With injuries that will no longer hold her string enough to dance she is attempting to find something new to do with her life. It felt as if Theresa just went along with things, hoping things would settle down and get better, but after two years, she knew they weren't going to.Three years ago Cleo’s dreams of being a professional ballet dancer were dashed after an accident during rehearsals. Not understanding that the person we consider weak is trapped in their own misery and finding a way out isn't a priority. But often, we fail to realize the terrible situation they are in and misjudge them. We look at abusive relationships and say, that's never going to be me, and sometimes even scoff at how weak a person looks for not leaving that relationship. While we would all love to have the 'I don't give a shit' attitude, not all of us are built that way. She was isolated in their house, and she chose not to do anything about it.ĭespite that, Theresa is more relatable than any badass heroines out there. She continued to love him despite the way he treated her to continuous scorn. I think her cousin, either Rhyss or Lisa, mentioned the battered-wife-syndrome, and boy were they right. Theresa spent a lot of 2 years in a daze of having her dreams trashed. The things women do for love, even fictional ones! They tolerate shit and are happy to survive on just a smidgen of what they deserve. Even after all the explanations, it still left a bad taste in my mouth. Yes, yes, he said that he might have left Italy if he had heard her voice and come back, but that's a bit hard to digest. To generalize this, we have all been in his place, wanting things that we can't have.Īnother part of the book that I would like to dissect: Not keeping in touch with her when he went to Italy.

For two years, he hurt her, neglected her, and when she finally grew a backbone, she was suddenly desirable. He called her childish, even when her reaction was valid and deserved.

He was sorry and expected Theresa to get in line with his new plans. It's not as if you have treated me like shit for the past two years.'Īnd throughout the book, he did this. 'Oh yes, let me bend over backward and be accommodating to you. It's as if he expects her to forget everything and say: What pissed me off is the transition where she is supposed to start forgiving him just because he now knows she has been blameless all long. This was akin to Alessandro handing her a love letter. People only have to exist for others to believe that person is in love with them.

The unwanted wife anders natasha