Getting Back Out There
Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love after the Big Breakup
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Plenty of dating books offer advice on how to flirt or catch someone's eye, but they won't help you make better decisions during the selection process so you can find real love. Based on years of research and work with her own clients, Susan Elliott offers a proven plan that will help you to:
Examine past relationships for unfinished business and negative patterns
Identify warning signs and red flags
Keep your standards and boundaries high, even when you're head over heels
Work through rejection, rebounding, and other bumps in the road
Decide when to take a relationship to the next level and when to say goodbye
With practical rules, strategies, and self-assessments — including tips for dating as a parent and dating online — Getting Back Out There will help you transition from your split to a happy, healthy new relationship.
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Release date
January 27, 2015 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780738216843
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780738216843
- File size: 974 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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December 1, 2014
Lawyer and grief counselor Elliott (Getting Past Your Breakup) offers readers humble and perceptive advice for recovering from heartbreak and reentering the dating world. In the five years since her acclaimed debut in 2009, Elliott has faced a number of ordeals: the death of her husband from brain cancer, a debilitating back fracture, a break in her hand that wouldn’t heal, and a tumor found in her knee during an MRI. In addition to her own experiences with love and loss, Elliott draws from friends, family, and colleagues, as well as couples who have sought her counsel. Elliott’s underlying message is that one must first grieve properly and learn to let go of past relationships, no matter how toxic, perfect, or tragic they were, before beginning new ones. Perhaps most perceptively, she identifies the early stages of grief as the crucial time to build reasonable standards and realistic expectations for future relationships. Elliott’s wisdom—well reasoned, unassuming, and based on experience—is not to be missed. Agent: Diane Freed, FinePrint Literary Management. -
December 1, 2014
Elliott, creator of the blog Getting Back Out There, leads readers through the steps of attaining success in the next relationship, using an approach that helps us to recognize, evaluate, and change the negative patterns that have sabotaged previous partnerships. She organizes her advice into the "Five Rs": Readiness, Rejection, Recycling, Rebounding, and Retreating, and demonstrates, via case studies and personal accounts, how to handle snags along the way. Elliott's experience as a lawyer and grief counselor buoys her suggestions, such as creating a compatibility checklist and deciding which attributes are unacceptable and which ones are negotiable. VERDICT Extremely encouraging for those who wish to build a healthy relationship and get on with life.
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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