How to Train a Husband

As long as preple continue to support idiots like Amy by buying her books and see her upcoming movie, she will continue to degrade men with more bull ***. She is out to make $$ . Shame on her husband for not kicking her ass with her tactics and for referring to him as "dog" I don't believe he has any balls anyway.

How did this article get any notoriety at all? Why does yahoo consider this intelligent or informed enough to post as a headline story on their website? I don???t get it. Reverse the sexes in this article and you got a lawsuit on your hands. No one, woman or man, should be treated like an animal in any relationship. How did Jennie Yabroff get a job? This isn???t journalism worthy of Newsweek.

If a woman has to set a bowl of chips and some salsa at the end of a counter to keep her husband from hovering instead of telling him directly NOT to hover, she has an insufficient ability to communicate clearly. It???s this type of communication that can confuse people and is used to conceal feelings rather than express them.

Also, if a woman feels the need to train a husband for any reason, she???s clearly made the wrong choice for a mate. I believe ???Never marry potential??? was a much better key to marital bliss than treating your mate like an idiot dog. It???s only three words. I don???t understand people who get involved with people they???re not satisfied with.

This article assumes that the marital bliss is achieved when a woman is fully content and not a man. Absolute rubbish! Jennie, you should start earning your portion of Newsweek???s payroll by writing more suitable content. What would make you write such a thing, especially in these times?

Anything to sell a book and get attention. What is really significant is the multitudes who allow themselves to be minipulated into buying the book. Just like trained animals.

The problem with marriage and male/female relationships these days is the woman treats her man like she's their "Mommy". Women like to give men orders like chores, etc. Who made women God? I've heard women at work say, "I left my husband a list of chores to do and they had better be done when I get home." What's up with that? If your husband leaves his socks on the floor, either put them in the laundry basket yourself, or leave them on the floor. It's his house, too. If it bothers you, pick it up. Women nag too much. Men & husbands have a right to do what they want to do just like women think they do. When did the woman become the boss of the household? Women marry and then they think they're going to "change" their husbands to be they way they want them to be. Why does the man have to change and go by your rules? You must have thought he was just wonderful before you married him and now that you have him, he's not good enough? No wonder so many marriages fail these days. He's not your child or your dog. He has a right to live his life without being nagged and forced to change into something he's not. Believe it or not, this is coming from a woman who has been very happily married for 17 years and was with her husband 4 years before that. My husband is his own spirit and that is something I would never want to change or destroy. He's a very happy man. You can also have a very happy husband/man...just get off his back!

How dare you write such demeaning, disrespectful, rude & non loving book regarding your husband!
Our society has gone down so much demeaning men, expressed in media, movies, and books, but this one, even from the title, disgusts me. I 'm happily married to my wonderful husband and we have two beautiful children. Niether would I regard him in that term nor I try to get him listen to me in such way in front of our children about their loving dad.
Elaine Chong

How did this article get any notoriety at all? Why does yahoo consider this intelligent or informed enough to post as a headline story on their website? I don???t get it. Reverse the sexes in this article and you got a lawsuit on your hands. No one, woman or man, should be treated like an animal in any relationship. How did Jennie Yabroff get a job? This isn???t journalism worthy of Newsweek.

If a woman has to set a bowl of chips and some salsa at the end of a counter to keep her husband from hovering instead of telling him directly NOT to hover, she has an insufficient ability to communicate clearly. It???s this type of communication that can confuse people and is used to conceal feelings rather than express them.

Also, if a woman feels the need to train a husband for any reason, she???s clearly made the wrong choice for a mate. I believe ???Never marry potential??? was a much better key to marital bliss than treating your mate like an idiot dog. It???s only three words. I don???t understand people who get involved with people they???re not satisfied with.

This article assumes that the marital bliss is achieved when a woman is fully content and not a man. Absolute rubbish! Jennie, you should start earning your portion of Newsweek???s payroll by writing more suitable content. What would make you write such a thing, especially in these times?

I think all you guys who have responded to this have missed the point entirely!! You read the headline and got your backs up immediately!! Everybody and anybody can use this advice to get people to cooperate with them. The thing is why not market it to the people who can use it the most?? Most women run into major relationship issues because they whine and cry when they do not get what they want. All this book is really saying is it's best to use honey to get what you want rather than vinegar! The end result is that both parties end up being "trained". Think about it boys! Wouldn't you rather your wife/partner relax a bit and not scream and yell at you because you left a freakin sock on the floor????

Obviously these people are not psychology majors. The title "How to Train a Husband" is wholly misleading. I am glad the article at least touched on Skinner's work, but to paint behavior modification as a one-sided tool for husbands is ridiculous. The tactics outlined in this article--and I presume the books mentioned--are not anything surprising. To a psychologists, they even approach banal. Are people really this ignorant? Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, etc., these are old news! Useful, but still nothing noteworthy. All I can say is that making books about this is like Disney coming out with their Xth edition of Sleeping Beauty--same old story with perhaps one more added "special feature."
Amy Sutherland spent a year at an animal trainer school to learn about this stuff....she should have ditched Shamu and sat a week in a freshman psychology class. Gimme' a break!

Here is my comment: 1) Yes, as a general concept it seems offense, but if you actually rad the article it seems to make perfect sense and could be applied to BOTH genders in a martial relationship, along with the children as well. Reward positive behaviors, ignore those that are nothing more that annoying attempts to get attention. Again I agree the initial spin is a bit off putting, and that yes, as a man I could never get away with it in regards to my SO, but in practice it makes perfect sense and is not a new idea

2) Some of you people - on BOTH sides of the gender fence - clearly have issues, and hate the opposite gender. You really should consider that perhaps your perspective, which undoubtedly impacts the way you treat others, is the reason you have been so unhappy in your past / current relationship(s). Really, there are lots of people out there who have healthy, positive relationships with people of the opposite sex. It is YOU who has the issue...not men / women in general.

3) Some of you clearly have WAY too much time on your hands...which also probably explains a lot as well regarding your ability to relate in a positive fashion with the opposite gender. And yes Norm, I am talking about you.

My current girlfriend just read this article; she says its a load of cra* too. Says this kind of tripe is for weak women who need to subjugate their families instead of raising them to be independent thinkers. Women who think men are clueless have not met the right ones. Good luck to them...

yuck. you ladies are really awful people. why not write about the studies about people treat us how we set ourselves up to be treated. wait, that involves accountability and behaving like a kind decent person. better to degrade an ENTIRE gender of humans. never mind.

I agree entirely that this article is "offensive at so many different levels." It isn't that I'm male and want to keep my 'control' but this has to be the worst thing news week has published. The relationship that I have with my fiancee, as her and I write this together, does not need any of this foolishness or sickness. We are both partners in our relationship and handle our parts fairly and evenly. I truely should write a book titled "If you want to have a good marriage, make your wife do what she is told." I wonder how THAT book would be received. Is this some kind of sick joke?

Its very ridiculous if one woman treating a his husband by in an animal way. I think if these things happen it could be developing frustation in mens. so avoid it.

I would be worried if i had to "train my husband" in order to hear me. No thanks, if I get married, I know he won't be perfect but I rather talk things out then treat him like if he had no intellect. I also would want him to love me enough to hear out my feelings and vice-a-versa.

funny little story

I bet all loosery women liked it. hahahahahahah