The Surrendered Wife: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion and Peace with Your Man

by Laura Doyle

Paperback, 2001

Status

Checked out

Collection

Publication

Simon & Schuster Ltd (2001), Edition: First Edition, 285 pages

Description

A New York Times bestseller, this controversial guide to improving your marriage has transformed thousands of relationships, bringing women romance, harmony, and the intimacy they crave. Like millions of women, Laura Doyle wanted her marriage to be better. But when she tried to get her husband to be more romantic, helpful, and ambitious, he withdrew and she was lonely and exhausted from controlling everything. Desperate to be in love with her man again, she decided to stop telling him what to do and how to do it. When Doyle surrendered control, something magical happened. The union she had always dreamed of appeared. The man who had wooed her was back. The underlying principle of The Surrendered Wife is simple: The control women wield at work and with children must be left at the front door of any marriage. Laura Doyle's model for matrimony shows women how they can both express their needs and have them met while also respecting their husbands' choices. When they do, they revitalize intimacy. Compassionate and practical, The Surrendered Wife is a step-by-step guide that teaches women how to: give up unnecessary control and responsibility, resist the temptation to criticize, belittle, or dismiss their husbands, trust their husbands in every aspect of marriage from sexual to financial, and more. The Surrendered Wife will show you how to transform a lonely marriage into a passionate union.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member honeysmudge
I heard about the book and had to find out what it was really about. I was suprised that it was not so much about being a female doormat as about not being a nagging pecking hen of a wife. The irony is that most nagging controlling pecking hens (I'm thinking of a few of my own relatives here)
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wouldn't recognize themselves and thus wouldn't back off of their husbands. I don't agree with everything the author says, but I was relieved that it wasn't suggesting that women turn their brains off and blindly do whatever their spouses say or want, no matter what.
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LibraryThing member elleayess
This book was given to me by a dear friend that thought I may benefit from it. Needless to say, I was so not interested in reading it! However, after reading the book - after many moments of "I'm not like that", I applied the principles the author suggested and slowly, over time, amazing results
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were seen. The book is not about being a subserviant wife, but a submissive wife, which basically means that you get along better with your husband, not walk two paces behind him. The principles can easily be applied to other interpersonal relationships also with maximum benefits, I believe. The author basically encourages the reader to think less about themselves and more about caring for thier significant other. Definately worth the read!
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2001

ISBN

0743209176 / 9780743209175
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