Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress by John Gray Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress
Book Review: changed my life
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the most excellent book. I read it and it changed my life. I did what the author recommends and feel great now. Get off the anti-depressants they are whats making you fat and sluggish. Take the vitamins and eat the way he suggests and your life will change for the better within a matter of days.Book Review: when mars and venus collide
Summary: 5 Stars
Its too bad that so late in life (mid 50's) i read this book. I recommend it to anyone 16 and older. After the bible, if there is only one book you read, this is the one. at last we can learn why our sex and the opposite tend to act as they do. A friend gave me a cd of the book which i loved, then i bought a copy for my son. before being given the book on cd, i would have thought it a stupid sounding book and never bought it. We can all get along. Don't miss this opportunity to bring peace and understanding to the ones you love most.
jeff turner
Book Review: Good info
Summary: 4 Stars
This is another in the line of good relationship books from Dr Gray. I saw him recently in Calif at a health seminar and he made his subject even more interesting seeing and hearing him in person.
I've read several of his prior books and of course the first, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, are still the bench mark others must reach.
Book Review: Reading it will feel like you have your very own counselor!
Summary: 5 Stars
John Gray has long been one of my favorite authors when it comes
to writing about relationships . . .from his MEN ARE FROM MARS,
WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS to his latest, WHY MARS & VENUS
COLLIDE, he continues to give
sound advice that can be applied in countless situations.
This latter book's subtitle tells you right away what you will
gain by reading it; i.e., you'll learn about IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS
BY UNDERSTANDING HOW MEN AND WOMEN COPE DIFFERENTLY
WITH STRESS.
Although some of the material has appeared in other material
written by Gray, I still found it worthwhile to be reminded that:
* Women admire a man who can stay cool and calm. Women are also
pleased when men fix things. Yet when a man offers his quick fixes
to her emotional accounts of the day, she interprets his efforts
as a dismissal of her feelings. She needs him simply to listen and
ask more questions. The more she feels heard and understood,
the better she is going to feel.
Moreover, women will find it equally beneficial to be reminded
about what men often need in a relationship:
* Likewise, when a woman minimizes her interruptions of a man's
focused activities, she helps him to keep his stress levels down.
Leaving a man alone and ignoring him is sometimes the best way
to support him. Understanding that these tendencies are based
on our brain differences frees us from taking things personally and reveals
practical ways to support our partners in coping better with their stresses.
I am continually amazed that the author has an uncanny ability to see
things from the perspective of both sexes . . . and others, including
women, have told me that he really knows his stuff . . . as for instance
when he observes:
* Needing a partner is not a weakness. It is why we partner up. Men and women
just have different primary needs. Men need to feel needed, and women need
to feel they are not alone. Just as a woman is happiest when she feels she is
getting what she needs from her partner, a man is happiest when he feels
successful in meeting his partner's needs. This is an important distinction. We
certainly need each other, but for different reasons.
Now if I can only remember to look back at this book from time to time,
if just to be reminded about all that I have forgotten . . . Chapter 8,
"How to Stop Fighting and Make Up," by itself makes WHY MARS
& VENUS COLLIDE a worthwhile purnchase and/or gift for anybody
involved in a relationship . . . that you get so much other great
advice is like having your very own counselor!
D. When I was a kid, I couldn't get enough of the game of baseball . . . I
watched games on TV and went to them, and I also read everything
about the subject that I could.
For some reason, I lost interest in it sometime around my teenage
years . . . maybe it was when my mother threw out my collection
of baseball cards (including one signed by Sandy Koufax!) or perhaps
it's when I discovered that girls were frankly more interesting, but
I also forgot many of my childhood memories . . . that is, until I came
across BASEBALL: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN'S FAVORITE GAME
by NEW YORK TIMES sports columnist George Vecsey.
What a joy it was to hear this book over the past several days as
I drove to and from work . . . it reminded me of the days when
I followed both the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, but
it also gave me a mini-history lesson about the Black Sox 1919
scandal (and why it happened), along with an appreciation of
what it was like to have to play in the Negro Leagues.
I also liked hearing about how baseball became popular in the
United States . . . and learning that Abner Doubleday really had
little to do with the game's development.
It was fun hearing about Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, but
equally interesting to learn about the role of such executives
as Branch Rickey and my personal favorite, Bill Veeck.
And I got a kick learning why Ricky Henderson had so many
doubles in his career . . . it seems he could have stretched many
of them into triples, but held off on doing so in order to then
be able to steal third (and add to his all-time steals record).
I don't know if BASEBALL will get me to return to the ballpark
anytime in the near future . . . yet I'd still recommend
the book to any fan--past, present or future.
My only criticism is that the book is a bit choppy . . . it goes back
and forth in history, whereas my preference would have been for
a straight chronological approach.
Book Review: Explains Why Men don't want to "Talk about it".
Summary: 4 Stars
I found the book very helpful to my relationship. Helped me to realize my partner can't be "all things" to me. I must have close girlfriends for a lot of "feeliings" & "venting" conversations. Men just aren't into it. Helped me to understand why I constantly hear, "I don't want to talk about it!" Helped me to realize I don't need to talk about every disagreement or issue. Many things are just better left unsaid. Men want to "fix" everything. Women want to "discuss" everything. This was my personal experience with the book relating to my life. For $15. you can't go wrong!