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Anna Marie Tendler knows men have called her crazy
“I wish I could tell you that things would be better in 10 years,” Anna Marie Tendler tells me over Zoom.
It’s a week before the release of her debut memoir, “Men Have Called Her Crazy,” and after I congratulated her and told her that her stories of career indecision, dating troubles and mental health struggles resonated with me as a woman in her mid-20s, she was quick to rebut the contemporary assurances that “your 30s are the best years of your life.”
“I just find it, as a person, challenging to navigate life on a day-to-day basis — emotionally and mentally,” she says. “I’m a very emotional person, and I think when you start to let go of some of that emotion, when you learn to deal with sadness, when you learn to not run away from things, when you learn to really wrestle with your emotions and your feelings and the things that are happening to you or the things that are happening in the world, it’s not easy.”
