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Summary: New Title
Review: As a victim of divorce and reviewer of this book, I believe a better title would be "Learning to Deceive".
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Summary: Hope for those who might not be able to see any way out.
Review: I am statistic. I was an abused wife, and for a woman who lives in an abusive marriage, her life can more or less become "hell". Alot of times women put up with the situation because they do not know what their choices are, they do not know how to ask for help, or where to go to find answers. The author has laid it out in concrete ways to get women to think along the lines of their own safety and security.
This book is one that I have read and used and have bought countless times for other women who were desperately in need of getting free of a very bad marriage. I will continue to give this book to friends and family because I do believe that it is the finest I have read.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: I bought this book many years ago, when my kids where 4 and 8, I was able to plan, save, and leave a man without incidence who was abusive and threatning. I was able to leave in safety with my childen using my head and not my heart. My sons are now 17 and 21 and very happy and healthy. Since I left, I have received my Bachelors and Masters Degree and own a very successful consulting firm. I got out before my boys turned into men like their father. Thank You Lynette!
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Summary: This book saved my life!
Review: I bought this book many years ago, when my kids where 4 and 8, I was able to plan, save, and leave a man without incidence who was abusive and threatning. I was able to leave in safety with my childen using my head and not my heart. My sons are now 17 and 21 and very happy and healthy. Since I left, I have received my Bachelors and Masters Degree and own a very successful consulting firm. I got out before my boys turned into men like their father. Thank You Lynette!
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Summary: It Gave Me the Strength To Save My Sanity
Review: I first read this very straight forward, helpful book more than seventeen years ago, when I knew I had to leave my marriage in order to save my sanity and be an effective parent to my children, ages 17 and 13. The information contained in Learning To Leave, finally gave me the courage to do what was necessary to end the emotional abuse we lived with on a daily basis. This book was my guide, my strength, my power, when I felt very weak and afraid. Even after my divorce, it's messages have remained with me and enriched other areas of my life. This book is a must for anyone contemplating leaving a relationship. Read it, even if you have to do so under cover. It just may save your life!
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Summary: All I needed to make a plan and work it!
Review: I read this book a long time ago when I needed help on making my decision to leave my alcoholic husband. By reading it over and over when my resolve would weaken, I was able to go forward to a much, much better life and future. A great book to help work past the defeating behaviors that keep us locked into the victim stance.
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Summary: The best of the bunch
Review: I've read a dozen or so books on divorce in the last couple of years while trying to decide to end my marriage of 20-plus years. This one was the most helpful I found. Practical. Down to earth. Objective. Respectful. This book was genuinely helpful through months of planning and preparing for the confrontation and also for the possibility of reconciliation. It's an excellent investment of both time and money. (In the end I did effectively end my marriage--but not through divorce. My husband and I are trying to start over. I am not certain I really want to, but after reading "Learning to Leave" twice, I decided that at the very least I owe him--and myself--one more chance.)
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Summary: The book is about what to do when nothing seems to work.
Review: If there is any wisdom in the book, it was distilled from the hundreds of women who were interviewed at various stages of leaving relationships. From the hundreds of letters that we have received since it was first published in 1982, the message seems to have reached people. In short, divorce can be positive. But don't destroy yourself and those around you as you go through the process of changing your life
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: One has to assume that there is a special sauna in hell for those that author books encouraging distraught women to rationalize destroying a marriage.
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Summary: The best book on the subject -- by far
Review: The first three chapters especially got me clear on where I needed to go
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