Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

     I have always admired the guts and vulnerability of Glennon Doyle, and I heard her, years ago, be interviewed about this book. The interviewer was pointing out how this book was a testament to Doyle's commitment to making a hard marriage work. Maybe it's more accurate to say that it shows how hard work and courage can build a strong marriage. It intrigued me then, and I resolved it would be worth reading. In the intervening years, though, she did eventually divorce this husband and is now married to a woman, a famous soccer player. 

I had kind of forgotten about this book until I was waiting for Len at the Cancer Center at the St. George Hospital, awaiting radiation for prostate cancer. They have a big bookcase of books to borrow from, and this one caught my eye. I'm glad I read it; it was engaging and painful and hopeful...Glennon is an amazing, open, and vulnerable person. I wondered about the wisdom of sharing so much, especially when there are children in the marriage. Yet it's instructive to know how her mind works and I appreciated her honesty and her struggle to live with integrity. It gave me some new understanding to get a glimpse of someone who had stellar parents, and yet she still struggled and fought and rebelled... Her obsession with her appearance, her bullemia, her therapy...all of it was fascinating reading. It was a gift to get such an intimate look into someone else's life.