1. Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk About the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin A compilation of essays by older women who were dumped and write about it with unflinching honesty. There is also a section by experts that is extremely helpful and enlightening. |
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2. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman by Nora Ephron The inimitable Nora Ephron writes about being an aging woman in our looks-obsessed society. A fun read. |
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3. Split: A Memoir of Divorce by Suzanne Finnamore A brilliantly written memoir about being cheated on and dumped. It is incredibly honest, funny, poetic, and totally avoids cliche. |
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4. How to Heal the Hurt by Hating by Anita LibertyAs the author explains it: “My boyfriend Mitchell, whom I dated for three and a half years, left me for a woman named Heather. To get even, I have devoted my entire career to humiliating him in public.” Truly hysterical. |
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5. How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over by Theo Pauline NestorA wonderful memoir of the author’s divorce and an exploration of her own family’s legacy of divorce. |
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6. The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire by Noelle Oxenhandler After her divorce, the author launched a year’s experiment into wishing for waht she really wanted. Both a scholarly exploration into wishing and a personal quest, this book is inspiring and a lot of fun to read. |
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7. Chosen Forever: A Memoir by Susan Richards After writing her bestseller Chosen by a Horse, Richards, fifty-five and long divorced, meets the great love of her life on her book tour. A delightful story of finding love late in life. |
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8. Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce edited by Caitlin Shetterly A collection of fictional stories about divorce by famous authors including John Cheever and Alice Munro. |
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9. Breaking Apart: A Memoir of Divorce by Wendy Swallow Swallow writes movingly about the shock of divorce, winding up in reduced circumstances, and having to share custody of her two young sons. |
Did a particular book help you through your divorce? Recommend it below!
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Hi, Lisa: I will most certainly share my story of a billboard when I do it, LOL, LOL....After 36 years of abusive marriage, a childhood of abuse, and a church who "trashed" me, I am more than ready for a healthy relationship.
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The pain certainly didn't feel good to me. Understanding why we are the way we are is a good thing. When I was 12 I got food poisioning..Ecoli..my Dad had planned a fishing trip for months..my Mom told him I was too sick to go..he said she has ruined
I hope you like the results you get. I am still using it since this original post from a couple of months ago. I am quite pleased. I have tried & discarded enough cosmetics to stock a small store. LOL
take life as it comes, love must be real, you cannot force a couple to stay with you, it hurts but time heals all wounds, I am sure.
take life as it comes, love must be real, you cannot force a couple to stay with you, it hurts but time heals all wounds, I am sure.
I am in the midst of this right now. Sometimes clinging to hope that life will be like it used to, but mostly trying to move on and learn to be happy by myself. Thirty years is a long time with one person, I was shocked when he said he wan’t happy anymore. Maybe I wasn’t happy too, and maybe I was “settling”, but I will work on myself since I cannot work on “we”. I will definitely find one of these books to read and hope that it helps me heal.
I need to find a new job, take a class and keep moving, both figureatively and physically.
For those of you going through a difficult divorce, please consider my memoir, Bastard Husband: A Love Story. It’s received 26 five-star reviews on Amazon (some from people I actually don’t know!) and it’s now available on Kindle for $2.99. I’ve had a great response, though with a title like that, you can expect a good amount of swearing. But alas, no sex…
Here’s some text from the back cover:
A week after I arrived in Sin City, I attended a divorce support group I found in the local newspaper listed between Cross-Dressers of Las Vegas and Friends and Family of Incarcerated People. (And I thought I had problems.) As I sat among a circle of strangers waiting for my turn to share, I glanced at the Absolutely No Swearing sign hanging from the ceiling and thought, “This will be a challenge.
“I’m Linda,” I began, “I have no husband, no job, and you people are my only friends.” Everyone laughed at my pathetic truth.
Bastard Husband: A Love Story is an autobiographical account of the author’s first year alone in Las Vegas following a midlife divorce. Balancing poignancy and edgy humor, Linda Lou reflects on the troubled relationship that prompted this story and leads readers through a hodgepodge of emotions as vast as a Vegas buffet–from the sadness of a failed union and the questioning of her spiritual convictions to the thrill of exploring the Vegas neon nightlife and the triumph of performing stand-up comedy for the first time at age 46.
Newly divorced, the book that was my bible, the one I read so many times I can’t count is “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Highly recommend it to anyone going through a split.
Favorite divorce movies have been (both Nancy Myers) “Something’s Gotta Give” and “It’s Complicated.”