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Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

by Mira Kirshenbaum

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To make up or break up? Whether you're just getting serious or have a long-term commitment, no other question causes so much heartache and self-doubt. Many other books tell you how to fix your relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should try--or you need to go. Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems: - What sins are forgivable and which ones unpardonable? - Is your partner questioning your opinions to the point where you doubt yourself? - What is your sex life really like, and how important is it? - Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable? Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line--what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship--and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.… (more)
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A chapter by chapter pro and con book about your relationship.

Overall, if you're sitting on the fence, this book will bring up questions you should ask yourself.

Ultimately, relationships are messy. And I don't think any book is good at covering that.

Would also recommend, The Good Marriage, my favorite self-help book that's not really a self-help book for relationships. ( )
  AngelaLam | Feb 8, 2022 |
OK, I was desperate to get some clarity on the exact issue that this book is about, and even though it was published in 1997(!! more than 20 years ago!) it was the only option, so I checked it out and read it.

Mira Kirshenbaum was clearly very good at her job, and everything she wrote about in this book was so true and real. I was crying all throughout the introduction because she understood what I was going through and how deadly ambivalence can be.

She never guides you to a specific answer but provides plenty of questions, examples, and stories to help you get there. ( )
  Elna_McIntosh | Sep 29, 2021 |
I read this about 10 years ago when I was with someone other than my husband. I remember that it was not worth the time spent reading it--not very helpful. ( )
  engpunk77 | Aug 10, 2015 |
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  aletheia21 | May 2, 2014 |
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To make up or break up? Whether you're just getting serious or have a long-term commitment, no other question causes so much heartache and self-doubt. Many other books tell you how to fix your relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should try--or you need to go. Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems: - What sins are forgivable and which ones unpardonable? - Is your partner questioning your opinions to the point where you doubt yourself? - What is your sex life really like, and how important is it? - Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable? Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line--what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship--and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.

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