Brain McAuley, the screenwriter, needs a clue. This could have been decent Lifetime faire, but the negative messages within it, can't be ignored. What are those messages? How did I know this was written by a man, before I even looked? Well, here's how - the cheating husband is the good guy, the overworked, cheated on, harried housewife is the idiot, the teenage son blames his mother for his father's indiscretions, etc . That sounds like a man wrote it to me. This writer actually included a scene where the teenage son, tells his mother that she's the one screwing up the family. She hires a manny (a trusted childhood friend) because her husband is too useless to fix the front door, & the baby is almost killed in the road. We never address these issues, the husband cheats, he's never home, he leaves responsibilities (dangerous ones) undone. But she's the one who screwed up the family?! She wouldn't have been targeted by a sociopath, if she'd had a PARTNER to help. The writer is really saying she screwed it up, because she didn't just accept her husband's cheating, & lower her expectations with her him. If she'd just done those things, (& worked herself into an early grave) she wouldn't have been targeted. Yet, we never address why she needed help to begin with (her husband's absent & useless). With this much victim blaming of the mother, and terrible messages aimed at it's target audience, this man BRIAN MCAULEY SHOULD NEVER WRITE FOR LIFETIME AGAIN! We, as women, should expect more for ourselves, and for our children. It is not ok to get cheated on, it's not ok to teach our sons violence is the answer, it's not ok to teach our sons women should put up with cheating & violence, it's not ok, to put up with ANYTHING, just for the sake of the family. This movie, & those like it, perpetrate negative stereotypes, that men can't help it, & women should just lower their expectations. Well, I'm tired of lowering mine, how bout you ladies?