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Title: Let's Face It, Men Are $$#%\$: What Women Can Do About It by Joseph W. Rock, Barry L. Duncan ISBN: 1558746250 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45
Rating: 4
Summary: I read it in two nights!
Comment: When I first saw this book, I thought that it was just another male-basher. Further inspection proved that it was written by men and that it was directed toward women. The focus was to help women recognize patterns in male behavior and make intelligent choices. The first thing that the authors say is that NOT ALL men are (expletive deleted). That impressed me. The author's credentials also impressed me. They have worked with women, men and couples for some years. I wish I had had this book ten years ago. But it's good to have it now that I find myself single. The authors have sorted men into different categories based on their behavior. They realize how hard women work to maintain relationships and give them strategies for having a positive impact on their own life and chosen mates. I don't give anything 5 stars, I won't give this one 5 stars because I think JERKS would have been just as good an expletive as the one they used but so be it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Uplifting and inspiring, a must read for all women.
Comment: My hat is off to these two authors! They have provided women with the tools they need to either deal with the particular type they have married or avoid future failures. In my case I must say that the book has provided me with the tools to deal with a partner of 26 years who happens to match two of the personality types discribed in the book. I have never been so uplifted and inspired. Upon first glance I knew that I had found a jem of a self help book. It is extremely well written and sites examples that most all women can relate to. Not only does it provide honest discriptions of toxic men but allows the reader to view the man she may be involved with in a different light. I have personally used several of the techniques in the book and I would like to thank the authors for their help. I was virtually at my wits end with my "toxic" man. The book discribed excatly what I had been doing and why I was going about it the wrong way. It was as though they had witnessed my misery and torment for the last 26 years and provided me the methods for dealing with it. I now feel empowered and no longer afraid of my "toxic" male. I am prepared to deal with each situation as they arise. I am recommending this book to all of my friends with toxic relationships.
Rating: 4
Summary: What to do when he won't even look at the Mars/Venus books
Comment: The book, written by two male therapists, opens by saying that not all men are jerks, but there is a significant number of men that ARE jerks, and they can make your life miserable. The authors also state that men in our society today ARE getting off too easy, that in their experience, men really DON'T work as hard as women do in improving relationships. (As if THAT is a big secret, just look at any magazine rack.)
The book follows the basic self-help formula, but with a twist. Most of the popular relationship theories bog down when they assume that your mate is willing to work with you 50-50 to improve your relationship. That assumption that has made John Gray (of Mars/Venus fame) a rich man and millions of women miserable, but I digress... Anyway, the authors assume you do indeed live with a person who would rather use John Gray's book for toilet paper rather than read it, so they proceed to tell what you need to do to make your life more bearable. Again, there's a twist, and their advice isn't for everyone. They tell you that jerks don't respond to an appeal for fairness or kindness (you've probably already figured that out), so you need to be willing to meet their manipulative behavior with your own manipulative behavior. At that point the book gives you some very concrete examples of what you need to do and say in order to get them to change their behavior. The book acknowledges that some women will not feel comfortable being manipulative, but their argument is you can either be 100% totally honest (which you already know gets you nowhere) or you can be miserable - or you can leave... My final take? If you're married to a jerk and value marriage more than your personal happiness, you can make things better, but only somewhat. If you're single and dating a jerk and wondering what to do? RUN LIKE HELL!
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Title: Don't Call That Man!: A Survival Guide to Letting Go by Rhonda Findling ISBN: 0786884274 Publisher: Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap) Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Men Who Can't Love by Steven Carter, Julia Sokol ISBN: 0425111709 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov ISBN: 1580627560 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard M. Halpern ISBN: 0553260057 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Nasty Men by Jay Carter, Dan Hochstatter ISBN: 0809237946 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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