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Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On |  | Creator: Candace Walsh
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1580052762
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.893092273
EAN: 9781580052764
ASIN: 1580052762
Publication Date: May 5, 2009
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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 laugh, cry, nod their heads, and feel inspired to do what they need to for themselves. These aren't stories from women tiptoeing around a difficult subject — they're about the ways divorce can be, in fact, a new lease on life.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 17
 Helpful February 20, 2010
Jeralee L. Josserand
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
 Courageous women who reinvented themselves after divorce October 18, 2009
Joan Price (Sebastopol, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
Read this, READ this, R.E.A.D. this. Seriously. There's a story for every woman in here. August 6, 2009
Jennifer Orozco (Houston, Texas)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"This book is great. It has so many different women, so many different perspectives, so many different stories. There's something for everyone in here; and at least one person with whom to identify. Some of the stories are poignant, some hilarious, some both; all help you to see divorce in a different way. There's nothing dirty, no failure admission here.
This book is for anyone who has decided to divorce and has been harangued by friends and family; for anyone who has decided to divorce and been plagued by self-doubt; for anyone who has been left and didn't know where to start picking up the pieces; for anyone who has stuck it out in a bad marriage and justified it by saying it's best; for every woman--feminist and non-feminist.
Read this. All the way through. Don't pick and choose stories; read them all. You'll find yourself somewhere in these pages.
After asking my husband for a divorce a few months ago, I've been questioning if I'm insane. Off the rocker. My mother doesn't understand it: "Stay for the kids," she says, my husband's family doesn't understand it "They just got their marriage convalidated?!" and sometimes I don't understand how after all this time, I got guts to do this--after four kids, and 11 years, and all my youth. But I look at my girls, I look at the mirror, I look at myself and realize that I've become the kind of wife that four daughters can not look up to. Someone with no self-respect, someone not respectable, someone whose complacence has infiltrated every part of my being and I know that this divorce is for my myself AND for my daughters (maybe you just don't get it, Mom). This book comes at a time when I really need it. Thank God there are women out there who've felt this way before.
 Rebirth - With the Help of This Book July 7, 2009
H. Jarvis
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
it's not contagious June 21, 2009
Corbin
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Being in the throes of divorce, I found this book at the perfect time and stayed up until 2 a.m. reading it last night. It was such a relief to read the words I've felt. Not a single essay describes divorce in a self-pitying, insurmountable way and for that, I am grateful. Many people look at me as if I have cancer when I say I'm getting divorced, and then they take a step backwards, for fear of catching it. They assume I'm distraught or extremely angry, where in actuality, as so many of the essays in Ask Me About My Divorce describe, there are a wide range of other emotions divorced women can feel. And some of them even include joy, relief, and the thrill of dating again and having hot sex. Walsh's essay and many more make me excited, not afraid, for what's to come on my journey through divorce.
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