Also I seriously doubt she simply "forgot" about that list, the act of making the list and keeping it for so long is a very clear indication she enjoyed that time, she's proud of her achievements and wants to keep a reminder of it. After 23 years of marriage my wife finally came clean to me regarding why she didn’t want to have sex in our marriage and why she was cold and disconnected throughout. When we met she revealed on her own that she had only had 3 sexual partners before me. This year she came to me in tears and revealed that the number was over 10 in 3 years and that 6 months before we met she had an abortion that she regretted. She had always told me that she practiced safe sex and she was proud that I was the only man ever ejaculate inside her. My wife revealed to me that due to her horrible emotional state I had suffered the effects. Needless to say, it has been rough since then. He keeps asking me a lot of questions about my ** life before him and I made the mistake of answering a few when he started asking them. He says that no one would think I acted like that and I understand because I know I've always looked like a very nerdy, shy and boring person. OP, what I like so much about this article is that it shows people CAN change. And that the past doesn't necessarily define the future. I also commend the wife for being so open and honest about it. She obviously wanted to start clean, no secrets, nothing that can come up and ruin her future. That takes some nerve to do and I respect that. I also think it's great of you that despite your disgust, you got past that and gave her a chance.

BEFORE WE MET | Kirkus Reviews

I concur with Seneca's comments, and am in a somewhat similar situation. My wife and I are both comfortable enough to talk about our sexual pasts with each other. We won't usually go in to explicit detail voluntarily, but we'll share general information, and be honest if the other asks something. Secondly, as Wendy started out, take some time to figure out what aspects of this are upsetting to you. Is it that your wife may have lied to you? Are you upset that at some point she didn’t feel like she could trust you 100%? Those are valid concerns. Here they were, three shining angels, each one more beautiful than the last, sunbeams shining in the eyes of women who have found their true places in the world." I don't know what to do. I've been married for eight and a half years and I have two beautiful kids. My marriage is not great but it hasn't been that bad either. And just like you she showed no sign of remorse or conviction. Oh yea she was sorry. Sorry she got caught and has to deal with the consequences of her deceit just like your worried about facing now. If you would have been honest with him from the beginning you wouldn't be dealing with this now and you dont need to be taking advice from hippie liberals telling you it's none of his business.I don't know what's going on with my brain lately, but I've been reading a ton of marriage-themed novels lately. And they're not happy marriage books, either. They're books about married couples who cheat on each other and let the little day-to-day minutiae of life eat away at their relationships. On what seems like just a typical Friday night, Hannah Reilly decides to surprise her husband Mark by meeting him at London's Heathrow Airport, where he's scheduled to arrive on a flight from New York. This is familiar territory, as Mark's company used to have New York and London offices. But once everyone from his flight makes it through customs, Mark isn't among the crowd. Hannah is concerned, but can't seem to reach Mark—his cellphone goes right to voice mail. Did he miss his flight? Did something happen? But most of the time other women are on stage- because these books- it's like a constant game of one-upsmanship in a very specifically female way. Our protagonists have to come out on top in comparison to other females, even if only by implication (and of course the protagonist would never think of it that way! But she's rewarded with that victory anyway). Everything that happens- the plot she's involved in, her observations and interactions with other women and especially her romance- all read like points on a scoreboard. These are not books about personal transformation except on the most surface level, and usually only in the service of getting one of these status-y things. These books read as competition, like some sort of fantasy of jealousy, of being the person that others envy- all with the excuse of moral superiority that just happens to grant you all the high status stuff that you wanted. Finally, she does not regret her past. She defends it, and gets madnwhen I am what she calls jealous about it. I am not jealous, but disgusted. I don't get it. Why do we like watching other women, fictional or not, do this? Why are we reading books about it? Why do we allow ourselves to subconsciously code characters in this way and reject characters who don't follow it?

Before We Met: : Lucie Whitehouse: Bloomsbury Publishing

I enjoyed this read, travelling in Hannah’s footsteps as she turns up clue after clue, desperately wanting to believe that she is being paranoid, just like her mother was. With the tension heightened I was as keen as Hannah to hear Mark’s explanation. Unfortunately for Hannah her mind is not put completely at ease and she continues to question her marriage.years, 2 kids. What has she done SINCE being in a committed relationship is the ONLY thing that matters. Of everything listed above, the only point that is relevant to you and your life together — the only one that is any of your business — is the latter. Assuming you love your wife (and you don’t mention that you do in the letter and I wonder if you ever tell her in person), you have to accept that her whole personal history made her the woman she is today. You shouldn’t want to change anything about her past because doing so could change the woman she is now. But if what you’re feeling is betrayal that your wife led you to believe something that you now have reason to think might not be true, there are lots of good reasons that she may not have shared that she slept with half the town before dating you: 1) because she didn’t (did it occur to you that she was exaggerating her sexual history to her friends because she was drunk and showing off?); 2) because she didn’t want you to judge her; 3) because she knew you’d feel inferior and less experienced and that your ego would be hurt thinking that she had more sexual partners than you’ve had; 4) because the details of her sexual past weren’t and are’t your business. I received this book free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. When this woman was young, she was unattached, no commitment to anybody, obviously had a very high sex drive and the looks to get any man she wanted. Are you sure you would behave differently in her shoes? i loved the first lucie whitehouse book i read, The House at Midnight, which was a kind of riff on The Secret History. if anything, this one is a kinda sorta spin on Gone Girl in that it exposes the secrets a marriage holds, and reminds us how difficult it is to ever really know someone, especially when it concerns the lives our beloveds live before they meet us.

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Where it says “For Better/For Worse” which means being honestly completely with everything you share with the soul mate for until death do part. I don’t think that this is specifically about the number of sex partners but more that she lied about them. He felt that they were both open and honest about their past and he was accepting of whatever she told him and then he finds out much later that she probably wasn’t honest. Maybe he’s wondering if she lied about other things. After breaking up with him, I thought about the fact that each of them was from a different nationality. I also started feeling like maybe true love didn't exist. Something happened at that point in my life that made me want to experiment. I was still a very responsible student and working hard to pay for college. My aunt didn't let me get home after 12 at night, but I managed to find excuses and the time to be out when I wanted.But despite its flaws, once Before We Met hits its stride, it turns into a creepily effective thriller, Whitehouse ramping up the chills with her dark wintry weather and her glimpses into the creation of a disturbed mind. Hannah flounders, lost in the murk of lies, as she slowly begins to realise the danger she is in. Returning home after discovering the sand on which her marriage is built, "the stairs climbed away into a soupy gloom, and she had the idea that the place was withdrawing from her, taking sides". Express an action that happened before another action in the past. (Action that happened before using QKHT – happened after using QKD) She may not act on those thoughts now but you can be assured she is definitely thinking them which makes her acting on them again a matter of when not if. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. I was 21 and wasn’t hunting down a husband or anything, but as soon as we sat down in front of each other, we realised we had so much in common – mainly our obsession with the Beatles, and how our favourite was George. I said if we ever had a boy I’d like to call him Harrison, and he said he’d be up for that, too. I was like: “Oh dear, I might be in trouble here.”