Amazon.com Review
Sometimes when you look around, it seems as if the entire world is coupled up. Family, friends, that cute twosome holding hands walking down the street, everyone is either married or in a serious, committed relationship. If you're not one of those people, the world can seem a lonely place. But why is that? Why can't a person be both single
and happy?
Xavier Amador, coauthor of When Someone You Love Is Depressed, and Judith Kiersky attack this question in this clear and wonderfully written book. Using case studies and drawing on years of clinical work as psychologists and professors, the authors investigate the basis of both men and women's dissatisfaction as singles. Tracing the roots of the stigma of aloneness, they examine the obstacles that prevent singles from being content--everything from family and friends to fear and ambivalence. They then describe the four stages of being single, and finally, they give you the tools that will enable you to "be single in the present." Unlike other self-help books dealing with singledom, the goal of this book is not to get you married; it's to figure out why you're single and to help you gain balance and happiness as you are.
Whether you've never married or are divorced or widowed, whether you wish to remain single or to eventually have a meaningful relationship, this book will guide you in bypassing the "cultural scripts" that demand you need a mate to be fulfilled. The authors show that life can be great on your own. --Jenny Brown
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Dr. Judith Sills author of
Loving Men More, Needing Men Less and
Excess Baggage Amador and Kiersky offer a clear and comforting path from the anxiety and self-blame that torment singles to a self-acceptance that can open the door to love.
Terrence Real author of
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Xavier Amador and Judith Kiersky have written a splendid and overdue book. Clear, direct, full of both penetrating analysis and useful advice,
Being Single in a Couples' World reads like a road map to the soul of both marriage and singlehood.
