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The other reviewer accurately describes this made for TV "Comedy/Drama" as a "chick flick." A self respecting male viewer will see this as ridiculously unrealistic and sappy.

The "heroine" Lynn has difficulties with her husbands first family so she ends up in a handsome young house inspector's bed. She insists on buying a house which her husband cannot afford and she is unsupportive to her husband while he tries to deal with his daughter's marriage and some financial difficulties.

Lynn then tells her husband that she has been unfaithful and he meekly forgives her and appears to be a complete fool with no pride.

This kind of film was obviously written BY and woman FOR women. Any self respecting man will find nothing to enjoy here. I'm sorry that I watched it.

I kept hoping that the B***H would get her comeuppance, but apparently, infidelity is OK if you are an attractive blond woman, at least according to the writer of this mush.

What we have here is a woman who has some real problems in her marriage - due mostly to her husband's ex-wife, children, mother and IRS shenanigans. So what does she do? Well, after making a few abortive attempts to talk things over with her husband (who amiably but vainly tries to please everybody) she - literally! - runs off to sleep with the house inspector who had been making completely obvious passes at her for the past 30 min or so of the film.

If this was somewhat hard to swallow or to cheer at, what comes next is even worse: miraculously all the aforementioned problems sort themselves out and then our heroine confesses her affair to her husband who forgives her. Happy end.

It's hard to know where to begin to criticize this travesty. If this were a movie about a family disintegrating because of communication problems it would have been sad but true. But instead this train-wreck of a movie sends two messages: (a) adultery is a viable solution to problems (b) adultery does not really matter. (Since both propositions are false and invidious it actually matters little that they are somewhat contradictory...) Finally, what is even more infuriating is the way the supposedly insoluble problems just disappear towards the end - the viewers are obviously not thought of highly enough to even bother about some deus ex machina.

This is all a pity because Andrea Roth is an excellent actress. However, she is not enough to save this lame attempt at a movie.

Woman has a less than perfect husband, is stressed out about it, then causes fights so that she can justify having an affair with the local hottie lover boy. Comes clean, never really apologizes for her actions, giggles about her affair with her girlfriends, REALLY doesn't seem to feel remotely guilty, and gets everything she wants in the end.

And she's positioned by the movie as a heroine. This is example A1 with a bullet of double standards on affairs in movies.

The strength of this film was in the strong leading character, the attorney Lynn Bartlett, whose marriage to Jack Hughes promises her the bliss on her second go-round at holy matrimony. The film traces her awakening to the realities of a second marriage that are filled with compromises she must make.

One of the major themes explored in the film is the delicate issue of boundaries in a complicated, extended family. Without any input from Lynn, Jack insists on bringing his wayward son Patrick to live with them in their home for a six-month period, as the kid hunts for a job.

Jack also insists on spoiling his daughter Meredith with the $40,000 wedding she desires. Again, Lynn is not consulted and the money spent on the wedding will mean that Lynn and Jack will not be able to buy their dream home. Jack crossed the boundary markers by his inability to consider Lynn's views and in disrupting their own plans for the future. It doesn't help either that Jack's assertive ex-wife Janet is constantly on the scene and invading Lynn's privacy. One really has to feel for Lynn.

At the same time, Lynn's boundaries are not so great either, especially when she begins an affair with the architect Alex. The subplot of Lynn and Alex is one of the most interesting parts of the film. There is nothing to stop Lynn from leaving Jack and starting a relationship with a man who clearly adores her. The interior dilemma faced by Lynn about whether to end the affair and ride out conflicts with Jack's former spouse and kids is the glue that holds the film together.

The performances were top-notch, especially the actress playing Lynn. There were interludes during the film where Lynn met with her friends, the local second wives' club, to gossip and ruminate on Lynn's situation. The filmmakers may have overreached in an effort to spin Lynn's situation into that of a happy, fun, wild, wacky, and loving family. Another choice possible for Lynn would be to live with Alex and beginning the secret live of a third wife. Her decision is the heart of this dramody.