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"In He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40, Erica Manfred shares her own divorce experience, as well as the advice of experts, with specific sections tailored to women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Manfred was left for a younger woman in 2003, and eventually learned to both survive and thrive. After educating herself in the areas many women have barely even thought of when considering divorce, she is the kind of girlfriend a woman needs when facing both menopause and the trauma of divorce. She can help save divorcees lots of anguish, and lots of cash. HE'S HISTORY, YOU'RE NOT discusses how to:* Avoid ""kiss of death"" marriage counselors to determine if reconciliation is possible. * Find an affordable divorce lawyer who does not snort scornfully at the word ""mediation.""* Survive the first, worst, year.* Deal with your adult or teen kids (who can be just as devastated as small children). * Get back to work or find a new career. (Age discrimination does not have to stop you.)* Use the Internet to date the Viagra generation. * Restore your self-esteem despite body parts that have succumbed to gravity. * Forgive the bastard (and yourself) and finally move on...and much more."

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Divorce is the loss of a relationship and the death of dreams. It is also a beginning with new hope and possibility. Reading He's History, You're Not is like having a friend on your side to help you let go of the past, get through the turmoil, and turn to a better future. --Abigail Trafford, author of Crazy Time and As Time Goes By Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age Of Longevity <p> Erica Manfred wants to be your best girlfriend, the one who stands by your side every step of the way through the tsunami of divorce. And, with this book, she succeeds. But not only is she a best girlfriend, she's a smart girlfriend offering great advice on emotional, legal, financial, and spiritual matters, thoroughly researched and referenced for those who want to dig deeper--and for later, when it's time to move on, she offers advice on Internet dating as well. Best of all, Manfred herself has walked every inch of the divorce plank an

Divorce is the loss of a relationship and the death of dreams. It is also a beginning with new hope and possibility. Reading He's History, You're Not is like having a friend on your side to help you let go of the past, get through the turmoil, and turn to a better future. --Abigail Trafford, author of Crazy Time and As Time Goes By Boomerang Marriages, Serial Spouses, Throwback Couples, and Other Romantic Adventures in an Age Of Longevity <p> Erica Manfred wants to be your best girlfriend, the one who stands by your side every step of the way through the tsunami of divorce. And, with this book, she succeeds. But not only is she a best girlfriend, she's a smart girlfriend offering great advice on emotional, legal, financial, and spiritual matters, thoroughly researched and referenced for those who want to dig deeper--and for later, when it's time to move on, she offers advice on Internet dating as well. Best of all, Manfred herself has walked every inch of the divorce plank and with disarming honesty lets us see her own successes and failures on the road back to sanity. A must read for anyone contemplating a divorce or going through one. --Susan Richards, author of Chosen by a Horse and Chosen Forever <p> Erica Manfred's He's History You're Not is for every woman who suffers the anguish of a ruptured relationship. Having survived and surmounted the pain of her own divorce, Manfred is every reader's 'wise friend, ' sharing her own story and the fund of knowledge she accrued along the way so the rest of us need never feel 'alone' or believe we can't survive. For we can; and we do, as Manfred teaches us, inevitably emerge the stronger for it. --Florence Falk, Ph.D., psychotherapist, and author of On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone Erica Manfred's book is exactly what it sets out to be: the warm, witty, gritty, kind, and very knowing friend who's forged ahead, through a forbidding place, and blazed the trail before you. It's packed with informat

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Erica Manfred is a freelance journalist in her early sixties who separated from her husband in 2001 and got divorced in 2006. Her personal essays and self-help articles about relationships, parenting, consumer issues, health, legal issues and other subjects have appeared in Cosmopolitan, New York Times Magazine, Ms., New Age Journal, New York Newsday, Parenting, Village Voice, Woman's Day, SELF, Consumers Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Bottom Line/Personal, and many others. Two of her essays have been anthologized in college textbooks. As a contributing editor to Bottom Line/Personal consumer newsletter for ten years, she interviewed hundreds of experts in the popular psychology, health and many other fields and translated their ideas into useful articles that emphasized self-help. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Freelance Success; the Mystery Writers of America and the Professional Association of Resume Writers. Her most recent project was as co-author and self-publisher of a consumer medical book: The Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery, with Louis Flancbaum M.D., which was sold to Random House in 2003. She is currently running a women's divorce support group in Woodstock, New York under the auspices of the Mental Health Association of Ulster County. She has a background in social work as a caseworker for the New York State Division for Youth where she counseled families and children for eight years.

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