I think this is the most useful book I ever wrote. One military wife credits it with saving her life. Her new mother-in-law gave it to her soon after she married an Air Force officer, and before he left for his first tour away from home after they married, they used the security chapter of this book to intruder-proof her apartment. While her husband was away, someone tried to break into her apartment, could not get it, broke into an apartment down the hall and raped and killed the young woman there.

No wonder national newspaper columnist Ana Veciana Suarez called it "A book every woman needs on her night stand."   

  It's a humorous, practical more-than-survival manual for women who cope with life on their own:

• single women
• women who are widowed or divorced
• women married to men who are away a great deal of the time:
  • military men
  • pilots
  • entertainers
  • professional athletes
  • police officers
  • lawyers
  • doctors & nurses
  • ministers
  • corporate executives
  • firefighters
  • politicians
  • truck drivers
  • prisoners
  • salesmen
  • loners

Highly readable, practical, and encouraging, this is a great gift for women who are newly widowed, divorced, or getting married to a man who will often be away. Also provides great discussion starters for women’s study or support groups.
Compiled from interviews with sixty-five women who have learned not merely to survive but to thrive as woman home alone, and also interviews with experts in the fields of medicine, security, real estate, home and auto repair, and counseling.
Topics covered:

• how to make confident decisions on your own
• keeping worries down to size
• dealing with loneliness
• facing holidays alone
• cooking for one
• preparing for and coping with medical emergencies
• staying safe at home, in the car, on the street, and in groups
• basic finances any woman needs to know
• how to make major purchases with confidence--and pits to watch out for
• money questions to ask before you marry
• what a wife needs to know about family finances if she’s often home alone
• how to handle common household repairs--and preparing for crises before they happen
• coping with a cranky car--and preparing for common emergencies before they happen
• learning to relax and cope as a single parent
• coping with kids in families where Dad comes and goes
• reasons to celebrate being alone

Also: eight handy checklists to help prepare for emergencies before they happen

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