Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Why Men Marry
Chapter One: The Spark
Chapter Two: The Decision
Chapter Three: The Wedding
Part Two: The Arc of the Relationship
Chapter Four: Newlyweds (The first three years)
Chapter Five: Family Times (Years four to twenty)
Chapter Six: Empty Nest (Years twenty-one to thirty-five)
Chapter Seven: Mature Marriage (Years thirty-six and beyond)
Part Three: HusbandSpeak
Chapter Eight: Housework: The Link to Sex
Chapter Nine: Sex: ‘Lubricant in the Gears’
Chapter Ten: Affairs: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
Chapter Eleven: Money and Work: Scrimpers and Squanderers
Chapter Twelve: Arguing: Dealing With Anger
Chapter Thirteen: How to Change a Man
Chapter Fourteen: Parents and In-laws: The Value of Fathers
Chapter Fifteen: Second Marriages: Risks and Rewards
Chapter Sixteen: Husbandly Advice: 8,000 Years of Experience
Part Four: How Men Do Marriage
Chapter Seventeen: The Male Style of Loving
"A surprising, challenging, and compassionate book on the
inner world of a misunderstood species --the modern husband. Nearly every husband
will understand himself better if he reads this book; nearly
every wife will say, 'Now I get it.'" --William J. Doherty, Ph.D., professor of Family Social
Science at the University of Minnesota and author of Take Back Your
Marriage
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