How to Break Up, Survive and Thrive

By: Lyn Kelley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

New, revised edition 2026. Dr. Lyn tells you the right and wrong ways to break up. With over 25 years experience as a Certified Relationship Coach and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she draws from her own experience as well as her clients, family, and friends. It is vital to your well-being that you know the stages of pain and grieving, how to heal in the best way, and how it affects you if you don’t heal in this way. How to break up with someone you’re not really into, or you’ve lost your feelings for. How to break up with someone you are still in love with. Her strategies will cause you to heal and move on as quickly as possible with dignity and optimism. She provides the best information on how to break up with your lover successfully, leaving everyone better off for it. Here’s what you’ll get: Chapter 1: Normal Stages of a Relationship, Honeymoon, Disillusionment, Conflict and Negotiation, Plateau, Commitment, Chapter 2: When the Dream Dies, Fairy Tales, Expectations, Chapter 3: How to Know If You Should Break Up, Your Five Guiding Forces, The 9 Worst and the 9 Best Character Traits for a Good Relationship, The 3 A’s, Ambivalence, Should We Just Take a Break?, What If He’s a Great Guy But I’m Just Not That IN to Him?, Chapter 4: How to Do It When You Are the One to End It, How to End It When You’re Just Not That IN to Him, How to End It When He’s Not Right (or Good) For You, Can We Remain Friends?, Personal Boundaries, When to Amputate, You Don’t Know a Man Until You Break Up With Him, Chapter 5: How to Handle It When Your Mate Is the One to End It, He Breaks Up With You But Can’t Let You Go, The Addictive Relationship, Chapter 6: The Yo-Yo Syndrome, On Again Off Again, Tough Love, Drop the Need for Revenge, The 7 Worst Things You Can Do, The 7 Ways to Move On, Chapter 7: Healthy Grieving, Denial, Ange,r Bargaining, Sadness, Disappointment, Depression, How to Get Through the Pain, Acceptance, Healing, Reintegration, Chapter 8: How to Get Over It, Can Chemistry Be Changed? Stop the Insanity! Dating Detox, New Commitments, Chapter 9: Moving On and Thriving, Self Focus, What Oprah Knows For Sure, Chapter 10: Comes the Dawn, Let It Go.

Gentle Nudge Towards Healing

After a breakup-whether we ended things or just left in a stunned status when our significant other ends things, there is something for everyone to glean from this quick read. Chapter lengths are perfect, it does suffer slightly with the Virtual Narration, but much better quality than others, some that excessively say things like “slash” (s/he 200 times or so, lol).

good with a grain of salt

Most of what she says makes sense and I agree with her. However, she suggests to "discipline" (her word) one's love interest as one would a small child. I mean whatever floats her boat, but unless one (male or female) is incredibly (yes, incredibly!) valuable/attractive/endowed on the dating/relationship market, it is highly unlikely anyone would go through her laundry list of requirements, fair or otherwise...the woke/snowflake attitude of me, wonderful me would not be enough I fear. The computer-generated voice does a good job.