Ever After Always (Bergman Brothers, #3)
Chloe Liese
The TikTok sensation, now with new exclusive content! A marriage-in-crisis rekindles its passion in this second chance romance about going the distance to make love last. Freya Bergman has spent a dozen years loving Aiden and never thought they’d find their marriage on the rocks. He’s her partner and best friend, the person she knows she can count on most. Until one day Freya realizes the man she married is nowhere to be found. Now Aiden is quiet and withdrawn, and as the months wear on, the growing distance between them becomes too much to bear. Aiden would spend a dozen lifetimes making his wife happy. But the one thing that will make her happiest is the one thing he’s not sure he can give a baby. With the pressure of providing and planning for a family, his anxiety is at an all-time high. They’re drifting apart and he doesn’t know how to change the tide. As if weathering marriage counseling wasn’t enough, Freya and Aiden are thrown together for a Bergman family island getaway. Will this trip help them finally work through their trouble in paradise, or be the final wave that tows them under?
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They have always been my least fav siblings while reading the Bergman brothers series but I really like their story. It was different.
02.5 stars
I was very frustrated with this book, it felt like the problems of communication should not have been happening because these people have been married for 10 years?!?? also especially at the start it felt like most of the problems were Aiden's fault?
It felt like Aiden was freaking out and totally hiding it and pulling away from Freya and yet he seemed conscious about doing this? Like he could see what he was doing but refused to change? Didn't know how to change? I don't know, so much of this book was him with his head up his ass in my opinion
Obviously, communication is not a one-way street, 100% of the problems should not be placed on only one person, but reading some reviews here that talk about how Freya should have been more accepting and understanding of Aiden's childhood trauma-- to me I feel like this book needed another 10 therapy sessions where that was kind of worked out? Because it wasn't fair for Freya to expect Aiden to just 'get over' his lifelong trauma, but I don't see how her accepting the fact that he had childhood trauma just magically would fix the relationship either?
Overall this just drove home the fact that I don't typically like Second Chance romances and probably also the marriage in trouble trope
I thought it was good to have anxiety representation, counseling and therapy representation, and childhood trauma representation. It was very obvious to me early on that the custodian was Aiden's father, and this felt like unnecessary plot? I was just overall uninterested in this plot line because Aiden's mother was not a big character and didn't have page time, and he seemed to have kind of moved past this element of his past? And didn't need a ton of time in the present to really deal with his dad's reappearance?
My favorite part overall was seeing the whole Bergman family, and the setting of Hawaii.
I really liked the demonstration of two people who were not on the same wavelength but were trying to get there.
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