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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Drawing on case studies, a psychotherapist offers guidelines to help singles and spouses decide whether to leave a relationship or whether enough good remains to make it worth working through conflicts. Reprint.”… More >>
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If I followed the advice in this book, I’d be divorced, homosexual, athiest, and generally no one I’d want to be around. (I’m almost divorced anyway, because my wife read the book, too!) Still, it points out some valid statements that, while I don’t believe they’re necessarily good enough reasons to leave a relationship without trying (especially when young children are involved) they do bring up the darker side of human nature, like the inability to forgive. The Bible is a much better resource!
Rating: 2 / 5
I have not read the book but read through the comments. It seems to me that MOST of the ones giving HIGH stars to the book are people that left their relationship and seem to have wanted to leave the relationship prior to reading the book. While, the ones giving LOW stars are those that stayed and wanted to stay prior to reading the book. Just going by that I would say, not a very good book if you are TRULY open to either staying or leaving, only if you are leaning toward leaving.
Rating: 2 / 5
However, I find it interesting that when I read the several reviews here I noticed that the vast majority of readers either said that they had decided to leave, or left me with the impression that they were leaning towards leaving.
I can only think of one review where the writer said explicitly that they had decided to stay.
Whether anything can be inferred by this observation, I am unsure. But I thought that it was interesting to note.
I guess what I’m getting at is this. I hope that this book does truly help me, and others, make an unbiased decision in their given relationship.
But for now, just based on the reviews, it seems that this book might be slanted to those that have a tendency to leave their relationship.
Rating: 4 / 5
After getting this book b/c a friend was reading it, it was hard to get into for me. The book had a little too much psycho babble with a good message laying underneath.
Rating: 3 / 5
I did not like this book. I tried to read it twice. The first time I didn’t like it because it seemed to tell me I was ambivalent because I WANTED to be (like I need any more guilt). The second time I read it, I ended up even more unsure than when I started. It brought up a bunch more stuff to think about that I hadn’t even considered–which as I said, left me even more confused. Maybe it can be helpful for some people, but it was not helpful to me.
Rating: 2 / 5