Ex-wives And Ex-lives: Survival Guide For The Next Wife

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Summary: No Your Not Crazy...Next-Wife Feelings Are Common
Review: If you are a "next-wife" seeking validation for the assault of feelings that invade your sensibilities after saying "I do," then "Ex-Wives and Ex-Lives: Survival Guide for the Next Wife" by Paula Egner offers a shoulder to lean on. At only 125-pages, this little manifesto for next wives packs a punch (and even features women in boxing gloves on its cover). It reviews some of the common weebie-jeebies next-wives face - dealing with the grandmother who has photos of your husband and his ex-wife all over the living room, the feelings common to stepparents, handling hostile in-laws, living in his ex-wife's house, and managing the antagonistic ex who manipulates her children to spy on you and your spouse. Unfortunately it seemed like some of the anecdotes Egner drew from real step-couples had marriages ending in divorce - not a cheery thought indeed. Strategies for coping suggested here are minimal but helpful. If you have the stepmom-next-wife blues and need to hear a small voice to assure you that no, you are not losing it and your feelings are normal, this is the ticket.