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

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 . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.