In Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay, psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum shows how to diagnose your situation with a careful line of questions and self-analysis that illuminates every part of your relationship: How well do you and your partner really communicate? Who has the power over whom? What is your sex life really like, and how important is it compared to other aspects of life together? What do your partner and you agree on, and where do you oppose each other? What are your partner's problems, and what are your own? What sins are forgivable and what ones unpardonable? What will you gain if you go off on your own, and what will you lose? Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable? Is your vision of a fresh start by yourself realistic or a pipe dream?
Along with carefully worked out questions, Mira Kirshenbaum provides in-depth guidelines as the key to making your decisions. This remarkably insightful and probing guide - filled with actual case studies - offers sensible, sane, and reliable advice that not only helps readers in their search for the truth about their relationships, it gives them the ability and the basis to make one of life's most important decisions.
Mira Kirshenbaum is an individual and family psychotherapist in private practice and the clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Massachusetts. She is the author of four books, including the phenomenally successful Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay (available from Plume), and has appeared on many national television shows, including The Today Show, Maury Povich, Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, and an ABC News special with John Stossel. She is married, has two grown children, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.