When Someone You Love Is Angry

208 Pages·2004·0.97 MB·English

by  W. Doyle Gentry

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When
Someone You
Love Is Angry
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When
Someone You
Love Is Angry
d
A 7-Step Program for Dealing
with Toxic Anger and Taking Back
Control of Your Life
W. DOYLE GENTRY, Ph.D.
b
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book is a solitary endeavor, but one that cannot be ac-
complished without help. As such, I need to thank a number of peo-
ple. First, I am indebted to Denise Silvestro, my editor at Penguin,
for taking on this project and for her “critical eye” in the revision
stage. She was a true collaborator and she shares the credit for
whatever measure of success this book achieves. Second, I appreci-
ate the hard work of my agent, Denise Marcil, and her able associ-
ate, Maura Kye, who guided me through every step of the
publication process in a rather seamless fashion. I trust this will be
the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership. I am grateful to my
loving family—Catherine, Rebecca, and Christopher—for their un-
conditional love and support, as always, in this and all other facets
of my long career. Without them, everything lacks meaning and
possibility. Finally, and most of all, I express my heartfelt thanks to
the men and women, whose names and identifying characteristics
have been altered to protect their privacy, who have eagerly shared
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Acknowledgments
their personal stories of having endured “loving but angry” rela-
tionships, even when the retelling of such stories proved upsetting. I
was personally moved by each and every one of them in ways I
never anticipated. Thank you all.
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To my mother,
Mary B. Gentry,
who taught me a lot about
anger and love
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger
than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius