Cari's review of The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura C. Schlessinger
This is not a book I would have picked up on my own but it was on my book group list for this month. I'm not a big self help book reader and I don't know if that's because I don't think I need any help or because I don't want to admit I need help. I have never listened to Dr. Laura before so I had no idea she was such an anti feminist! This surprised me a bit as most outspoken women in the world today seem to take quite the opposite approach. This isn't what bothered me as those of you who know me know I am not an unshaven, sign totting, angry feminist but I did go back and forth on how I felt about this book. At first I felt like everything she was saying was common sense and I couldn't believe people didn't know this stuff (and if they don't no wonder so many marriages fail). But then part of me found myself feeling guilty while reading this because I saw pieces of myself in an unfavorable light depicted in this book (so obviously there are some things I need some help with eve...more
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