When Love Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can't Do Anything Right

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An uncommonly thorough and easy to use guide

Useful for friends of abused women

IF you only buy 1 book this year buy this one.

This book is saving my sanity if not my life!

When Love Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can't Do Anything Right
Ann Jones , and Susan Schechter
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Millions of women each year find themselves in relationships with controlling or abusive partners and don't know what to do, or even what's wrong. A woman may feel anxious, inadequate, intimidated -- and as if she is walking on tiptoe. And she may find herself trying harder and harder to make things right without ever being successful. Ann Jones and Susan Schechter bring together their more than fifteen years of experience working with women in abusive relationships to offer an eyeopening new analysis of controlling partners and a wealth of empowering information for women who want to change their lives for the better. Full of moving first-person stories, When Love Goes Wrong shows women what their options are in or out of the relationship, provides concrete guidance on finding safety and support for themselves and their children, and includes a comprehensive list of agencies offering information or assistance.

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Very Helpful.......2007-09-13

This book helped me to identify the fact that I was being abused by my boyfriend. It also helped give me the strength and courage to leave. I highly recommend this book.

An uncommonly thorough and easy to use guide.......2006-06-27

I went to the bookstore tonight to find a book to help answer the question: What do you do when you have been close to a truly brilliant, good, & decent person, and they communicate to you in clear terms they will be happier if you go away and stop interacting with them? You see, I grew with a single parent. I lived with the parent who was left by my other parent. The trouble was, both of my parents were brilliant, good & decent people. Both of them were strong willed. One of them decided they would be happier if they had very little to do with the other. It would have been easier, or understandable if the person who abandoned the other had been a lousy person, but they weren't. So if anybody has a book that helps a person cope with that issue, please email me and let me know.

Like many children in that circumstance, my solution was to concede that I couldn't take one side (See Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can). Children tend to have the naivete, intelligence, and/or resolve to learn to love both. But that did not solve their direct relations, and I'm still trying to improve their rapport.

So while I couldn't find a book that helped address my question, I did find this good book near the "Dealing with Grief, Divorce, & Loss" section: When Love Goes Wrong. I recommend it to anyone who is dealing with a dysfunctional relationship, whether personally or with a friend. It does an uncommonly thorough job of helping an untrained person identify the abusive or controlling aspects of their primary relationships.

This book is not just for abused women. It can help any person identify the controlling behaviors in themselves and others. Recognizing those habits is useful to anyone. It includes extensive checklists that offer practical analysis of behavior patterns and motivations. The advice given appears to be educated & experienced. It also attempts to deal with misconceptions & myths. While it is far easier to identify the controlling behaviors in others, this book is exceptional because it helps us see them in ourselves.

It is an easy book to scan and find what you might be interested in. It is organized and labeled exceptionally well.

This book is not filled with cliches. It understands that abusive habits are just part of the person. This book does not assume that abusive relationships should break up. The first emphasis in the book is: Can the people change the abusive or controlling parts of themselves or not? And how do you encourage and enable those changes?

The book does not deal well with one large, practical question for the couples it targets: How do the couples use non-abusive and non-controlling techniques to still negotiate solutions that meet more of both of their interests? Finding good answers to that vital question will need to be found in other books. But don't let that keep you from scanning this book, because this book still focuses exceptionally well on an often neglected, but beneficial part of the process.

Useful for friends of abused women.......2003-11-07

This review is from the point of view of someone who has a friend in an emotionally abusive relationship. I found this book extremely helpful. It provides insights into what goes on in abusive relationships and it helps to answer the big question you've been asking: why does she stay? It has a chapter specifically for friends and family of victims suggesting how to help, what to ask, and how to react if an abused woman confides in you. I wish I'd read this book *before* that happened to me! I could have avoided some mistakes.

The book also includes practical (not rosy) descriptions of what abused women can expect if they file for a restraining order, stay at a shelter, bring in the police, etc. There's also advice on choosing the right person to confide in, the right counsellor, and the right advocate.

If you have (or suspect you have) a physically or emotionally abused friend or relative, you owe it to yourself and to her to read this book.

IF you only buy 1 book this year buy this one........2003-09-06

I read this book in 1994. It was the best book that I have ever read. I was in a horrible controlling marriage, and this book let me know that I was not always wrong. He was. I got the divorce in 1995, and if it was not for this book I dont know where I would be. I was told so many times that I was stupid, that I started to believe it. If any of you are having problems with a controlling abusive (mentally or physically) relationship, read this book. It saved my life.

I am a totally different person, happy, outgoing and I am not afraid to speak my mind.

This book is saving my sanity if not my life!.......2001-01-02

This book is wonderful, since it finally pointed out all of my feelings of hopelessness and confusion where I wasn't sure where it was coming from. All my excuses for staying with my abusive partner are in this book, and when I finally got too overwhelmed with the beginning of the book, I jumped ahead to the "When You Choose To Leave" because I just left him again almost a month ago. (You can easily jump around in this book and not feel like you've missed something.) I'm hoping that this book will help pull me through the tough times and give me enough courage to seek professional help for what he's done to me. So far I can't talk about it to more than a few people, because I feel ashamed, but I also feel hope, because if the women in this book could get their lives together in worse situations than mine, then so can I! Also, it gives great advice on where to find housing and financial help if you need it. I wasn't even sure what questions to ask in applying for assistance, but I just went back to the book, and it explained it out for me, and that gave me the courage to make a few more phone calls and figure the system out. What I've learned, sadly, is that although I'm not alone, I'm also in good company with beautiful human spirits.

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Hope this helps...
Maybe I am biased because of where it is setting

Anything for Love (To Love Again)
Janelle Taylor
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As a nave college student, Rachel Tims realized too late that Daniel Gaines only married her to spite his wealthy family. Although she learned to dress impeccably, speak softly, and smile like a lady, she was never accepted as a true Georgia "Gaines".

Now, widowed and alone in her forties, Rachel is finally ready to leave her world of dull charity work and lazy country club afternoons behind. In addition to a career of her own, she also wants something a bit more shocking...

Celebrated ex-football star Quentin Rawls has returned to Augusta a hero. A national celebrity with two failed marriages behind him, Quentin is rich, rugged and years younger than Rachel. As he awakens a passion that sends her heart soaring, Rachel is faced with risking everything for a feeling she never thought to have.

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Hope this helps..........2007-09-06

Rachel Gaines has been a widow for fifteen years and, at
forty-seven, is tired of doing charity work and attending
ladies' luncheons. Her chance for a change of pace comes at
a class reunion. There she again meets Quentin Rawls, whom
she cut out of her life more than twelve years earlier. Some
explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.

Maybe I am biased because of where it is setting.......2000-11-07

My mom gave me this book the first time I read it cause I was desperate for something new and it just so happened that we were on our way to Augusta. That is also my hometown and the landmarks are oh so familiar. The storyline also is cool as I was ready for something new. I loved the whole book and now that I am on the west coast I brought another copy just to take me home when I need to

Anything for Love (Sweet Valley University(R))

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Anything for Love (Sweet Valley University(R))
Francine Pascal
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Someone is attacking Blacks in SVU!!!.......2005-02-27

When Elizabeth's friend,Nina Harper and her boyfriend,Bryan are attacked.They investigate.It's a cult,William White is behind it.Mike and Jessica elope in Vegas because she felt left out her best friend,Lila Fowler got married and is now Countess Something.Isabella Ricci is closer to Danny,than to Tom Watts.

Great- Yet Again!.......2004-10-12

This was great! My favorite part was when jessica and Mike elope in Vegas. I would never do it, but I thought it was good for them. None of her family or friends know yet. Elizabeth and Tom are trying to deny their feelings for each other. Liz is still with William. Liz is trying to find out the leader of the society who attacked Nina and Bryon. Tom is afraid for her safety and doesn't want her to do it.

Great book!!!!.......2001-09-03

This book was great! This is one of my favorite Sweet Valley University books. Jessica Wakefield and Michael McAllery get married, but Jessica's too scared to tell anyone. Elizabeth Wakefield loves Tom Watts, but WIlliam White loves her. Nina Harper suffered an attack along with Bryan Nelson. But will she ever get close to him? Isabella Ricci wants Danny Wyatt to help her get closer to Tom Watts, but they end up getting closerto eachother. Todd Wilkins is starting to realize that Lauren Hill isn't as wonderful as he thought she was, plus he's going through some hard times due to the scandal. This book is great!

This was a great book.......2000-02-13

I liked this book, it wasn't boring and it continues what was left off in "What Your Parents Don't Know" I just wish that ELizabeth and Tom could at least find out that one of them have feelings for the other because it's beginning to get irratating that they always get jealous of one another when they are with another person or when they get interuppted by someone when one of them are finally going to confess that he likes her and vice versa.

This book has a lot of suspense. It's a great book........1997-07-03

I liked this book because it has romance, suspense, plenty of suspicion and of course, a very unexpected ending. This is one of the best Nancy Drew books I have read since I started reading them last year. I couldn't put it down

Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book

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Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book

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We’ve all been there. We’ve all felt that pang. It’s hard to stop the “green-eyed monster” once it rears its ugly head. We asked 13 writers to share their visions of jealousy and this collection of short stories, essays, and one poem was their response.

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Ask Me ... Anything: Dr. Klein Answers the Sex Questions You'd Love to Ask
Marty Klein
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EVERYONE has questions about sex--and here's your chance to get them answered by an expert!

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Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is an international activist and self-professed womanist. This pleasing collection of short essays amounts to a very personal stroll through her psyche. Sharing touchstones and demons, she serves up a spirited defense of Winnie Mandela, accused of taking part in kidnapping and torture; a quest to mark the grave of Zora Neale Hurston, an "African AmerIndian" folklorist who chronicled the lives of Southern American blacks in the 1920s and '30s; poignant, angry witnesses at a conference in Ghana devoted to stopping female genital mutilation; and life lessons her daughter taught her. Walker's opinions are enriched by her poetry and highlighted by the whimsical phrases and titles with which she frames serious subjects.

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In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life.

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Pagan to its Core!.......2006-12-04

This is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. Anybody who wants to know anything about the soul of Paganism should burn all of their "So You Want to be A Wiccan" trash and read Anything We Love Can Be Saved. Walker's connection to the land, to Mother Earth, and to Spirit is as Pagan as it gets. This book is profoundly beautiful, profoundly Pagan. She understands that we belong to this wonderful planet, and that real worship of deity is not possible unless we're free, including free to explore and revel in our sexuality. She understands our connectedness to other animals, the nonhuman ones, and espouses their humane treatment as well.

Hope Doesn't Spring Eternal Without Human Compassion, Desires, and Activism .......2006-10-31

Alice Walker writes ideas I don't already know, and she gives me new ways of interpreting people. She is worth considering, especially when you think you disagree with her. It is better to engage her in thoughtful debate than to not listen to what she has to say. Ms. Walker did not title this book "Anything I Love Can Be Saved." Importantly, she chose "Anything WE Love Can Be Saved." The book discusses pursuits she has shared with others.

"Now I know that . . .activism is often my muse . . . All we own, at least for the short time we have it, is our life . . . Whenever I experience evil, and it is not, unfortunately, uncommon to experience it in these times, my deepest feeling is disappointment. I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair, every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are. And that there might be years during which our grief is equal to, or even greater than, our hope. The alternative, however, not to act, and therefore to miss experiencing other people at their best, reaching toward their fullness, has never appealed to me." pp. xxiv-xxv.

I've spent a good deal of time researching concepts of love. Many people are familiar with Paul's description of love's attributes from 1 Corinthians 13. Alice Walker highlights the next chapter's oppression of women in the verses of 1 Corinthians 14:33-35. "For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." I have to agree with Ms. Walker's assertion that the Bible was written by men. And I doubt any intelligent "god" would seek any "peace" that silences women or dictates they become intellectual subordinates to their husbands. As I have grown older, I've found more community and guidance from the voices of women.

"If the women of the world were comfortable, this would be a comfortable world."

To understand what the title of this book might be saying, a person must interpret how Alice Walker is using the word "saved." "Saved" is a word I have trouble with because I grew up in a religious community where a person could only be "saved" by choosing one being and one way. Seeking additional voices or additional community was "fallen" or "depraved." Alice Walker does not appear to be primarily be using the word "saved" in the commonly connotated evangelical "conversion to more enlightened path" sense. She is also not primarily using the word "saved" to promote "possession or acquisition of" another human being.

Ms. Walker emphasizes "saved" in the sense that any person, idea, or object of good character can be remembered, preserved, nourished, grown, and sheltered by love. She says "love and justice and truth are the only monuments that generate everwidening circles of energy and life . . . though trashed and trampled, generation after generation."

She discusses principles of preserving and sharing past loves in relation to recounting how written word efforts and community acknowledgement have honored Zora Neale Hurston, a woman who herself wrote in order to honor and preserve the often concealed, but discretely passed down, African American culture that survived hundreds of years of slavery and discriminatory religious & cultural practices.

Zora also wrote to preserve the memory of specific loves from her personal history. In Zora's work, Alice found a character named Shug, Alice's "outside" grandmother, her grandfather's lover, whose descendant Alice was named after. And if you've read or watched The Color Purple, you are familiar with Shug. There are real people behind most great literary characters.

Alice believes in preserving and sharing the good qualities of those who were unjustly dishonored and have passed from view. Her essay "Anything We Love Can Be Saved" was an address she gave at the the First Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1990, a festival bringing attention to and honoring the writings of Zora Neal Hurston. Injustice is not overcome through silence. As the subtitle of this book "A Writer's Activism" emphasizes, love is active, notorious, and publicized. The act of love may start "First in their own hearts," but it must be communicated to and shared with "the hearts of others. They have only to make their love inseparable from their belief. And both inseparable from hard work . . . Paying homage to her, memorializing her light, her struggle . . . brought us peace."

Sadness, not Depression.......2006-10-30

I am a lonely and sad person regularly. I would not describe myself as depressed, because depression too often has a meaning that the person is down due to misunderstanding. My sadness is borne out of knowing that worthwhile ideas, methods, and interactions exist, and knowing I am no longer able to participate with them. (Which ironically is an underestimated and underdiagnosed cause of real, clinical depression.)

When I get too sad, I pick up a book like this one by an author who has an insightful & challenging voice. When I feel an absence of someone challenging me with new & good ideas, I pretend that instead of just reading Ms. Walker's books - I pretend she is in the room with me discussing her radical ideas and intent on keeping me company with her arousing ideals. I imagine she appreciates attentive feedback, and a willingness to thoroughly consider all her ideas, even when she is angry.

And when I pause between ideas, I dream of a world that doesn't exist. I dream that most people would choose to act in ways similar to Ms. Walker. I allow myself to fantasize that most parents might choose to be less hypocritical and would agree to say for the sake of their daughters, "all I can promise her is not to lie" even if it "is painful to her, I believe nonetheless it is better than a lie. Surely better than the lies I was told - 'for my own good' - only to sniff them out eventually and become entangled in them."

Then I get a peaceful, easy feeling and like a mad one, I choose to live as if "love is best expressed through truth," "Because to me, it is precisely our personal memories of joy and delight in each other and our present passions and loves that sustain us." p. 66

And like Ms. Walker, I stubbornly refuse to forget or to pretend those memories never occured. It is a lonely refusal. It may be an unwise refusal. But it is a less unhealthy refusal for me than hypocrisy. It is not a raging refusal (as Ms. Walker indicates it is in her at times). And it is not a depressed refusal. It is a clear, conscious, chosen & sad refusal. And in that existence, I thank Ms. Walker for her ideas, her stubborn voice, her words against likely failures, and in my imaginary world - her companionship.

I love this book........2006-05-02

I want to be Alice Walker when I grow up, too bad that job has already been taken.

Thought Provoking.......2000-11-28

This is a very interesting book. One of the things that I enjoy most about Walker's writing is her ability to convey her perspective of the world. I esspecially liked the first two essay's, and the essay on her cat. I don't agree with absolutly all of Walker's points (Though I do agree with most of them), but this does nothing to undermine the power of the book. The book is sub-titled "A Writer's Activism" and it left me thinking about the place of activism in my own life. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, especially when read in conjunction with Walker's book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down".

Hook Up or Break Up #4: Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do (Hook Up or Break Up)

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Hook Up or Break Up #4: Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do (Hook Up or Break Up)
Kendall Adams
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Help!

I came to California for the summer to do something adventurous, but I never imagined that I would land three amazing guys at once! I'm having so much fun, but I need to pick one before they find out about each other and my love life goes back to nonexistent. I have no idea who to pick, so you're going to do it for me.

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God's Love Can Carry You Through Anything!

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God's Love Can Carry You Through Anything!
Steven Passmore
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Passion, laughter and a great hero
Just Great!!
Not a Keeper
Perfect!
Tears and laughs.

Anything, My Love
Cynthia Simmons
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Derinda James, the feisty, strong-willed, Boston-bred beauty, is excited to learn of the man who had sired her and travels into the wild Arizona Territory to meet the one time soldier and gunfighter. When he is killed, soon after, by the same man he had raised as a son, she is horrified and vows to take revenge against the half Indian gunslinger, who owns a large ranch in the territory of Wyoming. With Cheyenne blood surging through his veins, senses honed sharp from years of necessity, and probing steel blue eyes, Clinton Gage is not one to be fooled easily. From the start he is suspicious of the golden-curled, little liar whose loathing for him is as obvious as her desire. She is a mystery he intends to solve, but can he do it before he loses everything--even his heart? Emotions are laid bare and passion ignites, but even as she gives in to the love she can no longer deny, she knows she's gone too far.

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Passion, laughter and a great hero.......2004-01-14

This book grabbed me from the beginning. I am a first time reader of Cynthia Simmons and look forward to more of her books. The hero, Clint Gage, with Cheyenne blood surging through his blood and probing steel blue eyes is a perfect match for Derinda James, the fiesty, Boston-bred beauty who travels to the wild Arizona territory. I just loved it and once I started reading could not put it down. Very well written with great characters and wit. Can't wait for the sequel.

Just Great!!.......2003-08-14

Loved it! Loved it! So sweet, so sexy... The Woman's World story was touching, but the book itself was even better than I expected. Don't miss it, or Lawless by Palmer. Great, great reads.

Not a Keeper.......2003-06-06

I was quite disappointed in Anything, My Love. The characters weren't likable, the dialogue was stilted and boring and the plot was just too thin. I am a voracious reader, so I have many wonderful books and authors to compare it to. For the price of this book, you could read a Linda Howard, a Lori Foster and an Elizabeth Lowell. You'll be much more satisfied!

Perfect!.......2003-04-27

This is what romance should be. Filled with emotion, passion, humor and excitment. Clinton is the best and most wonderful Hero I have ever found in any book and Derindia is a trip. I loved all the characters and found the book heart warming and a real pleasure to read.

Tears and laughs........2003-04-14

If you like to feel lots of emotion when you read, this book will do it. There is also lots of sexual tension and lots of passion. It's soft and touching, funny and sexy. Most mostly it is the characters I liked. Caught up between lust, revenge and suspicion, Clint is so cool and calm--very hard to rattle, where Derinda's hot-temperd,impulsive and gets nervous easily. I read this book in one sitting and enjoyed it from start to end.

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A good read
Great time travel romance

Anything for Love
Jane Goodger
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When a stunning young supermodel is terribly injured in a fire, she longs for death...until a mysterious doctor givesher the power of new life. Now a poor Irish immigrant in the late 1800's, she is soon drawn to an elegant and handsome widower haunted by his own shattered dreams. But her borrowed life can be snatched away at any time, and she dares not change the past over something like falling in love!

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A good read.......1998-11-12

This is the fourth book I've read by Jane Goodger, but I didn't think it was her best. The love story wasn't as well written, but I felt that Jack and Victoria still had a good story.

Great time travel romance.......1997-10-03

Two years ago, former supermodel Victoria Ashford had her face burned and permanently scarred by a freak accidental fire. Very depressed that her life seems over, especially after her picture shows up in a tabloid, Victoria is thinking that suicide might be the only answer to end her torment. Her best friend convinces Victoria to visit Dr. John Wing, a mystic who claims he can give someone a new life. Skeptical that she is visiting a quack, Victoria soon finds herself residing in the body of Sheila Casey, who is about to give birth in 1898 Boston.

After her child is born, the infant is adopted by Jack and Christina Wilkins, but the wife soon dies. For some weird reason, Victoria finds that she must see her baby. At the same time, Jack needs a nurse to care for his infant, who seems to never stop crying. He hires Victoria and soon the pair falls in love. However, she fears that she does not know what guarantee there is that she will stay in the nineteenth century. He needs to overcome his feelings of guilt that he never loved his deceased wife. With all this baggage, this couple does not appear to have a relationship that can survive into the new century.

ANYTHING FOR LOVE is a wonderful human drama that demonstrates that life is worth living and love is worth taking chances on in order to feel complete. The time travel story line is very interesting and the characters are a wonderful couple (though Jack seems to be an anachronism). Jane Goodger provides a very good time travel romance that fans of the sub-genre will enjoy.

Harriet Klausner

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