Staunch

A late 30s The Wrong Knickers meets Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Eleanor finds herself in her late 30s on a beach in India with three old ladies, trying to 'find herself' and 'discover her family history' like some sad middle-class crisis cliché. How did she get here? Truthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined: Stepmum dying/Stepdad leaving – family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage Breaking up with J after 12 years – breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe – for reasons that may have been... misguided? New boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting 'it's not a rebound!' even after everyone has stopped listening, being cited in his messy divorce, him being sectioned, then breaking up with me Going into therapy after dating a potentially violent, certainly threatening, narcissist (the most pertinent point of which should be noted: I did not break up with him – he ghosted me)...