You are listening to Heaving Buzums, the podcast where two best friends recap romance novels,

while critiquing dick jokes and doing a big swoon.

You're going to love what we love, do what I love.

Stack our shelves with the crunchies out.

Shout up on the rooftop.

Can you hear the sound?

Live your best life.

Love it out loud.

Love it out loud.

Hey, HBs.

I hope your tea is hot.

Your pages are crisp and your body is hydrated.

Seriously, where's your water? Go drink it.

When we left off yesterday, Shannon had just set her relationship on fire in a misguided act of familial sacrifice.

And then Will was deployed on a month's long secret mission. Everyone is lost and lonely

and going through it. So let's jump back in and get to the H-EA.

Love it. Love it out. And she's like, well, and she's like, well, I've set it on fire and he's gone anyway.

So like, I'm just going to figure out my life.

And she's been calling the trips that she goes on with him, her version of getting back to neutral.

And so for the next six months, she's desperately trying to find her own neutral. And it's not

going well. She, oh, she like throws herself basically into managing her family. This is when she has

that meeting with teal and teal is the most beautiful boundary setter in the

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