If you could go back in time when you pitched the book, would you still do it? Yes, i would, because i love this book. 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. You know, there are so many times in a marriage where you feel like, i'm failing myself, and i'm failing my husband, and i're failing my kids because i can't bel things i'm supposed to be. So it had the intended effect. But then there's been this other strain of reaction to the book, which has been very public. Walter kerne reviewed it in the new york
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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