My Year of Really Bad Dates

<b>For anyone who's ever gone on terrible date a vulnerable memoir that explores dating in midlife after divorce with bad dates--from terrible one-night stands to promising matches who ultimately disappoint--anchoring the theme of every chapter.</b> <p/>After two life-shaking events--losing her father and divorcing the man she's spent half her life with who happens to be an actor from a famous family--Rachel Lithgow leaves a thirty-year career to write full time and pursue a relationship with a calming delightful man she recently met online. She thinks she has it all figured out . . . until he announces he's joining a cult and moving to Phoenix with a blonde real estate agent. <p/>Through a year of terrible dates peppered with a few great experiences and a lot of pinot noir the author learns that patterns can be changed that asking for help is sometimes necessary and that there's only one way to repair her brokenness: by facing her trauma and demons head-on. <p/>With a unique mix of humor self-deprecation and gritty vulnerability this dark yet hopeful memoir tackles divorce dating single motherhood PTSD grief loss and starting over in midlife. From emotional rock bottom to a peaceful acceptance of the woman she truly is Lithgow finds the humor in the blackness redemption in the pathos and fulfillment in the idea that happily ever after isn't always a storybook ending--and doesn't need to be.