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Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such woman whose life fell apart after she reached a breaking point in her twelve-year marriage. But she refused to take part in that tired narrative and decided to flip the script on divorce.

Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity - but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters - their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs.

Ce îi determină pe oameni să calce strâmb, uneori chiar și atunci când au o căsnicie fericită? De ce doare atât de mult trădarea? Ce înseamnă, de fapt, infidelitatea? Ce așteptări avem în clipa în care ne căsătorim? Dar atunci când trădăm încrederea celui de lângă noi? Există oare căsnicii ferite pe vecie de teribilul spectru al adulterului? Poate o relație extraconjugală să salveze o căsnicie? Iată doar câteva dintre întrebările la care terapeutul Esther Perel oferă răspunsuri neașteptate și, de multe ori, în contradicție cu ceea ce majoritatea oamenilor consideră ca fiind moral.

In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-empowerment luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler have come together to start a conversation on healing after loss. Louise and David discuss the emotions and thoughts that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies.

A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement is the most comprehensive audiobook devoted entirely to relationship issues in retirement. Not a treatise on money management this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of retirement and how to make your retirement relationship happy, fruitful, loving, and successful.

The groundbreaking classic, Mom's House, Dad's House, has become the standard for two generations of divorcing parents, and includes examples, self-tests, checklists, tools, and guidelines to help separated moms and dads with the legal, emotional, and financial issues they will encounter as they work to create happy and stable homes.

When a close friend had her husband leave, I made the commitment to speak with her for 90 straight days, telling her exactly what I wished someone had told me the moment my own wife walked out. Every morning, I'd send her an email with a story from my own "hellacious" experience, giving her something inspirational to focus on and an action step to get her from heartbroken back to thriving - as fast as possible. My goal was simple - to get her just a little bit stronger each and every day, and it worked. This book is those exact letters, compiled for you, with zero punches pulled.

Join comedian Helen Thorn from The Scummy Mummies as she haphazardly takes the plunge into single life for the first time in 22 years. Helen shares her own roller-coaster journey from the initial shock of a surprise separation, the messy months hanging out in her PJs through to the highs of rediscovering online dating, tiny pants, rock-solid female friendships and the glorious joy of just being by herself.

Are you trying to co-parent with a narcissist? Stuck in a high-conflict custody battle with your narcissistic ex? You are not alone. There are problems and issues that are common with someone disordered and disorderly. Learn Grace's Super-Smart Strategies for navigating the narcissist in Family Court. It all comes down to creating solid strategies.

Es un dato conocido que prácticamente la mitad de los matrimonios termina en separación y, más desalentador aún, solo un 13% de las parejas que se mantienen juntas son realmente felices. Casi nunca la verdadera razón de estos fracasos tiene que ver con el amor. Lo que suele ocurrir es que aunque las parejas se amen, se encuentran con problemas que se suponen infranqueables o diferencias que parecen irreconciliables.

¿Por qué nuestra relación no funciona si nos queremos tanto? es la pregunta que el mismo Ricardo Cariaga se hizo muchas veces a lo largo de sus más de treinta años de matrimonio con Mónica. Luego de prácticamente toda una vida juntos, el cuestionamiento sobre si el amor era suficiente para tener una buena relación de pareja se hizo presente. ¿Qué faltaba? ¿Cuál era la verdadera razón de por qué la relación se había transformado en un ente insípido en donde casi no quedaba pasión ni complicidad? ¿Había una solución a este dilema, de tal forma que lograran tener una relación íntima, entretenida, afectiva, pasional y saludable? ¿Se podía estar conectados permanentemente?

Este libro es el relato de esa búsqueda, del largo camino de reflexión que el autor hizo para dar con lo que, en definitiva, salvaría su relación. Desde su propia experiencia personal, lecturas, los casos de los cientos de pacientes a los que atiende en su centro Vivir en Pareja, Cariaga da con un relato que, con humor y sabiduría, sin duda ayudará a todos aquellos que quieran mantener la llama encendida y ser felices en su relación de pareja.

In this intelligent and insightful book, Abigail Trafford charts the emotional journey of a breakup of a marriage, identifying the common phases in the evolution from marriage to separation to divorce, and eventually to a new life. This revised edition includes the most up-to-date research on the personal and economic effects of divorce in adults and children's lives, addresses the special challenges of becoming single again in the age of the Internet, and broadens the experience of divorce to the breakup of all committed relationships.

It’s over - and it really hurts. But as unbelievable as it may seem when you are in the throes of heartache, you can move past your breakup. Forget about trying to win your ex back. Forget about losing yourself and trying to make this person love you. Forget it! Starting today, this breakup is the best time to change your life for the better, inside and out. Getting Past Your Breakup is a proven road map for overcoming the painful end of any romantic relationship, even divorce.

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system.

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive. Laura's ex, Grant Hayes - the father of her two sons - and his wife, Amanda, the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed the finger at each other as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up her body, and then transporting and disposing of the remains on the shores of Oyster Creek, Texas.

Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next.

Zo Williams will teach you how to identify the attitudes and behaviors that have been holding you back from being your best or your happiest self. He will help you figure out what is worth keeping, what we need to stop doing, and what we need to begin doing to have a healthy relationship. Zo will demonstrate to you how to effectively end the relationship without causing irrevocable damage to yourself or your partner. In this book, you will learn that wisely executed relationship dismounts build strong foundations for future relationships.

If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel like the life you once knew is crashing down around you. You need help to gather the pieces and "rebuild" yourself from the ground up. Rebuilding features Bruce Fisher's "divorce process rebuilding blocks", a proven-effective 19-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce.

There's no doubt about it, breakups suck. But in the first few hours or days or weeks that follow, there's one important truth you need to recognize: Some things can't and shouldn't be fixed, especially that loser who dumped you or forced you to dump him.

Whether you're newly divorced or have been divorced for a long while, feelings of shame, anger, and regret can linger for months and even years. The good news is you have a choice about how you want to view your divorce experience. You have the power to reinvent divorce for yourself in a way that makes you stronger, happier, and more peaceful. If you're ready to use your divorce as a springboard to your best life, this audiobook is for you.

The realization you are getting divorced is a devastating experience. Life as you know it may be changing forever.... There is hope. You will get through this, and you will survive. Surviving Divorce is your guide to finding that hope. It will help you on your journey toward not only surviving, but thriving after your divorce.