feel like giving up - pt 2

[Gardener]

Trent,

This is by far THE BEST book I've read this year.

I am inclined to agree; I think this should almost be required reading for the LBS.

I also found two of Susan Anderson's observations very interesting: 1) when she said that abandoned spouses (husbands, mainly) exhibit almost all the classic symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and, 2) to a man, they (we) are completely incapable of giving a short just-the-basic-facts version. They (we) are almost compelled to tell the entire sitch, blow-by-blow almost as a way to continually validate to themselves that something very inexplicable and very traumatic did indeed happen to them (us). When I read this, I felt like it wasn't just me and my almost-victim-stance big mouth! I mentioned this to Serenity the other night and in her own words, Serenity felt the same sense of relief in hearing of this.