How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A Novel

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Three young women come to terms with the roles of the men in their lives and the sad fact that they put them there. Casale can be really funny: “Sexy was something you were anointed, like being a princess or winning the Nobel Prize,” Joy thinks. Later, Celine recalls an interaction with her mother: “‘You don’t even remember the eighties, shut the hell up,’ her mom had once said, and sometimes Celine felt like that tenor was the basis of virtually all their interactions.”

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Joy was put on birth control at thirteen years old by her doctor, who was a man. He was old and had been her doctor since she was a baby. When her mother had told him in private that her daughter had very painful, heavy periods, he suggested it, and without question they put her on a small dose of hormones. From the age of thirteen until now, at nearly thirty years old, Joy had not ovulated. Jennifer Close, New York Times bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses and Marrying the Ketchups And that moment I think about all the time. I’ll hear her voice as I wait at a stoplight or even when I pee.

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Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren't exactly what they'd imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he's never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling ever deeper into an emotional hellscape of her own making. She is too obsessed to realize that Celine's beauty doesn't protect her from pain. Haunted by an event from her past, Celine can't escape her shame and finds herself in an endless cycle of self-sabotage. I kinda didn’t care about Theo despite the synopsis making it look like he’d be a bigger deal. Joy simped for him so hard and he wasn’t worth shit. It made me cringe at some points but it was a good read. Things like that made them all feel like real people. Sometimes, I found it a bit heavy-handed; continuously, we see Joy, Annie, and Celine trip over themselves to please men, undercutting themselves in ways that are increasingly extreme (especially in Joy’s case). It’s not that I don’t find this believable: unfortunately, as is the point of the book, I think culture teaches women to behave this way, and it is abhorrent. It’s just that these self-sabotaging behaviors are very often remarked on by the narration (not verbatim, but comments like “Why was she doing this?” etc.); for this reason I as a reader felt like I arrived at the conclusion far, far before the characters did.

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Work hierarchy in generally was something she found to be unnecessary cruel, and so when she had the chance she would do her best to rebel against itI read How to Fall Out of Love Madly over a month ago and I’ve been dying to sit down and write a review about it, but life got busy. Here I am, a week past publishing date, ready to review. It was a godsend when the cramps eased up and she didn’t have a ton of side effects from the hormones either, as her mother had feared she might. Realize you don't have to make yourself fall out of love. While not having love work out can be very painful, this doesn't mean that you have to fall out of love. If it was true love, you may very well never be able to fall out of love. However, you can move past that love, live your life fully without being dependent on it, and find new love to enjoy. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirtysomething existences aren’t exactly what they’d imagined for themselves. Struggling to make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant. Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from her own insecurities. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can’t access the confidence she yearns to exude. Celine is still not over her ex even though she does not vocalize this to Theo. So, the story goes on with Joy critiquing every move that Celine and Theo make.