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After so many years of early morning alarms and never-ending laundry, many moms expect to feel incredibly liberated when their kids leave home. But what happens when the Land of Empty Nesting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—when you suddenly feel like a ship without a rudder? A bird without a flock? That’s what Allie Hill was contending with after her daughter left for college. While she thought she was alone in those feelings, Allie soon discovered that was far from true.

Intentionally child-free, Dani falls in love with Julian, a divorced father of two. Now, she must embrace a lifestyle she's purposely avoided or return to her single life, eating oatmeal for dinner, standing at the kitchen sink half-naked while listening to gospel music. Julian makes her feel like she's the heroine in a trashy romance novel, and they move in together. The alternating weekends with his kids, Nicole and Tyler, are like babysitting—only without compensation. Just when she falls in love with Nicole and Tyler, Julian dumps her. But she will not be ignored or abandoned.

Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real skinny when you’re pregnant? Your girlfriends, of course - at least, the ones who’ve been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the way only a best friend can - in the book that will go the whole nine months for every mother-to-be.

I’ve Got You, Girlfriend! is exactly what you want to hear when all the crazy, messy, exhausting, disorganized, overwhelming moments happen in the mom life you’re living…and sometimes that’s all before 9 a.m.!

What people saw on the outside and what it was really like behind closed doors were totally different. This book is a continuation of letters for part two in the Love Letter On Purpose series and will take on a different tone than Kelly’s first book, Love Letters from an Ex-Wife, as she directly addresses narcissistic emotional abuse.