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The book focuses on the author and her experience and feelings after breaking up with her 2-year boyfriend who suddenly says he does not want to have kids in the house — he has 2 grown kids and she has an 8-year-old. This comes as a shock, and in the book, she narrates what she is feeling and what is going through her mind.
We learn that the breakup issues, whilst perturbing, were only a front for what was really going on. After several sessions with a fellow therapist, we learn more about what the author was truly going through. The potentially wrong book deal, her career path, and her main fear, leaving her young child motherless.
In the meantime, we meet some patients of hers and learn of their issues and the process they go through to obtain closure. The main characters we meet are:
- John
John seems to be a workaholic and thinks idiots surround him. Each person he meets is an idiot for some reason or another. He is also distant and adds even more distance to those trying to get close to him by being rude and making absurd comments. He is a bit of a douche and intolerant.
Through the therapy sessions, we learn that he is actually a decent guy who has a lot on his plate, including his mother’s death and the death of his young son, with the…
