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The Healing Power of Love: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love

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I bought Lintermans book merely to validate my own thoughts and principles. Much to my surprise her research, personal interviews and creativity not only validated my feelings about "dating" after my loss but expanded my views on the whole proposition of building a new, and I might add, exciting relationship. So to my friends and family I now say "believe it or not" I have a new and loving person in my life and it's O.K.!

One of the many steps to recovery after the death of a spouse is recognizing some of the positives the future may hold. For some, this may include the possibility of one day forming a new love relationship. This book takes the reader through twelve real-life stories of people who did just that. Each story includes the perspectives of the two partners and that of the authors, and deals with issues of fear, accommodating ongoing love and grief for the deceased spouse, creating a working format for a new relationship, and coming to enjoy a new phase of life. There's no panacea for the pain of losing a spouse, but perhaps the most important message in this book is that, when it becomes possible again, it's wise to live in the present and to be open to new sources of fulfillment.

The authors not only help you see that life goes on, but that it can continue with new love and happiness after a loss. How do you find love again after a long marriage has ended? The answers are here, as author Lintermans shines the light on the complexities and joys of again saying "yes" to love.

Gloria Lintermans and Dr. Marilyn Stolzman score again with a book focusing on renewal of physical, emotional and spiritual energy after the death of a loved one. Offers help in developing necessary lifestyle readjustments, enabling reconnection in a loving relationship. Positive and uplifting.

This book was very insightful in knowing where to go with our relationship and dealing with adult children who feel "it's just too soon." It's amazing the parallels that can be drawn through other's experiences.

THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE

Although I recognize that I'm no where far enough along in grieving my late husband to even think about dating again or forming a new relationship with a man, this fabulous book sure gives me hope for the future. I thought that only youngish widows find love again, but the couples in this treasure of a book range from their late forties to mid-eighties! Bravo to each of them for having the guts to once again embrace life and love.

Co-authored by Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stolzman, The Healing Power Of Love: Transcending The Loss Of A Spouse To New Love is a sensitive guide through difficulties often associated with losing one love and eventually gaining another. Deftly compiling twelve inspirational stories about new and loving relationships following the loss of a beloved spouse or partner, The Healing Power Of Love provides readers with the power of transition and a gentle guidance to finding and fully loving another as illustrated by heartwarming intimacy, situational assessment, and life-affirming truths helping to realize our emotional self-fulfillment. The Healing Power Of Love is very strongly recommended for its intimate and exemplary stories illustrating how a new love can heal the painful loss of an old one. Also very highly recommended from Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stolzman is The Healing Power Of Grief (1932783-482, $16.00, Champion Press).

Through the effective use of a she said/he said format, Lintermans and Stolzman provide anecdotal evidence that there is life after the death of a spouse or life partner. They investigate the connection and rebirth of twelve couples, each of whom had gone through the loss of a spouse or life partner, and show how each person found their way back to life and healing through the power of new love.

After reading The Healing Power of Grief by the same authors I was hopeful that this book would help me throough the process of going forward with a new and meaningful relationship. And yes, I know I too will find an enriching life as I came to understand, while turning the pages of this "healing" book. Thank you, once again to the authors.

Anyone who is still reeling from the loss of a spouse, yet sees the hopeful potential of loving again will find welcome support and validation in this book. This collection of personal stories does a beautiful job of helping widows, widowers and their family members to deal with the sometimes uncomfortable or unwelcome subject of moving on to a life with a new love. Lintermans offers hope, support and validation with her trademark warmth, open-mindedness and wisdom.