The "She" Guide to Breaking Up and Starting Over

by Christina Koning (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $12.63

  The She Guide to Breaking Up and Starting Over offers an accessible up-to-date handbook about how to cope with all aspects of separation and divorce, from the moment the couple decides to split, through the crucial stage of telling other people, to the legal formalities and then finally learning to be single again. The author begins by looking at why relationships fail and what kind of people get divorced. Drawing on first-person accounts of a range of different experiences (eg. professional couples in their twenties without children; couples in their late twenties/early thirties with young children; couples age 35+ with older children etc), she offers practical advice on how to come to terms with the painful decision to part, how to deal with the reactions of friends and family and, of course, how to minimise the damaging effects a break-up can have on the children. Divorcing couples without children have a different set of problems, and Christina warns of what it feels like to be told you've got nothing to be upset about. While the healing process can't be rushed, The She Guide to Breaking Up and Starting Over emphasises the personal growth and positive effects of a break-up, and reveals how to make the most of being single again and how to take lessons learnt from the experience into any future relationship.