But then one night two years into their relationship the great guy tells Lori it's over. It's not that he doesn't want to marry Lori but he doesn't want to help raise her eight year old son. He likes Zach well enough but he has already raised his own kids and his parenting days are behind him.
Lori is devastated. The break-up brings on a midlife crisis and a friend suggests that maybe she needs to see a therapist. Lori agrees and the result would end up being her bestselling memoir Maybe You Should Talk To Someone which was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Now, some may ask themselves, do I want to spend an entire book with an author in her therapist's office as she discusses the break-up. I worried about that too. But Lori Gottlieb's sessions with her therapist represents only a small portion of the book. And as we get deeper into Maybe You Should Talk To Someone the boyfriend issues fade. The book becomes about alot more. It's part memoir but it's also about what therapy entails, how and why people change and the meaning of life. And for me Maybe You Should Talk To Someone is most memorably about Lori's own patients and their struggles.
Lori Gottlieb let's us in on the therapy sessions she has with four of her patients. She has changed their names and the stories these patients tell are interesting and often heartbreaking. I will not forget Julie's story in particular. And these patients are a reminder of how we can never know what people have been through just by looking at them.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone is very well written, humorous and I think the book will help many readers navigate their own journeys. Over 42,000 reviews on Amazon.com for Maybe I Should Talk To Someone and 92% of them 4 and 5 stars. That's very impressive and put me in the 4 and 5 star category as well.
This interests me as I have started to read the odd self-help book over the past year or two. Not exactly the same as this but just people writing about how hard it is to make friends, the nature of friendship, families, relationships etc. I don't think it harms at all and there's the opportunity to learn something about the human condition. I'll look this up.
ReplyDeleteI think you will like Maybe You Should Talk To Someone. The book has gotten good reviews. It's more of a memoir but Lori talk alot about therapy being a therapist herself and people can learn from what she writes, the patient stories she tells and apply it to their own lives.
ReplyDeleteGlad this one turned out to be such a good read for you. It does sound interesting. If I didn't already have a list of 20+ nonfiction books I want to read next year I'd add it to my list. ;D
ReplyDeleteIt did turn out very well and I also wanted to read this book because I don't read enough nonfiction. And I know what you mean. I have so many books I want to get to but I have to just take it one book at a time.
ReplyDeleteThis does sound like a good book. I used to read much more self help than I do how, often more in the How to Meditate line, but I am always open to reading that will help me to see things in new ways.
ReplyDeleteI think you will like it. Lori Gottlieb writes very well. She tells us about the therapy process but makes it interesting and I believe it can be used as a self help book.
DeleteWow this doesn't seem your normal kind of reading right? But I know this book and I think I even have a copy but I haven't read it yet. I'm glad you explained what it entails ... I actually have been curious to read it --thinking it might help in some kind of way. Or just knowing about therapy ... I have never had that.
ReplyDeleteIt's a different kind of book, part memoir, part of it is a book on what being a therapist entails and finally by going into her own story and the therapy process with her patients it can be used as a self help book too. It's well written also
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