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Stay or Leave

How to Remain In, or End, Your Relationship

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Stay or Leave

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
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A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future.

Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.

What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed rules for judgement. How can we tell whether a relationship is 'good enough' or plain wrong? How do we draw the line between justified longing and naivety? Does someone 'better' actually exist? Should the feelings of children be counted (and what might they be in the long term?) Could one's partner change, perhaps with therapy, or should one assume that who they are now is who they will always be?

All these questions typically haunt our minds as we weigh up whether to stay or go. With no axe to grind or ideology to promote, Stay or Leave walks us gently through our options, opening our minds to perspectives we might not have considered.

This book aims to take the listener towards a time, presently hard to imagine, when the choice will no longer feel so agonizing. Using its lessons, we can understand ourselves deeply, consider our options, minimize our regrets, and find the way ahead.

©2021 The School of Life (P)2024 The School of Life Divorce & Separation Marriage & Long-Term Partnerships Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
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Some good points made and it has helped me, but the whole thing has been condensed into completely simplified terms, nuance lost. Maybe that’s a good thing. And agree with previous review - the narration completely lets it down; jarring and takes away from the seriousness of the underlying message. Even had to speed it up a tad. Sounds like AI. Don’t know how this was given the green light.

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I couldn’t listen due to the poor intonation of the reading. Every three or four words is lifted like a question and sounds very unnatural.

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