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Is Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone a true story? How does her storyline unfold throughout the book? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Maybe You Should Talk To Someone<\/em>, Lori Gottlieb tells the story of her breakup and the midlife crisis it led to. She decides to seek out a therapist for, she thinks, a few weeks of crisis management in order to get back on her feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone<\/em> memoir came to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Lori Gottlieb: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The story begins with Lori getting dumped by her boyfriend. The problem, according to him, is that Lori has a young son and he doesn\u2019t want to live with a kid in the house anymore\u2014his own children are older and will be leaving for college soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lori completely breaks down. She had planned to spend the rest of her life with this person, and now she\u2019s grieving not only the end of a relationship but also the life she thought she\u2019d have.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, Lori tries to tough it out, but after a couple of weeks, she realizes that she\u2019s not recovering. She ends up seeing an eccentric therapist named Wendell Bronson. At first, she tries to cast her ex in as bad a light as possible, hoping Wendell will confirm that he\u2019s a bad person and Lori was deeply wronged. Instead, over many sessions, Wendell coaxes out the deeper issues Lori is facing: the fear of death<\/a> and the search for meaning<\/a> in her life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lori eventually reveals that she has more problems than just the breakup. She\u2019s also suffering from a mysterious illness that causes painful rashes, muscle tremors, and weakness. No doctor so far has been able to diagnose her\u2014one test suggests that it may be an autoimmune condition called Sjogren syndrome<\/em>, but the results aren\u2019t conclusive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of that, she\u2019s accepted a contract to write a book about happiness<\/a>, but she hasn\u2019t been able to write it. She\u2019s already taken a significant advance on the book, which she\u2019ll have to pay back if she breaks the contract, and her agent has warned her that if she doesn\u2019t write this book, she might never be contracted to write another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Okay to Not Be Okay<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The most important thing Lori learns during her time with her own therapist, Wendell, is how to accept uncertainty. <\/strong>She doesn\u2019t know what her disease is, she doesn\u2019t know how long she\u2019ll live, and she doesn\u2019t know if she\u2019ll ever find someone to spend her life with\u2014and that\u2019s okay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also decides to break her book contract, and she accepts that she\u2019ll have to spend a long time paying back the advance. Shortly after, she starts writing another book about her recent experiences; she\u2019s not contracted to write this one but feels compelled to do so because it\u2019s a meaningful and important topic to her. That book will eventually become Maybe You Should Talk to Someone<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone a true story? How does her storyline unfold throughout the book? In Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, Lori Gottlieb tells the story of her breakup and the midlife crisis it led to. She decides to seek out a therapist for, she thinks, a few weeks of crisis management in order to get back on her feet. 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