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Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)

Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)

Update: 2025-06-05
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In her new memoir, The Dry Season, Melissa Febos (award-winning author of Girlhood) examines her (and our culture’s) relationship to love, to falling in love with someone, to being in love with someone. Today, we talk about why she decided to spend a year celibate after a particularly rough breakup, and what more she wanted from a relationship, from herself, and for her life. We talk about being conditioned to be codependent, the lovely things that have happened in our own long-term relationships when we’ve gone off script, what it actually means to be a people pleaser—and more.


For links to Melissa Febos’s books and the show notes, head over to my Substack.

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Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)

Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)

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