Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, Laura Tucker
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Author: Laura Tucker, Marianne J. LegatoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-15
ISBN: 1579548970
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Rodale Books
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Book Review: A women's book with the intellectual depth of an advice column
Summary: 3 Stars
I wasn't impressed by this book, which I bought because it sounded good based on the reviews. First, the book is written to women, which is not of itself a bad thing. And has the intellectual depth of some of the lighter women's magazine articles. "I" is used a lot more than I have ever noticed in a book before, so it reads like a one-way telephone conversation. While there is some scientific information there, the language lacks the sort of precision that is necessary to get more than a women's magazine grasp of the science that is discussed.
On page 114: "Psychologist Shirley Glass, PhD, has done a number of important studies on infidelity. According to her, the phenomenon is fairly common: Twenty-five percent of wives and 44 percent of husbands admit to having had extramarital intercourse. I suspect the numbers are much higher than that, and if I look at the relationships I've seen fall apart of the course of my lifetime, I'm pretty sure that I'm right." Maybe it's me, but I don't think we can just discount a study of a married population merely based on what we have observed in failed marriages.
On page 32 a section is entitled "Women Determine Whether Courtship Will Continue and the Pace at Which It Does". That is an odd statement, and would seem true only when the man wants to continue the relationship and wants to go as fast as, or faster, than the woman. I am not sure where that section title came from since there is nothing in the paragraphs within that section that address anything related to that section title.
So, from the parts of the book I read, I found only one insight and found the communication level to be simplistic. The insight is from a story about a doctor whose wife asked him how his day went, and he had nothing to say, because he was very busy all day, so what was there to say? But then he learned that his wife wanted to hear stories about his day, so he made a note of remembering some stories, such as patient X was cranky today. And for his wife, who was a housewife who stayed home raising the kids, bringing her these stories was like bringing her flowers.
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