10 signs that youre better off without him martha sullivan april 30 2020 share article copied if youre having second thoughts about leaving him but deep down in your soul you know that hes just not right for you and you would be ten times happier without him do not waste a second of your life on that guy who is definitely not worthy of having you to assure you that youre . Better off without him by dee ernst is a terrible romcom of a book about a white new jersey mother of 3 wife and romance author who gets dumped by her caricature of an unkind and cheating husband i learned the term hen lit also hen flick from this book and the fact that modern romance novels have as little to do with real sex and real life as the trashy romances of old our supposedly hilarious protagonist shes not funny just outspoken is 40 something yo not gained . After three novels and many rejection letters she self published better off without him her next book a different kind of forever was released in april of 2012 in the spring of 2013 she signed with montlake publishing which re released better off without him and launched her third title a slight change of plan that fall though dee finds a lot in common with all her heroines she is happily married and living in new jersey. Im better off without him im better off being a wild one on the road a lot had to keep it a thousand so that im better off not being around ya verse 2 go on and face it ill never be ready