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Til death do us part...

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There is something horribly wrong with this book. The author is a very intelligent, well respected, accomplished leader facing real life problems. I had hoped to gain insight and help in dealing with these problems. Instead I got just the opposite. As I began the book I soon became very troubled, then saddened, disheartened and dismayed by the author's ideas and actions that are delusional and destructive. When faced with alcoholic addiction, the author, without knowing it, became an "enabler". Faced with a crippling drug addiction, the author quickly became a "fixer", "manipulator" and "rescuer". Faced with an intimate relationship that has fallen apart, the author turns to reinventing the wheel rather than going back to the basics. If I continually tripped over my own feet and fell, should I seek help from a Physical Therapist on gait training, or should I reinvent gravity? All of these are unhealthy ways of addressing problems that tear a person apart. Yearly, vast numbers of people flock to the beach to escape reality. It is called a vacation. When faced with an intimate relationship that is crumbling, the author chose to run to the beach for an extended period of time to introspect, seek self counsel and find herself. I am all in favor of introspection and self searching, but when one does only this in the midst of a crisis without ongoing, competent help from an objective, knowledgeable, sensible, experienced third party, the outcome is anything but sound. It reminds me of the doctor who treats himself. He has a fool for a patient. There is no question in my mind that the author wished to portray herself in a very real manner. However, the person who emerges from these pages is perfect and innocent. She continues to be the perfectly innocent nun. Her spouse, on the other hand, emerges as an ogre. Halfway through the book I had to wonder why all this dirty laundry was being exposed so publicly and globally.

There is much religiosity in the book, but little true Christianity. What is depicted is the spiritual marketplace where one picks and chooses what feels good at the moment. What is most disturbing is that these deceptive ideas are bathed in sweetness and authenticity and will be easily accepted by the unwary. Reader beware!

I just don't understand how writing a book about how badly you were treated is suppose to HELP inspire another person who is having marriage problems. Instead of offering hope, it burdens the reader with even more doubts and insecurities. The book is also very one-sided in it's point of view, with the author playing the victim and the husband the monster. It is confusing in text and offers little real advice on how to improve your love relationship. If you really want to improve your marriage realtionship try Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and influence People" , "Don't Sweat the small stuff in Marriage" or " Courtship After Marriage" by Zig Ziglar.

When a former Catholic nuns decides to extract revenge, she does it this way: pounding endlessly on a typewriter, recalling VERBATIM every single unpleasant conversation over a six-year period. She also dredges up oceans of the most pathetic doggerel disguised as "love poems," while including page after page after page of unintelligible ramblings from her "personal journal," what is apparently a bottomless well of self-pity. While ex-husband Mark Yarnell continues to brand himself as a business "leader" who has -- for the third time -- "flunked retirement," scorned wife Rene Reid is relentlessly determined to assure that her vengeance is complete as she details his apparent addictions to alcohol, Vicodin and Methadone. Perhaps most telling about this self-indulgent exercise is the fact that no reputable publishing house took notice of her massively redundant effort so Rene Reid was forced to go the self-publishing route, a course that insured no editor would ever indicate that the book could shed at least 200 pages. What she not-so-cleverly bills as a self-help guide for others experiencing the end of a bad marriage is nothing more than an attempt at legal slander from a woman apparently determined to insure that network marketers see "the real Mark Yarnell" in an attempt to crush his future aspirations. There is no doubt that in contrast to the business leader who preaches that network marketing is "the wave of the future," Mark Yarnell is like so many others who both work hard and get lucky in MLM; a guy who goes from deal to deal (Nu-Skin, 21st Century Global, Oxyfresh, Qivana) using up what little credibility he once had to extoll today's "latest and greatest." Rene Reid conveniently avoids these negatives as that would quickly diminish her own networking reputation; a track record build solely on the fact that she piggy-backed on the success of her former partner. This book is an agonizing read containing no value whatsoever to anyone seeking answers but if you're looking for gossip and spite, you'll find it here by the truckload but only if you're willing to wade through an swamp full of lukewarm hate and disguised revenge.

As a professional who is called upon frequently to assist couples in the throes of divorce and the pain following, I make it a practice to keep abreast of the "help" books on breakup of marriages and relationships. My assessment: very few are really that helpful to me. I find them too theoretical, research based and lacking the warmth and understanding from authors who have "been there" and "done that!" Not so with this excellent helpful book by Rene Yarnell. While writing in an autobiographical mode, this author uses every major incident in her exciting life as a nun, a political figure, and a co-owner of a major networking company, to highlight the misconceptions found in our culture about break-ups of relationships, especially in marriage. Here you will find an excitingly new approach in dealing with divorce, seeing it less as failure, and more as opportunity to say "thanks" and move on to "where do I go from here?" Counselors, couples in troubled marriages, and those trying to dig out from what they consider to have been failures: here is your book. Buy it; read it; share it with others. It really could be "the first day of the rest of your life."

No Stars//////Bad airing out of the family issues and problems.The book was suppose to be targeted towards the MLM crowd, as a motivational tool,(WRONG). Book becomes more depressing than motivational the longer you read it. The author seems to want to air out personal vendettas against her former husband. Bad way to make a living off of your personal failures in a book.Just because author had multipal failed marriages is no reason to want to crusade to take the TILL DEATH DO US PART out of the marriage vows!

'Til Death Do Us Part raises the interesting questions of how long a marriage should last, and, must it be a lifetime? Author, business executive and entrepreneur Rene Reid Yarnell explores these questions and her answers in this can't-put-it-down story of her own personal experiences, and her need to find the truth.

Here is a book that has it all...interesting characters (she's a former Roman Catholic Nun who always believed in the "marriage is forever" credo, and he's a successful businessman) who entered into a successful marriage/business partnership; lots of money and all the amenities that money could buy.

'Til Death Do Us Part is not so much about what went wrong...but that it was okay that the marriage did not last forever. Ms Yarnell's message to the reader is about dealing with a breakup and understanding that it not necessarily an end, but a beginning.

Beginning? Yes, by taking the focus off blame and guilt, and placing it instead on appreciation for the love once shared. 'Til Death Do Us Part teaches us to take this experience and the resultant growth into the next chapter of our lives. "When a relationship ends, it is easy to fall into reaction mode. More than ever, this is a time to stay rooted in ourselves and not react to our partner's behavior".

'Til Death Do Us Part offers a means to reduce the sadness we feel at the end of a relationship, when we are forced to face a new beginning. Rene Reid Yarnell, in this best- seller quality book, gives the reader an understanding of how to not only cope, but to heal and grow. Indeed, like the flower cut down by the mower, to realize that a new beginning is necessary after an ending!