Reviews for Separated and Waiting

The average rating for Separated and Waiting based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-04 00:00:00 Rafael Vazquez Having been recently divorced, I was interested to find out what "normal" was. There's actually no "normal" but reading some of the statistics made me realize that I have been navigating my divorce just fine. For that reason, this book was helpful and illuminating. I was interested in the material, so I read most of the book, even the parts about kids and I don't even have kids! If I loved the book so much, why did I give it only three stars, then? The main reason was the writing style. Although the Table of Contents made the book look extremely interesting to me, looking back over it now, I can't remember what I've learned. There were lots of stories of couples (usually stories help us to remember the material), but I kept getting confused about their names. I was frustrated that I couldn't remember each of them enough to get the most out of their stories. The most frustrating part about the writing was that some of the sentences were so poorly written that I had to go back and re-read them several times before I understood what the author was trying to say. Taking so much effort to understand broke my stride in reading and often lost track of what the author was talking about. Despite my low(-ish) rating, I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the psychology aspects of divorce. I highly recommend it to therapists who work with couples or, in fact, anyone wanting to counsel a divorced friend. I don't as highly recommend it to divorced folks to understand their situation, mostly because most of us are not in a good place mentally during a divorce, anyway, and this book is a tough read.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-15 00:00:00 Karen Monegatto Some interesting points, but much of it seemed irrelevant now that most divorcees I know share custody and dont have new spouses parent their children.