Dubbed the ¿The Love Doctor¿ by the San Francisco Chronicle, Daphne Rose Kingma is an emotional healer, spiritual guide, former psychotherapist, relationship expert, keynote speaker, and author. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages, selling over a million and a half copies. A frequent guest on Oprah and Charlie Rose, Kingma has appeared on various television and radio programs.

A longtime resident of Santa Barbara, California, she is also a frequent workshop leader at Big Sur's prestigious Esalen Institute.

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Contents

Foreword
A Note to My Readers
Introduction to the Revised Edition

1 A Hand to Hold
2 Why Is Breaking Up So Hard to Do?
3 Exploding the Love Myths: Why Are We Really in Relationships?
4 Charting the Life-Span of Love: Seven Relationships and Why They Ended
5 The Emotional Process of Parting
6 The Unconscious Process of Parting
7 Binding the Wounds: How to Get Through the Ending
8 The Postscript Relationship: An Antidote to Love
9 Finding Resolution: A Personal Workbook
10 Is There Love after Love?
11 A Ritual for Parting

A Diagnostic Coda: When Love No Longer Works¿Signs and Symptoms of Ending