Hard to Keep

Love After the Easy Version EndsBy Sera Nolan
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Length4h 59m

About this audiobook

Some people do not fear being unloved. They fear becoming harder to keep once love has to hold the fuller truth of who they are. In Hard to Keep, Sera Nolan explores the hidden romantic fear that emerges after the beginning, when attraction gives way to maintenance, closeness brings exposure, and the easier version of the self no longer feels sufficient to carry the relationship forward. Serious, intimate, and emotionally exact, this audiobook gives language to one of the most private tensions in modern love: the fear that being fully known may make a person less easy to stay with over time. For listeners who have ever felt most secure at the start of love and most uncertain once it became real.

Audiobook details

GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length4 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Hard to Keep
2Introduction - Before Love Has to Last
3Chapter 1 - What It Means to Feel Hard to Keep
4Chapter 2 - Why the Beginning Feels Safer
5Chapter 3 - What Closeness Starts to Expose
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6Chapter 4 - Becoming Easier to Stay With
7Chapter 5 - From Attraction to Maintenance
8Chapter 6 - When Love Starts to Feel Costly
9Chapter 7 - The Self That Tries to Remain Keepable
10Chapter 8 - The Version of You Love Has Not Met
11Chapter 9 - A Culture Built for the Easier Version
12Chapter 10 - What Enduring Love Would Have to Hold
13Conclusion - After the Easy Version
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