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Title: Letting Go: A 12-Week Personal Action Program to Overcome a Broken Heart by Zev Wanderer, Tracy Cabot ISBN: 0440147301 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: August, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28
Rating: 3
Summary: Maybe There's a Little Male Bias?
Comment: "Letting Go" is definitely worth reading, as it's obviously very helpful to lots of people. But as a sensitive and experienced woman who's been through heartbreak more than once, I found myself questioning some of the book's assertions and recommendations.
I certainly agree with the reviewer from Middletown who flinched at the advice on page 63: "It's okay to have sex with somebody just because they're there and they're nice." Not only can that attitude lead to STDs and exploitation of the "nice" person, but it can be emotionally damaging to the heartbroken person. Certainly for women, casual sex while in the throes of an emotional crisis is usually a bad idea.
This is just one example of what I suspect may be a bias toward men's experience in "Letting Go." References to "getting off" and 'scoring" don't sound like they're intended for female readers. There are also statements like, "Women usually depend on men for things like the illusion of emotional security, financial support, social respectability, general rescuing, and the opportunity to play the highly touted family game." Which century are the authors thinking of?!
The authors also use male pronouns quite consistently, despite an introductory note announcing their intention to use non-sexist language.
In general, I felt like"Letting Go" was not written with me in mind. I know that many of the techniques it suggests have been helpful to many women. But its language and attitudes really relate much more to men.
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Rating: 5
Summary: I haven't actually read it yet
Comment: This is more of a question than a comment. I just bought this book after a break up with my boyfriend of four years. However, my situation is a little bit different than the book talks about. We are kind of in the limbo phase where he needs to grow as a person outside of the relationship but we both still love each other. But in order to do that, I think we both need to move onto the relationship and then come back to it (there was no fight before we broke up, we still communicate). For anyone that has read it, do you think that this is an appropriate book for trying to move on from a love even though there is a possiblity of getting back together? Also, would you recommend reading the whole book at once and then working on each skill week by week or should I just read each chapter as the weeks pass? I would appreciate any imput. Thanks a lot!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book now I can move on
Comment: Letting Go is one of the best self help books on the market today. It takes you through all of the steps of the sadness you feel when you are rejected by someone you love. It justifies all of the emotions that you really do feel, and it makes you realize that you are human and that you are not crazy. I would suggest this book to anyone who is going through the loss of a loved one through a breakup, it will really help them overcome the feelings of sadness and rejection. Along with another book"HE NEVER CALLED AGAIN", these two will be on my book shelf.
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Title: How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Peter McWilliams, Harold H. Bloomfield, Melba Colgrove ISBN: 0931580439 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: How to Break Your Addiction to a Person : When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do About It by Howard Halpern ISBN: 0553260057 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Don't Call That Man by Rhonda Findling ISBN: 0786884274 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days: A Day-By-Day Guide to Saying Good-Bye and Getting on With Your Life by Howard Bronson, Mike Riley ISBN: 0767909089 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How Fall Out Love by Debora Robert/Phillips Judd ISBN: 0446314080 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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