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Overview
Joyce L. Vedral shows you how to draw on your inner strength, common sense, and special talents to make daring, life-enhancing decisions about men, love, and marriage.
For readers of Women Who Love Too Much and Smart Women, Foolish Choices, Joyce Vedral offers real-life examples of when, why, and how to break off a relationship that's going nowhere--including her own personal story. A must-read for any woman in an unhappy relationship, "its message is simple: life is too short for it not to be special" (Salt Lake Tribune).
Synopsis
Not a Man-Bashing Book. Should you keep him or would you be much better off without him? I have thousands of letters from women telling me that this book has become their "Bible." After reading it, women tell me they "know" what to do- "I guess I really always knew, but just reading about all those other women- I used to think it was just me!" It doesn't bash men. It shows women how to stop blaming men and empower themselves.
Discover your inner courage. Feel good about yourself. Whether you're in a relationship or a marriage-or trying to figure out why he left you-or if you're looking for clues on how to find the right man, this is the book for you. -- Joyce L. Vedral, Ph.D
Publishers Weekly
Vedral, author of The Fat-Burning Workout , here encourages women to shed still more unwanted pounds--those of the undesirable men in their lives. Organizing her material under slogan-like headings (``You Can't Work It Out if There's Nothing to Work With''; ``Stop Blaming Him''), she identifies traits that make a man ``bad'' for a woman--if he's not ``on the mainland,'' that is, he has too many psychological problems; if he ``cheats on you and has a double standard''; if you ``can't stand'' to go to bed with him. Prescribing the remedy suggested in her title, Vedral offers 15 ways to enable oneself to end a relationship. These include ``Realize That Solitude and Freedom Are Priceless Gifts, Not Punishments--Then Do It'' and ``Improve Your Self-Image,'' in which she recommends obtaining a makeover at a department store cosmetics counter. Even the references to Jung and Joseph Campbell can't disguise this tome's superficiality. (Jan.)