I didn't want this book to feel like bolshet and so many books about marriage do. I learned a lot in looking back at my marriage. When there's a lot of pressure on bill, and it's like play this role, he just fallt he kind of starts to fall apart. We actually match in that way. And i think for us it was an experiment in radical honesty"
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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