If We Break
By Kathleen Buhle
- Release Date: 2022-06-14
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden unraveled in the wake of substance abuse and infidelity in this “dignified and revealing” (People) memoir.
“Kathleen Buhle’s brave and honest story transcends politics, division, hearsay, and judgment.”—Connie Britton
This is not a story about good versus evil. Or who was right. Or who was better. For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Oregon. Within months of falling in love, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged, living a life beyond anything she’d ever known.
Determined to build her family on a foundation of love, Kathleen was convinced her and Hunter’s commitment to each other could overcome any obstacle. But when Hunter’s drinking evolved into dependency, she was forced to learn how rapidly and irrevocably a marriage can fall apart under the merciless power of addiction. When the lies became insurmountable, Kathleen was forced to reckon with the compromises she had made to try to save her marriage. She wondered if she could survive on her own.
The result is a memoir that is page-turning and heart-breaking. Here Kathleen asks why she kept so much hidden—from her daughters and herself—for so many years, why she became dependent on one man, and why she was more faithful to a vow of secrecy than to her own truth. This inspiring chronicle of radical honesty and self-actualization speaks to women who have lost part of their identity and want to reclaim it.
Reviews
Loved Every Word Of This Book
5By Amy RobachSo honest So heartbreaking So sad So true So much strength So much love The So’s go on and on… Divorce, Addiction, Betrayal Kathleen is a warrior and she did it !!!! She got out with her sanity before he robbed her of it.She really says the truth and yet so sweet and strong.
5By grazie82736She is so respectful by telling her story. Beautiful story of struggle and quicksand, addiction is evil to the whole family. I could see that she care about still, and how her father in law was always so sweet with the son. Yet at end by the day, his affair and the lasts chapter were disturbing to me for read of so strong. The whole book is a climax.An amazing testament
5By cbbnc1This book was a testament to the the confusion of addiction in families. It was written with honesty and integrity about the true struggles that effect so many families.Excellent
5By Dale18wedWell written. Raw and honest.Binge reading
5By moophy@2933Great book; neat woman. Binge read in one evening.