Here is a brief description of the book:
Get out of the doghouse and back into the bedroom simply by swapping the TV remote for the toilet brush! Whether you’ve been married for three months or thirty years, failing to help around the house remains a major cause of discord. Following this book’s principles, a husband learns to decrease disputes and increase intimacy by:
- owning his share of household work
- listening to his wife’s needs and communicating his own
- spending the time on chores now to make more time for love later.
Using Marriage 101 for Men as a guide, you’ll be able to understand, alleviate, and ultimately eliminate the symptoms of stress in your relationship and be happier and more satisfied with all aspects of your marriage.
Meet the Author:
Sherri Mills has been a hairdresser for over 45 years. She has had her own salon long enough to see life happen before her very eyes. She has listened to real-life problems and followed real-life outcomes—-successes and failures—and through several generations, longer and more extensively than marriage counselors can.
In her practice she has seen the pain from too many divorces that didn’t have to happen. She has been obsessed with trying to save as many marriages as she can.
Sherri’s first book, I Almost Divorced my Husband but I Went on Strike Instead, was written to women, with detailed instructions on how to deal with the double-duty double standard of householder work and how to have more appreciation for their own husbands.
Men wanted instructions of their own, so Sherri outlined in this book real solutions to issues that sabotage marital accord. The book is written in such a manner as to make sense to the male partner in the marriage.
Marriage 101 for Men: Why Taking Out the Trash is a Turn On by Sherri Mills
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Okay, so you know I’m not married, and I’m not a man. So why would I sit down and read this book? For the simple reason that this book is well-written and has some of the most common-sense ideas for marriage that I have read. While this book would not have saved my marriage–that’s a long story–I believe that this book contains some wonderful advice that could help out a lot of marriages out there.
I love the fact that this is a book written for men by a woman. That may not make a lot of sense, but it does seem to work. I don’t think most men would sit down and read this book on their own, but I liked the idea of wives reading to their husbands. I was surprised to discover just how ineffectively women communicate with men. I was always the wife who would tell her husband more than he bargained for. I never assumed he knew anything.
Another area intrigued me, and I would have liked to have seen her mention it (because I understand this does happen more than you might believe). When I was married, my husband and I had a flip-flopped sort of relationship in the physical area. I craved physical intimacy quite regularly, and he was not generally interested. There are men who suffer from this, but I realize it is not the norm. If I had been married and reading this book, I would have wanted to know how to get my husband interested in the physical aspect of the relationship. But that’s just coming from my experience.
I really did not agree with her “strike,” but then again, maybe that was what worked for her. I would have liked to have seen her be more careful when recommending this behavior because I think it could cause marriages to break-up in many instances. I did appreciate the appendices with more printable information for the family. I can see where that would be useful.
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not financially compensated, and all opinions are 100 percent mine.
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