Love Warrior: A Memoir

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Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list - her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed.

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Our daughter is struggling at the moment and as a mother I want to love her and try to understand her but at the same time to be honest it is hard work and I live between guilt because I should have done better as a mum and worry about if she is going to be ok. My sister and I decided to do a Story Telling course with Brene Brown, and this is the book that goes with the course. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others. The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage. In college, she learned what she perceived to be the “rules” of female success: “thinness is beauty.Doyle is also the creator of the online community Momastery, [3] and is the founder and president of Together Rising, [4] an all-women-led nonprofit organization supporting women, families, and children in crisis. In 2014, Parents named Doyle and Momastery the winner of its award for Best All-Around at Social Media. We know we must decide whether to stay small, quiet, and uncomplicated or allow ourselves to grow as big, loud, and complex as we were made to be. Doyle has also made several appearances on the Together Live Tour, created by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

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Doyle, Wambach, and Melton co-parent the three children and Doyle states that they all have family dinners together. This memoir is chiefly about Melton's trust issues--with herself and with her husband after his affairs are revealed--but there is so much more to get out of it.after stringing her readers along for the whole year and a half while she makes up her mind AND makes her husband pay and pay (not that he didn't deserve some of it) she never recognizes her own part in his affairs. This strategy is designed to build community, to enable people from all income groups to be able to donate ("democratize the giving"), and overcome indecision about how much to give. I'm not offended by her spirituality and I especially appreciate that she subscribes to a modern, inclusive (Unitarian? We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other’s pain.

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If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low.My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there — because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. Accepting pain can be liberating: by owning all parts of yourself—even those parts that are painful—you become free from worry about what others think or feel about your behavior.