Summary of Mira Kirshenbaum's Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 You’ve been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you’ve been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you’re ready to make the choice that’s been weighing on your heart.

#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now, you haven’t found the kind of evidence that speaks to your heart and makes clear what’s best for you.

#3 You can find answers to the questions most important to you: whether the two of you really do fit together, whether the things that bother you will get better or worse, and whether you can improve the relationship on your own.

#4 As you see what’s right for you to do, you’ll be able to put love into perspective among all the other things you care about.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669355342

IRB Media

With IRB books, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.

Book preview

Insights on Mira Kirshenbaum's Too Good to Leave Too Bad to Stay

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You’ve been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you’ve been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you’re ready to make the choice that’s been weighing on your heart.

#2

Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now, you haven’t found the kind of evidence that speaks to your heart and makes clear what’s best for you.

#3

You can find answers to the questions most important to you: whether the two of you really do fit together, whether the things that bother you will get better or worse, and whether you can improve the relationship on your own.

#4

As you see what’s right for you to do, you’ll be able to put love into perspective among all the other things you care about.

#5

My mission is to help you rediscover the value of your own experience. I will not pull a rabbit out of a hat that has nothing to do with your feelings and observations about your partner and your relationship. Instead, I will help you re-embrace the basics of your own experience.

#6

If you’ve suspected that it’s not good for you to stay up in the air, you’re right. Staying ambivalent can cause tremendous damage. Being stuck like this can end up killing you emotionally if you stay when you should be getting out.

#7

Dee, a 29-year-old buyer, had lived with Keith for four years. She was never really happy. They kept fighting about his irresponsibility, which she was afraid would only get worse in the future. After they broke up last year, she was happier. But she was lonely.

#8

The Cost of Staying up in the Air is the negative impact that ambivalence has on our relationships. It takes years to recover from the strain that it puts on them.

#9

We live in an age that promotes self-awareness, but fails to teach us how to use our self-awareness to arrive at good decisions. We learn more and more things about ourselves without learning how to sort them out or feel them.

#10

Because we are all different, we can learn from each other. But we are also all similar, and it is from these similarities that medicine and psychology can help us.

#11

The answers to these questions evolved into the guidelines and principles presented in this book. The ultimate test of these truths is in one-on-one work with individuals like you.

#12

To be fully responsible to your uniqueness, you must be very careful about telling you what to do. But if you’ve found deep and powerful truths that hold up for large numbers of people, don’t you have a responsibility to tell them.

#13

The truths I’ve discovered are the kinds of things that make sense to people. They are the sorts of truths that can be difficult to face, but they are the sorts of truths that are necessary if you want to move forward in your life.

#14

When you start to feel all the pros and cons of your relationship, you’re not just feeling all the pros and cons of your relationship, but

Reviews for Summary of Mira Kirshenbaum's Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay

[Google User · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Poor English and Grammer, I don't think the person who wrote the summary ever proofread it.