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How to know if it's time to go : a 10-step reality test for your marriage
Birnbach, Lawrence
Adult Nonfiction 306.89 B 2010
Birnbach, Lawrence
Adult Nonfiction 306.89 B 2010
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Is This Me? | p. xi |
| Part 1 - The Unhappy Marriage | |
| Chapter 1 - Defining the Unhappy Marriage | p. 3 |
| Step 1 - Determine-Is my marriage unhappy? How unhappy am I? | |
| Chapter 2 - The Marriage Bill of Rights | p. 17 |
| Chapter 3 - How Parenting Falters | p. 21 |
| Step 2 - Ask yourself-Is our parenting faltering? | |
| Chapter 4 - How Children Falter | p. 34 |
| Step 3 - Look at your children right now-Is your unhappy family affecting their school performance, behavior, and self-esteem? | |
| Chapter 5 - How Sex and Intimacy Falter | p. 43 |
| Step 4 - Face the truth-What is the quality of our sexual and intimate life? | |
| Chapter 6 - How Physical and Mental Health Falter | p. 55 |
| Step 5 - Assess-Is marital stress affecting my physical and mental health? My children's? My spouse's? | |
| Part 2 - Myths about Divorce | |
| Chapter 7 - How Bias Shapes Your Thinking | p. 66 |
| Step 6 - Take an inventory-What are my fears about separating and divorcing? What stigma and shame do I fear from my family, friends, religion, and community? | |
| Chapter 8 - Divorce Versus the Unhappy Marriage | p. 87 |
| Chapter 9 - The Transition Period | p. 91 |
| Part 3 - Truths about-Divorce | |
| Chapter 10 - Divorce for the Sake of the Children | p. 96 |
| Step 7 - Evaluate realistically-If I divorce, what do I fear will happen to my children? Will I lose them? Can I accept not seeing them every day? | |
| Chapter 11 - Children's Self-Esteem | p. 102 |
| Chapter 12 - Impact on Adolescents and Young Adults | p. 110 |
| Chapter 13 - Growth of Empathy in Adolescents and Young Adults | p. 116 |
| Chapter 14 - How Men and Women Grow | p. 120 |
| Chapter 15 - Divorce and Finances | p. 133 |
| Step 8 - Face your fears-What financial repercussions of separation and divorce frighten me? | |
| Chapter 16 - The Real Damage | p. 146 |
| Part 4 - Knowing When It's Time to Go | |
| Chapter 17 - Rescued Marriages: Exhausting Every Remedy | p. 158 |
| Step 9 - Take another inventory-Have I exhausted every remedy to heal my marriage? Do I have any realistic hope? What am I waiting for? | |
| Chapter 18 - The Tipping Point | p. 171 |
| Chapter 19 - Making Your Plan | p. 182 |
| Step 10 - Decide-What's my plan? | |
| Appendices | p. 187 |
| The Marriage Test | p. 187 |
| Selected Annotated Bibliography | p. 195 |
| Index | p. 205 |
| About the Authors | p. 210 |
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