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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a classic midlife crisis. Sounds a lot like the husband in Maggie Smith’s divorce memoir. My ex husband also had a midlife crisis but no affair, instead he basically admitted he had gay fantasies. But when I left him he doubled down so much on the perfect husband/father schtick that he even convinced my parents I was the bad one. So now he has my parents and I have a different life. But at least my current partner actually likes me (and women). [/quote]

It’s midlife crisis meets the Talented Mr. Ripley given that the ex-husband was predatory from the beginning with the love bombing, rushed engagement, pressure to sign an unfair prenup, ongoing financial abuse, and continued leveraging of her family and social connections. Fox in the henhouse where the fox eventually dropped his rooster mask.[/quote]

NP- It was pretty obvious to me to the guy was a sociopath of sorts. But I wonder if many readers felt that way? It came through to me through the various points you mention, yet throughout the book she seems oblivious to it and in denial, even saying at the end she doesn't want to know if there were other affairs. She came off as a naive person so wrapped in her privilege she cannot handle big revelations about how fake her marriage was from the start or be honest with herself about it all. It was also interesting how much time she spent pondering petty and trivial things like who at the club said exactly the right thing to her and who did not.[/quote]

I completely agree that he was a sociopath. [/quote]

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