The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.

All relationships are a mixture of good moments and bad moments. But I’ve been involved in relationships and jobs and projects in which the balance was unpredictable and off center. And I often felt trapped. Because how can you want to leave something when there are such good moments? But I’ve realized that it’s not about whether there are some good moments. It’s about whether the good outweighs the bad. I had to change the calculation in my mind. And I’m glad I have. I’m better for it. I wonder, if Evelyn and Celia had that insight then, if they could have drawn better boundaries, supported each other better. They could have avoided a lot of what came next.