How to fix a broken heart
The title How to Fix a Broken Heart (by Guy Winch) seems the perfect remedy for what ails me. I bought the book and welcomed it onto my lap many evenings after my son had gone to bed. What this little book taught me was what I had gone through needn't break me. Heartbreak is a common affliction, though we don't treat it as it should be treated, and sometimes we simply ignore it. Well, I couldn't ignore my bleeding heart if I tried. It has been broken for far too long. I cried as I read this book many times, most notably because I realized that the woman I loved was going through hell of an unspeakable kind — a kind of hell she wasn't even able to verbalize — yet I was valiantly trying to have a relationship with her. When she could barely get through her days, I was feeling rejected because she didn't want to talk about whatever stupid thing I thought was important. She surely saw this as a personal failure (or a failing of our friendship), and certainly as ...