There's a better way to live your life. Men Are Easy offers women a refreshing new perspective that makes relationships simpler, life more fun, and love more lovely. Lynn Rasmussen's creative system teaches you the skills that lead to durable, flexible, long-lasting love. With advice to help you enjoy chaos, get creative, and finally understand yourself and your man, Men Are Easy is the handbook for designing a life you know you?ve chosen instead of trudging through one that feels like someone else?s. Whether you?re thinking about committing to that one special guy or you?ve been married for decades, this is the book that shows you how life with a man can be spontaneous, sexy, stable?and easy
The title caught my eye because humans -- men and women -- are both complicated and simple, and relationships are labyrinthine -- it's part of what makes us so interesting! The table of contents implies that the advice within will set conventional wisdom on relationships on its head -- "communication is not the key" or "you can change him" -- but there really is nothing new here. The author just spins the meaning of the language so that she can make a point while still sticking with the conventional wisdom. For example, since apparently no one likes "compromise" because it implies that neither person really gets what they want, she encourages men and women to discuss what they value and what they want in life, and where they have mutual wants, they should "design" a life together that achieves those things. The subtext is that each of them may need to give up, at least for a while, on things they want individually so that they can get things they want together. Well, yes, relationships do work that way. That's conventional wisdom. That's also called "compromise," but nooo! in this book, it's called "design." Whatever. It's not that any of it is bad advice, but there's nothing new here, and I found the whole spinning of language to be gimmicky.