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Rating  - I could not relate... could not finish the book.
I read this book when my son was 19 months old so maybe i wasn't feeling the adjustment i felt when he was just born. I know that a new baby can put a strain on a marriage especially due to lack of sleep ... but i couldn't relate to this book. My husband helped.. and continues to help.. so i just couldn't relate enough. This is for the far end of the spectrum with husbands that hardly do a thing. i could not finish this book because i was bored. Maybe to people who can relate to this book it would be great! but not for me...
Rating  - Entertaining and helpful, taken with a grain of salt.
I read this book upon the recommendation of a friend, more to see what was so funny than for the actual advice. The book lived up to it's rep as a funny page turner -- the anecdotes and quotes from both men and women gave both me and my husband quite a few chuckles. In some places, I found it to be a bit heavy-handed with its statement of the obvious, but mostly it seemed to present a fair picture of how men and women differ on certain child-rearing issues. I agree with a previous reviewer that this book can create a rather bleak picture of child-rearing, particularly for those contemplating kids. But it is the reality for quite a few couples and better for people to know that going in. This book actually made me appreciate how good I've got it most of the time. While I found myself nodding emphatically at much of what was said, other times, after laughing and then cringing, I would think gratefully of how much my husband does around the house and contributes to our joint child-rearing efforts. The tips offered this book are not for everyone, but the advice is mostly sound and it does work. My husband and I had actually come up with the same solution to ending the scorekeeping battle before reading this book, and it worked like a dream. No more battles on who has it harder, or who does more. We sat down and agreed on everything that needed to be done and who was going to do it and also added in who was going to get child-free time when. I couldn't complain that I was cooking all the meals because it's what I agreed to do. And in the same vein, my husband no longer complained that he had to give our daughter her bath every night because it's what he agreed to do. Our arguments (which were frequent) over the issue of who does what and who does what more often were completely eliminated.
I recommend this book to anyone looking for some laughs on post-children marital relations and some helpful advice. It is a bit skewed towards women, and bashes on the men a bit, so I'd advise women to read it and mark pages for your husbands to read. It goes over easier.
Rating  - Fun perspective on a serious problem
I decided to give this book a read when my hubby and I found out we were having twins and though we each have an older child we brought into the marriage and have done the whole parenting thing before, we've never parented infants and very young children together and frankly I value our relationship with small children and without. This book was humerously written with lots of quotes and dialogue from men and women experiencing problems in their relationship as well as folks who are finding successful answers to relationship problems. I especially appreciated the chapter on sex which is a big issue in many relationships after baby comes along. Mom is exhausted and feels as sexy "as a loaf of bread" and dad maintains a pre-baby sex drive, what's a couple to do? Definatly keep this book around for inspiration and even a good chuckle when your to-do list is longer than the day is long.
Rating - Disappointing
Very disappointed. I was looking for a book that would offer solutions instead of telling me how having children will make for a poor marriage. After reading the first two chapters, then you have read the book, the rest was just filler material. The book had an overall negative message.
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