3 Comments for How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days: A Day-by-Day Guide to Saying Good-bye and Getting On With Your Life

• 1. Lily  |  September 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

  Being dumped by the love of my life placed me at a near suicidal place, in a dank grey town in mid-winter. This is a very serious topic and should not be exploited. I looked at every book out there including some mentioned in other reviews of this book. I don’t write reviews. I’ve never done this, but this subject is far too serious, and I sense that some authors are trying to “minimize” certain works just so they can sell their books. And they don’t even identify themselves. Hmmm.THIS BOOK HELPED ME IN WAYS YOU CANNOT IMAGINE, so much so that I wrote to the authors and THEY WROTE ME BACK A PERSONAL AND SUPPORTIVE NOTE. If you’re reading this and trying to figure out which book to buy for this very serious time in your life, this is an honest unpretentious book that will help you, and this topic is far too serious to play games with your own life. You’ll be okay. I promise, and this book will help you. I promise.

• 2. Michaela  |  September 29th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  I’m a pretty solid individual and very little affects me. But when my young bride left me during my honeymoon, that pretty much did me in. I was far too proud to ask for help but my sister sent me this book which at first, I thought was a topic exclusively for women. But this book allowed me to get back on track and, to do so privately. No therapists for me, thank you. In fact, after reading about half of it, I began to understand that much of my downfall was from the choices I made. What was I thinking? Actually, I don’t think I was thinking. When a book changes your life for the better, you should tell people about it. I know there are men like me who feel they have no place to turn. This book is not just for woman. It has tools that help people and you know how we like tools. If this book could help me, I think it could pretty much help anyone in the same situation.

• 3. Phinnaeus  |  September 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

  This is the only book that I can wholly endorse for both men and women. For one thing, the cover isn’t pink-whoever said you can’t judge a book by its cover wasn’t scanning shelves for breakup books. Also, it’s written by two men so it doesn’t have that “you go girl!” tone that one often finds in relationship books written for women (in other words, most relationship books.) The other reason I highly recommend this book to anyone is that it’s the only breakup recovery book I know of that is written for any person in the throes of heartbreak, including the person who ended the relationship. Because of this, the book is very balanced and objective, with absolutely no blame-laying or victim-playing rhetoric in any of the thirty short chapters.

  Overall, I found How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days extremely pragmatic, organized, and well written. It’s sympathetic without being touchy-feely and it’s serious without being boring. Good work, Bronson and Riley! You go, guys!

  Sample of Suggested Activities:
  Clean your office, have a good laugh, have a good cry, make love to strangers (telepathically), exercise, spend a half-hour in a floatation tank, drink hot cocoa at bedtime

  Best/Most Useful Line or Advice:
  “Did you work too hard to maintain your recent relationship? Bend over backward, swallow your pride, play the doormat to prevent any conflicts?” Wow! How did they know? Wait a minute-did I date one of these guys?

  Weirdest/Not At All Useful Line or Advice:
  On day 14, Bronson and Riley recommended a two-week checkup to “acknowledge the truth.” I don’t think they meant that I should go for coffee with my ex, burst into tears, and hurl accusations while nosy Starbucks patrons looked at him like he was the Antichrist-but that’s pretty much what I did and, let me tell you, it didn’t help much. Two weeks is too soon to schedule an exit interview because the pain is still awfully fresh. I think it’s much better to wait and “acknowledge the truth” when the truth is that you no longer give a damn.

  This book is great for:
  People who have never read a self-help book
  Virgos

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