When He Leaves: Choosing to Live, Love, and Laugh Again
Author: Kari West, Noelle Quinn
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ISBN: 1564766993
Publisher: Chariot Victor Books (01 February, 1998)
Sales Rank: 58,511
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
This book SAVED my SANITY!!!!
I can't say enough about this book. I stumbled across it and it truely was a godsend. The authors, Kari and Nicole, seem like good friends. I was in what I thought was a good, solid marriage--my friends envied how devoted my husband was--and in the space of a week, my life blew up! My husband of 12 years blew the mind of all our family when he left me 5 weeks after my son was born. His affair was a bomb that no one who knew him ever thought he would throw. This book doesn't blame but it also reminds you that When He Leaves, God will uphold you and that the shame lies with the one who broke the covenant, not you. It is written with humor and grace by two women who have stared hell in the face and triumphed. Reading it is like a booster shot of confidence. If you can only get 1 book on divorce, this is THE ONE!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Treasures out of Dark Times
Would you think divorce is just as common within the Christian world as in the world at large? Neither Kari nor Noelle Quinn her co-author (both pen names of well-known Christian writers) ever imagined such a thing happening to their Christian marriages. But their husbands had hidden lives - adulteries that nuked their marriages. The authors and their children went through unwanted divorces. They met at a writer's conference and this book was born.Barbara Johnson of Spatula Ministries endorses When He Leaves. The cover promises to lead the reader toward choosing to live, love and laugh again. The book delivers. You follow their journeys from courtship to shipwreck - through shock, despair, regrouping, repairing and rebuilding their lives with God's help, a divorce support group and time.
Anyone who has weathered a profound loss whether through death, disability or divorce will be touched by this book. Transparent about their inner lives, they offer kind tips in lighthearted style tempered compassion born of the fire of their testings. Wonderful sidebars include: the Prayer for Rage, Eight Promises I make to my Children, and wise words about verbal exploitation for women caught in the web of marriage to a controlling man. Women can be as guilty of this sin, which shoves God to the side and dictates to the soul of another.
When He Leaves is written in a vivid lyrical style similar to Annie Dillard. The book should be recommended reading for every Christian. It will broaden your understanding of extreme loss, and help us show God's compassion to one another in the tough places in life. Thank you Kari West and Noelle Quinn for writing about being raised from the death of a marriage into new life. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the authors at a conference. She confided this honest book was published under the pen names in hopes there will be a redemptive time in her ex husband's life .......................
Rating: 5 out of 5
Soothing to the battered soul
I found this book at the public library...what a Godsend! I decided just a couple of chapters into it...I have to buy a copy of my own. Easy to read in small doses, I laughed, cried, and healed through every page. I will read it over and over, as long as I need to. I've recommended it to friends, even to a Marriage & Family Counselor friend of mine, for her clients who are suffering through a divorce. Down to earth and straight from God, these womens are a blessing. Similar Products
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