Is infidelity inevitable? Part 2

i finally finished the book, after the two weeks it has been sitting on my bedside table.. :P

the thing about this book is that it has "God's" perspective (God the Creator of all things that are, is, and will be); in between chapters, there's a page where 'God' is explaining what's happening and why it's happening.

on the story: So Sara found out about the affair and dumped Tom and gets kicked out of the house, Tom is heartbroken and runs to George who comforts him for a while. Then George dumped Tom and when Tom asked if she ever loved him, she says "No. I think i just loved the idea of you." BIG OUCH. Then Tom becomes miserable and tries to crawl back to Sara and ask for her forgiveness (with a huge public apology,limousine,fudge,musicians, and tickets to Venice), to no avail. Then, the book skips AFTER TWO YEARS (i always thought this only happened to movies and tv). They've all moved on, Tom meets Sara at a party and gives her a ride home, gives this whole speech about how sorry he was and about unfaithfulness and its repercussions. Sara appears to be quite moved, says NO for the nth time, pushes Tom out the door.

and then 'God' butts in and says in the 2nd to the last page. "I made it involve all your senses: now I'm giving you that extra sense, the one that can hopefully take the edge off it all... a sense of perspective."

and on the last page, Sara opens the door and finds Tom STILL there.
TOM: "They always come back, don't they? In the movies you like? The men always try one more time after it seems it's too late."

SARA: "Aye.. and can I point out that your success rate from copying what works in the movies has been - historically - fvcking tragic?"

T: "Abysmal."

S: "And that 'winningly persistent suitor' or 'creepy bleeding stalker' is not a call that you get to make?"

T: "No - you get to make that call."

S: "Aye, that's right.. That's right: I get to make that call."

T: "So?"

* personally i think Tom killed the whole speech by starting with, "Here's the thing about being unfaithful, Sara .. it's absolutely FANTASTIC." Although he tried recover from this point on and made good arguments, if this was said to me, i would always look back to him saying 'Being unfaithful is Fantastic' with a capital F

Is infidelity inevitable?

I'm curently reading a book called A Certain Chemistry by Mil Millington. I'm only 3/4 of the way through, but i cannot help but write about what I've partly read.

So the premise is that there's this guy named Tom Cartwright who's a ghostwriter (meaning he writes and other people take credit). He gets a job to ghost-write an autobiography for a famous TV soap actress called Georgina Nye. So, him and Georgina meet up for stuff for the book and after a few meetings, they realize they have this certain chemistry, both asexual and sexual, and then one thing led to another and so they had an affair. Problem is, Tom has a live-in girlfriend by the name of Sara. And Tom loves Georgina and Sara both. Or so he claims.

I wouldn't have been surprised to read on to the next few pages seeing Tom deliriously happy because he has both 'comforting' Sara and 'gorgeous' George to, excuse the word but it is appropriate, fvck. But then come these lines from Tom the man himself.

"What you have to remember is that I was the victim here. .. I was suffering horribly. ... As for Sara, well, yes, I was being unfaithful to her. But she didn't know that. I was the one who had to endure life under the weight of that knowledge: I was the one who felt guilty. .. Here I am suffering silently to maintain the happiness of others, and all you can do is despise me for ensuring that my girlfriend has wave after face-crushing wave of orgasms: you ought to be bloody ashamed of yourself." -Tom Cartwright

My, what an interesting justification. He feels he's the victim. By golly. It gets even more interesting. Finally Sara and George meet up at yet another post-booklaunch-party and a certain Fiona (Tom's colleague who knows about the Tom/George affair) keeps trying to make Tom uncomfortable in front of Sara. Sara then lashes at Fiona and says "Fiona, you appear to be hinting that Tom is fvcking Georgina Nye." (pause, pause, Tom's eyes wide and very much horrified) "I'm sorry if it spoils your surprise, but I'm already perfectly well aware of that fact - that's very old news." Gasp. Right when Tom thinks he's actually pulled it off. I have yet to find out what happens next.

The tagline of the book reads: Is infidelity inevitable? The question remains unanswered.