Thank You Heartbreak

Author of the novel The Means That Make Us Strangers, Christine Kindberg joins Chelsea 6:30 minutes in to talk about the upside of singleness because, believe it or not, there is one. The catch is, the upside is a mindset that has to be cultivated and a trajectory that has to be pursued. For Christine, this pursuit began in her early twenties when she realized she didn't want to be in a holding pattern where she was sitting on her hands and just waiting for a partner to come along for life to begin. What she needed to do instead, she discovered, was find significant things to invest in that were independent of whether a romantic partner was in her life or not. Fast forward, and Christine has now found herself humoring her married friends when recounting a string of crazy and horrendous first dates, running marathons and taking flight to places like Chile for 2 1/2 months to research her next great novel—a passion and purpose that she may not have prioritized had she been tethered to an ill-fitting partne