Books > The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Choosing a partner, especially a life partner, is one of the most important decisions we can make, I think, and its lifetime consequences are sometimes fabulous, sometimes disastrous. A lot of times disastrous. And yet, no one tells you how to actually make this choice. Or they tell you, and the advice is really, really bad. The idea that "relationships take work," for example, can get us stuck in bad places for a very long time. Can you tell that I know about this? Uh huh. REALLY know about this. So, I decided to write everything I knew on the subject, through the voices of the many women that the main character and her sisters meet throughout the book. Maybe I just wanted to put my own bad romantic history to good use. But maybe more than that, this book was an urgent plea of sorts - to my own kids, to all the rest of us with vulnerable hearts. Listen carefully, watch carefully, know your own history.