{"product_id":"when-your-spouse-comes-out-carol-grever-9780789036292","title":"When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual","description":"Effective therapeutic self-help techniques for a straight mate's recovery \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most traumatic events that can happen in a marriage is discovering your mate is gay. \u003cem\u003eWhen Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive exploration of the trauma that provides practical steps that successful individuals have taken to keep this event from ruining their future. This guide offers solid therapeutic techniques for self-help and presents poignant true stories that illustrate that the damage is not irreparable. The book examines the various reactions to the coming-out event, the personal challenges and obstacles often experienced, and shares lessons learned and some of the secrets of transformation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen this crisis hits home, isolation, depression, anger, grief, and self-recrimination take root. \u003cem\u003eWhen Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual\u003c\/em\u003e presents role models, analysis, practices, and activities promoting long-term emotional recovery for heterosexual men and women whose intimate partners are gay. The text includes integrated exercises helpful for class work and student discussion and case studies of people who recount their stories and explain their recovery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTopics in \u003cem\u003eWhen Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual\u003c\/em\u003e include: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003edifferent straight spouse responses to the coming out event \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ediverse ways gay mates approach coming out \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etypical stages of coping by straight spouses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehealth risks \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow to tell the children \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehelping children with the resulting challenges \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epaths toward healing \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erecreating family \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand more \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual\u003c\/em\u003e offers a self-directed path to recovery which can be used individually or in the context of a support group. This guide is invaluable for straight spouses working alone or in groups, therapists, counselors, group facilitators, librarians, families of gays\/lesbians, and their mates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Grever, Deborah Bowman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0789036290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789036292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.11h x 6.20w x 0.36d","brand":"Carol Grever","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054507651327,"sku":"9780789036292","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4faad2b3-4153-4208-a831-f53ad1b79215.jpg?v=1685030352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-your-spouse-comes-out-carol-grever-9780789036292","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}