Married to Mommy? [Paperback]

JEFF /KRINBRING BAKEMAN (Author), Jeff Bakeman (Author), Bri Krinbring (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806525673
• ISBN-13: 978-0806525679
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mommy No More!, November 27, 2002

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Jane (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Married to Mommy? (Paperback)

Thank god for the Professors of Matrimony and this new book. I thought something was wrong with me, but it turns out I was simply "morphing" into a Mommy! So I bought the book. My husband and I have been laughing about my "condition" ever since.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why it scared me..., July 25, 2005

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Melvoid "Melvoid" (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Married to Mommy? (Paperback)

I brought this book with me last week (July 20, 2005) to read during my free time while acting as a responsible adult at boy scout camp. Ohmygod. While well-written and funny (at times), it put a knot in my stomach. I started bumming out. I mean, they hit it on the head on almost every point.

To me, this wasn't funny, it was horrifying. If I were single and saw this happening to my friends, perhaps I'd have seen more humor in it, but after 14 years of marriage, this did nothing but remind me of my situation.

As I sat with the scouts, whittling, belching, and generally being guys, it only hurt more. If that's not enough, on Friday, it was "family night" and in marched the mommies. My wife was instantly trying to clean out our son's tent. I stopped her. Another kid made some comment about it not being as great as he thought it would be, and one of the other mommies was psychoanalyzing him on the spot. I stopped her, too.

I'm seriously considering signing up for another week of scout camp, and I'm going to use "Married to Mommy" as tinder for my campfire.

(heavy sigh)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ATTENTION MEN: Don't Share This With Your Wife, October 13, 2003

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Jon Linden (Warren, N.J. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Married to Mommy? (Paperback)

"Married To Mommy" is truly a unique and highly humorous, though chauvinistic look at the average American marriage. The book is highly insightful and serious, yet still hilarious. Bakeman and Krinbring premise their book on what I would like to consider the "Bakeman-Krinbring Axiom." That is the following: "MEN LOVE WOMEN MORE THAN WOMEN LOVE MEN."

To some this seems self-evident, but to some, this concept is at the very least foreign if not anathema. But B & K go on to explain that the things they discuss in their book are really the results of people interacting in society in accordance with their genetic programming.

This observation is highly savvy and astute, as it brings together concepts of psychology, sociology, genetics, evolution and marital therapy. If as Darwin believed in the "Origin of Species" that in essence, men are genetically wired to have as many offspring as possible with as many women as possible; and women are genetically wired to be selective in who they mate with, then the result is the situation which leaves women looking for what they need for them and their progeny, with men looking mostly just to increase total progeny.

While B & K's incisive observations and suggestions are surely things that will improve marital harmony, they do remind us, that women always WIN! However, B & K effectively say to women in this book, 'we know you know all this stuff already, but now you know men know it too.' The book is truly a very vast generalization of American Marriage, but in addition, it is so universal that virtually every married person will recognize and laugh at some of the things they say in their book.

However, this review would not be complete without the caveat to men, that this book should not be shared with one's wife. There is almost no way to defend what you know in this book to be true, without getting into a flaming argument with your wife. So, the idea is, read the book, learn from it, and use it to increase your overall marital harmony, without revealing you had a little help along the way.