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The Things I Broke Trying To Love
Paperback
Series: Trying to Love, Book 1
Publisher Price: $10.99
ISBN13: 9781067859404
Publisher: Vargrove Ashtree Publishing
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Maybe being a man is not about never breaking. Maybe it is about learning what to do with the pieces.
- The Things I Broke Trying To Love
The Things I Broke Trying To Love is a raw and honest collection of poems about grief, fatherhood, heartbreak, anger, and the long road toward becoming better.
After losing his father on Christmas, watching his son fight for his life in the NICU, and facing the collapse of a love he could not hold onto, James Vargrove writes from the wreckage of a life changed by loss. These poems speak to the parts of a man that break quietly-the regret, the rage, the mistakes, and the love that stays even when everything else falls apart.
This book is not about being perfect.
It is about admitting the damage.
It is about loving badly, grieving badly, breaking badly-and still choosing to grow.
For anyone who has lost someone, loved too hard, hurt people they never meant to hurt, or stood in the ruins of themselves wondering if they could still become better, this collection is a reminder that even broken men can keep walking toward the light.
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