Lk: I wanted the book to be as honest as possible. The book was more chronological than i thought, so it really is the story of 15 years of a marriage. There were things that i kept in because they were so honest, and i felt like they worked really well an within the story. And now here's max with heather haverleski, hi heather, hi max. Thank you for having me.
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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