Pat Gaudette

The complete title of this small book by Michelle Mitchell is I’m Sleeping With Your Husband: His Wife, His Mistress, and His Two Lives. Most of the book is told in the voice of the mistress. A couple chapters are in “his” voice. Toward the end, his wife’s voice is heard for a few pages.

From the back cover:

He said he would leave when the children got older. After four years, I still believed him. After six years, it finally sank in… he was never going to leave his wife!

He said he loved me and I was stupid enough to believe him.

Does love hurt so much you wished it never entered your life, while the man you love the most shares his life with someone else? In the end, all that remains are three shattered lives that will never be the same.

‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ I guess that’s why you are not supposed to date a married man.

This is one of many books written about adultery by one of the persons involved in an affair. If I had to choose between two books, I’d probably choose Anne Bercht’s My Husband’s Affair Became The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me over I’m Sleeping With Your Husband. Bercht does not try to put herself into anyone’s shoes but her own. Mitchell tries on all shoes and comes up short, particularly when attempting to step into the shoes of her lover’s wife.