Love the One You're With- Emily Giffin

#80. Love the One You're With- Emily Giffin

Ellen and Andy have a great marriage, but Ellen's world gets all shook up (see that song title? See what I did there? Yeah, this is how I entertain myself. Sigh) when she runs into her old boyfriend, Leo. Leo was the one who got away, and seeing him again sets all those old butterflies in motion for Ellen. She's not happy about this- but she's not exactly going out of her way to avoid him, either. After Leo gets her a photography job, they reconnect- not quite physically, but in an emotional way that has Ellen feeling guilty and torn. She's trying her best to please Andy, even going so far as to leaving her beloved NYC for his hometown of Atlanta. But bending over backwards to please the one you love and not getting what you need/want in return can lead to resentment, hurt...and Leo.

Ellen's got some hard choices to make, but when she finally realizes what she needs, will it be too late?

Tense novel. Very tense. As a reader, I thought it was obvious who Ellen should choose, and a few times I wanted to slap her silly (mostly because I loved that guy so much, and thought the other was no good). Love the One You're With resolves very sweetly, and it made for a pleasant weekend read.