The Silver Lining: The Unexpected Advantage of Divorced Women - Nancy Summers - Paperback

Ground-breaking book that takes an innovative look at divorce. His divorce experience is separated from hers with clear, illuminating explanations of just how women unwittingly improve their psychological health after coping with divorce. Full of personal interviews & fascinating research, THE SILVER LINING tells the reader precisely why women accomplish this improved health, looking at some of the important differences in losses, activities & coping. For instance, he loses the social & emotional support she provided, she loses the economic support he provided; he works to find new social support in another relationship, she is forced to work on her finances; he masks & distracts himself from the emotional pain of divorce, she confronts it & expresses it. And finally, losses he will never have: the subtle consequences of his domination, freeing her to take charge of a new life. "I give this book to my women clients. It's hopeful & inspiring."--attorney practicing family law. "This is the book that made sense out of my divorce! After I read this I knew I was on the right track"--woman reader, newly divorced. "Gives women confidence!"--clinical psychologist. To order Vinyard Publications, P.O. Box 71, Camp Hill, PA 17001.Summers, Nancy is the author of 'The Silver Lining: The Unexpected Advantage of Divorced Women - Nancy Summers - Paperback' with ISBN 9780963231802 and ISBN 0963231804.