Why We Met
Elaine R. FriemanA real-life rom com in reverse. \ud83d\udc94 ❤️ Publishing journey. \ud83d\udcda British-American agented novelist on sub to Big 5. Editor day job (not glam kind), cat lady, avid reader, afternoon tea lover. \ud83d\udc08⬛ \ud83e\uded6 Lived \ud83d\udccc UK, US, Germany.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 149 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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#104 THE ERA OF PICNICS AND WALKS: WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE RIGHT KIND OF LOVE
For our second date with my now-husband back in July 2016, Michael took me on a walk to Orchan Rocks, not far from the Bridestones, now made famous by that ‘corset-grabbing’ scene in the new “Wuthering Heights” film with Margot Robbie and J...
DATING BEFORE SMARTPHONES
Emotionally unavailable men were not it!
I met no fewer than four men at Starbucks in my mid-20s. I didn’t have a smartphone.
Granted, I was living in a military town near Fort Benning, Georgia (USA).
Fort Benning was once mentioned in a...
ROM COM REVIEWS: OFFICE ROMANCE, EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE, AND HEART THE LOVER
Welcome to my first issue of ‘rom com reviews’ where I review current films, TV shows, and books I’m consuming, generally featuring love and romance.
I’ll warn you now that I’m the sort of person who (maybe annoyingly?) errs on the side of...
#103 WHAT DOES MY HUSBAND THINK OF ME AIRING MY DIRTY LAUNDRY?
I started Why We Met in September 2023, growing from a handful of subscribers to almost 500 now (thank you so much for being here). Initially, my story was the ‘rom com in reverse’ (a theme of Baby Brain helped me recently to lean into)....
THIS IS WHY WE MET
Hi! I’m Elaine (Lainey), and this is the story of how I met Michael, the quirky, fun gem that is my Yorkshire husband, chronicling the highlights (and lowlights) of an “elder” Millennial, attending uni and grad school, growing up in an era...
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