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It’s time to get past the idea that divorce equals failure. Sure, it may not be what you had in mind when you walked down the aisle, but if it’s the escape hatch into a better life, it should be filled with more promise. It can be celebrated.
Ask Me About My Divorce is a spicy, fun, riveting collection of essays by women from all walks of life. With the unifying thread “I got divorced, and the world came into view,” the words within will make readers laug… More >>
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
I found Ask Me About My Divorce to be helpful and enlightening. Divorce affects everyone differently and that is something everyone needs to know and understand. Those of us affected by divorce can learn and grow, not only from our divorce, but from others as well.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is full of compelling and hopeful stories – but they are almost all stories from the perspective of being in marriages that were deadening and where the woman feels a sense of freedom, whether the one left or the one leaving. These are NOT good stories for someone who has NOT wanted the divorce, who has been betrayed and shocked in the betrayal (with the exception of R M Hora’s Sita’s eyes.) None of these stories involve women who spend a year crying for what is lost, for the actual beloved husband, for the injury of lies, or betrayals. Yes there are lies and betrayals, and courageous handling of them in good stories, but not the betrayal of soul and heart. Each woman tells the story of a divorce that seems ‘for the best’ very quickly. Those women don’t know what to say to the ‘how tragic’ or ‘I’m sorry’ of people, when that doesn’t match the experience. But they are not such good stories for those who are caught in grief. When you are in that place, this book triggers lots of anger and sadness at the other side of comments, the ones that tell you to ‘enjoy your freedom’ ‘you’ll find someone else’ ‘it’s time to stop crying’ ‘it’s time to start dating’ when you are still in shock and grieving. Those women will find themselves feeling once more berated for not being happy, for not moving on, for not getting over it fast enough. If you’ve really been dumped and betrayed, then this book will make you cry. A better book about the slow process of coming back to life after betrayal is Dominique Browning Around the House and In the Garden.
Rating: 3 / 5
When I first leafed through this book in our local independent bookstore, I loved the excerpts I skimmed. My eyes lingered on the story “Birth,” which I read more closely. Learning and teaching through analogy so solidifies a lesson. This excerpt shows the author’s profound ability to convey her own lessons, through which she has lived and discovered meaning, to encourage others. Based on this excerpt, just yesterday I sent this book to a friend who is going through a divorce, but I can’t wait to read the entire book myself!
Rating: 4 / 5
It’s so encouraging to read these stories, written by women who didn’t let their heartbreak destroy them. Kudos to all of you writers! You’ve given the divorced and hurting a new tool that will help them get over the often worst time of their lives!
Rating: 5 / 5
The women in these 29 moving essays went through divorces that were sometimes devastating or brutal, but in hindsight, usually inevitable. In some, the women initiated the divorce; in others, they were blindsided by it. Yet all the writers found themselves on a path to self-discovery that was far more enriching and joyful than their marriages had been.
As I read, I was swept away into the worlds of these courageous women who reinvented themselves after their divorces. Many of us remember our own divorces with the revelation that we would not have become the people we are if we had not followed that path, willingly or not.
Joan Price, author Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty
Rating: 5 / 5