Women & Love: Finding True Love While Staying True to Yourself: The Eight Make-Or-Break Experiences in Women's Lives - Softcover

Kirshenbaum, Mira

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9780380802227: Women & Love: Finding True Love While Staying True to Yourself: The Eight Make-Or-Break Experiences in Women's Lives

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ISBN 10: 0380802228 ISBN 13: 9780380802227

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

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For the first time in history, a generation of women has the power to say no" to mediocre love. It's because we care so much about love that we know nothing less than the best will do. We want love to feel real and strong, to let us be true to ourselves, to be our emotional home. Now Mira Kirshenbaum has identified the make-or-break experiences that lead to just this kind of love.

She presents the radical idea that you have to make mistakes before you can find the love of your life. You try on different kinds of love affairs for size, you allow yourself to fall for different kinds of men. These "love adventures" give a sense of freedom and knowledge about yourself and what you want out of life and love. Mira Kirshenbaum describes seven more essential experiences that can mean all the difference between frustrating and fulfilling love. Through a series of diagnostic questions and quizzes that tailor her advice to every woman 's individual situation, she illuminates the path through these eight passages toward a lifetime of love, and illustrates her points with the stories of real women just like you.

Rarely has such a wise, inspiring, and comforting voice been available to guide women on the path to a lifetime of real love.

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About the Author:

Mira Kirshenbaum is an individual and family psychotherapist in private practice and the director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Massachusetts. She lives in Boston with her husband of thirty-two years. They have two grown children.

From Publishers Weekly:

Cheerleading her readers through each page, Kirshenbaum believes that despite the embitterment caused by hurtful or unsuccessful love experiences, women should never settle for less than the best in their relationships. The result feels like a heart-to-heart gabfest with girlfriends, complete with casual language, self-disclosure, harsh truths and borderline-crude analogies. The anecdotes of women grappling with a variety of love and relationship problems are abundant enough to satisfy even the most avid relationship voyeur. With the use of many examples, Kirshenbaum illustrates eight "make or break experiences of love," offering diagnostic and prescriptive advice for each. This advice is clearly intended for the woman first and the relationship secondAshe is relatively quick to advocate dissolving a liaison and unfortunately does not specifically address the merits of remaining in a relationship for the sake of commitment. The common thread of advice running through her chapters is sound, however. Women should clarify their own desires and expectations for love, be honest about them with themselves and their partners and hold out for a partner who can meet their expectations. Above all, she emphasizes, the only requirement for experiencing true love is knowing and loving oneself.
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