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Hall uses anecdotal and personal accounts of breakups, distancing and other lesser breakups, revitalizations, and splits, all to shed some measure of light and hope on the slippery slopes of relationships. Her central theme is that lesbians must reexamine the forever-after notion of romantic love and reinvent the way they tell tales of personal interactions. She claims it is not a specific act or a series of behaviors that ends relationships; it is the compromised storytelling ability of the partners. By renaming in the tale-telling, lesbians arrive at new levels of understanding and accommodation. Although the relabeling and repackaging of old woes that Hall proposes may seem to be rationalization, it may be of value, especially in the psychotherapeutic professions, though it has something of the short-term quick fix about it (an advantage in the era of managed care?). Interestingly enough, the humorous illustrations in a book for lesbians by a lesbian have been drawn by a man.
Whitney Scott
Booklist
"Hall uses anecdotal and personal accounts of breakups, distancing and other lesser breakups, revitalizations, and splits, all to shed some measure of light and hope on the slippery slopes of relationships. Her central theme is that lesbians must reexamine the forever-after notion of romantic love and reinvent the way they tell tales of personal interactions. She claims it is not a specific act ora series of behaviors that ends relationships; it is the compromised storytelling ability of the partners. By renaming in the tale-telling, lesbians arrive at new levels of understanding and accommodation. Although the re-labeling and repackaging of old woes that Hall proposes may seem to be rationalization, it may be of value, especially in the psychotherapeutic professions, though it has something of the short-term quick fix about it (an advantage in the era of managed care?). Interestingly enough, the humorous illustrations in a book for lesbians by a lesbian have been drawn by a man."
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