This whole novel resonated with me. I think it will resonate with many women. I felt for Joy, a self conscious and chronic people pleaser, in love with a man who was only too happy to use her for an emotional relationship while having a sexual relationship with another. I felt for Annie, finding out that the boss who has always been kind to her has been preying on women at the office, while dating a man who is never supportive when she needs him. I felt for Celine, praised for her beauty and overlooked for any other qualities, dating the ‘nice’ man because she feels it’s the right thing to do. I understood the way Annie and Joy were able to see what would be the best thing for one another and to recognize unhealthy patterns in the other, but not be able to do the same thing for themselves.

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I’ve got my friend Sophie from Paris,” Annie said, “Maybe she’ll invite me stay with her in Paris if she comes here first.”Another sign you may be falling out of love is a disinterest in sex with your partner. It's normal for a couple's sex life to change as they enter the long-term phase of their relationship, but if you never want to be physically or emotionally intimate with your partner, that raises a major red flag. Although falling out of love can be a scary experience, it's possible to regain that love if you have an open mind."We think of love as binary and static, but it's not like that," Lundquist told Insider. She also made me proud of the women that stand up for others. The ones who decide that they’ve had enough of the men around them getting away with inappropriate touches or comments. She made me think about all that we suffer silently. Sexual assaults that seem easier to just let go, because they’re ‘not a big deal,’ even though they’re a violation of your body all the same. It’s a conditioning so deeply ingrained. This is readable and relatable, it is not a romance, and you have to be able to relate to these women for the book to work for you. If you don't really get them, it will only be frustrating. I would have liked more about friendship, more about finding yourself, it seems like we have just scratched the surface here and there was a lot more we could have dived into.

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Now she saw herself mirrored through him and he was an image of her insides, what she would settle for, how little she thought she deserved. I don't love you, she thought. I never did.” Achingly funny, startlingly intimate, viciously familiar, How to Fall Out of Love Madly says every quiet part of being a woman out loud.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirtysomething existences aren’t exactly what they’d imagined for themselves. Struggling to make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant. Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from her own insecurities. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can’t access the confidence she yearns to exude. Allow yourself to be sad for a while. Falling out of love is a process of grieving a lost relationship. It is normal to feel that loss deeply. If you try to act normal and pretend that you're not hurt, you will have a greater emotional struggle. The healthy way to begin to fall out of love is to be sad for a little while. Give yourself time to process your feelings of loss. [1] X Expert Source Jennifer Butler, MSW I loved all three women this story follows. Each one is flailing through their early thirties and are all involved or infatuated with alarmingly unremarkable men. While funny at times, this story really captured what it is like to be a woman who doesn’t know her worth, and I loved every moment of it. It also perfectly portrayed all my favorite themes of female friendship and late coming of age.I was satisfied with the conclusions to Joy and Annie’s stories, but felt a bit lost with Celine—she was interesting to read about, but less engaging to me than Joy and Annie, and her story has a bit less direction than the other two.

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I am a Jana Casale superfan. ... How to Fall Out of Love Madly astounds with its insights about love and the search for meaning and self-acceptance. Everyone who loves Sally Rooney should be reading Jana Casale!” I love this book with all my heart! Jana Casale is a master storyteller—observant, witty, sharp, and funny. ... This book is an honest and compelling look at female friendship, romantic relationships, and infatuation, and I couldn’t put it down.”With wit, brains, and empathy, Jana Casale throws open the curtain on the inner lives of three young women and illuminates their pain and beauty. How to Fall Out of Love Madly is a literary triumph, and it’s also an absolute delight.” —Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me Joy and Annie are friends and roommate but still unable to cover their rent, they get third roommate and in walks Theo who charms them. After months of hinting Annie’s boyfriend finally ask her to move in so the trio now becomes a duo, but Joy doesn’t mind because now she’s got Theo to herself. They spend a lot of time together and Joy ends up falling for him, only for him to show up a few weeks later with a girlfriend. Joy is confused but figures if she puts her best foot forward he will miraculously fall for her. Meanwhile, Theo's girlfriend Celine has been told all her life she is stunning but doesn’t really believe it. When Annie moves in with her boyfriend, she thinks this is what she wants but finds herself putting on this “easy breezy cool girlfriend” act that she may not be able to keep up. She wants commitment, but does she want it from her boyfriend? Sometimes, I found it a bit heavy-handed; continuously, we see Joy, Annie, and Celine trip over themselves to please men, undercutting themselves in ways that are increasingly extreme (especially in Joy’s case). It’s not that I don’t find this believable: unfortunately, as is the point of the book, I think culture teaches women to behave this way, and it is abhorrent. It’s just that these self-sabotaging behaviors are very often remarked on by the narration (not verbatim, but comments like “Why was she doing this?” etc.); for this reason I as a reader felt like I arrived at the conclusion far, far before the characters did. Celine has been told all her life she is stunning but doesn’t really believe it. Yes, she’s reaped so many opportunities because of pretty privilege but she still doesn’t feel confident in herself.

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ailice on Book Tour and Guest Post: No Heart for a Thief (Malitu #1) by James Lloyd Dulin October 30, 2023 Casale illuminates her protagonists’ inner worlds with a nearly alarming authenticity.These cis, straight women . . . [have] been on both ends of life’s most sensitive questions and know that a kind response and an honest one aren’t usually the same thing.Many readers will feel seen. It’s the excitingly, exhilaratingly tiny and true movements of these women’s hearts and minds that will move How to Fall Out of Love Madly solidly into readers’ own.” — Booklist (starred review)Three young women come to terms with the roles of the men in their lives and the sad fact that they put them there. Whelp, this salt and pepper haired man does something for Joy because soon enough, she falls head over heels for him. She absolutely caters to this man, to the point of even doing his laundry and making his lunches for work (despite the fact that they have crossed no lines and are simply just roommates). Soon enough, Annie’s boyfriend finally asks her to move in with him. So now, it is just Joy and Theo…until Theo brings home the most picture-perfect woman Joy has ever seen and introduces her as his girlfriend. Celine. Jana Casale is the author of The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. She has a BFA in fiction from Emerson College and an MSt in creative writing from Oxford. She currently resides outside Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.