Mac and Tara were married for 8 years. Three together and 5 separated. Mac ambushes Tara at the museum to say he wants a divorce. He has met someone new and wants to get married and have children. (yes as the other reviewer stated he was living with the other woman for 6 months and he is still wearing his wedding ring) He didn't want children before because he had a one track mind and it was work all the time! One day he just walks out on Tara. Aunt Beth put it best when she said, "Let me remind you that you relinquished all your rights as a husband when you coldly and unfeelingly walked out on my niece as if she was less than nothing to you!" The book never really said why he left other than she complained about him working so much. Later Tara comes to the conclusion that she didn't support him with his job either. She feels that she also contributed to the breakup of the marriage. He never looked back and now five years later seeing Tara and finding out that she was pregnant when he left he wants her back. He breaks up with his fiancée and tries to win his wife back. The book never even says why they got married to begin with? How can he take up with Amelie, the fiancée, if he still had feelings for his wife? Seemed that he cultivated his relationship more with Amelie than his own wife. It was mentioned that he would fly out to Paris on a whim just so his girlfriend could shop. With Tara he actually left her on their vacation, on her own, so he could return to work. Did Mac need to take 5 years to stay away from her with no contact, no nothing not even divorce papers - just living in limbo? Can she trust him to not walk out again? She lost her optimism and she gave up so much when he walked out on her like that. Couldn't Mac, the supposed "Magician" have come up with a better solution than walking out? It just doesn't seem to gel with the description of his character. If he was so driven at succeeding why didn't he try to put more effort into his marriage. Mac wants to "make love to Tara" she states that sex would cloud the issue. He says it wouldn't be sex they would be making love and she wants to know if he made love to Amelie, the fiancée, or if it was just sex. He gets very upset and tells her that she has every right to feel "aggrieved" but that she didn't need to try to "emasculate" him to make a point. I'm not sure how she tried to do that and for him to take that holier than thou stand . . . Mac tells Tara that she has to learn to trust him. Isn't that the other way around? Doesn't he need to earn her trust? He was the one that destroyed it by walking out. She says it's a big leap for her and he says he knows that, that is why he is giving her all the time in the world to make it and that he is willing to do whatever he has to do to gain her trust. Actually I think he wasn't really giving her that much time as later on he says something about giving up a lot to be there with her as in giving up his work!!! Oh, how magnanimous of him. I'm not sure how the book jumps from her not trusting him to him not trusting her. I don't believe she ever gave him any reason to distrust her and yet he does. I did like the fact that she told him that she remained celibate for five years while she knows for a fact that he did not. He didn't have much to say about that. But then later on she says, "Do you know that in all the time we were apart I couldn't even look at another man, let alone contemplate another relationship?" Um . . . What about him? He had no problem having another relationship with another woman even contemplating marriage with the woman, Amelie. I think even though, Mac feels that the slate is truly wiped clean, I wonder if it really is. Will the fact that he couldn't say the same thing come back to haunt them later? Especially given the fact that she doesn't know if another man would have satisfied her the same. Mac was her first. And if he had loved her as much as she loved him how could he ever sleep with another woman? He was willing to sacrifice his marriage for his job, he thought he was doing something good by leaving his wife, and yet he then just puts all his energy into another relationship with another woman and we don't even know how long that one was going on or how soon after his walking away from Tara. Really it would have been so much better if Tara had been with another man then she truly would have known the difference between making love and just sex. Then the slate could have truly been wiped clean. Quid Pro Quo
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Maggie Cox
Maggie Cox se apaixonou por romance no dia que viu a adaptação cinematográfica de O morro dos ventos uivantes. Desde então, ocupa uma boa parte de seu tempo pensando em suas próprias histórias românticas. É casada com um homem maravilhoso e tem dois filhos. Além da família e da literatura, suas outras paixões são filmes e músicas.
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