The New Creative Divorce: How to Create a Happier, More Rewarding Life During--And After--Your Divorce [Paperback]

Mel Krantzler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

Living through a divorce can be one of the most traumatic and disruptive events you'll ever experience. However, divorce can provide an opportunity to create a new life -- one that you'll find more satisfying and more rewarding.

In The New Creative Divorce, the nation's leading divorce counselors show readers how to turn their personal pain into positive growth -- how to:
-- Tell what went wrong in your marriage -- and not make the same mistakes again
-- Move past blame to focus on the positive changes you can make
-- Make sure you keep a strong relationship with your kids

The New Creative Divorce not only offers a spirited defense of divorce as being the best solution for specific problem marriages, but it also shows readers how they can make the experience as positive and creative a part of their lives as possible. It is profoundly realistic and hopeful.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580621740
• ISBN-13: 978-1580621748
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,823,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Divorce Is About You, Not About "What Your Ex- Did", March 4, 2006

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M. Neff "bookman" (Portsmouth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Creative Divorce: How to Create a Happier, More Rewarding Life During--And After--Your Divorce (Paperback)

So you've been dumped. That means the divorce is all his/her fault, right? Wrong! Being dumped means you've got an opportunity to grow and be happy in a new relationship with someone who actually loves you.

This is a book about getting over it!!!

Creative Divorce also gets into creating a relationship with your ex- that isn't toxic. For children, parents who can talk civilly is critical. For you, getting over the divorce is critical, too, because playing the injured victim is just too time-consuming.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much useful information here, September 29, 2003

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Paul Skinner (Manassas, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Creative Divorce: How to Create a Happier, More Rewarding Life During--And After--Your Divorce (Paperback)

If you want to believe you and your spouse share a 50/50 split in the "blame" for your marriage breaking up, then this is the book for you. Most people are not in that situation, however. In almost 80% of all divorces, one party is dumping the other, and the dumpee is the one seeking guidance from books like this - but this book doesn't help the typical dumpee.

About the only thing I thought was worth understanding from this book is that the best way of "getting even" is living well. But is "getting even" the goal? Seems shallow to me.