SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR HEARTBREAK

(and the heartache of your editors)

You’ve probably known for a while that our Marion has put another fresh book on the shelf. Right? Well, then you’re going to quickly get to the point now. You need this book. ‘Hotel Heartache’ is about sorrow, heartbreak to be exact. When your life is a battlefield because your heart hurts. That feeling is probably not foreign to you. Marion guides you together with companion Susan Smit through the mess of tears.

I still remember that my girlfriend cried non-stop for two days because she broke up with her boyfriend. She had done it herself, but she cried. Hard too. And if you’re thinking: but what about you? I’ve certainly experienced my fair share of heartache as well. With snot, ugly crying, and zero appetite for solid food, and believe me: that is a unique experience. But what about your editors? I checked in with them for you.

Kiki: “When my first great love broke up with me (I was fourteen), I think I cried non-stop in bed for a month. I found myself so incredibly pathetic. I remember putting a note on my door with a seriously failed skull and the text: ‘Leave me alone. FOREVER.’ I also went on a hunger strike for a day and a half. I had a young sense of drama, let’s leave it at that.”

Elke: “You would think that the moment someone cheats is the most painful. But then you hear that the same boyfriend, who cheated, has been doubting your relationship for a while. The word doubt, that was it. Then my heart broke into a million tiny pieces. A kind of unrequited love. If you ask me, this is the most painful form of heartache.”

Simone: “I’ve had heartbreak before, because yes, I’m just a human too. Enormously painful cheating or I’m-not-in-love-with-you scenes, every woman probably gets that at least once. But you know what might be the most painful? When there is love in abundance and you want to grow old together more than anything, but it simply can’t happen. Mr. X wanted to grow old together, and I have incredibly rattling ovaries and would love to have a team of kids. And then it stops. There’s nothing left to do but let each other go and look for someone who can give you what ultimately makes you the happiest. And that hurts. A lot.”

Lilian: “Actually, I’ve never really had heartbreak or heartache. You see, that’s what you get when you’ve been in a relationship since you were fifteen. Boring, right? Before that, I did have a fling, but how serious is that? By the way, I think I was always the heartbreaker back then (#sorrynotsorry).”