Nice Women Get Divorced

by Geneva Sugarbaker

How women can overcome the impact of society's view of divorce This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0925190594
• ISBN13: 9780925190598
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Fairview Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

I'm nice after all!

What a wonderfully helpful book. I too was raised with the expectation that once you married you stayed married. No one ever told me that sometimes it is better to get out and get divorced rather than to stay in a disfunctional marriage. This book helped me realize that I'm still a "nice" good girl. I've already given my copy to a friend and am purchasing another for a family member. Wonderful to read and share!!

a must read for all women going thru a divorce

I initially checked this out from the local library and found it to be so helpful with excercizes to encourage my growth and healing that i had to find a copy for my very own. I am recommending it to all my friends that are going thru a divorce. It helped me to see that the things I was feeling were normal. I highly recommend it to any female going thru a divorce.

Nice Women DO Get Divorced!!!

When I realized that I was getting a divorce I felt like such a failure. Naively I somehow thought that divorce was something I would never have to go through. I was angry, hurt and confused, but mostly, I felt so alone.I really like this book because it taught me that everything I was feeling was valid and very "normal." Ms. Sugarbaker writes in such a down-to-earth manner and she breaks down all the barriers in an approachable way. I almost felt like I'd spoken with her and she really "got" what I was feeling.After I finished reading this book I felt hopeful and positive, not bitter and angry. I felt like I'd come out of a dark and cold place and emerged whole and strong.Thank you Ms. Sugarbaker for providing such a necessary and well-written book. God bless you

An Honest, Helpful, Supportive Book

I recently discovered this book and really wished I had known about it years ago when I went through a divorce. I immediately recommended it to a friend from a small town in the Midwest who is contemplating divorce. Ms. Sugarbaker tackles a problem that divorcing women face that is often not vocalized or openly discussed -- that people often regard the fact that a woman is getting divorced as evidence of her failure, or of her lack of worth as a person. They may even regard the divorce as "proof" that she didn't care enough about her family and friends, or she would have tried harder to make the marriage work. Whether these attitudes are conscious or unconscious, they deprive women of the support they need during the supremely difficult and heartbreaking "passage" of divorce. These days few, if any people believe that sickness or poverty are visited upon a person because they have somehow done something wrong and "deserve" punishment. However, society as a whole tends to make women feel as if they have failed in life if they get divorced. In fact, people get divorced for a myriad of reasons, and no amount of "niceness" can protect a woman from the possibility that she may some day have to go through a divorce. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has been divorced and still has emotional conflicts about it, who is currently facing a divorce, or has ever contemplated divorce