Book : Good Husband, Great Marriage Finding The Good...

-Titulo Original : Good Husband, Great Marriage Finding The Good Husband...in The Man You Married

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Grand Central Publishing

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For men, and the women who love them, this is a highly controversial book on how to get - and be - a good husband. This book will appeal to the countless women who resent that their husbands never listen and that they have to nag in order to get them to do anything around the house; who feel like their husbands are always pawing at them to have sex; and who want more from their marriage. It will appeal to men who want to have more sex, less nagging, and wives who adore them. In short, Good Husband, Great Marriage is the book for everyone. Good Husband, Great Marriage is a hard-hitting, no-nonsense guidebook for men and women to help them fix their marriages. Robert Alters central, controversial argument: the man is primarily responsible for the marital problems. Alter says to women: You are right to want what you want from him. He says to men: Stop thinking its your wifes fault, and transform yourself into the good husband you know you have in you. In 50 chapters, Alter describes the problem areas men face and what actions they can take to fix them. The chapters include: How to Know When Youre Being a Man as Opposed to When Youre Being an Asshole, How to Talk to Her, and Your Anger: Cut the Shit. Alters approach is straightforward and logical; he speaks to men in a language they understand. In addition, sections of the book will be geared for women where Alter will give advice to women on what they can do. About the Author Im sitting here at the computer in my wifes office in our home in suburban Boston. Its the end of January, 2006. In two months my new book Its (Mostly) His Fault will be published, so theres an air of anticipation around here. Its a book about how to become a good husband. My wife Jane just ran into the room for a second to get something, and I asked her what I should say about myself in this biography. She said, Say that youre a great guy and a good husband! and then ran out. I was born on December 23, 1945 to Sylvia and Jack Alter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of two children. My father owned a small furniture store in Boston, my mother was a homemaker. When I was three, we moved to a suburb of Boston, where I grew up on the top floor of a two-family house and attended the public schools. I did well in school, and liked it. I was also a good athlete, and spent most of my boyhood on baseball fields and basketball courts and frozen ponds, playing football, baseball, basketball, and hockey with my friends-glory days!--as the seasons revolved. It was on those playing fields that I learned the voice that we males speak to each other in-boy to boy, man to man-a voice that men will listen to--and its the voice I speak to husbands in in my therapy office, and the voice I wrote Its (Mostly) His Fault in. I graduated from high school in 1963, and went to Cornell University as a chemistry major because I wanted to be a veterinarian. Then the sixties fell on my head. Folk music, rock and roll, Dylan (The Freewheeling), Vietnam, demonstrations, drugs, more Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)-and before I knew it I wasnt a chemistry major anymore and didnt want to be a veterinarian, I was an English major and didnt have a clue what I wanted to be. I enjoyed reading great writers-Hemingway, Faulkner, Henry James, Thoreau-and decided I wanted to be a great writer. I spent my college years writing opinion pieces for the Cornell Daily Sun, short stories, and bad poems. In the fall of my senior year, I was walking across campus and saw a girl in a pink turtleneck sweater sitting on a low stone wall, gazing down. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen in my life. Waves of long blond hair around a quiet, oval face. Straight out of a Botticelli painting. I heard a voice say inside my head, Someday Im going to marry that girl. That was Jane. I graduated Cornell in 1967 and went to graduate school at Brandeis University to study literature. Jane (wh