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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her utter lack of boundaries and disregard for those of her children are staggering. Ugh.[/quote]

This was my take away from Love Warrior, too, which was my first exposure to her. I was astounded at the level of detail she relayed about her marital issues. I also felt she had some key omissions when it came to her own life, but her husband’s life was fair game. For example, I very strongly suspect she was sexually abused as a child/tween. [/quote]

I don’t want to buy her book.  What was the marital issue?  I remember seeing it alluded to on the blog.[/quote]

I am the PP.  So, it has been ages since I've read the book.  But, basically, her husband was a sex addict of some sort (porn and other women, I think), and she basically put every level of detail on blast in the book.  I thought it was a bit much given that they were married and have three kids together.  It also was a bit rich, too, considering she is/was pretty effed up herself.  She was a blackout alcoholic and struggled with bulimia her whole life.  Imagine if the roles were reversed?  If a husband wrote a book spilling all the deets about how the mother of his children is an alcohol-addicted bulimic, the husband would be skewered by the public, not praised.

I have a difficult time with people who do this kind of over-the-top, public oversharing.  These people always act like they're being all altruistic, and hide behind the whole "I'm just being authentic" / "I'm being my true self" / "I'm putting this out there so I can help other people" crap.  And that's rarely true.  They're doing it for themselves, and for attention - and in some cases, like Glennon, for money.

I also thought she was clearly playing coy about her own issues.  She starts out the book going on an on about all these messed up messages she got as a child (stuff like "I realized that I was there to be pleasing to others" / "my job was to be pretty").  She claims her parents gave her a great childhood, but she still ended up bulimic at the age of 8 or 10 or something.  I'm my opinion, she's either lying about the messages she internalized as a child (which is to say, perhaps she is just making the stuff up after the fact), or she has some pretty dramatic omissions in the book (abuse of some sort - because how in the hell would a five year old kid come up with this stuff).  At one point, perhaps in an interview or something, I don't recall, she said something like readers need to respect that some parts of her story aren't told... So, yeah.
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Thanks!  I thought he was gay.  That clears it up for me.[/quote]

She is now married to a woman, maybe that is what you were thinking about.[/quote]

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