Note on Jerome Eric Dickey's "The Other Woman"

As a couple try to always know what your partner wants and cares about. There's that innate yearnings of everyone that needs to be satisfied all the time especially when in a relationship.

 

Let's take Eric Jerome Dickey's novel as our area of focus where Freckles the narrator; a very amazing hardworking woman married to Charlse, finds out later in the novel that Charlse is cheating on him with his colleague at work.  It is later understood that Charlse's reasons for cheating on his ever-loving wife is because she is always busy with her work and returns home late finding Charlse asleep, therefore, he doesn't get to enjoy the wife that much in terms of s*x, he sort for this with Jessica who as well is having similar issues with her husband David; as David spends more time in his studio.

When David finds out about his wife and Charlse having affair, he tells Freckles, and ends up having a revenge s*x with Freckles. At the end of it, after efforts to make amends, David shoots himself and Charlse. He died, but Charlse survives, and Freckles leaves Charlse to find a free life like her best friend Yvette.

The lesson in this novel is; a couple learn to understand your partner better, and support them and forgive quickly, because life goes on.

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