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Love the One You're With
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Love the One You're With (2008) (edit title/settings)

by Emily Giffin (Author) (edit contributors)

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How do you know if you’ve found the one? Can you really love the one you’re with when you can’t forget the one who got away? Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof, poses these questions—and many more—with her... read more

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A chance encounter with an old flame in Giffin's bittersweet, sometimes mawkish fourth novel causes Ellen Dempsey to consider anew what could have been. Shortly after marrying Andy, Ellen runs into Leo, her intense first love. Leo, a moody writer, has secretly preoccupied Ellen ever since he... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A chance encounter with an old flame in Giffin's bittersweet, sometimes mawkish fourth novel causes Ellen Dempsey to consider anew what could have been. Shortly after marrying Andy, Ellen runs into Leo, her intense first love. Leo, a moody writer, has secretly preoccupied Ellen ever since he broke her heart, so after seeing him again, Ellen wonders if her perfect life is truly what she wants or simply what she was expected to want. This scenario is complicated by Ellen's past: the early death of her mother and subsequent disintegration of her family have left Ellen insecure and saddled with unresolved feelings of guilt. These feelings intensify when Andy's career takes the newlyweds from Ellen's beloved New York City to suburban Atlanta. As Ellen's feelings of inadequacy and resentment grow, her marriage begins to crumble. The novel is sometimes bogged down by characters so rooted in type that they, and the story line, can only move in the most obvious trajectory. However, Giffin's self-aware narrator and focus on troubled relationships will satisfy those looking for a light women's lit fix.

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  • Ellen Dempsy Graham: Professional photographer, ex of Leo, married to Andy, best friend of Margot, loves NYC.
  • Leo: Ex love of Ellen, journalist, moody
  • Andrew Wallace Graham III: Ellen's husband, a lawyer who also happens to be the brother of Margot
  • Margot Graham Buffington: Ellen's best friend and college roommate, sister of Andy, wife of Webb
  • Webb Buffington: Married to Margot, brother-in-law to Andy and Ellen.
  • Suzanne: Ellen's older sister, an independant, single flight-attendant
  • Drake Watters: Famous musician; Political activist.
  • Stella Graham: Mother of Margot, Andy and James, mother-in-law to Ellen.
  • Mr. Graham: Prominent Atlanta attorney, father to Margot, Andy and James; father-in-law of Ellen; married to Stella.
  • James Graham: Playboy, always young at heart younger brother of Margot and Andy.
  • Ty: Margot's high school boyfriend
  • Lucy: Andy's ex-girlfriend who attends Margo's baby shower.
  • Miss Griffin: Friend of Ellen's in-laws
  • Vince: Suzanne's boyfriend.
  • Craig: Snobby husband of Ginny; friend of Ellen and Andy's.
  • Carol: Ellen and Suzanne's mother.
  • Julian: employee of Ellen's.
  • Frank Brightman: another employee of Ellen's.
  • Sharon: another employee of Ellen's in NYC.
  • Cynthia: Ellen's friend.
  • Hillary: college friend of Ellen's.
  • Sabina: employee of Ellen's in NYC.
  • Oscar: friend of Ellen and Andy's.
  • Pam: Ginny's mother; friend of Andy's mom.
  • Courtney Finnamore: friend of Andy's family.
  • Annie: friend of Andy's family.
  • Brad Turner: Andy's friend.
  • Louisa: Andy's sister's daughter; Andy's niece.
  • Stella: Andy's mother.
  • Margot: Andy's sister; Ellen's sister-in-law
  • Ginny: obnoxious yet snobby childhood friend of Margot's
  • Beata: friend
  • Mike Callas: husband
  • Quynh: friend
  • Matthew Shear: friend
  • Morley: friend
  • Rosa: housekeeper
  • Tiffany: Mike's daughter
  • Justin: Mike's son
  • Felicia: Rosa's friend
  • Rosie: main character
  • Nick: ex-boyfriend
  • Matt: Rosie's husband
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  • “Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
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  • love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
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  • There are people and places and events that lead you to your final relationship, people and places and events you’d prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it—like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it’s just the random way life unfolds.
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  • Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I’ll be losing something, someone. But maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
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  • What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy,
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  • “A son is a son ’til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”
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  • “Haven’t you ever heard that true love is supposed to make you a better person? Uplift you?”
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  • there are few things sexier than a man who doesn’t take himself too seriously.
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  • It’s a matter of curiosity—and anyone who says they are utterly indifferent to what their significant exes are doing is, in my opinion, either lying or lacking a certain amount of emotional depth. I’m not saying it’s healthy to be past-obsessed, ferreting out details of every ex. But it’s simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
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  • And although one broken heart doesn’t make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things—time and an emotional replacement—to fully mend one.
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  • “Nobody will love him like I love him,” which I now realize is far from a selling point to a man. To anyone.
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It happened exactly one hundred days after I married Andy, almost to the minute of our half-past-three-o'clock ceremony.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Dilemmas: Being torn by intoxicating moments in the past and the wonderful and right moments in the present.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Emily Giffin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0312348673
Page Count: 342

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  • Library of Congress: PS3607.I28 L68
  • Dewey: 813.6

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