Then, when one girl gets stale or annoyed with you, you simply scale up your interactions with someone on your roster. Whatever the reason for it, not paying attention to your partner can be a very hard thing to fix. Once it’s done, it’s done… Losing someone you love is a gut punch that can hurt for months or even years. It can leave you on your knees, lost and reduced to rubble.

When you meet a girl who seems really special but the situation has no grounds for something lasting, it’s important not to get lost in daydreams. Dominic and Rosie have this special place in my heart now because of the second journey that they both go throw and learn more about each other, things that through out the past ten years they both missed about each other. Most of the romance novels that I have read involving married couples, usually basis on the emotional and physical conflict they have together through out the years of their marriage. Though Dominic and Rosie have that semi-emotional conflict happening through out this novel, the physical connection is one that one hundred and fifty percent is not missing! Dominic's possessive alpha male of a character, is one that had me drooling for a papi like him for myself ;) This was...I don't even have words. Perfection! Swoony, sexy, and brimming with feels. It was everything I wanted in their story and yet so much more. Y’all know a marriage in trouble book will ALWAYS be a book for me. It’s one of my favorite tropes for some reason and I immediately knew I had to read this lol

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Will she change her mind in five years? Who knows, but it is very unlikely, and holding onto love in this kind of a fixated way is unhealthy and damaging to your wellbeing. You lost her bit by bit. It didn’t happen overnight. It wasn’t one big thing that drove you apart, it was millions of little things that accumulated over time,” writes Owen Scott at HerWay. I loved this couple and Dominic is everyone’s dream husband. He’s loyal, devoted, sexy, passionate, trustable, hard worker and he’s pushing so hard to make his wife happy. Rosie is also adorable and their undeniable, hot, pant melting chemistry as a couple is amazing. They grew up together. As Dominic left love of his life for serving for his country, their love endured against the war, traumas, long distance, emotional suffering and harsh realities of the world. Lately I got busy and I didn’t take good care of her as I once did; I didn’t tell her how beautiful she is that often; I've been eagerly anticipating this release ever since I read and adored the first book in the series last year. And boy, does it deliver! Most romances focus on the initial honeymoon phase, when couples meet and fall in love and everything's perfect. Yet everyone can relate to a long relationship slowly losing its vitality as the years pile on and the drudgery of real life takes its toll. That's why I found this story to be particularly appealing.

If you’re not having your calls, texts or messages returned, then you need to accept that you’ve lost her forever. There were a lot of secondary characters, as there are in any standalone series. And I really really liked the idea of the group of girls here forming this club that basically helps everyone who needs it. That was pretty awesome. Though I do have to admit that those scenes and characters didn’t really grab me as much and I didn’t find them as dimensional or interesting as the main two characters. I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Whether it’s fair or not, this girl has had enough of being together with you and she’s pulling the plug for good.I do wish we could’ve gotten more story or drama into what happened to Dom when he was at the war since at the beginning they go out of their way to insist how a lot happened there and he never talked to her about it… and that’s when shit hit the fan. But it turned out it really wasn’t anything bigger than him being at war (which I know is a big deal in itself and I guess it gives it some realism for more normal marriages showing that sometimes the love and excitement slowly dies and people need to work for it, but I still wish we’d gotten something more in regards to that. I think it would’ve given them more story, more things to work out and more development and dimension to Dominic as a character.) Unfortunately along the way they had forgotten the basic fundamentals; communication and affection. Now doubt and discontentment clouds their love.

This was my favorite book in this series so far. I binged this and was up way past my bedtime - with flushed cheeks! 😉 I was legit at a place where I thought I'd never read a book and fall so completely in love that it would be a 5 star, a perfect read for me. But I'm so, so happy that "Love Her or Lose Her" gets to be the book that broke my 6 month drought. Dominic is the type of hero Tessa Bailey loves to write. Alpha, stoic, sexy, and protective. This would have maybe been a 4.5 or 5 star read for me if I felt more connected to him. I feel like the biggest part of his character was his proving himself and providing for Rosie. Rosie had all these dreams and all he wanted was to be there for her and help her succeed. I guess I wanted a little more of what he wanted, and to be in his head a bit more. I think my favorite part of the book was watching Rosie come to terms with the fact that she had some blame in this and trying to do for Dom what he'd always done for her. I loved watching them love each other in the way they both needed. There was this giant important part of this book where they were both told to rekindle their chemistry without sex. Aka just kissing is allowed. Ngl that never really happened. It always led to one of them having an orgasm and then also sex so I didn’t really see how they were successful in that area and since this was a giant issue Rosie had with her marriage in the first place, I didn’t see how this was solved.While this article explores the main signs you’ve lost her forever, it can be helpful to speak to a relationship coach about your situation. Love Her or Lose Her is the second book in Tessa Bailey's 'Hot and Hammered' series. After reading and loving 'Fix Her Up' I was so excited for this one. It wasn't as fun or endearing, but I actually loved the romance more. Maybe it's the old married person in me, but sometimes I love reading about already established/married couples and this hit the spot for me. I’m not going to sugarcoat it and say that love will eventually work out, or that breakups are always just a “stepping stone.” Some breakups can really cut you down and smash your hope for the future. Your connection isn’t working out and you’ve let her down so much you might as well be an elevator.

A couple trying to save their marriage? A Latinx couple? Ex-military? Hot chef? Let me get in there now!!! The love languages. I'm glad the author read about this concept and it's good she decided to put it in the story, but jeeez, the implementation was so clumsy, it wasn't even funny!! Endless explanations - from Dominic, from the therapist, from Rosie - felt like just putting lots of theoretical examples in the characters' mouths; thus the emotions felt artificial and flat.

I adored Dominic and Rosie. Seeing them work through their shit felt so good to read! I was weak half the time. I also loved that we got the added element of a couple going to therapy and what benefit that had on their relationship, even though it was just the start. There was a lot more of them to work through and I was rooting for them all the way. This is one of the hardest signs you’ve lost her forever, because it can be tempting to think that keeping pushing will eventually produce results.