Synopses & Reviews
An indispensable guide to dating and mating the divorced man of your dreams
Entering a relationship with any man is daunting. But entering one with a divorced man means navigating a host of new and complicated problems. Will remnants of his past -- his guilt, the X, their children, the financial and legal fallout -- wreak havoc on your sanity and finances and sabotage your quest for love?
Don't despair: You can overcome these challenges and enjoy a lasting and fulfilling relationship with the emotionally complex divorced man. In this reassuring book, Leslie Fram combines fundamental wisdom, guerrilla tactics, and humor to inform and empower the millions of women who are dating divorcés -- and the many who someday will.
Invaluable and encouraging, How to Marry a Divorced Man offers all the tools you need to end the agonizing guesswork and pave the way to achieving love, intimacy, and, ultimately, marriage.
Included are:
- Specific questions for gauging his emotional availability: Is he recycled goods or a keeper?
- Tips on how to deal with the X in your lives: minimize, minimize, minimize.
- Advice on coexisting peacefully, and even happily, with his children -- assuming thy acknowledge your presence.
- Practical information about the legal and financial implications of his divorce: Will your hard-earned paycheck go toward his kids' braces?
- Strategies for helping him shed his unresolved issues, rebuilding his capacity to love again -- and making him yours.
Packed with exercises, quizzes, anecdotes, and plenty of humor, How to Marry a Divorced Man is the first book for women seeking to triumph over the challenges imposed by their men's prior lives.
Synopsis
"How to Marry a Divorced Man" removes all the agonizing guesswork and provides the tools to inform, support, amuse, comfort, and protect women in relationships with divorced men. Fram provides a truly comprehensive game plan that will benefit single-but-searching women everywhere.
About the Author
Leslie Fram has been an editor at Seventeen and Cosmopolitan, an executive at Hearst's website women.com, and a fashion designer for her own women's clothing company. She danced with the New York City Ballet before receiving her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She lives in northern California with her husband -- a divorced man -- and their child.