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Summary: Amazingly helpful!
Review: I bought this book about 5 months after my breakup with my ex. I was dealing with it very badly and needed some comfort, support, and, most importantly, information about what was going on. This book provided all of that and more. In addition to being a great book for dealing with the loss of a relationship, it also gives great advice on how to know if you need to break up, how to make future relationships work, and how to "move on". I found this book so helpful that I bought copies for a number of friends as gifts. Even if you aren't going through a breakup, this book is interesting and very insightful. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Amazingly helpful!
Review: I bought this book about 5 months after my breakup with my ex. I was dealing with it very badly and needed some comfort, support, and, most importantly, information about what was going on. This book provided all of that and more. In addition to being a great book for dealing with the loss of a relationship, it also gives great advice on how to know if you need to break up, how to make future relationships work, and how to "move on". I found this book so helpful that I bought copies for a number of friends as gifts. Even if you aren't going through a breakup, this book is interesting and very insightful. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A way to understand and accept what is going on
Review: I was in a relationship for two years where it was all to unhealthy and it broke up after too many hurts. All I knew was that I didn't want to to be bitter, at me, at him, at two years, at love. I was left wanting and unsure of almost everything. Who I was, where did I go wrong, what part of myself did I let go of, how can I be whole again. I read this book over two weeks, somewhat deliberately slow so I can think about me as I read it. Some parts didn't help me quite so much but allowed me to understand human nature and a little bit of gay culture. The other parts left me with a place to build from. It wasn't a simple how to book, it was written in a very down to earth way... a way that I felt related to yet look clearly at the situation. If you want a book about how to perfectly do rebound relationships then this isn't it. It isn't either one that makes itself feel too serious that you feel like your forcing yourself to read. It helped me immensly. I would recommend it to anyone how is in a dependant relationship, how has left a relationship, who was left. The book was written towards gay man/man relationships but I felt it would help anyone who looks beyond that superficiality. If nothing else the chapters that explained the cycle of grieving/loss are indespensible. I would recommend this book in some degree to someone who has lost someone through death, though it isn't written for that. I can't imagine how differant things would have turned out if I didn't find this book, but it helped me... very much.
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Summary: A way to understand and accept what is going on
Review: I was in a relationship for two years where it was all to unhealthy and it broke up after too many hurts. All I knew was that I didn't want to to be bitter, at me, at him, at two years, at love. I was left wanting and unsure of almost everything. Who I was, where did I go wrong, what part of myself did I let go of, how can I be whole again. I read this book over two weeks, somewhat deliberately slow so I can think about me as I read it. Some parts didn't help me quite so much but allowed me to understand human nature and a little bit of gay culture. The other parts left me with a place to build from. It wasn't a simple how to book, it was written in a very down to earth way... a way that I felt related to yet look clearly at the situation. If you want a book about how to perfectly do rebound relationships then this isn't it. It isn't either one that makes itself feel too serious that you feel like your forcing yourself to read. It helped me immensly. I would recommend it to anyone how is in a dependant relationship, how has left a relationship, who was left. The book was written towards gay man/man relationships but I felt it would help anyone who looks beyond that superficiality. If nothing else the chapters that explained the cycle of grieving/loss are indespensible. I would recommend this book in some degree to someone who has lost someone through death, though it isn't written for that. I can't imagine how differant things would have turned out if I didn't find this book, but it helped me... very much.
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Summary: Helpful, but written in irritating style
Review: MR. HAZEL DOES NOT EQUIVOCATE. HE WROTE THIS BOOK IN PART TO HEAL HIS OWN HURT. AS A THERAPIST IT IS ALWAYS PAINFUL TO SEE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING SUFFERING FROM PSYCHIC PAIN ESPECIALLY WHEN SUCH SUFFERING CAN BE REMEDIED. I HOPE MANY WILL READ "MOVING ON", AND TAKE THE TOUR THROUGH PAIN TOWARD RECOVCERY AND GROWTH THAT IT OFFERS. AND IF THEY NEED SOME HELP WITH THE PROCESS I HOPE THEY HAVE THE GOOD FORTUNE TO FIND A THERAPIST AS COMMITTED TO HEALING AS DANN HAZEL APPEARS TO BE. I THANK MR. HJAZEL FOR HIS BOOK AND FOR PACKING SO MUCH USEFU9L INFORMATION INTO LESS THAN 300PAGES.
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Summary: Helpful, but written in irritating style
Review: The most useful aspect of Dann Hazel's book is his many individual testimonies. I am trying to deal with a long-term relationship that has suddenly turned very long-distance. I found the testimonies he recounts very helpful in giving a sense of the endless variety of arrangements and issues that couples deal with. This widened my ideas of what's possible and acceptable. His sections on dealing with being alone have helped me deal with suddenly living alone, while my partner is in another country for a year. But I found his exercises after each chapter superficial, and his habit of always talking in terms of "we", rather than "I", "you," or "they," as appropriate became so irritating I almost didn't read the book.
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