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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
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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.
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