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| Staying Married...and Loving It!: How To Get What You Want From Your Man Without Asking | 
 enlarge | Authors: Pat Allen, Jane Cavoline
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0688052916
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9780688052911
Publication Date: May 5, 1997
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Product Description
Marriage is not an end--it's a beginning. Yet, despite commitment, care, and communication, a marriage will sometimes falter. When it does, the good news is that it can be made wonderful again. Following her landmark Getting to "I Do", Patricia Allen, the "Love Doctor" to over five thousand happily married couples, shares her proven methods for making a marriage come alive with love, passion, intimacy, and openness. Dr. Allen's methods are so simple and basic as to be revolutionary. In each of us there is masculine energy, which leads, provides, and cherishes; and feminine energy, which follows, respects, and responds, sexually and lovingly. In a modern marriage, where freedom of choice can be perplexing, these energies must blend and flow together. They must complement each other; they must not compete. Once we acknowledge our individual energies and learn to communicate appropriately the ground is set for a truly satisfying marriage--physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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 Great Book---Really!!! August 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whoever is reading these reviews will see some negative reviews. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM! This book has some VERY good "insights" into how male/female relations work. Thus you will learn "how to adjust" any relationship so that there will be greater harmony and compatibility in your relationship and/or marriage. Please read it with an open mind and with the idea that roles can be changed and "alternated"---the male/female "roles" are not "made in cement"----they can be changed, with mutual consent, depending on day to day circumstances. Please read with an open mind. You will help yourself and your marriage if you do. Email boland7214@aol.co
 Simplistic and Superficial July 5, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I borrowed this book from the library (thank goodness I didn't pay money for it) and it was a big let-down. This book may give some good guidance for couples who don't have any real problems, as the advice seems to only apply to people who's situations can be perfected by a little role-playing. I couldn't find a single example in the book that I could relate to my own relationship problems, and I also couldn't help but be insulted by some of the suggestions - if you are the passive female energy, let him decide where to go on vacation, how to raise the kids, how to decorate!!!! And they say shut-up, don't argue with him! And if you want to have an opinion, then you are the masculine and you'd better be the head of the family, etc. Oh, and when you don't get what you want from your spouse, deny sexual activity. It made me feel like the perfect marriage could be had if I just shut up, let him handle everything, kept myself up and never complained/second guessed his choices. And basically, it made me feel that if two people don't fit into the male/female energy roles, then there's no hope for your marriage. Basically, I can't recommend a book that made me feel sad, insulted and hopeless the entire time. This is not a book to help solve any real problems.
Still married and loving it! July 9, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
My husband and I were on the verge of divorce a year ago, and now we can't get enough of each other.. all because of this book! The title is misleading because it's not a book for the wife.. the husband needs to read it as well for this to work. I recommend it to everyone struggling with marital roles and the confusion and frustration that comes with it. It's smart and realistic and it works! Skip the sexist comments - they aren't important to the theories - and learn from the rest.
This is a joke, right? September 8, 2000
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Can't believe this sexist stuff--"Stay until you physically deteriorate." "Put on your prettiest makeup." (Oh, so THAT'S why my husband is a jerk? I'm not wearing enough makeup?) "Keep your weight in check." As if I've not been doing that all along? Then he complains about "a new diet this month." What drug did you guys smoke out there in California that helped you "create" this? Look, I know people worked hard for this book and the garbage before it, but really--after all these years to make marriage somewhat equal, do we have to go back to being Donna Reed and doing housework in high heels? Gimme a break! Thank heavens I got this on sale--I'd hate to think I paid full price for this cr!p.
A fun read -- and shocking advice that actually works! November 17, 1998
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have read many books on communication, and many books on how to be even happier in interpersonal relationships, and I can honestly say that Staying Married... is the best, and most helpful, one I have ever read. Don't expect sweet-sounding advice that doesn't really work -- this book gives you the real deal. The section entitled "How To Get What You Want From Your Man Without Asking" is amazing. After reading it, I applied the principles... and they worked!
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