Just In Case! Lose Your Heart, Not Your Mind: Smart Woman's Guide to Marriage and Self-Sufficiency (HC)

“In this practical guide, Aliette Carolan insightfully outlines the keys to a successful marriage and its dissolution. She paves the way for women, especially, to feel empowered in their life-choices which then allows them to make the best decisions for themselves and their family. This is a great guide for any woman who wants to be smart, empowered and conscious in the choices she makes in love, life and family.”
—Dr. Shefali Tsabary NYT Bestselling Author of THE AWAKENED FAMILY

GIVE AWAY YOUR HEART, but don’t lose your mind. Know the deal you’re getting into. Know that self-preservation is the key to a happy marriage— and a happy divorce. We don’t take a job expecting that we’ll hate it and quit. We don’t sign the lease on an apartment we’ll be sick of in six months, and we don’t enter into a relationship planning for the breakup. But the flip side is that we shouldn’t expect any relationship we enter into will save us from the responsibility of being self-sufficient.
No matter where you are in the process—dating, engaged, married, contemplating separation, and divorce—if you can realize why you have to put yourself first, you’re halfway there. Whether you’re in the rapturous throes of endless love or the first moments of stomach-churning awareness that your marriage is falling apart, this book is for you. It’s for every woman who understands that self-preservation will not happen if you rely on someone else to save you. You need to maintain—or begin to establish— your personal independence and financial solvency if you want to be self-sufficient no matter what life throws at you. You can lean on someone, but you have to be able to stand on your own two feet at a moment’s notice, and that’s what this book is about.

In a legal career spanning more than a decade, Aliette H. Carolan, Esq., an AV Rated-Preeminent Complex Marital & Family Law attorney has handled hundreds of divorce cases in Miami, Florida, a city that ranks among the top ten in the U.S. for the highest divorce rates. Ms. Carolan earned her J.D. from Nova Southeastern University in 2003 and her B.S. at the University of Miami 1999. She studied International and Comparative Law at the Paris Institute, in Paris, France, and attended the Foreign Policy Seminar at American University in Washington, D.C.
She is a member of the Florida Bar (Family Law Section); the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida; and the American Bar Association (Family Law Section and Reproductive Section) and the First Family Law Inns of Court.