Review: Good Evening Ladies and Gents--Take My Spouse. . . Please
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
Okay so after thirty years of waking up together the bloom was most definitely off the rose we had come to that dreaded cross roads. The last kid is leaving for college in one month. We have been transitioning to this for several years we knew it was coming and probably we both knew it was our ticket out.I am not even sure when my oldest daughter sent me this book through her Kindle with a note that I should care enough to read it. The only question I had was did I care enough to do that? Sorry kids of ours, but that is where I was residing in my head quite frankly. Not sure.I cared where he stood, I wanted out. What had for years been a happy, quite frankly awesome marriage in my humble opinion. The marriage has turned into two strangers, one who preferred sleeping on the couch (that would be me) to the marital bed.I had to laugh when my newlywed oldest daughter thought she found the answer to my question about what to do with my marriage. Knowing my little Virgo daughter would quiz me at our next lunch as to the contents, I started to glance through the book. I had to let her know I was working on it.Well I poured a glass of wine and started browsing through. Found my finger slowing down in the flipping of pages and instead of scanning the page I found myself reading the page. It was not to long after that I went back to the beginning and started to read.What an eye opener this book was for me. I don't know that the material is so unique but the message is delivered well. I found many points of contention mentioned that had slowly chipped away at our intimacy and that is what I learned we had to get back. Step one get of the couch. I'm not saying this book is going to fix my marriage but it has some pretty good ideas on how to start.I am giving it a three because while I think it has a lot to offer at the end of the day you have to want to fix the marriage step number one.