Long Enough to Love You
ContemporaryAdded on January 13, 2026
Description
A love story of self, of past, of present, of future. One woman’s journey to put the pieces of her life together in the most meaningful way — at times chaotic, at times cathartic, but ultimately beautiful in all its imperfect pieces.*Amazon Best Seller*The BookFest Second Place Award Contemporary Romance (2023)A Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner (2023)Reader's Favorite 5 Stars (2023) Firebird Book Awards First Place: Fiction, Divorce Fiction, and Romance (2024)Book Excellence Winner-Divorce (2024) Jenn, fifty-something and empty-nesting, feels like a donut: whole on the outside but missing the middle. The deafening sound of silence in the picture-perfect, oversized home she shares with a husband who does not see her makes the voices arguing in her head hard to ignore. One voice tells her to stay because safe and simple is good; another says leave so you can be the version of yourself not defined by others. The thought of ever after without happily feels like purgatory.The chance discovery of her long-forgotten diaries unearths memories of a first love long buried, reminders that the most beautiful love is sometimes wasted on the young. Her words become a very real reminder of everything first love had been when she reconnects with Tripp in unexpected ways.Long Enough to Love You by Kirsten Pursell follows Jenn - a courageous yet vulnerable protagonist - as she dissects and unpacks her marriage in an emotional journey to stay true to herself despite societal norms and middle-age stereotypes that would suggest otherwise.
Reader Reviews
A book about empty nesters, narrated by Jenn.A mother and wife who has lived her marriage just going through the motions. When Jenn’s mother dies she finds her diaries about her first love, they empower her and remind her of how she lost herself into becoming Mom!It is sad how so many people feel trapped in marriage because of circumstances. You know the reality of what’s written is truth:PEOPLE STAY IN MARRIAGE FOR:Their kids For financial purposes, I can’t support myself.Giving up thinking thi
In LONG ENOUGH TO LOVE YOU, Jenn is very unhappy in her marriage and exhausted. I don’t know how she’s able to accomplish all she does every day. Her and her husband have become empty nesters. Now Jenn needs to find out if she can be happy staying with her husband, without distractions of taking care of her children. She wonders, does she even love her husband? Do they make each other happy? On the day she decides to have this conversation with Mark, her dad shows up at her home. Her mother has
This book is not at all what I expected. Long Enough to Love You is a book about a 50 something woman, Jenn, who is unhappy in her marriage because her husband is not 'prince charming' or complimentary enough toward her. She has, arguably, the perfect life and everything she has ever wanted, but she is only interested in whether or not her husband makes her feel princess special, and whether he has sex with her enough. Her ego is the size of Alaska.Jenn is a selfish, whiney, and horny as heck ch
