Review: The Sidelined Wife

The Sidelined Wife by Jennifer Peel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!
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I liked the reading.
Our heroine is an ordinary woman who sees her world collapse when she discovers her husband's cheating with a much younger woman.
Her family is very traditional and has very funny scenes with her grandmother and mother.
We can feel the torment and confusion our heroine is going through. She finds herself discarded by a younger model and begins to doubt herself as a woman and as a person.
I liked the hero, he was in a hurry she moves on and overcome the end of her marriage, but she took her time.
The ex-husband lost after all. He was a selfish idiot.
She has gained a happier new life, an ideal partner and a happier son.
It's never too late to be happy and start over.

He shuffled the box in his hands, using both now to hold it. “I didn’t mean for us to turn out this way.” “I think you mean you never meant to get caught.”

“You should have asked yourself that when you decided to forget you were a married man.”

Even knowing that my husband—I mean ex-husband, I needed to remember that—was having a baby with another woman.

Neil left me for a twenty-five-year-old waitress and, not only that, he believed her when she said she was on the pill. The man who only wanted one child, whose mind I could never change on the subject, would be a new father in several weeks.

Neil hadn’t been to Sunday dinner in months, but this week it was official. I was single, and my siblings were happily married.

So not only was I now divorced, I also felt like the plain-Jane of the family. Divorce had a way of sucking the self-esteem right out of you.

Neil’s one-night stand turned into a full-blown relationship. He blamed it all on Roxie; she wouldn’t let him be. She threatened and bribed him. He couldn’t say no. Those were all excuses. I had believed his lies of it being a one-night stand. I even tried to work it

Then, to nail that point home, Neil altogether quit touching me. Later he said it was because he felt guilty about the affair and he was afraid he might transmit an STD to me.

When he told me about Roxie, the thought of him touching me made me physically ill.

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