Love Warrior

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Sex isn’t something that I have, really, it just happens to my body while I’m up here, waiting for it to be over . You'll feel so understood by her, so glad she's written it the way she did because you couldn't have put it better yourself. If you don’t want to hear other people’s opinions about your business, then a good suggestion is to keep that business to yourself. It’s about how to survive This was book was life affirming and validating in so many ways a self help book hasn’t been for me.

It's about shameless sex, God, food, drugs, porn and tenderness—and how the dirt and the divine are so often inseparable. But this is what a bride is supposed to look like, and since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I'm supposed to be. One summer evening I watch Joe walk across a stage and accept his diploma from our high school principal. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one another - and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they've been taught so that they can finally, after 13 years of marriage, commit to living true - true to themselves and to each other.Melton makes a lot of claims about God, love, grace, and forgiveness, saying things like, “I just know the truth is that you are forgiven” (220). He is leaving for beach week with his buddies the next day so he’ll need these, his mom says with a wink. When I’m fully armored, I head to the basement and stay up late with the boys and sleep in with the boys and I beat them in drinking contests and out-cocaine them line for line. Then she walks into the bathroom, locks the door, leans over the toilet, and vomits up all of the ice cream.

This is a book about what it means to be human—to wrestle with love, hurt, addiction, vulnerability, intimacy, and grace. I’m sad that unbelievers see this bad witness of the church and think that Oprah’s book club has a better gospel to offer. My daughter was asking: How will I survive being this particular type of person in this particular type of world?

But even though I’d finished the book, was overcome with emotion in response to it, and had bought copies to gift to my friends, I still didn’t have a clear answer to that question.

There on the bed, in her pigtails and pain, my daughter was me—the little girl I once was, the woman I am now, still struggling to answer the questions: How can I be expansive and free and still be loved? Like big was something inevitably unfolding inside of her that threatened her contract with the world. She is an activist, speaker and founder of Together Rising, a non-profit organisation that has raised more than Twenty Million Dollars for women, families and children in crisis. Although our stories are different there is also so much I can relate too, and so much wisdom I feel I've got from it. My eyelids were smeared with purple and my cheeks were pink, but I just looked like me wearing my cousin's makeup.The first time I wrote it, I started with the wedding day, because that's when I thought marriage began. She is trembling and I have to steel my heart so I don’t crumble from the horror and shame of what I’m putting her through.

Every weekend hordes of women wait outside the fraternity basement in anticipation of getting to the front of the line, where a boy will look each one up and down and then check to see if her name is “on the list. And the careful framing of her words set up a protection against anyone who might want to mention the word sin, justification, or righteousness. I want my clients to read Love Warrior because I want them to trust that when this journey towards healing gets difficult, they’re exactly where they need to be, and that it’s only a temporary place. The process begins around four o’clock, when I’m steady enough to get out of bed and begin drinking again. It’s about one woman letting go of the gendered messages she’s been surrounded by her entire life, and communing with her fullest, most authentic self.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 best-seller list - her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realise that nothing was as it seemed. Some of her internal pain is very easy to identify with, whether it is lows of an addiction, a failing marriage, wanting to fit in. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior and founder of the online community Momastery, where she reaches more than one million people each day. I’m sweating and my heart’s pounding and I watch myself take off my heels and start running through the hall.