Learning to Leave: A Women's Guide

by Lynette Triere and Richard Peacock

Book Overview

Now completely updated, this informative, comprehensive guide teaches women how to get through divorce. Covers dealing with anger, fear and other emotions; choosing a lawyer; talking to husbands;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446394831
• ISBN13: 9780446394833
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Hope for those who might not be able to see any way out.

I am statistic. I was an abused wife, and for a woman who lives in an abusive marriage, her life can more or less become "hell". Alot of times women put up with the situation because they do not know what their choices are, they do not know how to ask for help, or where to go to find answers. The author has laid it out in concrete ways to get women to think along the lines of their own safety and security. This book is one that I have read and used and have bought countless times for other women who were desperately in need of getting free of a very bad marriage. I will continue to give this book to friends and family because I do believe that it is the finest I have read.

The best of the bunch

I've read a dozen or so books on divorce in the last couple of years while trying to decide to end my marriage of 20-plus years. This one was the most helpful I found. Practical. Down to earth. Objective. Respectful. This book was genuinely helpful through months of planning and preparing for the confrontation and also for the possibility of reconciliation. It's an excellent investment of both time and money. (In the end I did effectively end my marriage--but not through divorce. My husband and I are trying to start over. I am not certain I really want to, but after reading "Learning to Leave" twice, I decided that at the very least I owe him--and myself--one more chance.)

This book saved my life!

I bought this book many years ago, when my kids where 4 and 8, I was able to plan, save, and leave a man without incidence who was abusive and threatning. I was able to leave in safety with my childen using my head and not my heart. My sons are now 17 and 21 and very happy and healthy. Since I left, I have received my Bachelors and Masters Degree and own a very successful consulting firm. I got out before my boys turned into men like their father. Thank You Lynette!

IF you're brave enough, break out a highlighter

This is a great book, with lots of "REAL-LIFE" advice. And let's face it, there's lots advice given to us by friends who mean well, and REAL advice given by those who have been there. This book will help you, even if you choose NOT to leave. It deals with the real world as it is, and what a woman needs to think about most during a time she where she may not feel up to thinking. Where are you going to leave to? How are you going to support yourself, your children? This books helps you deal with the real nitty-gritty hard questions.

All I needed to make a plan and work it!

I read this book a long time ago when I needed help on making my decision to leave my alcoholic husband. By reading it over and over when my resolve would weaken, I was able to go forward to a much, much better life and future. A great book to help work past the defeating behaviors that keep us locked into the victim stance.