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    Default Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    I bought a used copy of the book from the local library and I just found it very insightful. It really has alot to say about the way men and women communicate and misunderstand one another. The thing the book really is trying to get across is Men need to be needed and deal with stress and their problems by shutting out by way of TV, sports, video games, the newspaper, and etc.. When it comes to women, they want to loved and to be put on a platform and they deal with stress by talking about their problems. Alot of the fights described in the book will sound very familiar to just about anybody. I highly recommend it!

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    Default Re: Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    I know men are from Mars and women from Venus, but don't you think things go better when on Uranus?
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    Default Re: Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    Read one of the other books in that series and found it to be crap, sorry.

    Basic premise was fuck your man anywhere anytime he wants without complaint and be happy if he even does half as much as you do in bed, around the house, with the kids etc.

    One thing I did get out of the book though was an even higher appreciation of my own guy because he is sooooooo not that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucy in the Sky View Post
    Read one of the other books in that series and found it to be crap, sorry.

    Basic premise was fuck your man anywhere anytime he wants without complaint and be happy if he even does half as much as you do in bed, around the house, with the kids etc.

    One thing I did get out of the book though was an even higher appreciation of my own guy because he is sooooooo not that way.

    Ohhh my goodness, we agree on something. The end is near.

    Well, except for the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs, since I won't be having a guy. But, I digress.

    In my experience, self help books are basically a person(s) way of promoting themselves. If anyone caught the finance guy on Leno the other night, he copyrighted a word he 'created' pertaining to economics.

    Why? To benefit from it. It's kind of like reading a 'How to pick up strippers' self help book. It's just a way for the author to capitalize on guys' naivete. Take it with a grain of salt.

    But, with that said, you can benefit from different things, ideas. You can find some good in different religions, political views, self help books, just as you can find bad in them. And what may work for you, may not work for another. Don't read to much into it, and take what you can use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by glambman View Post

    In my experience, self help books are basically a person(s) way of promoting themselves. If anyone caught the finance guy on Leno the other night, he copyrighted a word he 'created' pertaining to economics.

    Why? To benefit from it. It's kind of like reading a 'How to pick up strippers' self help book. It's just a way for the author to capitalize on guys' naivete. Take it with a grain of salt.

    But, with that said, you can benefit from different things, ideas. You can find some good in different religions, political views, self help books, just as you can find bad in them. And what may work for you, may not work for another. Don't read to much into it, and take what you can use.

    Spot on!

    Maybe we'll get along here after all

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    Default Re: Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    IIRC, Phil Hartman was reading that book in bead when his wife killed him. I don't think the book helped him all that much...

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    Default Re: Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    I thought that book was great. Some good info in there.
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    Default Re: Anybody read Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus?

    i saw this religiously themed book at the grocery store one time called something about "relationship tips for the dominating/overbearing wife"

    that book was FUCKED. the whole book was about how the bible wants women to be submissive and appreciative of their husbands and do everything they want their wives to do--get this-- as a different way of manipulating and controlling them.

    what the fuck?
    "If she wants to dance and drink all night, well there's no one that can stop her. She's going til the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor. This night is gonna end when we're damn well ready for it to be over, worked all week long, and now the music is playing on our time. Yeah we do what we do to get by, and then we need a release!" - Against Me!, "Thrash Unreal"

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