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#200 When a Best-Selling Book Makes You a Slave to Your Passions, with Melissa Dougherty

The Alisa Childers Podcast

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The Struggle That Breaks the Camel's Back

The book is essentially, in my view, the story of them meeting and deciding to be together. She quotes philosopher Carl Jung who said there's no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent. What if love is not the process of disappearing for the beloved but of emerging for the beloved? And she says, I'd divorce Craig because I am a mother and I have responsibilities.

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