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Summary: Heart warming forgiveness
Review: Dwight Webb's book is inspirational! His journey through grief and anger to let go and know love again is important for anyone dealing with separation and loss recovery.I like Dwight's refreshing, humanistic, and Eastern approach of letting go of resentments and anger. It is ironic that when we most need closeness, we are not open to the healing love provides. By seeing the trap we set for ourselves by staying stuck with bitterness, recovery starts with acceptance. We learn that our lives can be healthy that there is a path to regaining our joy and developing new relationships. Just take one of Dwight's 50 ways! I recommend this book for anyone looking to leave their pain behind and start anew!
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Summary: Heart warming forgiveness
Review: Dwight Webb's book is inspirational! His journey through grief and anger to let go and know love again is important for anyone dealing with separation and loss recovery. I like Dwight's refreshing, humanistic, and Eastern approach of letting go of resentments and anger. It is ironic that when we most need closeness, we are not open to the healing love provides. By seeing the trap we set for ourselves by staying stuck with bitterness, recovery starts with acceptance. We learn that our lives can be healthy that there is a path to regaining our joy and developing new relationships. Just take one of Dwight's 50 ways! I recommend this book for anyone looking to leave their pain behind and start anew!
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Summary: I'm ok, you're ok b.s. from a sketchy author
Review: This author is a 47 year old man, psychologist and writer, who was married with 4 children, and who abandonned his family for a "free spirited 32 year old woman," "Sally," who he began seeing before his own divorce was even final. (I know, because he details his own experience in the book.) After some time, Sally left, apparently from the unpleasantness of having 4 children and the community at large seeing her as the "other woman" and "homewrecker," and also because she gave up her career and basically everything in her life to live with the author Dwight Webb, who, from his descriptions, wasn't too sensitive to her growing resentment and dissatisfaction.
He's ok with it now that he met someone new, "Leslie," but before meeting Leslie he was pretty sad, then angry, and quite frankly shocked! They'd been so optimistic together. Once they danced in the kitchen, they had such a spiritual connection, they shared what he calls their "sunshine faith" positive view of the future.
Anyway, it's hard to take breakup advice from a man who you stop respecting from page 1, because he seems like a such a flake with respect to responsibilities and he uses his psychobabble to rationalize anything whatsoever. The point of this book is basically, "I'm ok, you're ok," "Feel your grief!", and "Everyone is special," mixed in with opportunities for him to vent about his own breakup.
The "Rebuilding" series of books is better, as the authors are experts with 30 years experience in helping people get over their divorces, although they are a little heavy on advertising their own divorce seminars. If you want to know what went wrong, John Gottman's books on marriage are also good, as he also has many years of academic experience researching why marriages succeed or fail in a quantitative way. Finally, just to make one feel better, the book "How to Survive the Loss of Love" is pretty good. It has poetry. It's sweet.
I myself just had a terrible breakup and ordered every book on Amazon that could help me get through it. It helped somewhat, but nothing beats professional counseling, really being proactive in trying to understand your responsibility and trying to prevent making the same mistakes in the future, and finally a whole lot of... dreadful... terrible.... time.
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