After the Breakup: Women Sort Through the Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities [Paperback]

Angela Watrous (Author), Carole Honeychurch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

Even for strong and independent women, the emotional slips and slides of a relationship's end can be a huge challenge. Not everyone around you recognizes the pain that you're in and the cookie-cutter advice of conventional divorce literature flat-out misses the mark. A diverse sample of straight, lesbian, and bisexual women of all ages speak out about what really happens when couplehood ends, sharing what it takes to emerge both wiser and stronger.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572241764
• ISBN-13: 978-1572241763
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,726,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have for Surviving a Breakup, March 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: After the Breakup: Women Sort Through the Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities (Paperback)

This book was a life-saver for me. I would highly recommend it to anyone going through a painful breakup. I bought a bunch of self-help books when my breakup happened, and this was far and away the most helpful, insightful, comforting book of all. The authors did a wonderful job with interviewing a wide array of women going through the same pain. When you feel like the only one in the world feeling the way you do, it's great to know that you're not alone. This is one of the most helpful books I've ever read. Buy it, read it, and feel like you'll actually survive the breakup.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a lifesaver, July 10, 2001

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C.M. (Irving, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After the Breakup: Women Sort Through the Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities (Paperback)

Just a few pages into this book, I felt instantly better. It's not that you forget all the pain you've been through dealing with your breakup, it's just that reading about all these women dealing with the same pain, emptiness, loneliness and confusion makes you instantly feel less pain, emptiness, loneliness and confusion. Especially wonderful about this book is that it deals with male/female and female/female relationships, the latter relationship one that most books overlook. I've recommended it to many of my broken-hearted friends.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends, January 18, 2000

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This review is from: After the Breakup: Women Sort Through the Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities (Paperback)

After the Breakup is full to bursting with great commisseration and advice from women going through breakups. If you are or ever have been going through a breakup and have asked yourself, "Am I the only one feeling this way?", this book is for you! Although my breakup was a year ago, when a friend shared this book with me recently I really dug it. It's such a relief to hear the strong, and sometimes scared, voices of other women going through the same craziness. Breaking up can feel very alienating and lonely. After the Breakup provides a chorus of affirmation.