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Anything fictional out there that has been an accurate representation?
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Yeah: "The Day After"... ...wait a minute, that was about the aftermath of a global thermonuclear war! Similar, though. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> -ol' 2long
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I've always enjoyed ''An Unmarried Woman"....
It is a chick-flick... but the aftermath is pretty accurate.
It is the story of a NYC woman, who thought she was in a very happy marriage only to be told "ILY,BINILWY" by her H who leaves her for a younger woman. She is in shock and pain... and you get to see her gradually get herself back together.
It is NOT about marital recovery.
And, after her recovery, the H comes back to her begging for a second chance... when it is too late, she's moved on.
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Does anyone know any movies where they make it? ?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by restarting:
<strong> Does anyone know any movies where they make it? ? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I'm still thinking...
One comes to mind, but it's a pretty dated movie.
"Pete 'n" Tilly" ... stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett...
It's a bittersweet film. The marriage survives affairs and the death of a child.
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UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN is the movie that I like. She and her husband don't make it but it shows her growing and becoming stronger and making her own destiny. LADYBUGS! My husband refuses to watch it. I told him it was about a woman whose husband had an affair and she moved to Italy and started a new life. He said "It is a training film?" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> Nice to think about running away and starting fresh sometimes, even if it is just fleeting. Cathy
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Can't remember the name of the movie but I like the one where Julia Roberts stand up during a church meeting and says "who in here has slept with my husband?". I feel like doing that sometimes....maybe I could make a sign and post it on the highway asking that same question!
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UNFAITHFUL--WITH RICHARD GERE AND ??
He kills the OM.
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TreeReich, I love that scene too! The movie is "something to talk about" and the ending was fabulous although maybe a little unrealistic
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> UNFAITHFUL--WITH RICHARD GERE AND ?? He kills the OM. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I watched that one right after dday. Cried most of the way through it, had to get up and leave the room. Husband couldn't figure out what my "problem" was. I think now nearly two years later he finally understands. OW is dead, wasn't then. But I didn't kill her! She drank herself to death. I heard that multi-organ failure is very painful. I think she reaped what she sowed. I think she sealed her own fate. God only knows how many others she hurt over the years. Hard to believe she used to be a Sunday School Teacher. Evidently any good she had to give to the world was gone long ago. Sad that she drug her two children through her hell. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />
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I remember a movie on Lifetime about a judge that had led two lives. One w/his W & 2 boys & another w/his OW & their 5(?) children. One of the children from the A dies in a car accident & his W D's him & he then lives w/the OW. His family is destroyed, he loses a daughter & he loses a prominent job as an attorney. BTW, it's a true story. I think the attorney's name was Kedrick(?)
Anyone know what movie this is? Anyway, I think it accurately portrays how secretive A partners can be & the struggles involved w/keeping an A secret & then the aftermath after the A comes out in the open.
Love in Christ,
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Although not having much to do about affairs, "The story of us" is a pretty good movie about marriage. Et all. Bruce Willis, Michele Phiefer (sp?)
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by FrederickGirl: <strong> UNFAITHFUL--WITH RICHARD GERE AND ?? He kills the OM. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">* daydreams, smiling and staring into space....* <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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This subject comes up from time 2 time.
"Unfaithful" is realistic while the A is going on, but drops the ball as it ends. Should have gone through a painful recovery with the OM still alive.
I remember a movie about 20 years ago with Meredith Baxter Burney in it, where she's the WS. Clearly very painful for the BS. They separate, she has her fling, and they even2ally reconcile. It was long enough ago that I don't remember the details or whether it was all that realistic or not, but it seemed so at the time (and didn't gloss over the painful periods like most do). It definitely didn't glorify the A as a love story.
-ol' 2long
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"Hope Floats"
She doesn't end up with her cheating WH, but she does end up with Harry Connick Jr.! What a consolation price! yummmm!
Sorry Faithfully, not what you are looking for but I really like that movie.
Also, "Beaches". Bette Mitlers'(sp) lifelong bestfriend is the victim in an adultrous marriage, doesn't reconcile with WH, and dies at the end, but the story about two womens lifelong love for each other is beautiful.
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This topic has come up before, but some new answers this time!
Again, not what you are looking for, but, this movie now always reminds me of the "torture" a BS goes through in "collecting evidence:"
What Lies Beneath, starring Han Solo.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Originally posted by FrederickGirl:
UNFAITHFUL--WITH RICHARD GERE AND ??
He kills the OM.
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* daydreams, smiling and staring into space....*
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I used to daydream about OM having a heart attack or stroke (has multiple risk factors). My wife thought I was cruel. However, I wonder if OM wished me dead as well. I am the only stumbing block in front of his plans.
Anyway he LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. Sure, you think it's only about the Salem Witch trials. It is very accurate regarding the aftermath of an affair. When the play starts the A had ended 7 months prior, so it deals more with recovery issues. It's not an American classic for nothing!
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Wasn't "Unfaithful" a re-do of an old French film? Does anyone know if the French film tells the story of the aftermath differently?
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