17/52 Still thinking about this book days later
17/52 finished: Strangers from Belle Burden
I picked this up because I like messy relationship and family dynamic stories and somehow ended up thinking about my own relationship way more than I planned to.
Something about the idea of spending years with someone and still not fully knowing who they’d become under pressure or during conflict stuck with me way more than I expected. It even brought up conversations between me and my partner around money, long term security and how much people can change over time. I used to think practical conversations like that meant something was wrong in the relationship or that people were secretly expecting things to fail. Now I’m not so sure. I think being realistic about life and people changing is different from being pessimistic.
Part of me still misses when love felt simpler before real life started attaching practical decisions to it though. This has probably been the book that’s stayed in my head the longest out of the 17 I’ve finished this year so far.