Splitting Up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

Rating:
Summary: No - we're not dysfunctional!
Review: Splitting Up is more than a hip handbook for the times we live in. It should be required reading for anyone getting married for the first time or contemplating a committed relationship!

I would have to concur with Frolick - divorce today is neither a legal or therapeutic problem - it is a serious cultural issue. Respect, trust, rapport, love - here today . . . gone tomorrow. We are a consumer society and regretfully, Western society has de-personalized relationships. It is so easy, albeit very stressful, for one party to simply walk out - baggage and all, in search of greener pastures!

I truly enjoyed this book . . . I tell you it makes for a great conversation topic at any boring dinner party!

Do yourself a favour - read the book. The selected biography also lists lots of interesting books on this subject.

Rating:
Summary: No - we're not dysfunctional!
Review: Splitting Up is more than a hip handbook for the times we live in. It should be required reading for anyone getting married for the first time or contemplating a committed relationship!

I would have to concur with Frolick - divorce today is neither a legal or therapeutic problem - it is a serious cultural issue. Respect, trust, rapport, love - here today . . . gone tomorrow. We are a consumer society and regretfully, Western society has de-personalized relationships. It is so easy, albeit very stressful, for one party to simply walk out - baggage and all, in search of greener pastures!

I truly enjoyed this book . . . I tell you it makes for a great conversation topic at any boring dinner party!

Do yourself a favour - read the book. The selected biography also lists lots of interesting books on this subject.