"We've laughing at this book for a long time. The crushed chapter was one that i showed to him, and one that i struggled with including" "I accept his flaws more since i wrote about them," she says of her husband's sneezes. 'He sneezed the other day across the house, and i only heard it faintly, and i thoughth that was bill sneezing'
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly and Ask Molly newsletters. Her latest book is Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage.
“It’s not a good story when you're bullshitting people. I didn't want this book to feel like bullshit…. I wanted to show enough that you could feel reassured that it's normal to feel conflicted about your life and the people in it. It's normal to feel anxious about how much people love you. And it's normal to feel avoidant about how much people love you. It's normal to feel like a failure in the face of trying to stay with someone over the course of your entire life.”
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