title: Leaving Me Behind
author: Ehrlich, Sigal
description: He was supposed to be a personal challenge. A Spanish lover – younger and sinfully attractive. A daring, wild experience for one night. My liberation from my self-oppressed lifestyle was planned out carefully down to the last detail. Everything except . . . HIM. I didn’t see it coming, not by a long shot. My plan was safe. I was going to quit my job, say goodbye to the restraints of the life I had known, and follow my dreams. I rented a house halfway across the globe in an exotic Spanish town on the coast. I made some new friends. I reveled in luscious food and a stunning landscape. Most of all I savored my new found freedom. That is until I met HIM. It was supposed to be a night of lost inhibitions, soon to become a sweet memory. That was my plan. He had something different in mind. With the spirit of change burning from every pore and a determined plan to break free from her self-oppressed lifestyle to enjoy life’s simplest pleasures, she moves half way across the globe to a peaceful Spanish coastal town. With an aim to feel whole again, liberated and happy by herself, Liv begins her journey while maintaining weekly-cyber therapy sessions with her long time, questionable shrink. As Liv finally begins to enjoy her new life and experience the varied goods the exotic country has to offer, a sudden major turn leads Liv to be swept into the most tantalizing roller coaster of her life. A turn that leaves her questioning everything she thought was right.