Goodbye To You: A Girlfriend’s Guide To Wake You Up Before You Go Go Through Divorce Paperback

So you’re considering divorce. Or, maybe you’ve already started down that road to nowhere fun. Now, what do you do? If the holes in your jeans were big and your hair was bigger the last time you had to think about being single, then you’re going to need help navigating this mad world.

Goodbye to You is the latest book from Annette Marie Westwood, author of Don’t Go in that Room!: A Girlfriend’s Guide to Avoiding Dating and Relationship Hell. In this book, Annette offers the same tough love to women considering divorce, guiding them around the landmines they may face, to help them avoid unnecessary pain.

Even though this is a serious topic, we can always do with a little levity; so, being a child of the 80s and an enduring fan of 80s music, Annette turned to the music of her generation for inspiration. From Part I – Should I Stay or Should I Go, through Part II – Another One Bites the Dust, to Part III – The Future’s So Bright, I’ve Gotta Wear Shades, you will get solid advice for how to survive and even come to thrive after divorce with references to songs that have captured every aspect of love we can experience. From the sad songs that will make you cry to the ones that will have you dancin’ in the streets, music is some of the best therapy there is. Let Annette’s advice and the songs of the 80s get you back on your feet, literally and figuratively, to find new joy, no matter what your relationship status might be.

What makes this divorce book different from others is that Annette considers it her first responsibility to help you avoid divorce if possible. She encourages you to re-engage with yourself first, and then with your spouse to find what is worth saving. As long as the problems in the marriage don’t involve potential risk to personal safety, Annette believes you can reconnect with the love that brought you together in the first place and possibly avoid divorce altogether.

If you try her approach and find divorce is just inevitable, then the same work you will have done to try to salvage your marriage will give you a strong foundation for getting through the coming months of separation, court battles, and adjusting to a new world order.