I Love Mondays: And Other Confessions from Devoted Working Moms by Michelle Cove

Michelle Cove is the director and a producer of the award-winning documentary Seeking Happily Ever After, distributed digitally by Lionsgate, and the author of Seeking Happily Ever After: How To Navigate the Ups and Downs of Being Single Without Losing Your Mind. The book and film have been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Forbes, AOL News, Marie Claire, Bust, and numerous other publications. Cove is also the co-author of the national bestseller I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict, which has been featured on several national talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and TODAY. Currently, Michelle is in production on her feature-length documentary Rise of the Onlies, and is Editor of 614: the HBI ezine, an online magazine that explores hot topics for young Jewish women. She is the former senior editor of Girls' Life magazine, and has been writing and editing for 15 years for magazines including MORE, Your Tango, Psychology Today, Mother Earth News, and Family Fun.

Introduction ix Chapter 1 The Sorry Loop 1 Chapter 2 Multitasking Mishaps 25 Chapter 3 Unexcused Absences 47 Chapter 4 On the Road Again 69 Chapter 5 The School Drop-and-Dash 93 Chapter 6 Friendship Hiatus 115 Chapter 7 Odd Woman Out at Work 139 Chapter 8 Heading Toward Burnout 163 Chapter 9 Blurred Boundaries at Home 187 Chapter 10 Frenemies and Family Critics 209 Chapter 11 "Sick Days" and Other Setbacks 229 Conclusion 249

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