A Memoir · Vivian Tyler
Love
Rehab
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A candid, funny and deeply human story about what happens when the life you planned falls apart — and something unexpected begins in its place.
Love
Rehab
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Vivian Tyler
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Vivian Tyler writes about marriage, divorce and the unglamorous work of starting over.
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01 — The Book
When the marriage ends, what happens next?
Love Rehab begins on the worst afternoon of Vivian Tyler's life and refuses to stay there. Part field report from the end of a marriage, part instruction manual for anyone rebuilding from scratch, it moves through the paperwork, the pity casseroles and the strange bright mornings that follow — with the kind of humor that only arrives once you have survived the thing.
It is a book for the woman sitting in her car in a parking lot, deciding what happens next.
Nobody warns you that it is mostly logistics.
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A look inside
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01
The Beginning of the End
Told in the order it actually happened, which is not the order anyone tells it in later.
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02
Things Nobody Tells You About Divorce
What the lawyers leave out, and what the group chat gets confidently wrong.
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03
Learning to Laugh Again
The first joke that landed, and the friend who made it at exactly the wrong moment.
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04
Starting Over
Sleeping in the middle of the bed. Buying one good pan. Dating without pretending.
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05
Unexpected Joy
Resilience, unglamorously: the small repeated choices that rebuilt a life.
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Chapter One · page 3
The dress was still in the garment bag when I carried it out to the alley. I had imagined this moment as something cinematic — wind, a lifted chin, a soundtrack. What actually happened was that the bag caught on the dumpster latch and I stood there in the July heat, sweating, negotiating with a zipper.
Nobody tells you that the end of a marriage is mostly logistics. The grief arrives on schedule, but it has to take its turn behind the account transfers and the mail forwarding and the question of who keeps the good pan. I answered the question of the good pan on a Tuesday. I cried about it on a Thursday, in a parking lot, with a coffee going cold in the cup holder.
This is the part I want to tell you about: not the ending, which everyone can picture, but the eleven months after it, when I had no idea what I was doing and did it anyway.
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Vivian Tyler
About Vivian
Meet Vivian
Vivian Tyler is a writer whose work sits where grief and comedy overlap, because that is where most of real life happens. Love Rehab is her first book. [placeholder bio]
Writes at 5am
Before anyone needs anything from her.
Kept the good pan
Some victories are small and non-negotiable.
Still owns the dress
The dumpster was, in fact, a metaphor.
Available for interviews, book clubs and events — get in touch.
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“Funny in the way only honest books are funny.”
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“I handed it to my sister before I finished the last chapter.”
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“A memoir about resilience that never once lectures you.”
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Love
Rehab
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Vivian Tyler
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