Leaving Him Behind Cutting the Cord and Breaking Free After the Marriage Ends

- Does your ex-husband still have the key to your house?
- Does your anger about your divorce prevent you from trusting in new relationships?
- Do you allow yourself to be seduced by your ex-husband and then hate yourself for letting it happen?

If you said yes to any of the above, you may be a victim of the ex-wife syndrome. Psychotherapist Sandra S. Kahn has observed time and again that divorced women often find it difficult to separate from their ex-husbands, even when the marriage is over. Held captrive by strong emotions--fear, anger, shame, even love--they relive the past when they need to make a break and forge a new, self-sufficient life. In Leaving Him Behind, Kahn helps women to recognize how they are still trapped by a marriage gone bad--and what they can do about it. She offers a step-by-step program to regain self-confidence and independence.

Praise for Leaving Him Behind

"Chock full of advice any divorced woman could use."--The Toronto Star

"Thoughtful . . . Helpful . . . Long-divorced women could benefit from [her] advice."--The Cincinnati Post

"How to transform . . . into a self-sufficient matriarch, capable of assuming full responsibility for oneself and one's children . . . Useful hard-nose advice."--Kirkus Reviews