"As someone who wrote about all her horrible breakups and then married my big, tall prince in blue jeans and sneakers when I was 35, I'm over the moon hearing about Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce. And while I'm not a 5-foot-10-inch5-foot -10 inch blond showgirl worth $1.6 billion, and my husband doesn't even watch football, I'm still overidentifying. I wrote about my break-ups publicly, and it helped save my career - and our relationship."
"It was a sex-drugs-and-ex-boyfriend memoir called " Five Men Who Broke My Heart." In it, I went back to re-meet my top five heartbreaks of all time to figure out if I'd wound up with the right partner. He liked the conclusion - that he was indeed the other half I'd been waiting for - but not the idea of me going public about my sordid past by publishing it."
I married at 35 and felt elated by Taylor Swift's engagement because of shared age and life stage. I had written publicly about painful breakups that occurred before my marriage, and publishing that memoir revived a stalled career and helped reinvigorate my relationship. My husband reacted poorly at first to the idea of a sex-drugs-and-ex-boyfriend memoir during a period of infertility and frequent business travel, though he accepted the conclusion that he was the right partner. I emphasized that I had moved to Manhattan at 20 to pursue writing, knew who I was by my mid-30s, and accepted professional risk rather than hide past relationships.
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