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Anyone interested in giving me some feedback on a chapter?
#1748404 09/17/06 01:50 PM
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I've written a book describing my own experience enduring the brutal emotional abuse a person suffers in the wake of an affair. From the shock and despair of discovering my wife’s affair to the pain of watching our family and dreams fall apart, it is a reminder to everyone out there that they are not alone. They are not losing their minds.

I would greatly appreciate feedback from anyone willing to receive and read a chapter. Having gone over it many times, I cannot tell if the emotional charge I'm going for is really there. Also, I'm not sure if I'm expressing clearly enough for the reader the events that unfolded.

If you're interested, my email address is PeterAC500@hotmail.com

Thanks a bunch. I figure if I'm going to obsess about it, I might as well do something constructive!

Peter
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PeterAC500 #1748405 09/17/06 02:04 PM
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I journaled. It helped. Never published it (of course) but it helped to vent and keep a record. As things went south....I used it to remind myself of where I was vs where I am and that really helped. After we went into recovery, I read it again to compare.

Try not to focus on doing a book but on healing your soul.

L.
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Peter,

I have often thought of doing the same. But when I really consider my story, as gut wrenching and life consuming as it is to me, it just does not translate well except as fodder for rags like the Enquirer. Even my friends(who I thank God for every day) have long since tired of my story and my tribulations.Like a car wreck, everyone lives under the mystique that this happens to someone else, never to themselves.

And don't forget the real interest lies in the Brad Pitts and Charle Sheens. Adultery sells books, magazines and movies. Lives of moral character and personal integrity just don't fit the criteria that we are all at least partly responsible for.

Best of luck

Divorced:
"Never shelter anyone from the realities of their decisions": Noodle

You believe easily what you hope for ernestly

Infidelity does not kill marriages, the lying does
Re: Anyone interested in giving me some feedback on a chapter?
Cymanca #1748407 09/17/06 07:33 PM
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Personally, I'd like to see a regular show called (something like) 5 yrs after the affair. Which shows results of affairs, whether it ends in reconciliation, divorce, remarriage to affairee or spouse. The effects on the children. Story about different people each week, portraying ACTUAL results of affairs. The bad, the badder, and the ugly (maybe sometimes the good). Just the truth about the impact affairs have on all involved people.

I would like to read your chapter and will e-mail about it tomorrow.

AKA VowsRSacred/ VRS Me 44 WH 46 dd Mar 7 06 Dday 2 Jan 19 07 EA and PA DD 19 DS 10 DS 7 DD 4

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