Moving Forward After Divorce: Practical Steps to * Healing Your Hurts * Finding Fresh Perspective * Managing Your New Life

When I found myself suddenly [and unexpectedly] a single mom with six children, panic set in. Seriously. I ordered quite a lot of divorce books in an effort to learn what I needed to do to survive in this strange new world I'd woken up in. This book was by far the most helpful one. The authors shared stories of other divorced people that I could relate to. They helped me understand what was normal [and that feeling like I felt WAS, indeed, normal]. They gave very concrete and helpful advice on how to "Move Forward" - it was so positive and it really helped me pick myself up and get moving towards healing and a brand new life. I credit this book with helping me move beyond despair and broken-heartedness and towards happiness and hope. The constructive ideas in this book not only helped me help myself, but really helped me help my children as well - they benefitted from this book at least as much as I did. Quite a lot of this book is devoted to helping divorced people who are also parents, and I found that extremely beneficial. For someone going through a divorce who does not have children, this book may not be as helpful - quite a bit of it really is focused on parenting well through divorce. This book is also written from a strong Christian perspective and may not be helpful to those who are not from a Christian belief system. But for newly single Christian parents - you can't find a better book. Buy this book - you won't be sorry. In fact, I'd really like to thank the authors - you changed my life for the better with this truly helpful book. You helped me survive the worst time in my life and to move forward and thrive. Thank you so much.

I loved this book, which I read during the difficult transition period after my rather traumatic divorce. It's practical, warm, and encouraging, as well as very thorough. One thing to be aware is that it strongly promotes joining a church and working on one's faith, but I still found that in general the advice here was right on target. Thank you, Dr. and Dr. Frisbie!

This book was great condition. This was a good book, IF you were the one who was left. Sometimes divorce books forget there are times folks have to leave the marriage for safety reasons. HOWEVER< it did have great references to other books esp the one titled "Rebuilding" which is for both those who were left and who had to leave.

Good book, easy read, practical and down to earth advice, would recommend this book to those trying to cope with divorce and the challenges it brings.

I had high hopes for this book, obviously anyone searching under this topic is looking for a lifeline and this book is not it. I estimate 20% to 30% of the book is useful & it does a great job of talking about the benefits of faith without basing everything from that platform. It may help with recovery but it tries to cover all situations from day 1 to remarriage & doesn't focus enough on day 1 to day 365.

If you are about victimizing yourself, this is a book for you. This book takes on a very bold position of blanket statements for every situation. I couldn't finish reading it, I was so angry. I recommend this book to no one!!!!

This book is a very easy to read book. It is cut into bite-size reading parts and and leaves you walking away thinking about what you just read. I, however, am on the younger end of a divorce and do not have children; so I found the book to be slightly misleading because an overwhelming part of the book is about parenting and raising children. If I had children, I'd probably give this a higher rating, however it didn't offer what I needed.

I thought that this book was extremely helpful. There were tips and encouraging words that could only be helpful to people who lived through a divorce and were having a tough time dealing with the aftermath. My wish would be that BOTH parents would read this book. It would only help the ex-couple and their children. Good Job!