[Rollercoasterider]

Ugh, I hate doing stuff like this!    Why--because I'm wary of testimonials due to things like I lost 50 pounds in 2 weeks and you can too sort of stuff.
I am working on submitting The Hero's Spouse manuscript. I've sent a query to a first choice editor and will send to a few agents in a few weeks if I do not hear back--all requested the proposal at last Summer's conference.
Well, it is not a typical section of a proposal, but I would like to have a Testimonials section as an option. I won't include it when submitting, but can mention it when I get an agent and she can consider whether it might be important.
I compiled a list a couple of years ago fro emails and by looking across the web to read what people were saying, but some recent stuff would be great.
So I am asking for testimonials and you can list them in this thread. I will keep you anonymous. These may be used in a book proposal or on the website later--I may set up a tab for them at the main site to encourage more people to stick around!
I'm really looking for brief statements--not paragraphs or books! So here is an example from those I collected a few years ago. I edited some for length, grammar and clarity and will do the same with those submitted here.
 

• Your site has been the most informative I have encountered on Midlife Crisis.
• Your articles give me a lot of insights which helps me gain a better understanding... I have heard a lot of advice, but thus far your website has given me the advice that I need.
• An amazing site! You made a lot of confusion clear, the acting strange, coming and going. This site helped explain what it might be and is helping me thru.
• This information is a Godsend to me. Your words explain this all so clearly.
• Been struggling with decision to/not to divorce my adulterous wife who doesn't want to divorce. This site has been validating and a source of strength to not throw in the towel.
• Thank you so much for your newsletter and website - I subscribed only yesterday, but already feel that I am getting more concrete answers to what is going on in my marriage.
• [The MLC site] changed my whole world... It helped me move on to new levels within days. Now don't get me wrong, I am in NO WAY cured, as a matter of fact, I haven't stopped crying in days, but I don't have that one question running thru my head anymore. Why did he do this to me? Or What did I do to deserve this?
• OMG! This MLC site describes her and the situation verbatim!
• Even though my marriage will end, your site was still very helpful to me. Helpful in understanding what I must do to get back on my feet and have a good life. So again...thanks.
• If you have helped only one person, and that person is me, please know how extremely important your words are to me.

[AnnStacy]

This site is great because it helped me go through the process without burdening my friends and family.  My friends and family would have only been distressed seeing me in pain, and it was good to be able to fall apart here, cry, journal, and work things out and get advice from people who REALLY understand what I am dealing with.  Other people would give advice not understanding MLC and in their best interests in order to not have to see me in pain, and it was important that I be able to share with people who understood, and also support other people going though the same thing if I could.

This site helped me carry on strongly in my life and, I believe, definitely shortened the process of pain and confusion for me.

[Slow Fade]

This site helped me realize that its not my fault. My self-esteem would have been shattered and I would have descended into bitterness without it I think. I truly believe God led me here as he knew it would help with my healing and with my decision to stand. God Bless The Hero's Spouse!