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(She's totally against mothers who work outside the home and divorced parents who even entertain thoughts of another relationship before all their children are 18. Laura" admittedly does take some getting used to, with her strong opinions and old-fashioned standards.
The cover said it was 3 hours long, but it was more like 2 1/2. I have a long commute to work and decided to get the audio book instead of the print version.
"Dr. I was a little disappointed with the brevity.
The narration itself was expressive and easy to listen to. When I first starting listening to her radio show on Sirius, I couldn't believe how harsh she is with callers she doesn't agree with-especially the women.
I think it's great if mothers are able to be stay-at-home moms, but not everyone is able to do this).That said, if you can get past her judgmental nature and are open to doing things differently to improve your relationship,she does offer some good advice.
Dr. Laura tells it like it is and after three decades, continues to be a beacon of common sense and gettingpeople to think "outside themselves" for a successful, loving, giving life. Loved it.
If you are a Dr. Love Dr. laura fan this is a great book for the single, or married. Its a great read and really makes you take a step back and see the BIG picture which we all need to do-but fail at sometimes.Great book. Laura. Buy it
This is an awesome audio book. I really enjoyed listening to it and have loan it out to my neices and nephews that are in relationships or married.
This only makes them feel worse about their condition. It seems that Dr. Phil (both from the Oprah end of the rightwing religious political spectrum), have together colonized the known universe of "pop psychology," or what their fellow conservative ditto heads refer to as "psycho-babble."Like her other books in this series, this one too skims the surface and snags the low hanging fruit for those poor souls who have no idea who they are, or why they are in a relationship in the first place. It is a gift to the giver, not to the troubled: For anyone who has ever been poor knows that the last thing you want to do is give poor people handouts, least of all canned foods. Without the more robust understanding to be found in something minimally on the order of Dr Viscott's "The Language of Feelings," these 10 prescriptions (as well as those in Dr. Neither Drs Phil nor Laura seems to care much about the preparatory work of building sound personhood based on introspection and personal awareness, as a necessary foundation for using these ten prescriptions, which in any case must precede them if there is any chance of them being deployed successfully.
In the same way, what troubled couples usually lack is "a relationship with at least one whole independent or aware adult" in them. Laura and Dr. What they lack most, of course is not food, but dignity and connectedness. The idea that there are shortcuts to these very serious issues is just another cheap marketing device, and both Phil and Laura diminish the title doctor when they traffic in this kind of "cure in a bottle misery." It is "snake oil" by another name. But hey, at least it allows them to laugh all the way to the bank with their consciences intact.This book and others of this genre are the equivalent of the much-revered American tradition of giving canned foods to the poor at Thanksgiving. Feeding them the equivalent of psychological canned goods is a cosmetic fix that makes Drs Phil and Laura feel that they have done something good for society, but this "psychological cotton candy" cannot possibly fix a troubled relationship, the source of which is that it is inhabited by "partial" rather than "whole" adult human beings.
Phil's "Relationship Rescue") are like plugging the dike with ones little finger.But what the heck, something is always better than nothing, right.For something, both books get Two Stars.
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