The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
- ISBN13: 9780684873251
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Michele Weiner Davis goes beyond her marriage-saving bestseller, Divorce Busting, with this empowering and encouraging guide for revitalizing marriage and building stronger, more loving bonds. In a down-to-earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriented seven-step program for managing marital problems, which, when left unchecked, can drain the life out of a relationship. Using revealing anecdotes and in-depth case studies, she illustrates practical ways for marriage partners to
Rescue your marriage with the proven techniques of The Divorce Remedy — sound, sensible advice from a renowned relationship expert!Amazon.com Review
In the United States, half of all marriages do not end in divorce–despite the interference of hell-bent lawyers, biased therapists, the media, and even well-meaning friends. The Divorce Remedy aims to increase this percentage by offering seven clear steps that couples–or even one hopeful spouse–can implement privately. A therapist herself, relationship expert Michele Weiner Davis accurately (and often humorously) shows how typical counseling and communications tactics backfire. Her method for saving a marriage involves an effective blend of subtle and obvious action steps, each taken in specific order. After a myth-busting lecture on the realities of divorce, Weiner Davis thoroughly outlines her simple plan. Intimidating discussion topics and emotional letter writing are not required; as she succinctly puts it, “happiness is a do-it-yourself job.” Poignant questions help readers define their own needs, set specific marriage goals, and monitor results. Weiner Davis pays special attention to issues of infidelity, depression, midlife crises, and “passion meltdowns,” showing how basic relationship skills (like understanding and patience) can reverse even the most dire marital scenarios. Clients’ stories and letters provide ample testimony for the program’s success, and despite her own zealous back-patting, Weiner Davis’s sensible approach to revitalizing one’s marriage seems truly worthy of praise and practice. –Liane Thomas
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
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I think this book ruined any small chance I had of getting back together with my ex-husband who is a beloved physician in our community. I had read the reviews on Amazon and was misled into believing the advice in this book worked. It did not and (it almost landed me in jail.)
Michele told me to never give up. Well I should have. I totally humiliated myself in front of our kids.
What happened was we were not getting along and we had not had sex in years. He moved out to get space and to think. He thought we should split to protect the kids from our fights. He wound up making male and female friends which drove me bananas. I picked up Michele’s book and it all went downhill from there. And when I say downhill, I mean downhill. I went nuts.
This book made me go crazy, and in my mind every woman he knew became “OW’s” or “Other Womans”. I started stalking him screaming, “But you said ’til death do us part” and other idiotic stuff.
Because Michele told me to never give up unless my husband abused me, I went to the hospital and to his medical office to “talk”. One time I even kicked him because he would not do what I said and admit to an affair (which I later learned he was not having.)
I went to his apartment and laid on the doorbell in the middle of the night. I called up all of his women friends and called them names. I am embarrased to admit that one time I saw my ex driving with a female and swerved into the incoming lane of traffic to block them with my car. When he was at friends’ houses for get togethers, and would not return my calls, I just knocked on the door even if it was midnight and I did not know the people who lived there.
I went thru all his phone bill and started calling every number on there I did not recognize. Michele told me to fight for my marriage so I would have the peace of knowing I tried, so I dug my heels in and fought.
The list goes on and on.
Well the whole “hang on no matter what” approach backfired. My ex-husband thinks I am nuts and won’t speak to me. Fortunately he was kind enough not to get a restraining order.
Now, with the passage of time, I understand that a marraige involves two people and each of us has the right to stay in it or get out of it, without being bad people.
In my place of hurt and anger, this book justified my feelings of victimization, hindered my ability to accept responsibility for part of the failure of our marriage, and inflamed my own sense of self-righteousness and denial. In short, I was led to believe I could do no wrong because I was on the righteous path of saving my marraige.
Do yourself a favor, and just get a good therapist to help you grieve when you know it is over. This books prolongs the pain and is quite destructive in the long run.
Try Albert Ellis’ “Guide to Rational Living” instead. I mean it.
Good luck.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
I READ SOUTHERN DIVORCE AND FOUND IT TO BOTH FASCINATING AND HELPFUL. FASCINATING BECAUSE OF THE INFORMATION ABOUT SOUTHERN CULTURE. I DID NOT REALIZE THIS WAS NOT ONLY THE BIBLE BELT, BUT THE DIVORCE BELT AS WELL.THE BOOK IS HELPFUL BECAUSE OF ALL THE PRACTICAL INFORMATION IT GIVES YOU ABOUT THE DIVORCING PROCESS,FROM HOW TO HIRE A LAWYER TO HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ASSETS.I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
Save your money and re-read “Divorce Busting”. There’s not much new here.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
Save your money and re-read “Divorce Busting”. There’s not much new here.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
This is a good used book. There is some writing in the book and the book is a little frayed. It arrived very quickly.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage