When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help

by Elizabeth Levang

Book Overview

Explores the often overlooked area of men's grief, and explains how men can better cope with feelings of loss. This title features eleven real-life stories of personal tragedy and uses them to show men how they can learn to communicate their feelings, move beyond denial, and overcome feelings of anger, bitterness, or helplessness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577490789
• ISBN13: 9781577490784
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Fairview Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the few books that explain how men grieve differently than women

When Men Grieve explains how men's grief differs from women's grief. If you want to understand your male spouse, brother or father's emotions or behaviors during grief, When Men Grieve might provide needed perspective especially since men are fixers and can't fix grief which affects their ability to deal with it. I would also recommend learning about this difference by attending a Griefshare program in your local community that also addresses this issue and other grief issues. - Author of the multi-award winning resource guide: Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults with a Newly Widowed Parent

Good book, primarily to help women understand men's grief

Honestly I think this is a helpful book in that after over 14 months I hadn't even cried hardly at all, and reading one of the stories in the book I cried for like a minute or two - so it was helpful inthat way for me. But honestly I think this book is primarily for women and it really I think is helpful for women to understand men. It's a good book. But I don't think this book is that helpful for Men who are going through grief. It's a good book, but it's more for helping women understand men, than helping men to heal, but for that it's an excellent book.

When Men Grieve:Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help

Excellent book for explaining how men go through the grief process. Very helpful hints on how to help them. According to a male friend who I loaned this book, it's the best he has read and the most helpful.

An important healing tool for grieving men and women.

From this book we learn about the experiences of men grieving various types of losses and how different their reality may be from that of their partner. The masculine grieving style is described in eloquent, lyrical language and mirrors the experiences of many men who seek counseling and support in my bereavement groups. The author gives sound advice about how women can better understand and support men who grieve, while also honoring their own feelings. Additionally, this book points out how unfair it is for our society to raise young boys as protectors, providers, and thinking problem solvers and then expect them to suddenly become sensitive, expressive emotional experts in times of loss. This work is a reality check for women who grieve - a call to re-examine the level of our neediness for emotional support from the men in our lives. It vividly demonstrates how important it is for parents to help children understand and express their emotions appropriately and to realize that doing so makes them both courageous and authentically human.