
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay
A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship
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Mira Kirshenbaum
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To make up or break up? Whether you’re just getting serious or have a long-term commitment, no other question causes so much heartache and self-doubt. Many other books tell you how to fix your relationship. This groundbreaking best seller is the first one to help you choose whether you should try—or you need to go.
Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems:
Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line—what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship—and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that, whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.
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In each of our lives we are faced with events that seem inexplicable, unjust, even cruel - events that can shatter our perception of the world, our understanding of ourselves, and our faith in a higher power. Friends and family members often offer comfort with "Everything happens for a reason" - a simple, common phrase with an unbearably elusive meaning. In Everything Happens for a Reason, psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum helps us understand the principles behind this frequently used phrase and provides us with tools to grasp its true meaning.
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Excellent!!!! Listened to it 3X
- By TTR on 06-19-24
By: Mira Kirshenbaum
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When Marriage Needs an Answer
- The Decision to Fix Your Struggling Marriage or Leave Without Regret
- By: Sharon Pope
- Narrated by: Moxie LaBouche
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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If you knew how to make the relationship better, you would have done that years ago. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real answers to the issues in your marriage. Every marriage struggles occasionally, but sometimes the problems feel insurmountable and we think the only answer is to make the heartbreaking decision to leave. The distance between you and your spouse widens, the resentments mount, and you feel like you’ve tried everything but nothing ever changes.
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Amazing!
- By Cristy on 03-04-23
By: Sharon Pope
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This Is How Your Marriage Ends
- A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships
- By: Matthew Fray
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a call with a phone-in-therapist who told him to “journal his feelings,” Matthew Fray started a blog. He needed to figure out how his ex-wife went from the eighteen-year-old college freshman who adored him to the angry woman who thought he was an asshole and left him. As he pieced together the story of his marriage and its end, Matthew began to realize a hard truth: even though he was a decent guy, he was a bad husband.
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Good and bad advice mixed together
- By Timothy Webster on 08-05-22
By: Matthew Fray
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Stay or Leave
- How to Remain In, or End, Your Relationship
- By: The School of Life
- Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.
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Fantastic book, hate the narrator
- By Birta Flokadottir on 08-25-24
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Level Up
- 33 Life-changing Rules to Become the Best Version of Yourself
- By: Hamza Zargui
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Learn how to level up your life without manipulating anyone. In this book, you will discover 33 life-changing rules that will help you become the best version of yourself and fulfill your potential as a human being. Whenever you feel lost in life, unmotivated, disconnected from your passions, purpose, and/or goals, this book will help get back on track.Are you looking for a practical guide that contains rules, lessons, inner game concepts, principles, habits, and practical advice to level up your life and break through to the next level? If the answer is yes, then you are at the right place...
By: Hamza Zargui
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If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late
- A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together
- By: James J. Sexton
- Narrated by: James J. Sexton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late. James Sexton knows this. After dealing with over 1000 clients whose marriages have dissolved over everything from an ill-advised threesome with the nanny to the uneven division of carpool duties, he also knows all of the what- not-to-dos for couples who want to build - and consistently work to preserve - a lasting, fulfilling relationship. Described by former clients as a "courtroom gunslinger" and "the sociopath you want on your side", Sexton tells the unvarnished truth about relationships. These usually derive from dishonest communication.
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Mind blowing
- By Hollan Hawaii on 04-17-18
By: James J. Sexton
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The D Word
- Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage
- By: Kate Anthony
- Narrated by: Kate Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The D Word is the definitive yet accessible guide for everyone who wants to take control of their lives, either by ending or repairing their marriage. Written in Kate Anthony's signature straight-talking, empowering style, The D Word is more than a practical handbook for those considering divorce. It also reveals how cultural and societal influences negatively affect our relationships and expectations, stacking the odds against women.
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Real and Raw and Insightful!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-02-25
By: Kate Anthony
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Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away
- By: Gary Chapman
- Narrated by: Chris Fabry
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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When you said, “I do”, you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy. You never intended for it to be miserable. Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.”
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encouragement through another chance
- By Brookley on 09-19-18
By: Gary Chapman
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Success Is a Choice
- Make the Choices That Make You Successful
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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Are you tired of not reaching your full potential? Do you feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped? Learn how to unlock your potential for success! Abridged from his New York Times bestselling book, Beyond Talent, leadership expert and author Dr. John C. Maxwell states that if the above describes you, this book can help you learn the right choices that lead to success from the go-to-guru for business professionals across the globe.
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In need of serious updating
- By D Price on 08-17-21
By: John C. Maxwell
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Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That?
- Encouragement for Women Involved with Angry and Controlling Men
- By: Lundy Bancroft
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Like a constant friend, this collection of meditations is a source of strength and reassurance designed to speak to women like you, women in relationships with angry and controlling men. It helps you to digest what is happening a piece at a time, so you can gain clarity, safety, and freedom.
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Just what I needed.
- By lori Goodson on 11-07-15
By: Lundy Bancroft
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Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life
- The Chump Lady's Survival Guide
- By: Tracy Schorn
- Narrated by: Laura Copland
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity - but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters - their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs.
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If you have had multiple D-Days BUY this book now
- By Dr. Caroline Madden on 06-07-19
By: Tracy Schorn
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Deal Breakers
- When to Work on a Relationship and When to Walk Away
- By: Dr. Bethany Marshall
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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This is a book about men. Not all men, just emotionally unhealthy men. The ones who make you question, "Is it him or is it me? Am I making too big a deal out of this? I try to tell him how I feel, but he says I'm overreacting or needy or it's all my fault". Relationships are hard work, but how hard should they be? When do you know you are struggling too hard to make a relationship succeed?
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I Cried Thru The First Thirty Minutes...
- By Kimberley on 02-20-08
What did you love best about Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay?
I loved the question format of hte book as the author takes you through 30+ areas to examine in your relationship. It ended the going round and round in circles of guilt at wanting to leave, and fear of not wanting to leave.What was one of the most memorable moments of Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay?
The realisation that I had mostly negative answers to the 30+ questions posed, and that I was staying out of guilt/fear and not love.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No - it requires a digestion question by questionAny additional comments?
A must read for anyone who has any doubts about their relationship. It is such a relief to get clarity on whether it works or not!Helped me decide whether to leave my husband
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I learned a lot.
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great book
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I can see value in these lessons reaching even casual, work or familial relationships.
non judgmental approach
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Don't wait for issues to arise to read
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Insightful
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This book really helped me.
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Excellent Book!
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Hit the mark
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This book helped me get to the next step
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