Is This Relationship Over? Knowing When and How to End It

by Susan Campbell

This book is for you
•you are dating someone and are uncertain whether to leave, to go deeper, or to transition to a friendship with this person;
•you are in a longer-term relationship and are considering these same options;
•you have recently ended a relationship and are dealing with the aftermath;
•you are dating and want to be more conscious about the possibility that this one may not last forever;
•you are beginning a significant relationship and want to educate yourselves about how to prevent things from going sour.

In Chapter One, you will learn the most common reasons why relationships end. Start here if you want to know how to prevent the uncessary demise of your relationship(s). Chapter Three is especially for people who are already in a relationship and are wondering if they should stay or leave. This material will help you assess your needs and values as well as your characteristic style of dealing with endings. Chapter Four will help you heal after a break-up, showing you how to mine the pain for personal transformation. Chapter Five contains completion exerciese that you can do either alone or with a partner.

45 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 24, 2008

About the author

Susan Campbell is an award-winning environmental journalist, author, and communications specialist. She covered the Fox River and Green Bay cleanup controversy from 1995 through 2000 as environmental reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Her extensive Fox River reporting won national and state honors, including a national “Best of Gannett” award for specialty reporting in 1997; an enterprise reporting award from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association in 1997; beat, staff enterprise, and specialty reporting awards from Gannett in 1997, 1998, and 2000; and a spot news award from the Milwaukee Press Club in 1999. The Fox River stories were also honored by the local Green Bay community, earning the “Conservation of Natural Resources Award” from the Green Bay Mayor’s Beautification Committee and the “Clean Bay Backer Award” from the Remedial Action Plan Committee.

Campbell is also co-author of Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) with the late Earth Day founder U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Her articles have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Psychology Today and Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. She’s shared her passion for local newspapers as an adjunct journalism instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and for the environment as a public speaker in classrooms and at Earth Day events.

After her newspaper career, Campbell championed Great Lakes protections, notably passage of the landmark Great Lakes Compact, as communications manager for the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes. In 2017 she branched out to focus on sustainable real estate, promoting energy efficiency in homes and working to raise the profile of sustainable homes nationally as a founding member of the National Association of REALTORS’ Sustainability Advisory Group.