Single Again: A Guide for Women Starting Over

By Victoria Jaycox

Book Overview

Single Again offers newly single women practical, upbeat guidance on how to adapt successfully to life on their own. Each year millions of women are widowed or divorced. These women often face a terrific shock. Not only are they besieged by sometimes overwhelming emotions, but they must completely revamp their self-image from that of wife to single again.. Single Again shows the reader how to: Handle grief and stress while still moving ahead, get a job, and the right kind of housing; Find solace and community in religion, friends, a support group, or therapy; Figure out what kind of future they want and how to get there; Enjoy courtship and sex, nineties-style, and decide whether or not to remarry. This book gathers together the pragmatic and collective wisdom of both experts and those who have lived through this life-altering experience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393335186
• ISBN13: 9780393335187
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This book saved my life

I know saying it saved my life sounds dramatic, but for those of us who have been "single again" we know that we need all the help we can get! And this book is the tops. All the things you go through when your husband or partner leaves you is so overwhelming and the stories of the women who experienced the same things within this book just helped me see that I really wasnt alone. That somehow I would heal, and become whole again, at a time when I wasnt sure if I ever would be....also I would go back and read certain passages I had marked when I re-experienced certain emotions or problems just for comfort. It was like my "breakup bible" and it got me through a really terrible and lonely time. Get it! Its a gem. And it applies to women of any age, too.

An invaluable guide for women who are starting over.

I wish I had this book 2 years ago, when I unexpecedly became a widow at age 46. The information in this book could have saved me much of the anxiety that I experienced in not knowing how, or from whom to get the direction that I needed. I was amazed to see how thorough Victoria Jaycox was. Her book deals with many, if not all of the same issues of starting over, that I was faced with. From grieving, supporting myself, moving, attaining legal and financial help,even up to starting a new relationship, Victoria covers it all. The commentary of the women who contributed their stories reinforces the message that we can get through this difficult time in our lives, and in many instances, emerge with new strength, and the courage to create happy fulfilling new futures for ourselves. Thank you Victoria!