I married at 35 and felt elated by Taylor Swift's engagement because of shared age and life stage. I had written publicly about painful breakups that occurred before my marriage, and publishing that memoir revived a stalled career and helped reinvigorate my relationship. My husband reacted poorly at first to the idea of a sex-drugs-and-ex-boyfriend memoir during a period of infertility and frequent business travel, though he accepted the conclusion that he was the right partner. I emphasized that I had moved to Manhattan at 20 to pursue writing, knew who I was by my mid-30s, and accepted professional risk rather than hide past relationships.
As someone who wrote about all her horrible breakups and then married my big, tall prince in blue jeans and sneakers when I was 35, I'm over the moon hearing about Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce. And while I'm not a 5-foot-10-inch5-foot -10 inch blond showgirl worth $1.6 billion, and my husband doesn't even watch football, I'm still overidentifying. I wrote about my break-ups publicly, and it helped save my career - and our relationship.
It was a sex-drugs-and-ex-boyfriend memoir called " Five Men Who Broke My Heart." In it, I went back to re-meet my top five heartbreaks of all time to figure out if I'd wound up with the right partner. He liked the conclusion - that he was indeed the other half I'd been waiting for - but not the idea of me going public about my sordid past by publishing it.
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