Ugly Love (Hoover)/Chapter 30

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Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love. Chapter 30

A Father's Explanation Opens the Way to Reconciliation

2014

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Chapter Summary

Six years earlier, Miles sat with his father in an empty waiting area, expecting a confession about Lisa.

His father explained that he and Miles's mother had separated before he met Lisa. They had delayed divorce for financial reasons, and he stayed when she became ill. He had kept silent because he feared Miles would think she died unhappy.

Miles reassured him that they had both supported her. When Miles wondered whether his mother would now be disappointed in him, his father said she would be proud. Miles hugged him, realizing how much he needed that reassurance.

Characters

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Miles — narrator, young man grieving his mother, who had suspected his father of infidelity and responds to the truth with reassurance and an embrace.

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Miles's father — adult man and Lisa's partner, who traveled frequently, remained with his estranged wife during her illness, and finally explains his past decisions to his son.

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Miles's mother — deceased adult woman who had separated from her husband before her illness, remembered by her son as happy with her life and supported by her family.

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Lisa — adult woman in a relationship with Miles's father, whom he says he met almost a year after separating from his wife; absent from the conversation.

Quotes

We decided to separate when you were sixteen. However,
with as much as I traveled, it made financial sense for us to wait
until you graduated before filing for divorce

“When she found out she was sick, it was the right thing to do,
Miles. She was your mother, and I wasn’t going to leave her
when she needed me the most.”

“She would be proud of you, Miles,” he says to me. “With how
you’ve handled yourself.”
I hug him.
I needed to hear that more than I knew.

This summary is based on the UK edition of the novel (London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2014).