i really enjoyed the first story in this collection but any of the others i read so far couldn’t really keep me interested or entertained. 

mostly because Kaling spends a bit too much time complaining about things that she thinks about and are not actually happening - so why complain about it? 

be it that what she talked about in this story when other women talk/complain to her about their husbands in some form and Kaling takes that as them basically rubbing their relationship into her face.
i don’t know the specific situations but i think that speaks a bit more about Kaling herself than the women she talks rather dismissingly and negatively about. 

or basically the entire list the rest of the story is when she shares when it why she would like a husband or when she’s happy to not have one. and the entire while i read those moments i thought: does she want a partner or a person to boss around, nod along and be her escape hatch from situations she’s not completely comfortable in? 
is that really why people are in relationships and marriage for? 

mhm. 

for me this entire story read like one big complain about how she simultaneously complains about wanting and not wanting a husband in ways that makes me thing she isn’t happy with what she had for some reason. 

clearly not my kind of read but not everything has to be. 
i do prefer the more positive view and not talking down especially at women that didn’t do anything wrong.