Summary

Chapter 14 is titled “From One Survivor to Another”. Again in first-person narration that moves between past-tense and present-tense, Dr. Eger describes her decision to divorce Bela and search for a deeper and more lasting sense of personal fulfilment. She outlines what she has realized were the factors in her decision, among them her desire to not have the same resentment-filled marriage as her parents had. A second key factor was a long-standing feeling that Bela, simply because he was more outgoing, left little room for her in their life together. A related factor was that she never felt the same way about him as she did about Eric. She was grateful for everything that Bela had brought into her life, but missed the passion. Another key factor was a relationship that she (the...