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Melissa Febos is the award-winning author of several poignant books, including Girlhood, and her new memoir, The Dry Season, which is out this week. I love everything she writes so much—how she shines a light on the corners of our culture and our minds that need to be illuminated so that we might live with more wholeness.
Today, we’re talking primarily about the topic of Melissa’s new book, which is love. Melissa describes how she realized she had come to be somewhat obsessed with falling, and being, in love—and the impact this had on her relationships and her life. And what happened when she decided she wanted to love differently, and relate to love differently.
We talk about being conditioned to be codependent, and the vision of long-term relationships that can leave us questioning our own. We laugh about both being really bad historically at knowing how to get out of a relationship. And we talk about what we’ve learned from having space in our partnerships now.
So much of what Melissa says rings true for me, and I know I’m not alone. I think you might also really resonate with her definition of a people pleaser.
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