I Married Dr. Jekyll and Woke Up Mrs. Hyde : or What Happens to Love?

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: A wonderful book that showcases women's points of views of what happened to their marriages. Great conclusions. Dr. Bond does a great job of having each woman have her input and have their answers to her lengthy questionnaire shown. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic
Review: A wonderful book that showcases women's points of views of what happened to their marriages. Great conclusions. Dr. Bond does a great job of having each woman have her input and have their answers to her lengthy questionnaire shown. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Great self-help book
Review: Anyone who knows me understands that I seldom read non-fiction. The few non-fiction books I accept for my book review site are reviewed by my other reviewers. However, the title of this one was so unexpected that I found myself giving it a second glance, then a third, and a fourth. Curiosity being a weakness of mine, I opened it. I only wanted to convince myself that, to me, it would be boring. This would put an end to all my curiosities and I could get someone else to review it. Instead, I found myself reading the first page and never putting the book down except to grab a soda.

Dr. Alma Halbert Bond seems to share my weakness. She wanted to know why one out of every two marriages ended with divorce. Did the divorced women love their husbands when they married them? Did they marry because they were "a couple" and family or friends expected them to? Did society press them into it? Did they marry someone like their parents for security instead of love? Was there a connection between an unhappy childhood and a failed marriage? Dr. Bond interviewed 71 divorced women for answers!

The book is broken down to several categories and each have sub-categories. Dr. Bond covers:

The Physical Abusers, The Verbal Abusers, The Withholders, The Need For Space, The Unfaithful, The Abandoned Ones, The Homosexuals, Married For The Wrong Reasons, The Narcissists, He Changed After We Married, The Control Freaks, and The Good Marriage.

All her findings are within these pages! Using her experience of 30 years in psychoanalytic practice, Dr. Bond created a book that people (men or women) should read if they have been divorced, considering divorce, having problems in their marriage, or about to marry!

I proudly submit this book to my viewers and consider it to be highly recommended reading!

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Summary: Interprets complex psychological issues
Review: In I Married Dr. Jekyll And Woke Up Mrs. Hyde, Alma Bond draws upon her many years as a psychoanalyst to address the issue of why one marriage out of two ends in divorce in present day America. Basing her "reader friendly" text upon seventy-one insightful interviews with divorced women, Dr. Bond reveals the sometimes quite surprising results in her search for answers to such questions as did the women love their husbands when they married, did they believe at the time that it was a permanent union, were there other lovers in the lives of the couple at the time of the divorce, is there a connection between unhappy childhoods and failed marriages, do women tend to lose their identities in marriage, did divorce fit into the pattern of these women's lives. Recommended reading for both marriage counseling professionals as well as interested non-specialist general readers, I Married Dr. Jekyll And Woke Up Mrs. Hyde interprets complex psychological issues and offers invaluable insights and engaging commentary.

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Summary: A Powerful Volume of Women's Words
Review: Or What Happens to Love? What can wrench apart a seemingly destined union? Why do so many marriages fail? What can we learn from the experiences of others about our own marriages? What questions would you ask of your divorced friends to find out why they think their marriages ended.

Dr. Bond put out a Divorce Questionnaire & women in droves told their stories which she presents without comment.

In my eInterview Dr. Bond answers a number of my questions which came up as I read each woman's story. This is not an easy book to read - the voices of the women vibrate from the pages in a rainbow of emotions - fury, sorrow - wry appraisal - wise hindsight - petulance & glee!

I was praying Dr. Bond would give us some Conclusions & she does, both statistical & thoughtful with Appendixes in which she reprints the Divorce Questionnaire that started it all - it was an eyeopener to answer those questions myself!

Not for the faint-hearted or for men - they'll get so wounded & angry! It's not to hurt the men that these women spoke - rather it is to heal their own wounds!