Og wrote a book about her life and marriage. She says she is grateful for the relationship they have built together. Og: I didn't want to write a book that was just my best friend and i are so thankful, you know, chapter after chapter. By having to defend and celebrate this weird, confessional, very revealing book, we're sort of reconnected to why we're together in the first place. It's like watching your heart get kicked down the road because people aren't picking it up and looking at it, whatever. There's a big advantage to having a full career when you meet some one. And he's someone who can handle a very demanding and difficult wife
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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