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I just read Lost in Love by Michelle Reid and while he probably didn't cheat given how drunk he was, it certainly seemed like he was with plenty of other women during their 4 year estrangement (which given their ongoing contact he could have ended if he'd just sucked up his pride). So I don't think he was celibate...unless I missed that part?

Thank you for your comment Becky. I'll look into it.

I love a celibate guy :)

I agree with you Becky, I have re-read the book many times in Spanish (which is my mother tongue) and English (which I downloaded to check Guy's celibacy, with the hope that was a translation mistake because I read this novel in Spanish the first time and others :D ) So the conclution was Guy Fabrosa, WAS NOT CELIBATE AT ALL. There is part when she mention "his custom" of not being alone on weekeds and when she asked where was hidden her (in the suite they were: Marnie/Guy) He told Marnie, that the woman was going to stay alone anywhere
I would liked that he was CELIBATE, but he wasn't :/ and also I would liked an apilogue, but mrs. Reid did it in the new version of Lost in Love which is After their vows ;)

I think the author told a reader that she meant he was celibate and those women were eye candy. I think she was letting the reader interpret as she knew the reader wanted. But I agree, that is not what she WROTE! A celibate man who wants a lifelong devotion and for a woman 15 years younger to give up her travels and subordinate her life to his would have told her that there was no one else if that were the case, if only to lock her down.

Becky wrote: "I just read Lost in Love by Michelle Reid and while he probably didn't cheat given how drunk he was, it certainly seemed like he was with plenty of other women during their 4 year estrangement (whi..."

no he was not celibate after divorce..he in fact mentions it n evn says something like you have no business asking me what i did after you left me...

It's hard to believe he would have told her that it wasn't her business and leave her with the impression that he was with other women if he was actually faithful to her during the divorced period and knew he needed to prove his love to her because of the way he treated her during the marriage. If he was celibate, it's a big failure of the book because if he loved her so much and knew she had good reason to believe he betrayed her, it seems silly that he would let his pride keep him from impressing his fidelity on her. It made me really annoyed that she didn't move on but he did.

So I think Ms. Reid was just telling readers what she thought we wanted to hear...but that doesn't comport with what she wrote.

I agree with Becky's point of view and also I would have liked he had told Marnie he WAS CELIBATE those 4 years and an Epilogue with their baby/babies (that is best end for a HP as my fried Jenny says :D ). I think that was one of the two book's failures (apart from the epilogue), however it emotioned me A LOT and I rated it with 5 stars.
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I've read this book several times and I'm pretty sure he was celibate.