How to Train a Husband

My last girlfriend was hiding a copy of "Why Men Marry ***." While not identical to this approach, both books subscribe to the notion that men are idiotic neanderthals who can somehow be saved by their wive's manipulative behavior.

Two weeks after finding the book, and an honest discussion about the dangers of the recommendations, I chose to end the relationship.

If I wanted to be manipulated, or nagged, I would have married my mother.

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People are so over-sensitive. People ARE animals. We respond similarly. You guys are all getting so bent out of shape about the comparison between people and animals, all because of the tone of the article. The simple fact is - reacting positively to good things and overlooking bad things is the fundamental component of a healthy relationship - you can twist any human behavior into looking like manipulation if you try hard enough.

I find this article offensive at so many different levels. I wounder how she would feel if someone wrote an article about how to train a wife, I am sure heads would role even for suggesting such a title. The truth is no body is trained to do any thing but one changes for the people you love. Its unbelievable the kind of things that get published these days.

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This type of thinking further reinforces a gulf of disrespect between spouses. Reducing a relationship to the level of "training", as one would an animal, negates the basic premis of what a healthy coupling ought to be. Marriage is, unless I'm living in a fantasy, an equal exchange of love, ideas, support and understanding between a couple. My assumption is that ready-for-marriage couples understand they're agreeing upon an arrangement of (hopefully) lifetime mutual respect, support, communication and concommitant growth within which they may choose to raise a child or children. To do anything different negates the very premise of the institution.

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If a man enters a relationship with ideas of "training" the woman, he is controlling and masogynistic. There are even treatments for his "condition" of seaking weaker - easy to control - women.

But it is perfectly acceptable for women to do the same thing?

I know the article says it works both wasy but...
What if a man wrote the same thing in regards to training Women as Animals? Can you imagine the outcry? It would never find a publisher for one thing, because there would be legal liabilities. Odd that in a supposedly "Equal" society, things are so unequal.

Women are somehow able to get away with this sort of thing with total impunity, but heaven forbid a man suggest that any woman anywhere could use some improvement. Men can't even write something as innocuous as The Dangerous Book for Boys without being labeled as sexist and exclusionary. We've been good sports for a long time now but I think it's time media scales back on the constant barrage of imagery and stories that show men as nothing but stupid, lazy, incapable, buffoons while every woman is a successful career woman and super mom who haplessly puts up with her husbands inadequacy. Why don't we just start treating each other like real people for once.

Have you been drinking too much alcohol or are you always so cold and unpassionate towards men. I never knew someone like you that would manipulate, disrespect and treat your husband and other victims like an animal. Your husband better hurry up and divorce you!!! You don't deserve him. give him my phone number. I will show you how to respect and treat my new man. 847-769-2068

I think this idea is a useful one not a very pragmatic one. It's called a mutual relationship, not a feudal relationship. If I were the husband, I don't think I would be very happy if I were treated like a dog. Sure, I might get accolades, but I don't think I would feel loved. Instead I would feel exploited, and eventually try and find another wife.

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Stupid *** should help him find the keys....WTF this is not groundbreaking!!!

LOL interesting.. i read something like this on finestimplants.com ?

Guys, Dont bother responding to this type of cruelty. Instead, boycott newsweek & yahoo. Go google!!

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