About this title: What's going on in a man's mind? Feldhahn's research reveals the inner lives of men and will open women's eyes to what the men in their life are really thinking and feeling.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Date Published: 2004-07-28
ISBN-13:9781590523179ISBN:1590523172
Description: Good. Pictorial boards have minor rubbing, marking, and lite corner/edge wear. Pages are very clean and neat, with a small amount of turned corners. Excellent reference copy.2005 5th Printing Edition, Hardcover. (U) read more
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Date Published: 2005-07-29
ISBN-13:9781590525746ISBN:1590525744
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Date Published: 2004-07-28
ISBN-13:9781590523179ISBN:1590523172
Description: Like New. Like new hardcover in excellent condition, issued without dust jacket, no writing, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, Christian business. read more
Description: Very good. 2006 Multnomah Books Reprint Hardcover Edition. No Dust Jacket(as issued), some wear to cover, text clean with strong binding. Ships Fast! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Date Published: 2004-01-01
ISBN-13:9780739456620ISBN:0739456628
Description: Very Good. As issued no jacket. Hardback. Very good plus condition with no highlights, underlines or notes and no marks. Issued with illustrated cover and no DJ. Cover is very good. Tight binding and crisp clean text. Very nice book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Multnomah Pub
Date Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN-13:9781590523179ISBN:1590523172
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Christian Large Print
Date Published: 2006-06-02
ISBN-13:9781594151125ISBN:1594151121
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"This was a nice little short read, and offered a lot of valuable insight. I personally found the second half of the book much more useful than the first half, mostly because I thought the first chapters made more generalizations about men, whereas the last chapters seemed more universal. I have to admit, I even got a little teary-eyed in the last chapter, where the author presents men's top response to the question, "What is the one thing that you wish your wife/significant other knew, but you feel you can't explain to her or tell her?" She says, "Hundreds of responses rolled in, and far and away the top response was this: How much I love her." Awww! Maybe we should give our men a little more credit! :)"
"I regret buying this on an impressive level. I honestly feel lied to since I didn't know this book was so heavily endorsed by Jesus. Every excerpt I read from this book and even the product description gave no hint as to the very Christian nature of this book. Normally, I can deal with that but it constantly asked me to seek guidance from a God I don't pray to. This book needs to do a better job of advertising its real nature.
Another reason I really didn't like this book was that it felt like it was an updated version of the 1959 "Good Housewife Guide." So much of the advice felt antiquated or bias. Like, I'm supposed to work hard to be thin and pretty for the man in my life and if I don't make an effort, it depresses him. I should just ignore the fact that I know men who complain about their physique and do absolutely nothing. It's really unsexy and depressing when we do but I'm supposed to pretend men don't to the exact same thing? If he won't try, don't expect me to.
I'm also supposed to respect him all the time. If he's overloaded and I ask him to do something around the house and he says "I'll get to it eventually" I have to respect his "eventually." If I get someone else to do it or nag him about it, I'm saying I don't trust him to do it. I guess I'm supposed to ignore the fact that eventually is disrespectful to my schedule and me in general.
This book also oversimplifies the point. It spent 30 pages on how men need respect and what women are supposed to do to give it to them. By page 15 of that section I wanted to shout, "I get it already. I'm not that slow." I felt like I was being talked down to. Feldhahn should have kept it simple.
I'm sure the book had some real pearls of wisdom but they were few and far between and I was too busy wanting to rant at the book to notice them. I'm reading "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" at the same time as this. I honestly like it so much better. I feel it has much less of a bias than this book. It works better to hear both sides rather than making it all about what the man wants. And unlike this book, it also doesn't assume the man you have is a prize to begin with (which is not always the case). I would not recommend it to anyone who is not a Christian and very happy with their relationship."
"When I entered to win this in the FirstReads contest, I didn't realize it was a Christian book. Not that I have anything against Christians (being one myself), but I often don't agree with the fundamentalist/born-again point of view. And there was definitely a "serve your husband" undercurrent to this book.
Wives are advised to change their points of view and actions to accommodate their husbands. I will be reading the "For Women Only" companion book that came with it next, and it will be interesting to see how much men are advised to change to accommodate women.
The information itself, while useful, was overly simplified, dumbed-down, and over-explained. Halfway through the book, only two points had been made: Men Need Respect, and Men Need Sex. Newsflash! I didn't really learn anything I didn't already know, but the chapter on respect did open my eyes a bit more and offered some pretty key insights into why my marriage failed. But the author doesn't answer the question that was on my mind: What do you do when your husband hasn't earned your respect?"
"I highly recommend this book for married and engaged women out there! It may contain a few things society already knows about men, but this book makes you UNDERSTAND those things, not just be aware of them Several points were knew to me and opened my eyes, which was cool. I do have to say that my man fell under THE EXCEPTION many of the times, as the author released statistical finds from some professional surveys they ran. I always knew my husband was special and unique, and this book confirmed that. He didn't fall under many of the normal statistics, so some of the references did not pertain to us, but they were informational none the less. I know that for the majority of women though, this WILL pertain to them from front to back, and be considerably helpful and beneficial. As I said, I HIGHLY recommend it; very easy to read and love the trendy cover art and arrangement of the text. After reading this, I really want to buy the young woman's version for my 21 year old sister."
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