But I had no way of visualizing or experiencing it for myself because there was no actual description. While I didn't get to take an epic Europe adventure I think we can all relate to what one goes through to move on and forget something. Then she talks about finally realizing she needs to learn to be alone and immediately hooks up with a 23 year old who she later tells him he’s helped her realize and get past Javier. While I knew I was better off, it still hurt and I wanted to find somebody, anybody who could relate to what I was going through. But where i got even more lost was with the ‘I’m going to get so fat’ or the mention of fucking calories.

I found out about your book just after I had 2 freaking roller coaster relationships and were stuck in the third. But if you go to her instagram and look at that day, and the swimsuit she is in, she obviously is still a size 2 and multiple comments on how they want her abs. Perhaps it was due to the constant depictions of her instagram or trying to convince herself she was on a self discovery trip when really all she wanted was to discover why Javier no longer had feelings for her.They had a month long love affair and he encouraged her to go on a month long trip to Italy with him.

They’re both flighty, superficial, ridiculous, immature people who cannot operate even the most basic of relationships.

I would try books that were recommended and not finish due to the negative tones, and the way the story was written (unrelatable). But for real, the entire time reading this book, I literally just kept thinking, why is this a book?

Filled with all the characters you fell in love with, new triumphs and setbacks, a soul-defining journey to the other side of the world, and answers to all of your burning questions, this is The Ridiculous Misadventures of a Single Girl. A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a nineteen-year-old for six months. So glad I read it, it was amazing to walk in Gabrielle’s shoes as she navigated what life threw at her. For anyone who’s gone through love, divorce, heartbreak, or needs to learn to love themselves and take their damn power back. Gabrielle had been married for about a year and a half when she discovered her husband had been having an affair for six months, so she filed for divorce.I particularly find it cringey how she talked about all her social media posts with inspirational quotes and apparently she got a ton of messages from people who felt moved by them and she kind of tried to make this a self help book and act like she knows what she's doing. In addition, I realized the years of being gaslighted and emotionally abused really put some deep trauma in me. At the end of the book she details how to create a self love cocktail, but it seemed like such a strange ending, because she had not really talked about any of the ingredients (meditation, exercise, etc.