- Brad Listi, concluding a story he told as part of the introduction to his interview with Cheryl Strayed.
Strayed, a novelist and memoirist who recently revealed herself to be the “Dear Sugar” advice columnist, said something during the interview that I agree with completely:
I just believe in story. And I do think that a lot of times the problems we have in our lives have to do with the way we’ve told ourselves the story of ourselves. So, you know, if you’re locked into thinking, you know, a particular relationship is miserable, and it sucks, and here’s all this stuff wrong with it, in a lot of ways, if you do want to kind of overcome that as a couple, you do have to rescript how it is you’ve cast your relationship or how it is you’ve framed each other.
