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Summary: You should understand your man this well
Review: These girls understand men! It's not about right or wrong, it's about acceptance, love and understanding. Understanding your man and giving him what he needs will come back to you (times 10). It will increase your communication as well as your own satisfaction about your relationship. This is not a great book, but it will make you think. Also note that this book is a little harsh about what a woman should be willing to do or give up for her relationship. So I don't generally agree with it. But it's still worth a read and remembers that not every rule applies.
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Summary: How your wife is supposed to keep you happy
Review: This book is a guide to help keep marriages together. It gives rules for the wife on how to keep her husband happy. Now there are those who say it is not the wife's business to keep her husband happy. Why should he be happy after all? But for those women who do care about pleasing their husbands it seems to me some of these rules might help. Most of them are really ' common sense' . Among them are" Relax During the Engagement and Wedding,Continue to be a Creature Unlike any other, Keep up your Looks- But don't go Crazy- Keep up your own Interests- Lower your expectations in the first year( I suspect this is a big one) Be A team, Give him fifteen minutes alone when he comes home, Be supportive, Accept some things are none of your business, Try not to call him too much at work, Rarely return his gifts, Don't expect a lot of sympathy from your husband, Say what you mean , but don't say it Meanly. There are about twenty more such rules all I think to keep together a marriage which just does not sound that great.
I wonder if the authors'husbands think of writing a parallel work about how to please their wives.
In this regard I will go one rule. 'Discover the subjects about which your spouse not only cannot stand to be contradicted, but which they very much need your support and backing in regard to. And whether you consider them objectively absolutely right, back them up wholly' You are the one person in the world they most need to be for them.
Also keep em laughing as much as it is possible.
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Summary: Not a self-esteem booster like The Rules I and II
Review: This book was not at all what I expected. I thought the Rules I and II (for dating) were pro-women and really gave women a confidence boost. This book should've been entitled How to Be a Doormat. Several parts of this book gave advice that really could be damaging to a woman's self esteem: always let him win an argument, go on vacation anywhere he wants to go, have sex even if you don't want to, don't bother him with your problems (call your girlfriends instead) just to cite a few examples. The addition to the book that says the one author is going through a divorce was appreciated. But the part about "now she follows the Rules more than ever" doesn't make sense.
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Summary: WORST
Review: THIS IS THE WORST BOOK A WOMAN COULD EVER BUY ON THE SUBJECT OF RELATIONSHIPS.THIS IS A BOOK FULL OF MULNIPULATION OF FIRST THE WOMAN THEN THE MAN.THIS BOOK IS VERY SIMILAR TO BLACK MAGIC AND CULT LIKE THINKING.IT BRAINWASHES YOU INTO THINKING YOU ARE EMPOWERED AND GETTING SOMEWHERE..WHEN IN ACTUALLY YOUR NOT EMPOWERED BECAUSE TRUE POWER COMES FROM BEING WHO YOU ARE!!!!! AND ATTRACTING THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE REAL YOU!!!!!IF YOU WANT TO BE SET FREE.BUY BARBARA DE ANGELIS.THE REAL RULES!THAT IS A MASTERPIECE.IT'S THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.IN A PRECISE AND SIMPILIFIED WELL WRITTEN BOOK.
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Summary: Very highly recommended for newly wed wives
Review: This Soundelux audiobook edition of Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider's The Rules For Marriage offers a series of reliable recommendations offering women practical guidelines and ideas for developing and maintaining an effective, satisfying, vibrant, and enduring marriage. This compendium of observation based "tips, tricks and techniques" will enable and empower women to keep up their interests as well rounded spouses; become able to accept that some things simply aren't their responsibility or concern; resist falling into the trap of comparing their spouse with other husbands; giving a spouse space to respond to the issues and demands that occur within (and without) the marriage; rules for fighting productively and non-destructively; and so much more. The Rules For Marriage is very highly recommended for newly wed wives and has a great deal to offer even experienced and "veteran" wives seeking to reinvigorate their marriages after many years (and even decades) of familiarity and marital routines.
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Summary: Give them a break!
Review: True, one of these two ladies is not the "happily married" she once made herself out to be. But in the book it is even admitted that some marriages are not meant to work and there are chapters included on divorcing with dignity. Which Ms. Schneider is obviously not being allowed to do because people insist on making her private life public. This is an ADVICE book - you can follow it or not - and a pretty helpful one at that. I am a tried and true rules girl, and have been eagerly awaiting the release of this book. It is exactly what it says it is - a book of rules you can follow or not follow. And look what happens if you don't follow them! Ms. Schneider admits lapsing on some of the rules led to her divorce!
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Summary: Give them a break!
Review: True, one of these two ladies is not the "happily married" she once made herself out to be. But in the book it is even admitted that some marriages are not meant to work and there are chapters included on divorcing with dignity. Which Ms. Schneider is obviously not being allowed to do because people insist on making her private life public. This is an ADVICE book - you can follow it or not - and a pretty helpful one at that. I am a tried and true rules girl, and have been eagerly awaiting the release of this book. It is exactly what it says it is - a book of rules you can follow or not follow. And look what happens if you don't follow them! Ms. Schneider admits lapsing on some of the rules led to her divorce!
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Summary: HYPOCRACY--ARE YOU REALLY THAT DESPERATE?
Review: WHY GIVE YOUR MONEY TO THESE WOMEN WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT KEEPING A MAN?THEY KNOW HOW TO GET ONE BY USING CONNIVING TRICKS BUT THIS BOOK WILL NOT SHOW YOU HOW TO KEEP ONE, AT LEAST NOT A GOOD ONE. AND EVEN IF YOU DO MANAGE TO KEEP HIM BY TRICKING HIM YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF IF YOU FOLLOW THIS NONSENSE.
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Summary: Too Many Inaccurate Rules
Review: Yeah, maybe you could also make a t-shirt that says WELCOME and then lie down in front of your door. Make sure you spritz a little perfume on first and diet all day, so when hubby's using you as a doormate you'll smell good and be pleasing to him. Puuulease! Yeah, take your thoughts and dreams and desires and bottle them up to make someone else happy. Well if he truly loves you, he wouldn't want you to that and if does want you to live to please him, then you deserve much, much better.
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Summary: don't let anyone RULE you.......
Review: Yeah, maybe you could also make a t-shirt that says WELCOME and then lie down in front of your door. Make sure you spritz a little perfume on first and diet all day, so when hubby's using you as a doormate you'll smell good and be pleasing to him. Puuulease! Yeah, take your thoughts and dreams and desires and bottle them up to make someone else happy. Well if he truly loves you, he wouldn't want you to that and if does want you to live to please him, then you deserve much, much better.
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