This is a title that you find yourself wanting to highlight and reflect upon, and re-read with a different eye than you started with. On it's face it is the story of a husband, Dave, appearing strongly narcissistic and cruel, casually dumping the mother load of pain on his unsuspecting wife and mother of his three children, Tammy. Has never been faithful and has decided that he isn't made to be a monogamist......just ask his current girlfriend. Tammy is so blind-sided that she literally is brought to her knees. And there she remains for much of the story in ways literal and figurative, cycling through all the stages of grief that one does with a loss. As a counselor myself, I have tried to help people unravel themselves from their history with this person to see the path to this new journey that has been thrust upon them......to mindfully take joy in the smaller moments of now and treasure them. I will also admit to an inward cheer for Tammy when the mediator tells Dave that she can't help him because what he is saying makes no sense. Finally someone who says out loud what Tammy has been fighting since the nightmare began! Tammy is honest......not only with herself but with her children......and makes her way to what she wants in this new life as she discovers it. A story of pain, of self-doubt, of re-discovery, of digging into your strength and finding healing in the every day. Beautiful. ( )