\Infidelity, A Love Story,"" by Ann Pearlman traces the path of infidelity through three generations of women in her family. This brutally honest biography details the emotions and betrayal caused by the men in Pearlman's life.
Beginning in her childhood, she slowly begins to recognize how her unfaithful grandfather and father destroyed her grandmother and mother's lives.
Fearing that infidelity runs in her blood, Pearlman intends to prove otherwise. She overcomes her famliy's criticism of an interracial relationship and infertility while building a life and marriage in Madison. Pearlman proves a relationship is what one puts into it and that one can control the path his or her life takes.
As a renown marriage and sex therapist, Pearlman revels in her secure marriage. She helps hundreds of married couples find happiness after infidelity and believes she has figured life out.
She discovers, however, she is more like her mother and grandmother than she expected. After finding out her husband has been unfaithful to her, she sets out to learn what she needs. Pearlman realizes that she relates to what her mother and grandmother had told her all along about relationships and life.
She is happier being herself rather than revolving her life around someone else. Despite her frustration with marriage and family, Pearlman optimistically concludes that as long as there is life, there is possibility.
This biography of Pearlman's life lets the reader rejoice in the author's discoveries about herself and her strengths. She is honest about every emotion she feels and struggles to comprehend how she let this deception creep into her life.
The book will leave the reader questioning why the author's quest for an honest relationship went awry. It's frustrating to see Pearlman's efforts go to waste while wondering what she could have possibly done differently when it appears she did everything ""right.""
The book unfortunately implies that no one can possibly know whether or not his or her relationship makes them happy until the relationship is over. Pearlman's painful descriptions of her hardships prove life cannot be dictated by how much one wants something or how much one knows.
Pearlman finally learns that her life is determined by how she deals with what life gives her and only she can determine how happy she'll allow herself to be.
