Contents
Breaking Up Blues is an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.
- Part I: Prelude to Break Up.
- Introduction
- Should You Leave?
- Should You Stay?
- Being Left.
- Part II: The Trauma Of Break-up.
- Loss.
- Rage.
- Legal Battles.
- Refusing to Mind.
- Depression.
- Part III: Toolkits.
- Emergency Toolkit.
- Part IV: Emotional Toolkit.
- Letting Go of Hatred.
- Facing Your Part.
- Acceptance - and Mourning.
- Part V: Children.
- Noticing Children's Distress.
- Evidence of Impact on Children.
- Parenting After Break-up.
- Part VI: A Wider Focus.
- Roadmap of the Unconscious.
- Problems of Intimacy.
- Different Developmental Tasks of Boys and Girls.
- Stress and Stages of Life.
- Part VII: The Future.
- A New Partner?
- Moving On.
- Appendix.