This new book by
Ashton Applewhite is a feast. There is relatively little of Ashton Applewhite
here and a great deal of the heroic, sometimes inspiring, sometimes mundane
stories of women who have survived. Applewhite is unabashed in her support
of divorce as the correct choice for women locked in bad marriages.
I'm recommending
Cutting Loose now for all my female clients who have been living
with an abusive man. In addition, though, I'm buying it and giving it to
all my male friends who are newlyweds or about to get married. I
say that because reading it has given me a new perspective about, and a
new approach to, my own marriage. This is good stuff.
Cutting
Loose : Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
by Ashton Applewhite