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Dr. Sherilyn Marrow Brings Hope to Those in Struggling Relationships in Pour Me a Divorce

“You deserve to take your life’s journey to a new level of understanding” – Dr. Sherilyn Marrow

“I am not the cause; I am not the cure” Dr. Sherilyn Marrow reassured herself. She reminds herself that she was not the cause of her husband’s alcoholism nor should she take on the role of the savior. Dr. Marrow wrote her book, Pour Me a Divorce, in hopes to bring more attention to those married to alcoholic partners. Her book is about her marriage and divorce with her alcoholic husband. The book will be released on February 23, 2020.

Resilience is the main point of her book bundle. Pour Me a Divorce is a “sweet and sour memoir” with 10 case studies of couples with alcoholic problems along with Dr. Marrow’s own experiences. Pour Me a Divorce: Resilience & Self-Care Workbook is a book helping people gain their own self-confidence and helping building resilience. Dr. Marrow practices what she teaches. Due to her divorce and the process of writing this book, she spent years learning about resilience so it has become her area of expertise.

Her and her husband were married for 29 years. Dr. Marrow loved her husband very much but she became tired of the expectations put on her. “He was the character I loved. We were a dynamite couple. It worked for the most part until I had to be the designated driver,” Dr. Marrow stated. They were married for almost three decades because the distractions of work and teaching created a rose colored lens from her home life. Once she took off those rose-colored glasses she realized her life could be different.

She has overcome so many obstacles in her marriage and divorce. 1 in 8 Americans are alcoholics. Dr. Marrow’s lawyer told her that she would not get as much money as she originally expected. “It was an economic disaster,” Dr. Marrow said. In the state of Colorado, drinking problems are seen as a disease. Although she was the one to file for a divorce first, the state would favor her husband. Her money and everything she owned was automatically 50% of her husband’s property. She knew she could not help her husband recover from the alcoholism but she knew she should not blame herself. However, she ended up in an economic situation that affected her life. Due to this she knew she should work on herself by creating resilience.

Dr. Marrow knows that the topic of alcoholism is very secretive so she wanted to make it less taboo with her own book. She believes that her book will help people with their own marriage problems. This book has become a labor of love because it took over six years for her to write due to the trauma it reopened. Dr. Marrow wrote, “Its contents are not meant to encourage divorce, separation, or relationship break-ups.” With Dr. Marrow’s hard work, she wants to encourage people to understand that they can focus on themselves and find out what they want in their own life. To teach this, Dr. Marrow created “6 Core Powers of Resilience,” focusing on the importance of self-empowerment, the future, social connection, life quality, communication and resources. She does not regret meeting her husband because she was able to become a better version of herself because of this divorce. Dr. Marrow hopes that this book will bring great guidance to those who read it. She is also planning on writing more books about resilience.

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