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Product Description Dr. Laura Schlessinger reveals how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura Schlessinger exposes the sensitive and loving truths necessary to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage. First and foremost, men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity. Both husband and wife have power in their relationship, and both need to realize this to ensure for themselves the personal satisfaction they yearn for. Dr. Laura explores the best ways a couple can relate, caretake, and nurture each other, and how to rescue a troubled marriage that seems doomed to fail. Using real-life examples from her call-in radio show, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships, and gives us real-life solutions for keeping our unions strong, loving, and lasting.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 93 reviews)
A bit chavinistic but... The book is not a material I would recommend a hard core feminist to read, but the bitter reality is that, everything in this book is true. It feels like your great grand ma is telling you how to have a solid marriage! November 10, 2008
Even a stopped clock.... Background: Dr. Laura seems to believe that life was just rosy before the feminist movement began (and I am happy for her aunts and her mother, since they must have been doing OK to give Dr. Laura that impression). She is a staunch believer in 50s-style traditional gender roles as the answer to today's problems. Cons: See above. A lot of Dr. Laura's advice just won't work unless the wife stays at home or has some little, low-stress part-time job. It over-generalizes, patronizes men, and puts the burden of making a marriage work on women. She recommends wives participating in sex whether they feel like it or not, but offers no corresponding advice for men to help their wives free up a little time for loving, or even the practical suggestion that making sex good for their wives would tend to yield more nookie for them. On the flip side, men are encouraged to work like crazy with no concern for balancing the need to make a nicer living for their families against actual family time or health or quality of life. Also, as pointed out elsewhere, Dr. Laura really is 'Mother Laura', as she refers to herself at times. Her advice is just her advice. Her doctorate is in psysiology, and her counseling certification is lapsed. Just so you know. Pros: Any book that helps people see and focus on their own shortcomings is going to help their marriage. Advice to be nicer to each other can't go wrong either. That's not new information, but what Laura Schlessinger does is illustrate that we're often meaner than we realize to our spouses and she points that out in a way that we can't shrug off or dismiss. That may not be worth $17, but the book will be available (used) for less in fairly short order, if it isn't already. Conclusion: The book isn't fair to men or women. Unless you buy into Schlessinger's world view, it's hard to even read the thing. But it's worth slogging through if you are a grown woman who can filter through the bad and the ugly to find the items of value. And if you are a decent woman married to a decent man and you want to treat your spouse fairly, there is value in this book. Men should probably only read this book if they are able to see Schlessinger's advice as applying to both parties, or they just want to be told that they're pretty great people (even if fairly simple -- her words, not mine) and that none of their marital problems are their fault. October 03, 2008
Ex-feminist loves Dr. Laura I love Dr. Laura. I am an ex-feminista, reformed Socialist and voted Republican for the first time in 2004. See what you have to look forward to when you wise up? I was on her show about 6 years ago and I actually MADE HER LAUGH! This is a very exclusive club I belong to. I am finally in a loving,nuturing relationship for the first time in my life and I give her and her books a lot of credit. My husband and I took turns reading a chapter a night to each other. We both became invested in this book and in "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" doing this. I used to work as a housekeeper in a very exclusive, "snooty" Pac-10 sorority.I would find soft-bound copies of Dr. L's "10 Stupid Things...."at garage sales and thrift stores and leave them in the common rooms and lounges of the house ...they disappeared like free candy. I like to think Dr. Laura made a difference in the values and attitudes of girls lives that hinged on peer pressure, status quo and PC.Of course, all those little sweeties in "women's studies" programs and classes would NEVER admit that they had read anything by her. Ha. This woman could revolutionize relationships,child rearing,family dynamics, morals and the trickle down effects of having them if people would put away their egos, attitudes, politics and entitlement issues and pay attention. Make it real. Yay you, Dr. Laura. I recommend everything she has written and espouses. Thank you for your time. September 22, 2008
Wonderful! I waited a long time to get my hands on this one! It was very very good! I have loaned this out to family and friends! September 18, 2008
A MUST READ!!! EVERYONE should read this book! Ladies, it's a great follow-up to The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands. It has saved my marriage and changed my attitude! September 12, 2008