If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Kathleen Buhle shares the story of her marriage to Hunter Biden, and how it unraveled in the wake of substance abuse and infidelity in this “dignified and revealing” (People) memoir about learning to speak your truth.

“A story of love and learning, of the crushing blow of co-dependency and addiction, and ultimately of Buhle’s journey back to herself.”—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 age of twenty-three. Within months of meeting, 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, including the pressures of navigating the elite and powerful family—and society—that accompanied her new last name. But as 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.

© 2022 Random House Audio (Lydbog): 9780593587959

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Lydbog: 14. juni 2022