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My husband likes to show me online clips of baseball replays.
He also enjoys sharing aerial shots of outer space.
And on occasion, hell run down his fantasy football scores.
TBH, Im often completely uninterested and am inclined to tell him so.
that didnt do squat for my marriage of nearly 15 years.
Heres how my marriage self-help experiment went.
I couldnt get past the flowery language that often suggested filling up your love tank.
Why cant we choose to be affirmed and value physical touchanddesire a fancy gift on occasion?
And Chapmans right: The backyard gets clean faster with a compliment than a complaint.
Or, as my momma says, you catch more bees with honey than vinegar.
Confession: I dont have kids and I dont hate my husband.
But the title of this book was so intriguing that I had to put it on my list.
Sometimes she failed and other times she succeeded, which is what marriage is all about.
Dunn honestly articulated how marriage can be affected by having children.
The book dishes out advice in cheeky language that describe men as Martians and women as Venusians.
Twenty-seven years later, this book feels not only antiquated but sexist.
Id put this book up there withFifty Shadesas the top of my hate-reads.
He even states that men are more goal-oriented.
In our marriage, the opposite is almost always true.
Nineties fashionmight be back, but there is nothing cool about this retro attitude to gender roles in relationships.
The wife, who perhaps is reading a page-turning novel (or marriage book?!
Since reading this book, were not afraid to thank each other for anything and everything.
and a lot of it boiled down to being kind, which anyone is capable of doing.
