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Learn how to gain respect and enjoyment in your relationship. Become a hero to the woman in your life. Being the Strong Man A Woman Wants by Elliott Katz is timeless wisdom on being a man. It explains why many relationships today aren’t working and what the man can do to make things better. Drawing upon age-old principles that work, this book challenges popular ideas and explains why today’s new age guy is frustrated and bewildered.
Traditionally, men learned this wisdom from their fathers. Today, many men grow up without the benefit of a strong male role model. This story is about a journey of discovery that Michael takes with his grandfather. Grandpa shares time-proven wisdom with him – wisdom that challenges many of the beliefs that have emerged over the past 30 years. Michael discovers how this wisdom can help him improve his relationship with his wife and help him grow as a person.
“A must read for men who feel they have compromised themselves and aren’t getting the response they expected, and for women who wish they were in a relationship with a real man.” Aryeh Pamensky, Author of How to Make a Good Marriage Great.
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A brave and creative attempt to pass on the wisdom of strength without harm, wisdom that was once part of the training of gentle, strong and loving manhood in a thousand cultures more subtle and skillful than our own. To be strong does not mean dominating. Only when a man and a woman are both strong, can they be truly close. – Steve Biddulph, Author of The Secret Life of Men, Raising Boys, The Secret of Happy Children and The Secret of a Happy Family
Elliott Katz does an excellent job of presenting many of the essential challenges couples face, and in particular, what is the correct way for the man to respond. He presents his “teachings” with a charming simplicity that is surely to warm the hearts of many readers. His notion that the man needs to be an emotionally strong and mature partner is certainly in order and proven in my clinical practice as a seasoned marriage and family therapist to be true over and over again. Katz’s book is eminently practical and down to earth. It is sure to be received enthusiastically by many who need to learn the basics of how to make a marriage work. – Abraham Kass, M.A., R.S.W., R.M.T., Clinical Social Worker, Member of the Ontario College of Social Workers, and the Ontario and American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Michael raised his glass to his grandfather, "Grandpa Joseph, to you and Grandma Sarah on your fiftieth anniversary. Read the first page
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Simply told & oft-repeated the lessons are blended into the story of a walk a grandfather & his grandson take within a glorious landscape. You hear the younger one's whining helplessness about being unappreciated begin to change into hopeful intention, as he perceives he is not alone, that his grandfather had much the same problems early in his marriage, & that there's something tangible he can do about his current misery.
BEING THE STRONG MAN A WOMAN WANTS is a short book, which I hope Elliott Katz gets on tape so men can listen as they commute, & it's a fast read, with lots to think about & chapter titles such as:
If you don't lead, I can't dance
Knowing what you want
It's not being controlling
Being worthy
Taking full responsibility
Being manly
Setting goals
Think before you act
Watch men who are strong, & many more.
So, what women want is a "strong" man... a manly man, which doesn't mean a controlling tyrant, bully or boss... they want a man who takes responsibility in the marriage & parenting, who is sure in knowing where he came from, who he is & where he's going, in other words, has a backbone.
& for us women, give your man a copy, after you've read it so you'll know what he's about, & boy! Will you be surprised... & glad!
Could have done with an editor's ministrations, however, a good manual on how to reclaim your sense of worth & respect, & how to live like a man, & not a "hen-pecked hubby" -- remember why there's a pecking order!
But I realize also that the angry response I had to this book is sign of actual truth in it. It touched a nerve. For that reason alone, I think it's worth a read. But I still feel that Katz's definition of strength is just as vexed as women's definition of beauty, and carries some of the same (if unintentional) meanness found, for example, in diet books that berate women for not being skinny.
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