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The Man's Guide to Women

Scientifically Proven Secrets from the "Love Lab" About What Women Really Want

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The Man's Guide to Women

By: John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Douglas Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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About this listen

A great "philosopher" once said, "Trying to understand women is like trying to smell the color nine." But the fact is, men can understand women to their great benefit. All they need is the right teacher. And, arguably, there is no better teacher than John Gottman, PhD, a world-renowned relationships researcher and author of the best-selling 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work.

His new book, written with wife Julie Gottman, a clinical psychologist; Doug Abrams; and Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, is based on 40 years of scientific study, much of it gleaned from the Gottmans' popular couples' workshops and the "love lab" at the University of Washington. It's written primarily for men because new research suggests that it is the man in a relationship who wields the most influence to make it great or screw it up beyond repair.

The Man's Guide to Women offers the science-based answers to the question: What do women really want in men? The book explains the hallmarks of manhood that most women find attractive and helps men hone those skills to be the men women desire.

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Addictive, educational, humerous & surprising.
A must in your library! Addictive, educational, humerous & surprising.
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Compulsory reading

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really got more than I anticipated I would from this book and will save me much heartache going forward

Very insightful book

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This should be part of the national curriculum for teenage boys. It is spot on! Hopefully this will save my relationship.

A woman's review...

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It’s interesting to know that this is already available in the world and how little people actually know and practice. This book does actually reveal a lot of real truth about how women need to be loved. Thank you. TB

The secrets revealed

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I wish I had this knowledge when I was twenty years old.

a useful read for all men (and woman).

I wish I had this knowledge when I was twenty

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It showed me the mistakes i made as a man, trying to fix an emotional problem where all i had to do was to just hold her.

I like that it references other books such as the multiorgasmic man etc the true with of this book will be once it is compared to today's tinder culture.

I wish i had read it sooner

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It was fun to get to know what i want and to learn how important me and my partner are to each other.

As a woman

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This book is written by academics but it is written in an entertaining non-academic manner. However, it is still highly informative and dependable on scientific knowledge based on evolutionary theory. Its coverage is great and it reads very well. I would definitely recommended this book to any man who wants to increase his understanding of women in a solid, reliable way.

brilliantly clear and informative

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Such a brilliant book, I learned so much, must listen for both men and women, amazingly narrated by Eric Michael Summerer :)

Brilliant from start to finish

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This is the book I wish I had in my teens. Would have saved me a lot of mistakes but I'm glad I found it because it's never too late to learn!

My Eyes Have Been Opened!

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