From We to Me

Embracing Life Again After the Death or Divorce of a Spouse

Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge, Robert C. De Vries

• Publisher: Baker Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441212313
• Year: 2010

While we don't like to think about it, marriages eventually do come to an end, either with the death of a spouse or tragically through divorce. This "end" of a relationship leaves the other partner alone and facing an uncertain future. Whether widowed or divorced, the feeling and experience of aloneness--moving from being a "we to a me"---is a common one. This latest book from noted grief experts and authors Zonnebelt-Smeenge and De Vries focuses on two of five grief journey tasks--separating oneself and reinvesting fully in one's own life--offering a unique self-help, psychological, and spiritual guide for the process of helping either the widowed or divorced to redefine and reinvest in life.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• 1 MOVING FROM WE TO ME: REDISCOVERING YOURSELF THROUGH YOUR GRIEF JOURNEY
• 2 POTHOLES AND CRATERS: FILLING THE VOIDS WHEN NO LONGER MARRIED
• 3 DECIDING TO REMAIN “ME” OR BECOME “WE” AGAIN: SINGLENESS VERSUS DATING
• 4 THE SECOND TIME AROUND: THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DATING AND REMARRIAGE
• 5 IN OUR OWN WORDS: A SEQUEL TO “THE SECOND TIME AROUND”
• 6 BLENDED OR CHUNKY: THE ART OF PARENTING AND STEPPARENTING
• 7 IN OUR OWN WORDS: A SEQUEL TO “BLENDED OR CHUNKY”
• 8 EMBRACING YOUR PAST—EMPOWERING YOUR FUTURE: THE ART OF MOVING ON
• NOTES