Reader Recommendation for a Book on Relationship Break-Ups

This reader recommendation was just posted here:

The best book I've stumbled across is "Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships" by Diane Vaughan. It helped me understand some of the more painful behavior my ex was engaging in - very hurtful stuff that I just couldn't understand until I read this study of how people break up. Reading it after the fact was soothing for me, but I wish I'd read it before the break up so that I might have recognized more of the (seemingly universal) patterns that surround this process while they were happening and while I would have had opportunity to intervene.. perhaps.

Everyone should read this book regardless of the current state of their relationship.

The anonymous poster at LifeTwo is not alone in their liking of "Uncoupling." At the time of this posting, 27 of the 34 people who had rated it on Amazon had given it 5 stars (the highest rating). Says one editorial review, "...examination of the breakup of relationships from a sociological and psychological perspective identifies the key steps in uncoupling from both partners' points of view." It is far more than a scientific study of breakups and transcends into a useful book for those in the middle of relationship crisis wondering what is going on and what they can an should do.

Amazon link: Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships