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Readers' Reviews
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I've just finished your incredibly moving book. Many, many thanks! Thank you for sharing your experiences. Thank you for being so open and honest. Thank you for being a friend to women you'll never meet. I'm keeping your book in a special place in my home. I know I will refer to it often and I will also share it with my friends. Your book is like a stone tossed into a pond. The ripples will go on and on.
Susan
Dearest Sheila,
My thanks to you for sharing such a deeply personal and painful chapter of your life with us....I'm certain that you have already helped more people than you could imagine. I've sent your book to my mother, and I will reach out to you after she's read it - I'm sure your message will be well received. Bless you and stay tuned!
Pat Battle NBC-TV
I received your book on Friday and read it on Saturday. WOW! I was reading about myself. All of those feelings, the fear, the anger, the love and the guilt, the independence and the depression, that ache for a loving touch - all of it - amazing. When I was finished reading your book I sighed - at peace within - knowing that I wasn't alone in my crazy feelings, and that I will be okay, and that it is possible to carry on. I realize that it will take time-but when I'm feeling down I'll think about you...many many thanks Sheila for sharing your must private thoughts. It made a difference for me.
Karen
This book has been a source of comfort and hope for me in my times of loneliness and grief. Having recently lost my husband of 50 years, this
book has helped me thru a very difficult time into days that are a bit more bearable. It is extremely well written, pulling in the reader immediately. Once I started reading, I found it difficult to put it down as I wanted to continue seeking the comfort I was receiving in your words. Sheila, thanks for sharing your life's experience with me - you have truly become a source of strength, inspiration and comfort.
Joan
Thank you so much for everything you are doing for all of us caregivers.
Mary
I received your book yesterday evening and I just finished reading it.
I just wanted to say that I admire your honesty and strength to get through your journey as you did. Your book brought to light how important it is to find yourself through your passions.....
Sandi
Thanks for making your book happen. I think you should make an email list of us readers - so that we can know what happens with your beloved husband. Somehow the book seems incomplete - I think I need to hear you live happily ever after.
Lynn
Blessings to you, dear Sheila, for making yourself so vulnerable in order to help others.
Karyn
Your book. is so beautifully written; easy to read, and difficult to put down. Much of it rang true for me. I found myself alone some years ago, under different circumstances, and went through the process of learning to live by myself and with myself. There were times I wanted to jump up and down on the bed for joy and other times when I wanted to throw myself face down on it and cry.
Lori
I received your book last week and have read half of it. What a wonderful talent you have for expressing even painful things in a beautiful way.
Janice
I can't believe how much I identified with you in your book even though my circumstances were totally different from yours. I would actually put the book down and think "I can't believe she said that" - because I totally related to it. The title of the book was what first interested me because I have literally been trying to move to the center of my bed for years. Since reading the book, I have, little by little, inched my way over in the bed, only to wake up each morning on "my" side. Oh, well. Its the idea behind the title thats most important.
Judy
I finished reading MTCB for the second time last night and wanted to tell you how moving and powerful it is. How well it holds up under a second and third reading. I love so much in it - your wisdom and courage gained at such a hard price, your legacy to Rachel, which I want to give my daughter. How close our values and beliefs are.
Susan
Wow!!! What a great book! And what a great accomplishment. I was immediately glued to the book - it is definitely a 'must read' for anyone suddenly finding themselves alone - or dealing with a loved one with a terminal illness. Beautifully written. Although it is over 5 years since my husband passed - your writing is comforting and giving me a lot to ponder over.
Peggy
You touched so many of my emotions. You made me angry, made me say "Oh my G-d, how horrible", made me laugh out loud (once) and made me cry. Thank you for sharing your memoir with me. We were brought up in the same era and I was very touched by many of the similar happenings in our life.
Sandy
In this beautifully written book, Shelia Weinstein demonstrates with emotion, sensitivity, and love, the lonliness, emptiness, and sadness anyone who has lost a partner experiences. I was immediately impressed with the the lovely illustrated cover and the sensitivity and purpose that this book represents. Sheila, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Grace
This book is so important for anyone and everyone, regardless of gender or circumstance, who is faced with living life alone after partnership. I was moved and inspired as well as encouraged about the frightening process of creating life alone after loss. Even though my circumstances are different than the author's, it didn't matter as the author's feelings are something I believe are universal..and unifying. I gained insight and comfort from this book, and once I picked it up I could not put it down. Nothing short of WONDERFUL.
Andrea
As a married man, while reading this forthright book, and still now months later, I am on my way to being as accepting as one could be, of the inevitable loss of one's spouse or being the one doing the leaving. While re-discovering the fertile solitude and freedom compromised away being part of a couple, Sheila Weinstein writes about still wanting and missing being part of a couple - both relevant facets of the person she has become.The book is carefully crafted in an honest, generous, unafraid, highly readable style. Within its 180 pages are almost fifty sections - each one detailing a way station of the author's journey. I bought this book after seeing the author interviewed on NBC-TV.
Walter
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