Synopsis
In Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay, psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum shows how to diagnose your situation with a careful line of questions and self-analysis that illuminates every part of your relationship: How well do you and your partner really communicate? Who has the power over whom? What is your sex life really like, and how important is it compared to other aspects of life together? What do your partner and you agree on, and where do you oppose each other? What are your partner's problems, and what are your own? What sins are forgivable and what ones unpardonable? What will you gain if you go off on your own, and what will you lose? Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable? Is your vision of a fresh start by yourself realistic or a pipe dream?
Along with carefully worked out questions, Mira Kirshenbaum provides in-depth guidelines as the key to making your decisions. This remarkably insightful and probing guide - filled with actual case studies - offers sensible, sane, and reliable advice that not only helps readers in their search for the truth about their relationships, it gives them the ability and the basis to make one of life's most important decisions.
Review
Brilliant. Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report
A powerful self-help resource for anyone caught in a web of relationship distress Excellent. Christopher L. Hayes, author of Our Turn: Women Who Triumph in the Face of Divorce
Few have written with such common sense and clarity about how to come out of the trap of ambivalence in marriage. I ve recommended the book to colleagues and clients. Cloe Madanes, co-founder, The Family Therapy Institute
A wise, compassionate, and very readable book. It will bless many lives. Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Kirshenbaum s expertise allows her to pinpoint the pertinent questions . And threaded through the book, which is written in a sympathetic, chatty, accessible style, are validating anecdotes that dramatize how other people have experienced and responded to the same problems the reader is going through. Publishers Weekly
Braving her detailed questions about power, betrayal, communication, respect, intimacy, and love can transform the frustration of being stuck into a decision that feels right. Booklist
Packed with meaty case histories. New York Daily News
No fairy dust here, but a real chance for healing what Kirshenbaum calls the pain and waste of relationship ambivalence. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Interesting reading and helpful in the way a good therapist can be helpful by asking the right questions, by clarifying the answers. Olga Silverstein, family therapist, author of The Courage to Raise Good Men"
"Brilliant."--Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report
"A powerful self-help resource for anyone caught in a web of relationship distress... Excellent."--Christopher L. Hayes, author of Our Turn: Women Who Triumph in the Face of Divorce
"Few have written with such common sense and clarity about how to come out of the trap of ambivalence in marriage. I've recommended the book to colleagues and clients."--Cloe Madanes, co-founder, The Family Therapy Institute
"A wise, compassionate, and very readable book. It will bless many lives."--Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
"Kirshenbaum's expertise allows her to pinpoint the pertinent questions.... And threaded through the book, which is written in a sympathetic, chatty, accessible style, are validating anecdotes that dramatize how other people have experienced and responded to the same problems the reader is going through."--Publishers Weekly
"Braving her detailed questions about power, betrayal, communication, respect, intimacy, and love can transform the frustration of being stuck into a decision that feels right."--Booklist
"Packed with meaty case histories."--New York Daily News
"No fairy dust here, but a real chance for healing what Kirshenbaum calls 'the pain and waste of relationship ambivalence.'"--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Interesting reading and helpful in the way a good therapist can be helpful--by asking the right questions, by clarifying the answers."--Olga Silverstein, family therapist, author of The Courage to Raise Good Men
-Brilliant.---Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report
-A powerful self-help resource for anyone caught in a web of relationship distress... Excellent.---Christopher L. Hayes, author of Our Turn: Women Who Triumph in the Face of Divorce
-Few have written with such common sense and clarity about how to come out of the trap of ambivalence in marriage. I've recommended the book to colleagues and clients.---Cloe Madanes, co-founder, The Family Therapy Institute
-A wise, compassionate, and very readable book. It will bless many lives.---Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
-Kirshenbaum's expertise allows her to pinpoint the pertinent questions.... And threaded through the book, which is written in a sympathetic, chatty, accessible style, are validating anecdotes that dramatize how other people have experienced and responded to the same problems the reader is going through.---Publishers Weekly
-Braving her detailed questions about power, betrayal, communication, respect, intimacy, and love can transform the frustration of being stuck into a decision that feels right.---Booklist
-Packed with meaty case histories.---New York Daily News
-No fairy dust here, but a real chance for healing what Kirshenbaum calls 'the pain and waste of relationship ambivalence.'---Minneapolis Star Tribune
-Interesting reading and helpful in the way a good therapist can be helpful--by asking the right questions, by clarifying the answers.---Olga Silverstein, family therapist, author of The Courage to Raise Good Men
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