Bailey crafts an emotionally wrenching and compelling story of a marriage and how the spouses' different love languages cause them to miss each other’s signals. You will not regret reading this novel, and after coming across the character that Bethany will be ending up with. I did just come off several weeks of lighthearted fluff, and I’m in the mood for something a little more complicated. It’s important to love someone the way they want and need to be loved, rather than what you think is enough. The two main characters, Dominic and Rosie are in the middle of getting divorce after being married for 10 years.

I'm glad the author read about this concept and it's good she decided to put it in the story, but jeeez, the implementation was so clumsy, it wasn't even funny! We have Rosie, who is biracial: Half African-American, half Argentinian and we have Dominic who is Puerto Rican and we get so much details about their culture. rounded up) I unhappily cut my half star because at some parts stubbornness, blindness to see her husband’s affection levels of Rosie made me pissed off and earned her small and quick slaps, strong shakes on her shoulders! Dominic knows he can not live without Rosies and is willing to do anything to bring her home - even seeing an unconventional therapist. Now Rosie realizes that if she ever wants to salvage their love for each other, they must fight hard to rediscover what made them fall in love in the first place.

But to her surprise, he’s all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. Bailey reveals their wounds right away and the story starts with Rosie finally done with going through the emotions of her life. As soon as she left him, Dominic opened his eyes and realized one more time he made wrong decisions about his priorities in his life and after that he was determined to take his wife back even it meant too much groveling or something worst like: ACCEPTING TO SEE A HIPPY MARRIAGE COUNSELOR AND APPLYING HIS UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS TO TEST THEIR MARRIAGE!

Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie.Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with 10 years ago is nowhere to be found. I have enjoyed Tessa Bailey’s books in the past—particularly “Worked Up” as it’s maybe one of the few romance novels I’ve read where the hero isn’t completely shredded and muscular (he has a bit of a beer gut which I found refreshing after so many years of soaking up wish fulfillment). I found it very unrealistic that their marriage had been so rocky for years, but yet they were still so attracted to each other. I feel like there was a commentary in there somewhere about hypermasculinity but not really because every time he does something unhealthy he is rewarded for it.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. I still love Tessa Bailey's writing and I'm excited to carry on with the series, but this book is mostly a miss for me. Even though this book is going to be released on 2020, it still gave me hope next year is going to be so much better and this author put a big smile on my face with her heartwarming story which I fully appreciate it! But then I tried and earlier book of hers (the name escapes me right now) and just couldn’t get into it at all. As Dominic left love of his life for serving for his country, their love endured against the war, traumas, long distance, emotional suffering and harsh realities of the world.She decides they need some real help if they're going to make it work, so she moves out while they undergo some 'extreme marriage therapy', which is unconventional but a hoot. Ever since I sat with her in August at a book signing that we both attended, I have been "patiently" waiting for her next release. I think I can count on one hand the amount of books I've read where both the hero and the heroine were POC and I was incredibly happy that Tessa Bailey added that to this book. Bailey did present some universal truths in this story, however: Love is not a emotion, love is an action.