What Was I Thinking? is a collection of first-person essays describing the moment in a relationship when, no matter how much you think it should work, or want it to work, or need it to work, you get that itβs not going to work. Maybe you overheard the wrong thing due to the physics-defying acoustics in the ladiesβ room you ducked into during a dinner date (as in Amy Wrubleβs βJunk in the Trunkβ). Maybe you realized that itβs just impossible to be with a guy who orders a βcrecheβ of wine instead of a carafe of wine, because βHey, Baby. I'm a writer. I play with words.β (as in Lynn Snowden Picketβs βNorm Crosby Syndromeβ). Or maybe it was as obvious as having your boyfriend say that he thinks of other women during sex with you (as in Rhonda Talbotβs βRevenge Babyβ).
Whatever the details of that head-slapping moment, these epiphanies make great storiesβwhether frantically texted, recounted over lattes, or savored in What Was I Thinking? Included in this collection are more than fifty classic bad boyfriend stories, from writers including:
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