John gray has a new book called beyond mars and venus which he updated his map for these times where we are aspiring to understand one another. It nails it with examples. This book is informative, practical, realistic, and easy to follow.

Read this after 5 years of marriage. We all need help understanding how to communicate with (the majority) of women. In today's world we all need to work on delivery and response to our partners who we are supposed to trust, support, love and work dif...  Read More

In the nicest terms this book is belabored, repetitive and redundant. There is nothing in the book that acknowledges toxic conditioning or the disease of conformity. There are some truths but it's a bad book unless you want to be a stepford wife.

All too often, these kind of men offer the type of solution that's a thinly veiled attempt to get her to shut up. Is gray casually admitting that men enter relationships not being interested in the point of said ventures, under false pretences?

Men react in an unsupportive manner. Men purposely misinterpret women's statements and use them as license to attack her further. Men also purposely underestimate how bad their behavior is.

A man unknowingly hurts his partner by speaking in an uncaring manner and then going on to explain why she should not be upset. On mars it means you have done something wrong and you are apologizing. Explanations are helpful only after the hurt is hea...  Read More

He mistakenly assumes she is resisting the content of his point of view, when really his unloving delivery is what upsets her. He doubles down the effort to stuff it back down her * and get her to ignore his telltale tone of voice.