Bekah and Jenna review “How to Fall in Love with Anyone” a memoir that left Bekah stressed and Jenna starry-eyed.

This week, we read How to Fall in Love with Anyone by Mandy Len Catron

This memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer.

Bekah joins me on this episode to discuss: 

• Why Bekah gave this book 2 stars and Jenna gave this book 5 stars…
• An inside look at Bekah and Jenna’s love lives
• Why Pretty Woman is the ultimate love story

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you either stressed out or hopeful about love. 

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: Milkshake with two straws, red wine
• TV SHOW - New Girl, Normal People
• BOOK - Wild Geese, Of Love, Traveling Mercies
• MOVIE -  Pretty Woman, The Last Five Years

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