Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well

Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well by Ashton Applewhite. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1997. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. Black line bottom content edge. 302 Pgs. ISBN 0060174552. LCCN 96-51896. One out of every two modern marriages ends in divorce, and 75 percent of those divorces are initiated by wives. The author is one of these women, having sued for divorce after enduring an unfulfilling ten-year marriage. Cutting Loose is a wonderfully appealing book for women who want to leave their marriage but fear the consequences. Shattering the media-generated image of the lonely, deprived and financially strapped divorcee, Applewhite provides a much needed reality check. Cutting Loose introduces 50 women, varying in age, race, class and predicament, who have thrived after initiating their own divorces. Their fears of financial, emotional and romantic ruin were never realized; on the contrary, their lives improved immeasurably, and their self-esteem soared. Cutting Loose also answers the crucial questions: How do you finally decide to make the big break? What is getting divorced really like? What are the shortcomings of the legal process? What about custody and child support? financial and emotional survival? and how does a woman's self-image change during and after divorce? The 50 women portrayed here have thrived after leaving their unhappy marriages. Varying in age, race, class, and predicament, they, like the author, initiated their own divorces and found, that their fears of financial, emotional, and romantic ruin were not realized, and the quality of their lives improved immeasurably. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 10148.