This book is written to all woman everywhere who are struggling to recover from the trauma of divorce, whether they went through it last week, last year, or a decade or two ago. It is not a book about going through divorce - although much that we will explore will be helpful to those who are in the midst of a divorce, or even contemplating it. It is not about helping children adjust to divorce - athough, again, it offers much concrete guidance on this subject. And it is not a book about how to live a single life - though it definitely contains fundamental information about that. Rather, the subject of this book is completing divorce - laying it to rest permanently and then moving on - no matter when the divorce itself took place. My goal, quite simply, is to help "ex-wives" wipe that label from their vocabularies forever and transform themselves into autonomous women deeply engaged in the business of living their lives - who happen to have been divorced some time in the past. -- from the introduction





