Love Shrinks: A Memoir of a Marriage Counselor's Divorce
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1569479364 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Riveting…”—Maclean's (Canada)“Blending a conversational tone with tight, fast-paced prose, the author doesn't shy away from her flaws, resulting in a book that is touching, humorous and familiar.”—Kirkus Reviews
"DO NOT BUY - author had no thriving private practice, no credibility, no real training/experience, nor expertise" according to Book Lover. Don't buy this book. I read a lot of memoirs and non fiction. This book intrigued me because of the irony. I was expecting how a marriage therapist still did it all the "right" things to try to save her marriage and still somehow got divorced. I am up to page DO NOT BUY - author had no thriving private practice, no credibility, no real training/experience, nor expertise Book Lover Don't buy this book. I read a lot of memoirs and non fiction. This book intrigued me because of the irony. I was expecting how a marriage therapist still did it all the "right" things to try to save her marriage and still somehow got divorced. I am up to page 49 and will NOT read the rest of the book. The largest flaw is revealed early on - this author had no thriving private practice, no credibility, no real training/experience, nor expertise. Her getting on the Oprah show was largely a. 9 and will NOT read the rest of the book. The largest flaw is revealed early on - this author had no thriving private practice, no credibility, no real training/experience, nor expertise. Her getting on the Oprah show was largely a. Five Stars Funny book. Gutsy, but Ineptly titled, Incomplete, and Inconceivable Gutsy: You sure have to salute the courage of a woman who gained fame as a "Stay-lovers-for-life" self-help author and frequent Oprah guest confessing to having lived like a nun in a 13-year relationship with the man with whom she fell in love. After living together for seven years, the last four of which were sexless, Wolf and her boyfriend wed and then made love exactly three times in their eight-year marriage. It's about as image-shattering as Rachel Ray admitting to daily pit stops a
King, David Brenner and Victor Borge. Sharyn Wolf is a New York State–licensed psychotherapist who has worked with couples for twenty years. She has been a frequent media commentator on celebrity marriage and divorce and has written five self-help books including This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping that Honey
You will not be able to put her book down.. Despite the fact that Sharyn was a national bestselling self-help author, her husband couldn't bring himself to read a single one of her books. Painted against the backdrop of her psycotherapy practice, real-life illustrative cases of her patients, and the wacky story of career trajectory, Sharyn turns her analytical eye on herself and her husband and deftly depicts a marriage on its long last legs. In anecdotes that range from poignant to horrifying to side-splittingly funny to heart-rending, she explains how it is possible for two good people to make each other totally miserable and yet still be unable to leave. In fifteen years of marriage, she and her husband had sex twice. For twenty years, Sharyn Wolf,