What a heartfelt book. She read her mother's diaries when she was 13 and learned that her mother had feared infidelity on the part of her husband when the children were babies. Forty years later, in the fog of old age, her mother had said something about trust being gone for forty years.

Elizabeth had understood the devastation of infidelity by reading her mother's diaries and had pleaded with John when she married -- promise me fidelity. Leave me if you must, but be faithful if you stay.

The press is all over why she wrote the book, but I think she wrote it as a kind of catharsis. It is brutally honest about the impact of an affair on a betrayed spouse.

Cherished

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