Category Archives: Self-Help

So Why Have You Never Been Married by Carl Weisman (Review)

Released May 2008 (New Horizon Press) * 224 pages * ISBN 13: 9780882823263
So Why Have You Never Been Married: 10 Insights Into Why He Hasn’t Wed by Carl Weisman is one man’s investigation of why he is over 40 and not yet married. Since Weismann did not know his own reasons, he set out to [...]

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Dating the Older Man by Vranich and Grashow (Review)

Released September 2008 (Adams Media) * 240 pages * ISBN 13: 9781598698183

Dating the Older Man: Consider Your Differences and Decide if He’s Right for You by Belisa Vranich and Laura Grashow is a guide for women either considering or already dating an older man. At least that’s the marketing. In fact the subtitle more accurately [...]

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Dating Makes You Want to Die by Holloway and Robinson (Review)

Released September 2008 (HarperCollins) * 224 pages * ISBN: 9780061456503

Dating Makes You Want to Die (But You Have To Do It Anyway) is a fun read. It is sarcastic and yet there is truth in the sarcasm. There are fun little quizzes, silly scenarios, and she says/he says banter. I like that the chapters progress [...]

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Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman (Review)

Released June 2002 (Health Communications) * 350 pages * ISBN 13: 9781558749528
Perfect Daughters by Robert J. Ackerman is a non-fiction book that reports the results of a survey of more than a thousand adult daughters of alcoholics. There are two editions (2002 and 1998) and this review is of the first edition (I am tracking [...]

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Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves (Review)

Released March 2004 (Gospel Light and Regal Books) * 370 pages * ISBN 10: 0830734236

This book is written by two family therapists. Stoop is founder and co-director of his Center for Family Therapy. Masteller is co-director of the Center and a family therapist there. Stoops personal background includes growing up in a dysfunctional family.
The focus [...]

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