Men Don't Listen [Paperback]

Wayne L. Misner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2001

Men do listen! They don't feel! As they grow up an anesthetizing of feelings takes place. They're suppressing not only negative emotions, but also the positive emotions. This book is written for anyone who has been frustrated by male/female relationships and wants guidance in understanding the opposite sex. Head off misunderstanding. Finally , help for the male and female interested in improving or saving their relationship. If you're filing for divorce, separated, looking for a mate, alone and trying to understand what went wrong, all is carefully covered. The author is very, very good with word pictures and uses them frequently throughout the book. Another technique is using little vignettes based on true stories to illustrate a point. The Author uses extensive lists to get the readers ideas flowing. Within each chapter are jokes and popular quotations from a wide variety of sources to add a little punch. Some are humorous and others profound. "Marriage, which makes two one, is a lifelong struggle to discover which is that one." Dozens of case studies demonstrating where things went wrong and how they could erode your relationship.

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About the Author

Wayne L. Misner is owner of Healthcare CIO, a consultant company in New Jersey. While being in the healthcare field for 35 years and a member of Parents Without Partners for 10 years, he has had the opportunity to facilitate many groups of men and women who were struggling with not being able to listen. He is the father of 2 sons and 1 daughter, and is one of the men he has written about.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595089550
• ISBN-13: 978-0595089550
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,948,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Differences between men and women, April 13, 2000

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Kevin Clapper (Somerset, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men Don't Listen (Paperback)

While the main topic is how men have been taught to suppress emotions and eventually run from their own feelings, the author also delves into the differences between men and women in thought and purpose. He has taken what he has personally lived and witnessed and poured it all out for the benefit of others. This book is not based on research, it is based on life. The research he uses supports what he has already discovered to be true. Misner's desire is to help people, not to toot his own horn or flaunt his accomplishments. He has an easy-going, conversational style and talks to the reader out of deep personal conviction.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding men, April 10, 2000

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Kevin Clapper (Somerset, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men Don't Listen (Paperback)

My problem over the years of trying to understand men and why they don't hear what I am saying was finally explained in the book. One big mistake I was making was to think men felt the same as women. I should have listened to my own inner voice telling me that "he" is avoiding emotions. In trying to control everything around him he has suppressed not only the bad but the good emotions. With the authors help I now know what I must do to break down the barriers to have a close relationship with a man.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Book Reviews by WomensSelfesteem.com, April 14, 2006

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Wayne L. Misner "Wayne" (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men Don't Listen (Paperback)

About the Book: Men Don't Listen
is a very well written and easy to read book. It is a recipe book on how to make a very good relationship and keep it. The title of this book is a definite attraction for all female readers, but I truly advise both genders to read this book. It teaches women as well as men to stop, listen and learn all those little things that chip away at our relationships, after all, men and women alike spend so much time and worry in regards to healing their frustrations where their inability to understand their partner is concerned. Men Don't Listen has it all. This book will take its readers from A to Z in what steps are worth climbing to meet one another at a very equal level. One may consider this a self-help book in relationships. They would not be far from the truth, in fact it will even take away any false ideas that our world has managed to implement in your brain and take you to a realistic level of what men and women are really about. I enjoyed the romantic section of this book; it added a nice desert to the dinner so to speak.

Recommendation: Womensselfesteem.com highly recommends this read to all women and men regardless of your relationship. It is a very positive and informative book on living a very happy relationship. Thank you Wayne, for requesting a book review by womensselfesteem.com, it was a very entertaining, not to mention valuable read.