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Creative Divorce
Divorce therapist Mel Krantzler approaches the subject of divorce from a unique perspective and offers an optimistic outlook and hopeful opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and renew their individuality. CREATIVE DIVORCE draws parallels between the relationship and the life cycle, in order to help men and women cope during their period of mourning and find a new life after the death of their old one. Krantzler addresses the myriad of emotions that the divorce crisis stirs up in both men and women such as guilt, rejection, loneliness and anger, and teaches how to allow divorce to be the catalyst for positive transformations in your life.
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200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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September 24, 2017
Ice Cream and African Drumming
This is the book that you give to your partner after you have been told that he/she would like an open marriage.
I read this book back in 1975 after my first and only divorce. It will tell you how to have a nice, polite divorce, along with relieving you of guilt that you may have felt in the result of this failure of your marriage.
But if your marriage had been bad like mine, you will not need this book; instead you will find a great freedom and joy:
You give me joy
Down deep in my soul
Down deep in my soul
Down deep in my soul
~~from the song, Freedom and Joy
The best thing is, I didn’t have to ask for any more ice cream money, which I used to do when I was unhappily married. I would leave the apartment and walk to the bus stop, where I would take the bus to spend the day in Berkeley.
I had a friend who saved me. She said that I could move in with her. I brought my college books, especially my Immanuel Velikovsky book, a few clothes, some kitchen ware, snd the vacuum vacuum cleaner, leaving my husband with my aquarium. One day he knocked at my door asking me if I would trade the vacuum for the aquarium that he had no use for. What? You sleep with my crazy friend and you think I will trade you the vacuum, that expensive Filter Queen that you bought from the door-to-door salesman? NO!” Ah, by this time I had begun reading books on women’s liberation. But the story doesn’t end here. While I no longer had to ask my husband for ice cream, my room mate kept eating all that I bought. That is when I moved to rooming house in Berkeley.
But best of all, I no longer had to ask for ice cream money to get to Berkeley, I was in walking distance of the college, Telegraph Avenue, and Sproul Plaza where I would sit and listen to people argue with the preacher that was trying to save us heathens. And then there were the African Americans that sat and played their drums, It was always about the drumming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOY9f...
This is the book that you give to your partner after you have been told that he/she would like an open marriage.
I read this book back in 1975 after my first and only divorce. It will tell you how to have a nice, polite divorce, along with relieving you of guilt that you may have felt in the result of this failure of your marriage.
But if your marriage had been bad like mine, you will not need this book; instead you will find a great freedom and joy:
You give me joy
Down deep in my soul
Down deep in my soul
Down deep in my soul
~~from the song, Freedom and Joy
The best thing is, I didn’t have to ask for any more ice cream money, which I used to do when I was unhappily married. I would leave the apartment and walk to the bus stop, where I would take the bus to spend the day in Berkeley.
I had a friend who saved me. She said that I could move in with her. I brought my college books, especially my Immanuel Velikovsky book, a few clothes, some kitchen ware, snd the vacuum vacuum cleaner, leaving my husband with my aquarium. One day he knocked at my door asking me if I would trade the vacuum for the aquarium that he had no use for. What? You sleep with my crazy friend and you think I will trade you the vacuum, that expensive Filter Queen that you bought from the door-to-door salesman? NO!” Ah, by this time I had begun reading books on women’s liberation. But the story doesn’t end here. While I no longer had to ask my husband for ice cream, my room mate kept eating all that I bought. That is when I moved to rooming house in Berkeley.
But best of all, I no longer had to ask for ice cream money to get to Berkeley, I was in walking distance of the college, Telegraph Avenue, and Sproul Plaza where I would sit and listen to people argue with the preacher that was trying to save us heathens. And then there were the African Americans that sat and played their drums, It was always about the drumming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOY9f...
November 14, 2011
You still carrying around some funk about your past marriage?
As a 30 something who is now 6 months officially divorced I was ready to work on cleaning up some of my funky baggage so, I picked up this dense little self-help book published in 1975 for 25 cents (ya gotta love that) outside a local used book store and figured, "What the hell, the price is right!"
And you know, I gotta say this was a very positive and emotionally productive read for me. Exactly what I needed to get me thinking about some of the old relationship patterns I have been holding onto in addition to some areas which I could honestly still use some tuning up.
I am guessing the updated version (pictured above) likely takes into account how much societal norms have expanded in the last 35 years.. but even still this '70's edit was extremely helpful.
Give it a try if your ready to let go and move on...or even if you think you have let go and moved on...you might find some old ghosts still floating around!
NOTE:
Post read I did some research on the author Mel Krantzler, who was apparently a longtime counselor in the Bay Area. I found out sadly that he just recently passed away. See Below.
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_1...
As a 30 something who is now 6 months officially divorced I was ready to work on cleaning up some of my funky baggage so, I picked up this dense little self-help book published in 1975 for 25 cents (ya gotta love that) outside a local used book store and figured, "What the hell, the price is right!"
And you know, I gotta say this was a very positive and emotionally productive read for me. Exactly what I needed to get me thinking about some of the old relationship patterns I have been holding onto in addition to some areas which I could honestly still use some tuning up.
I am guessing the updated version (pictured above) likely takes into account how much societal norms have expanded in the last 35 years.. but even still this '70's edit was extremely helpful.
Give it a try if your ready to let go and move on...or even if you think you have let go and moved on...you might find some old ghosts still floating around!
NOTE:
Post read I did some research on the author Mel Krantzler, who was apparently a longtime counselor in the Bay Area. I found out sadly that he just recently passed away. See Below.
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_1...
February 8, 2021
Though it was written decades ago and some information is quite outdated, there are still some gold nuggets here.
January 12, 2016
This book shows for us so many example of people who seperated from each other, in marriage, and it teaches us that divorce can be treated in different way to make a creatie way and successful one ever...
December 12, 2007
Rated: D-
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