therapy session but for some reason this one brought the angst. Even though in my mind I didn’t really consider the episode with the stripper cheating. She basically jumped on his dick while he had done 15 shots or more and drank other stuff too all night at his bachelor party. It was like one pump
And he threw her off his dick and ran out and threw up.
Anyways I liked this one.
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Profile Image for Amy.
742 reviews49 followers
July 31, 2025
3.5* rounded up

I’m a glutton for punishment with these cheaters repenting stories. Maybe I like the idea of men on their knees begging for another chance, or it’s more being a part of someone’s road to redemption and them being worthy of forgiveness I like? Anywho, I’m not going to comment on husband’s culpability in his transgression, or the OW’s, as opinions vary to both extremes and I don’t even know what “version” I read. I have an opinion but it’ll stay mine.
I’m a believer in couples therapy as well as individual. It’s important to their healing and I like that MMC was willing to go even though “therapy wasn’t his thing.” Having this time FMC was able to finally see her needs mattered and for 18 years she “protected your feelings like they were more fragile than mine.” Lots of great quotes in this, felt very real to life.
33 reviews2 followers
June 19, 2025
just ok

LOVED the first half of the book , but the second half just fell so so so flat for me :(
Profile Image for Jen .
814 reviews625 followers
June 22, 2025
4.5 Stars

This author can write! I can’t believe this is only her second book because I gotta tell you, she writes marriage in trouble as good as anyone I’ve read. I ended this thinking the couple would actually stay together in the long run, which doesn’t usually happen for me, so I’m calling it a win!
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2,200 reviews480 followers
July 18, 2025
I wouldn't call this marriage in trouble with a HUGE dollop of miscommunication book cheating, it was SA plain and simple.

It would've got a higher rating if there have been a decent resolution between the awful parents and both Aiden and Katy
Profile Image for Zoë.
88 reviews
July 10, 2025
DNF @65%
I was enjoying the book well enough in the beginning, but then like halfway through I started to notice some major continuity errors. There had been smaller ones previously, but they were fairly easily ignored.

The final one that got me to quit was when the FMC goes to therapy (third time in three days + a couples session) and tells the therapist: “My father had a heart attack. The day before yesterday. That’s why I canceled yesterday’s session.”

Not only did she not cancel that session, she attended and already told the therapist about the heart attack.

Also in the previous chapter, an entire conversation was repeated like it was a second version that wasn’t deleted before uploading.
99 reviews1 follower
June 20, 2025
Pretty good read- stars off for no resolution on the issues the FMC had with her family
311 reviews9 followers
June 23, 2025

Rating: 3.5/5

I really enjoyed this book. It’s the second in the series, but the stories aren’t connected, so you can read it as a standalone. This one follows a couple who’ve been married for ten years, and at their anniversary party, the wife finds out her husband cheated on his stag night. One of his college friends drunkenly confesses it to her.

The story then focuses on how they deal with that betrayal—mostly through therapy. They’ve been together since they were teenagers, had a baby young, and have only ever been with each other. On the surface, they seemed happy, but as the book goes on, you see the cracks—especially how he was always working and emotionally unavailable.

The cheating happened when he was drunk and pushed into going to a strip club by his friends. He didn’t go looking to cheat, but ended up in a situation that crossed a line. He almost confessed on their wedding day but backed out when he realized what he’d lose. Instead, he tried to “make up” for it by providing financially and being a good father, but emotionally, he wasn’t really there.

What I liked most was how the story dug into both of their upbringings—she was abandoned, he grew up with a dad who left—and how that shaped their relationship and sense of self-worth. It felt real in that sense. I saw some people questioning whether the cheating scene was assault, but to me, it felt more like a really poor decision made under pressure—not excusable, but not assault either.

There’s no love triangle or outside drama, which I appreciated. I did think for a moment there might be something with Grant as revenge, but thankfully, it didn’t go there. The focus stayed on the couple and their healing, which made the story feel more honest and grounded.

It did slow down in parts, and I skimmed a bit when it dragged, but overall, it was a solid read. The writing was strong, and I’m really curious about Quinn and Marcus’s stories now. This one hit close to home in a few ways, especially with the themes of abandonment and working through past trauma. Definitely a 3.5-star read for me.
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104 reviews
June 18, 2025
Better since the edit!

I was really enjoying this book at first. I like the author’s writing style and characterisation. I like the thoughtfulness and that it focuses a lot on confronting and exploring behaviours, motivations and trauma but without excusing the behaviours, just understanding them.
There are some mistakes that should have been picked up in editing but not so significant that they detract from the story.
When I first read this, the scene at around 80% described the MMC being raped but it wasn’t represented as that. He was describing it in detail to his therapist and I was just waiting for the therapist to tell him that that’s what happened but they didn’t, it was just ignored. However, I’ve just gone back to find the passage and I see that it’s been changed. It’s still a bit iffy given his level of intoxication but it’s not at all what it was before which is a huge improvement. I was ready to knock at least 2 stars off for that! Stars are added back on and well done to the author for recognising it and rewriting the scene.
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1,808 reviews29 followers
June 30, 2025
This is a “marriage in trouble” book that could have been easily resolved if the two leads had actually talked to each other. The angst was heartbreaking, and it always bothers me when the couples therapist tells them to go on a date in the first session.. like that makes up for cheating. So that bugged me when they have a good time together, hold hands, etc. But this does actually get addressed later on, and I actually feel like this has one of the better and honest resolutions for this kind of book. I really quite enjoyed it, but it needs editing.

In my humble opinion, of course 💙
Profile Image for Hey Lin.
742 reviews
August 10, 2025
I enjoyed this but the three stars is for the one dimensional aspect of it.

We are at their 10 year anniversary party and she finds out from his friend that her husband was with a stripper in the back room during the night of the bachelor party.

I liked the part of the marriage in trouble, but a lot of the book is them in therapy, figuring out life knowing this new information (to the h) and how they work it out. There is some talk in therapy of why they act the way they do and I thought the author did a very good job writing out these scenes to help explain the whys of what happened and why they are the way they are.

It didn’t seem like cheating though because the night of the cheating, it sounds like he was very drunk and emotional after finding out that his real father didn’t want to come to the wedding. It sounded more like he was raped since he basically threw her off him when she got on top? I’m not going to go back and get the book on my KU to reread that part but…..it sounds like he was raped? 🤔🤔

Anyway, quick read and makes you think about your own marriage and how to communicate to make it stronger and better even when you think you know them completely. I didn’t love it, but didn’t hate it either!
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1,579 reviews560 followers
August 2, 2025
“If you don’t want me here, if you don’t want me to walk out that door and out of this marriage, you will tell me everything. Every damn detail about the night you fucked a stripper.”

And then he tells her.
Kudus to the author for that.

“So, you went to a strip club and were goaded by your friends into following a stripper who just had to have you so much so that she kept coming onto you.” I start pacing, “You followed her into a back room and were apparently drunk enough to be manipulated but not so drunk that you couldn’t get it up without help.” I stop pacing, turning to him. “Did I get that right?”
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Profile Image for Alina.
658 reviews
cheater-mmc
August 9, 2025
edit : from the reviews it seemed to have been coercion by his friends and SA by the stripper since he was drunk and apparently asked her to stop and pushed her away.
i'm utterly disgusted by these authors who keep on writing cheating books but it's just blatant SA, yet they never acknowledge it as such in the book just because it's done to a man.
he apparently even went to therapy and the THERAPIST never told him he was SAed.
i've seen this in SOOOO many books. and it's extremely concerning how lightly male SA is taken
note : he cheats on his wife with a stripper the night before their wedding with the encouragement of his friends / groomsmen
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1,039 reviews25 followers
July 17, 2025
This is the story of a marriage in trouble because these two don't communicate about ANYTHING. With a ONS thrown in for good measure.

Katie was a surprise baby to an older couple who already had children. Her parents provided for her physically but not emotionally. Emotionally, they treated her like a roommate. They didn't have a personal relationship. When they forgot her 16th birthday, she finally went off on them about how it made her feel. They immediately sent her to live with her grandmother in Texas and didn't see her for years after that.

When she went to live with grandma, she started a new school where she met Aiden. He asked her out. They're still together when she was 18, and they were about to go to university. She got pregnant. They both still went to university, but she stayed local and he went farther away, so their relationship was long distance for 4 years. Aiden joins a fraternity, where he meets the "friends" who are involved in the story later. (Frat bros who are rude to Katie. She doesn't like them.)

When university was over, Katie and Aiden moved in together and got pregnant a second time. He asked her to marry him, but they have a long engagement, which makes it seem like Aiden doesn't really want to get married. Katie has abandonment issues, so she'll take what she can get, I guess. She tries to make his life as easy as possible so he won't leave her. She never expresses a need or want. She never complains about anything.

They eventually get married. They are now both 34 years old. At their 10 year anniversary celebration, his asshole friend Ethan makes some off-hand comment that he can't believe Aiden really did it with a stripper at the bachelor party, 10 years ago. When the anniversary party's over, Katie confronts Aiden, acting like she already knows what happened and has already talked to the stripper. He confesses that they were out drinking, left the bar, and ended up at a strip club. He did go into a room to get a private dance with a stripper. The stripper took out his meat sword, rolled a condom on, and went for a ride.

Katie and Aiden were supposed to leave for a one week trip, as a second honeymoon. Katie intends to stay at her BFF's (Quin) for a week so she doesn't have to go back home right away and tell her kids why they didn't go on the trip. She just needs some time to figure out what to do next. But then her dad has a heart attack. "Luckily" for them, Quin gets a call at the same time, her military husband is declared MIA. So they can use that as the reason they didn't go on the trip and why they got to the hospital so quickly. (This seemed like OTT, unnecessary drama.)

So, Katie doesn't really care too much that her dad had a heart attack. She really only goes to the hospital because her kids are there. Her parents had come back into her life, since she had the only grandchildren. They were watching the kids for the week during Katie's second honeymoon.

Aiden gets mad at Katie for not feeling anything about her father. This is an argument they've had before. She wants Aiden to take her side, or at least respect her decision, and not expect her to act the way he thinks is "right" with her parents. Aiden volunteers to take her mom home with the kids, to force Katie to talk to her dad in the hospital room. Katie is PISSED. This hospital incident is the first time we see trouble in the marriage, unrelated to cheating.

Katie doesn't want a divorce, but she will get a divorce if things don't change, because she can't live with all these marital issues anymore.

They do individual counseling and marriage counseling.

Katie's problem is that she assumes Aiden feels trapped into marriage, so she doesn't communicate her wants for fear that he'll just think she's not worth the trouble. She also does all the childcare to make it easy on Aiden, but he doesn't actually want to be useless in the household.

But it's also revealed that Aiden does a LOT of stuff without telling Katie about it. He keeps a lot of secrets, too. Example, the reason they had a long engagement and didn't get married till they had 2 kids old enough to walk in the wedding, was because Aiden had gotten an extra job and was spending all his time working. She thought he didn't come home on the weekends because he didn't want to be around them. She didn't think her boyfriend was hiding a secret part time job. Because why would anyone lie about something so mundane?

So eventually, Aiden talks to his individual therapist about the night of the bachelor party, and sex with the stripper. This is going to be a hot take, I think. A lot of reviews are mad that he was raped while drunk, yet no one in the book acknowledges it was rape. But I'm not so sure it was rape. If you don't want to read about why I think that, stop reading. No one's forcing you to read this.

People drink, and people have sex. People go to bars specifically to find someone to have sex with. Alcohol does not automatically turn sex into rape. So, I looked up the requirements for rape when the victim is drunk (this applies to where I live, obviously, it's not the same everywhere). The victim has to be in a stupor AND the offender has to have reason to know the person has drunk so much they are in a stupor. So, Aiden doesn't describe being in a stupor. It's as simple as that. He was aware of everything. He was going to tell the stripper to stop, but chose not to. He let her do everything she did.

"I tell myself to tell her no, push her away, but I don't do either."

Not that he can't do it, not that he can't think clearly, just that he DOESN'T do it.

He was able to push her off when they were already having sex. He could have done it before, but he didn't do it. He never describes being "out of it," or in a fog, in and out of consciousness, incapacitated, or anything like that. (To be fair, he says his legs were like cement, like he couldn't stand up. But when he finally chose to leave, he miraculously could stand up just fine.)

Now let's deal with the stripper. Did she know he drank a lot that night? It didn't seem like it to me. But maybe? He drank a lot before they went the strip club, but she couldn't have known that. But the stripper was actually the waitress that was refilling his drinks in the strip club. Which sounded weird to me. Some places may do this, but I've never seen it. (Did the author make the waitress and the stripper the same person to incriminate her as a rapist who was getting men drunk on purpose? Maybe.)

Well, anyway, Quin's husband is found, and Katie's dad recovers from his heart attack, and Katie and Aiden continue therapy.

He eventually moves back home.
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189 reviews14 followers
June 21, 2025
2.5 Stars

I liked the concept but the execution wasn't great.

I had major issues with the therapy sessions. The therapist was essentially gaslighting the FMC into forgiving her parents before she was ready. At no point did the therapist bring up boundaries, low contact or no contact with people who have abused you (because neglect and stonewalling is abuse) and are not seeking to make amends or any real changes. Her parents were basically telling her to get over how they neglected her during her entire childhood followed by abandonment and then her therapist told her to reframe the abandonment as an act of love because they knew they couldn't give her the life she deserved. HUH?? This is insane. No therapist would try to push a client towards forgiveness with another person who really doesn't even ask for forgiveness but for the person to sweep all of the wrongdoings under a rug.

The story also never really dealt with the multitude of problems between FMC and MMC. They discussed them in a therapy session but we never really saw them discuss it together. Not really. It was all very surface level.

Also, there were some sloppy story elements ie timelines.

Example:

- Couple is supposed to go to Bora Bora after their anniversary party. Flight from Texas to Bora Bora is 17.5 hours, but with stop overs would take over a full day of flying. I checked because I was confused about the timeline. FMC finds out about cheating before they go to Bora Bora but the plan was to tell the kids they went while she went back to her best friend's house. The very next day, FMC goes to therapy and not long after (either later that evening or the next morning), she finds out her dad had a heart attack. So the plan is to tell her family that they came back because her bff had an emergency. Ok sure but the flight times don't make any sense. They would have had to teleport back immediately after they arrived for that timeline to make sense. The author needs to do some research before plotting the timelines. Maybe have them go somewhere closer to home where they can get on a 3 or 4 hour flight for that to make sense.

- FMC goes to individual therapy IMMEDIATELY after couples therapy session. This makes absolutely no sense. Any therapist worth their salt would tell their client that they need to take some time in between sessions to process them. A lot of people even get migraines after an hour of therapy because of how deeply emotional and exhausting it can be but sure, it makes perfect sense to go straight into another therapy session. And then they also had their date that same night! The author needs to learn to space things out. They do not have to cram everything into a very short window of time.

- The kids. They're supposed to be 15 and 16 years old but the author acts like they never met a teenager in their life. These teens acted (and were treated) like they were 6 or 7 years old.
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1,935 reviews284 followers
July 13, 2025
When a cheating book is boring, it’s not very good.
The hero and heroine have been married for ten years, they have two teenage sons born when they were at college. The heroine sacrificed a lot so he could complete his studies, and never asked for more.
And when they got married she always sacrificed herself so he could go to the gym, out with his buddies, while she stayed with her children at home.
During their 10 year anniversary she finds out he cheated the night before their wedding with a stripper.
She decides they will have a break.
She has enough of her life.
So first she goes to therapy then she asks him to go with her.
Several skeletons gets out of their closet, he was abandoned by his father who was not really his father, she was abandoned by both parents that didn’t want her, so both have issues.
The cheating was more SA from a stripper while he was totally drunk, he was watching her while she danced then she jumped on him and stripped him, he stopped as soon as he realized what was happening, so it was very unclear and borderline rape. He never gave her consent and was unable to give his consent while she was completely sober, so I didn’t like it.
Their marriage was unbalanced, he thought that being a good provider and a constant presence for his family was enough, she never told him what she wanted because she thought he would leave her as her parents did.
I didn’t really feel the angst, actually it was very subdued, their reaction maybe is more realistic than others in other books but I couldn’t really empathize with them.
He loved her all along, but had his emotional baggage and insecurities that made him make a lot of mistakes. She never told him what she needed from him emotionally.
The cheating was real because he never told her about it, he was scared that she would leave him. But after ten years it didn’t have the same impact as if she found out when it happened, he was a good man and a good father, so she did not want to leave him for something that he did so long before. The therapy was good they both needed it.
Not totally bad, but not that good either.
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325 reviews41 followers
August 23, 2025
Summary: This is a marriage in trouble story. Past event to include cheating. Spoilers/trigger warnings (if any) and final thoughts can be found below.

The book begins with a 10 year anniversary party for the main characters, Kate and Aiden. At this party, one of Aiden’s friends makes an off the cuff comment that does not sit well with Kate. When she confronts Aiden, it is disclosed he was not faithful to her at his bachelor party.

The betrayal sets her life into a spiral, forcing her to confront years of hurt and feelings of not being enough or good enough for the people in her life.

Through individual and couples therapy sessions, not only does Kate have the space to work through her feelings, but the couple gets to reconnect while working toward their happily ever after.


⚠️SPOILERS/DETAILED TRIGGERS⚠️


*The cheating is not on page and vaguely described with no intimate details included.
🌶️: 0.5/5: Very little spice as the betrayal happened at the beginning of the book and was the main focus until the couple reconciled.

Final thoughts: I really enjoyed this book. I love how this author dives into the reality of troubled marriages in a way that makes you feel like you are really experiencing this with the couple.

The couples therapy sessions added so much great context to the story because all we know of Aiden up to that point is not good, not just the cheating but just him as a husband and father. I loved seeing his insight and that part was absolutely necessary to understand him as a character. He turned out to really have a lot more going on than we initially saw.

The writing was very good and I definitely recommend this book.
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39 reviews1 follower
September 14, 2025
lots of potential

This story has great bones- lots of angsty situations on both sides, personal trauma and then of course, the 10 year old betrayal. I just wanted more. More fleshing out of their issues, some things were kind of glossed over or spoken about after the fact, we didn’t get to witness it. Her issues with her parents were REAL. They were awful people and she never really specifies it to them or to Aiden, just like, highlights. All the ways Aiden failed early on and then over the years, same thing. I wanted everyone to get an itemized list. 🤣 Due to that and the quick turn around of a month, and not that month for therapy, I think Aiden got off easy. Breakthroughs in therapy but then just words- promises, we didn’t get to see any real action except him taking her on a date and then making her dinner. I also wanted more POV of Aiden’s to truly see his understanding of all he did wrong. Now, he got to quit his job and be a house husband but to teens and with a housekeeper, while Kate took the promotion she said she didn’t really want. I don’t understand that all. Seems very imbalanced. Editing issues are present, chapters rolling into others and a few sections with repeated text.
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187 reviews12 followers
June 28, 2025
There were some big editing issues like a partially repeated scene, but I thought this felt like a real couple with longstanding issues.

It did piss me off that the cheating takes a backseat to their mutual daddy issues and it's treated more as just the catalyst for all this stuff getting unpacked. But that leads to really annoying moments like this:

Because the truth is, Aiden was scared. What he did, with that woman, it haunted him. I can see that now. The way he used to look at me, so guarded, so uncertain I thought it meant he was overwhelmed. But maybe it just meant he was afraid I wouldn't love him anymore.

We were both afraid. Two scared, hurt people who never really learned how to talk without trying to protect the other.


This is meant to liken the hero's fear of his wife finding out about his cheating and her leaving him, to the heroine's fear of abandonment and trying to be the perfect wife and mother so that her husband would have no reason to leave her. Truly equal sins if you think about it.

Like... please fuck off lol, this is Aiden propaganda.
3 reviews
June 30, 2025
great debut series

Reading a new author can make anyone wary. I wasn’t sure going in what to expect. With that said, I have to say I enjoyed this read very much. Was Aiden wrong for cheating yes, yes he was. Did he stop once he realized what was going on… yes, yes he did. I love how the author made you feel from love to anger to love again for both characters and the angst. Used enough words without bogging you down so you felt like to had to skip pages to get to the point. I like how the MFC didn’t say eff this I’m out, but chose to go to therapy. A lot of times in books I rage how characters just don’t ever talk to each other. I love how BOTH chose to do the work to save their marriage, save themselves, and then each other. Makes you think how many marriages are affected because of how they grew up, with or without good parenting. Makes you think if people were good at expressing themselves… communicate… how different things can or would turn out. All in all, a great debut series. I look forward to more of their books.
576 reviews67 followers
June 19, 2025
Cheating = h finds out on her 10 year wedding anniversary that the H had cheated on her the night before their wedding; they already had two kids and had been together since high school. H was drunk and slept with a stripper at his bachelor party (it is detailed late in the book and the mindset he had around it, before/during/after).

Grovel = H really has to work on himself and come to many self realizations to become a better version of himself. The h still has not forgiven him for his infidelity by the end of the book, but she is working on herself as well (they are doing both individual and marriage counseling). The author details out their thoughts and feelings very well and you understand and appreciate that there is no instant forgiveness. The whole work on their marriage and recovery is a process that will always be ongoing which is reality. So while you do not see forgiveness, you do see understanding and choices being made to be better.
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1,350 reviews51 followers
July 17, 2025
2.5 stars This one started out pretty well, but I got bored and started skimming. And maybe I missed this in my skimming, but why didn't Aiden ever tell Kate that while yes it stil counts as cheating that the waitress put the condom on him, sat on him, but he immediately pushed her off, ran outside and puked? Seems like it's a pretty important detail. I also agree with other reviews stating this is SA. I know he chose to follow the waitress, but if we're saying women cannot consent while drunk, why would we think men can? I'm all for feminism and believing and protecting women but not at the expense of men. I want equality, not to turn things around and treat men the way women have been treated. I get really frustrated with books lately where men are treated as women in certain situations and readers still blame and hate the men and can't acknowledge that it's either this way for all of us or none of us.
264 reviews
August 21, 2025
Easy read

This isn't the usual 'caught in the act 'cheating but it still stings when you find out your partner was never truthful and did actually cheat 10 years ago ,it's also about how your childhood impacts your adulthood and mistakes we make or make excuses for our behaviour. It's like a door opening finally on things they've buried ,things they should have said ,the therapy part was actually really eye opening and Just as the important as the topic of cheating .This author is really good on how she writes these characters and their flaws,you see both sides to the story and sometimes in a story of infidelity you want either justice,revenge or to make it work and that I suppose depends on the situation of how and why they cheated .I loved the ending and I'm now going to read the final book,which I hope is as good as the first 2 in this series
685 reviews8 followers
July 7, 2025
During their tenth anniversary party, the h learns that the H cheated on her with a stripper at his night before the wedding bachelor party. Instead of going on a second honeymoon, the h reflects on all of the indicators that her marriage was less than perfect. A new mother at 18 followed quickly by a second pregnancy, the h has sacrificed herself to make her husband and sons happy. The H thinks that his role is to provide for his family and doesn't see his daily visits to the gym and after work drinks as a problem. The ten year old cheating becomes a catalyst to reveal lots of unknown facts about their marriage and also their childhood traumas that have not been shared until now. Most of the book becomes visits with therapists.
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June 27, 2025
I appreciate that the author is writing cheating books and her writing is fairly entertaining. I think there needs to be more work done on her books though, with literal editing and the stories.

For example, in chapter 17 there seems to be a scene that was partially rewritten and both versions are will in the book, one with an empty dialog line. I also started losing interest after half way through and see from reviews Aiden’s infidelity gets revised into a possible assault but isn’t treated accordingly. I don’t know. I just don’t feel like finishing now, but I hope the author keeps writing in this category.
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