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WHEN YOUR LONG-TERM MARRIAGE ENDS
Elaine Newell Paper, $14.95 144 pages, 6” x 9” ISBN 0-89390-291-8 |
When Your Long-Term Marriage Ends focuses on recovery for women who “grew up” with their husbands, raised a family together—then suddenly found themselves alone. Elaine Newell, who divorced after 31 years of marriage, shares how she faced and eventually overcame her fears, and she explains the 10 phases of recovery: accepting responsibility; getting help; dealing with anger; taking charge; learning the difference between being “alone” and being “lonely”; understanding the close relationship between love and hate; being good to yourself, being good to him; dating, mating and relating; leaving with love, forgiving; and realizing the new you. Each chapter includes exercises to help readers identify and “discuss” — journal style — their feelings around each phase of recovery.
Reviews
“When Your Long-Term Marriage Ends is a valuable tool that
I highly recommend to those ... clients and friends who are in the process of
leaving a lifetime relationship. ... This resource is psychologically sound,
spiritually significant and very practical.”
— Carol M. Virostek, M.A., LMHC, CADAC, counselor and
psychotherapist
“[Newell] gives the reader space to process her own stuff. ... The
questions at the end of each chapter provide a guide for focusing on the
important issues that rise up throughout the stages of divorce
recovery.”
— Barbara Shlemon Ryan, author of Healing the Wounds of
Divorce, founding member of the Association of Christian Therapists and
president of Be-Loved Ministry
About the Author
Elaine Newell has a degree in journalism and is a student of metaphysics and psychology. She writers and lectures on spirituality.