The Wife was a real.....(spoilers)
So the wife has daddy issues. Is that a reason to throw her own marriage out the window without giving her husband an opportunity to defend himself; especially with a young daughter involved? There was no evidence that he ever was unfaithful previously so why the hurry to believe he had cheated if she really loved him? On top of all that, she doesn't waste much time hooking up with someone else and getting engaged.
She has a snotty attitude when finding her ex husband's friend, a young buxom woman, at their cabin with him....why? She divorced him and apparently wasted no time finding someone else and has been engaged for two months so why the snotty attitude? If she wasn't happy about him moving on and finding someone else then why divorce him in the first place?
She tells him he should see someone more sophisticated. Why should she care who he sees? She divorced him and should keep her mouth shut. Her ex husband isn't sleeping with the buxom woman, evident by him sleeping on the couch. Can she say the same about her fiancé? Probably not since it would fit the disdain she had for her ex husband. The fiancé even referred to the "magic" they had together in Paris. This from a guy who likes to go into water naked.
She complains that her husband is a liar although she's the one telling lies to him. She lied about who her fiancé is, just saying he's a friend. She lied about how well her business is doing. She lied about being jealous. She lied about how often her ex husband gets to see his daughter. She lied about her ex husband forgetting christmas when in fact she told him to stay out of it because he never knew how to do it right.
As If she hadn't already treated him bad enough, she gets drunk and turns into super biatch. Her ex husband again pleads his innocence about cheating on her and she calls him a liar. The fiancé shows up and it's the first the ex husband learns that she has been engaged for two months. She then agrees to marry her fiancé the next day. She tells her mother that the only reason she agreed to marry the fiancé is because he's handsome, rich, perfect and wants to take care of her. She says nothing about love. She's marrying the guy even though she might still have feelings for her ex husband. It sounds pretty much like she's a gold digger who's just trying to save her failing business. She doesn't even care how her daughter feels about her marrying; never telling her prior or discussing it with her, she just drops it on her like a bombshell after being engaged for two months.
Of course she finally finds out that her husband never cheated. She tells the photographer that he ruined their (her and her husband) lives. Not so. She ruined their marriage by not standing by her husband and believing him or at least giving him the opportunity to defend himself rather than immediately throwing him out of the house and divorcing him. Even after being presented with the evidence that her ex husband never cheated on her, she still apparently plans to go through with the wedding, contending that her ex husband humiliated her. How so? It was evident that everything done was at the hands of others which he had no control over. He even went to the trouble of suing those responsible over the false accusation.
Rather than immediately calling off the wedding, her mother (who never cared much for her ex husband) has to talk her out of marrying the fiancé and stand by her ex husband, something she should have done all along. She then calls off the wedding and apologizes to her ex husband. I guess the writers had to spread the blame so they had the ex husband apologize as well for not fighting for her. Why should he? She had her mind made up pretty quickly and it was evident she wasn't going to change. He did try to convince her but she repeatedly refused to believe him.
I'm sure the intent was for the viewer to hope they get back together again but how could that happen when she was such an unlikeable character. Not just her either. It was impossible to like anyone in this movie with the exception of the husband, his business partner and the minister.
Undoubtedly the ex husband takes her back. He's a fool though for taking her back right away considering all that she had done (throwing two years of their relationship away) and put him through. This is just another of those romantic movies where the woman behaves horribly but gets the happy ending anyway. It's impossible to sympathize with such an unlikeable character as her. I would have had the ex husband tell her, when she asked him to marry her, that he can't be with someone so untrustful and he was going to follow her advice and finally move on with someone more sophisticated who is more loving and trusting than her.