Editorial Review:

Is this the way love is supposed to feel?

· Does the man you love assume the right to control how you live and behave?
· Have you given up important activities or people to keep him happy?
· Is he extremely jealous and possessive?
· Does he switch from charm to anger without warning?
· Does he belittle your opinions, your feelings, or your accomplishments?
· Does he withdraw love, money, approval, or sex to punish you?
· Does he blame you for everything that goes wrong in the relationship?
· Do you find yourself "walking on eggs" and apologizing all the time?
If the questions here reveal a familiar pattern, you may be in love with a misogynist -- a man who loves you, yet causes you tremendous pain because he acts as if he hates you.
In this superb self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the voices of men and women trapped in these negative relationships to help you understand your man's destructive pattern and the part you play in it.
She shows how to break the pattern, heal the hurt, regain your self-respect, and either rebuild your relationship or find the courage to love a truly loving man.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

This book has helped me so much!:

I have been with my husband for 5 years and things started to get off balance after the birth of our daughter because I became a stay-at-home-mom. I was never totally dependent on him until then.
This book has really helped me understand our relationship. I feel calmer and have really started to think about what I want and need much more then before. I feel stronger and more in touch with myself and I think my husband has noticed this. This book is a life saver for me! I am in the process of... more info

Its alright:

If you need this book, and are aware of it, the subject content won't surprise you. I found it a tedious read with too many examples... which are aplenty online.

A Must Read For All!:

This book amazed me. I was expecting this book to completely demonize a lot of the abusive men and abusive parents. It showed me nobody is above the human condition on how they REACT to certain treatment given by the emotional horrors of psychological abuse. Although there have been huge troubled spots in my relationship and I suspected something was not right about the way I was talked to, reading this book helped justify my claims and feelings. Nowhere near the abusive level of some of the couples but... more info

Insightful, yet overly Simplified:

I found this book insightful, and it offered revealing case studies on "men who hate women, and they woman who loved them." Yet, I found Dr. Forward's hypothesis that all abusive men are misogynists overly simplified. It is as if she tried to pack as much "evidence" as she could into her "catchy" theory. The book was certainly revolutionary when it came out 22 years ago, but current research and understanding suggest that the nature of abusive men and their relationships is considerably more complex. It is... more info

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