You may also be interested in joining the Facebook group: I don't even know why I'm typing this except that I get the sense that someone here needs to read it. I really encourage you to pick up this book if you want a great marriage! Not surprisingly, these are the same women who have some of the happiest marriages that I have seen. Women who have told me to read it over the years, I have reached back out to them and told them thank you. Whether you are having problems in your relationship or not, I really encourage you to pick up this book. It's been really amazing to see how changes in me are affecting our relationship in a positive way. We are more than a 1.5 decades in and far from newlyweds. He was responding to me more affectionately, he was wanting to spend more quality time with me, and he was giving me the desires of my heart like we were newlyweds. So I decided to read this book and I can tell you that after the first week I saw huge changes in the way that my husband was meeting my needs. Who wants to have a good marriage when you can have a great one? I feel like we have a very good marriage, but I'm always looking for ways to make it better. I'm not going to go into a lot of details because I don't discuss my marriage on internet boards. But, at the same time, I had this innate sort of understanding that what the author was saying was true and that there was a much better life waiting for me on the other side of this book. It was like the author was holding up a mirror and exposing my deepest thoughts and flaws. When I first started reading, it was tough to swallow. I’ve never subscribed to that fully, but you can’t help but absorb the hallmarks of a culture at times. This is not an easy read if you grew up in the era of independent women and don’t “need” a man. The book encourages women to embrace their femininity and use that to enhance and encourage masculine characteristics in their husbands which include providing and protecting.
Perhaps my delay has been out of stubbornness because I live in a society where women demand to be equal with men in every way even though we have very different qualities, strengths, and weaknesses in relationships.įascinating Womanhood is an old-fashioned take on gender roles in marriage. I have another thread where I wrote about this book asking other people what they thought of it, but I wanted to set up a different thread to address the book specifically.Īlthough I've had the book for quite some time, I've only begun to put into practice the things mentioned in the book. A long time ago, a friend urged me to read the book Fascinating Womanhood.