Don't Do Anything I Would Do

by Cara Alwill

Don't Do Anything I Would Do: Essays on Dating, Divorce, and Romantic Delusions is a wildly entertaining, brutally honest, and unexpectedly heartfelt memoir about modern love, heartbreak, and the art of starting over. Bestselling author Cara Alwill delivers a collection of raw, witty, and unfiltered essays chronicling the highs, lows, and absolute WTF moments of her dating life-from the heartbreak of divorce to the chaos of situationships, the thrill of passionate love, and the devastating reality of gut-wrenching betrayals. With razor-sharp humor and deeply relatable storytelling, she takes readers through her most unforgettable experiences: love-bombing and ghosting, grand gestures and grand disappointments, checking his location when you swore you wouldn't, and believing in the magic of connection-even when logic says run. But this isn't just a book about romance-it's about reinvention. It's about the choices we make in the name of love, the lessons we learn when things fall apart, and the power of picking up the pieces (again and again) until we finally create the life we deserve. Through every misstep, every ignored red flag, and every moment of delusional optimism, Cara proves that the best love story we will ever write is the one we create for ourselves. For anyone who has ever fallen too hard, waited for a text that never came, or played the same song on repeat just to feel something-this book is for you. Don't Do Anything I Would Do is an invitation to embrace the mess, laugh at the madness, and never stop believing in love-even when it breaks you. Because love, even in its most unhinged form, has a way of putting us back together.