Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay, Go...Or Do Both

When a marriage feels like it's over, knowing what to do next can be incredibly challenging, especially when kids are involved. Some couples are quick to split because they are unwilling to put in the necessary effort to fixing their relationship or to understanding their partners. Others miss out on personal fulfillment by staying too long in unhealthy marriages. Most folks born before the mid 1990s have no idea that creative and nuanced solutions exist, so are caught between a rock and a hard place.

Written by a therapist with well over two decades of experience counseling those considering divorce, this insightful and practical guide (a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller its first week in the publication of the first edition) can help make the path more clear and less daunting. There's no better book to help you evaluate your marriage to determine whether you should stick with your mate, leave or do both. Without bias toward or against any of the options, Contemplating Divorce includes helpful tools to guide you in the right direction.

• Use the tests and relationship evaluations to assess your level of fulfillment in your marriage
• Learn about the five types of needs happy marriages satisfy
• Find out how to fix "problem areas" in your relationship
• Plan for the future, whether you decide to stay, leave, or create an alt marriage.

"This is a much-needed book. The anxiety of making a life-changing decision is sometimes overwhelming. It is of immense help to have a coach like Susan Pease Gadoua!"
JOHN BRADSHAW, best-selling author of Homecoming and Creating Love

SUSAN PEASE GADOUA, LCSW, is the founder and executive director of the Changing Marriage Institute located in the greater San Francisco Bat Area, an agency that provides coaching, therapy and workshops to people who are at some stage of marital dissolution or discord.