Review: If you're married, you must read this book. Trust a man who didn't read it in time!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
They say that hindsight is 20/20, but now and then you come across something that throws the past into a perspective that touches home. this book did that for me.I was married for 27 years to a wonderful woman, but after about 20 years, things got a little rocky. We didn't seem to have as much in common, and spent a lot of time bickering at each other. Finally, when neither of us could take it any longer, we decided to divorce.I picked up this book on a whim, because I'm hoping to find a new "love of my life" someday, and thought I'd read it to see if there was any new trick in it for an old dog like me. I began reading it with the future in mind, but as I read about the couples that the author uses for examples, I kept seeing my past, instead. So many of them seemed to have been taken down word for word from conversations and arguments I had with my wife, and I began to see ways I might have approached our problems differently. Perhaps if I had read this book back then, we'd still be together, for I might have recognized that many of the problems were merely our individual ways of trying to be closer, trying to find what the comfortable togetherness that seemed to have faded away over time.If you're married, read this book. Read it with an open heart and mind, and let its lessons touch your heart the way they touched mine. It's too late for me, but perhaps... perhaps it's not too late for you.