Stop Getting Dumped! [Paperback]

Lisa Daily (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 2003

This incredibly effective, practical and also laugh out loud books tells you how to meet the right man and make him yours. Dating guru Lisa Daily followed her own advice and was proposed to by her wonderul husband at the top of the Eifel Tower. The strategies are simple, and are aimed at modern women who want equal pay, control of their finances and independence, but who also enjoy some of the more traditional joys of courtship, like when their date holds open the door, pays for dinner and kills spiders for them. In this smart, downright funny book, you will learn: How you may be unwittingly sabotaging your current relationship; the secret to getting a man to call you; the real reasons men fall in love and propose; and, how to be a woman men just can't live without.

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About the Author

Lisa Daily is based in Minneapolis, where she writes about love, relationships and dating. Her popular syndicated column appears on more than 50 dating and women's websites each month, seen and read by millions of people. She married her dream guy after he proposed to her in Paris. They have one son.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Vermilion (January 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0091887798
• ISBN-13: 978-0091887797
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,032,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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HERE'S THE OFFICIAL BIO:

Lisa Daily can tell you why he didn't call, the color you should never wear on a first date, and even where to snoop for evidence if you think your guy's been fooling around. Millions read her dating advice column or tune in to see her every week on DAYTIME, and the early buzz on her debut novel FIFTEEN MINUTES OF SHAME says it pops with the same signature quirky humor and fresh, irreverent voice that made her dating advice book, STOP GETTING DUMPED! a bestseller.

Women from 16-60 flock to Lisa's popular Dream Girl Academy at the Learning Annex in New York City and events across the US. Lisa is a dating coach, speaker and popular media guest -- she has done more than 2000 interviews on top radio and television shows, including iVillage Live, MTV Live, Entertainment Tonight and top UK national morning show, This Morning, and she appears as a real-life dating expert on the HITCH movie DVD starring Will Smith. A frequent source for reporters, Lisa has been quoted in hundreds of publications, from the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Health, Christian Science Monitor and US Weekly Magazine.

HERE'S THE REST...

It only took one episode of BEWITCHED to know that advertising was the career for me.

There was Darren, smack in the middle of some adventure with Samantha, stuck on a roof wearing nothing but a tie or jammed in the back seat of a car that drove itself. Then, Larry his boss would show up unexpectedly and Darren would quickly turn his latest mishap into a
pitch-on-the-fly.

One crazy idea later, Darren had saved the day.

This seemed like a good career for me. After all, I had crazy ideas all day long.

I loved advertising. I loved working with smart people who themselves had crazy ideas all day long, I loved working on a new project, a new problem, every single day. It was fabulous training, and I learned more about good writing in one year at my first job than I had before (or since). Tommy Thompson, my first Creative Director, made me cry on more than one occasion as he critiqued my work, but he was by far the best writer I ever worked for, and the person who taught me more about writing than anyone else. I feel fortunate to have worked with him, and all of the other talented writers and art directors who helped to shape my writing and broaden my horizons.

I decided to write a dating advice book because I was always the one giving dating advice to my friends, and suddenly they were all married. I think part of me missed the girl talk, the feeling of helping someone through something difficult. So, I wrote Stop Getting Dumped!, which became a bestseller in both the US and the UK, and is still pretty popular. (Thank you, thank you, thank you readers!) I started writing a dating advice column. A few years later, I began doing a weekly relationships segment on Daytime, a syndicated morning TV show. I love the weekly gig - there are a lot of topics that are more fun to cover in a visual medium like television. The producers and hosts are fantastic, and I look forward to doing the show every week.

I wrote FIFTEEN MINUTES OF SHAME for a couple of reasons: When my dating advice book first came out, a very prominent dating expert was going through a nasty divorce. I thought, there, but for the grace of God, go I (and every other coach or guru on the planet.) The idea intrigued me how one event could effectively level your entire life - a relationship expert whose husband cheats not only loses her career, but her husband as well. And while I was in no way interested in participating in such a disaster, it always intrigued me, how sometimes people are forced to go through the most traumatic events of their lives while the whole world is watching. And no, it's not about me.

As far as I know.

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For more on me, please visit my website www.lisadaily.com or my dating advice blog http://www.lisadaily.com/datingexperttv

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203 of 223 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart Ideas + Sound Advice + Fun Read= A Great Book!, July 17, 2002

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Steve Nakamoto "The Friendly Voice of the... (Huntington Beach, California USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry "The One" in 3 Years or Less (Paperback)

As a fellow relationship/self-help author I'm always curious what my colleagues are writing about in our unique genre of books. When I first saw this book I thought, "here's a book that the feminists are going to hate....a book about desperate women who have to have a man in order to feel happy and fulfilled."

But I was wrong.

Here's a book that rightfully (surprisingly based on the book title...but remember not to judge a book by its cover!) teaches enlightened women to take care of themselves, enjoy their relationships, and live the life they've imagined whether it's with a man or not. It's about feminine empowerment and there's nothing that is more feminist than that.

As a guy I realize that this book has a certain "girlfriend-to-girlfriend" tone and humor to it. But after all nearly 80% of all self-help books are purchased by women. This book is one that almost all women I'm sure will enjoy and find funny at times.

The core of this book is the concept of the "Dream Girl." Lisa Daily has made a major contribution in helping to redefine what a "Dream Girl" is not only for women, but for men as well. I guess she would say that it's about being a "kick-... chick" who's got it together and makes her life really happen in a lot of ways. And as a guy, I think she's right. More traditional guys like myself really want someone we respect, admire, adore, cherish, and value who is smart, sexy, funny, feminine, and in many ways, fearless.

I think women readers will find this book very inspirational in a modern "Sex and the City" kind of way. With the pointers in this book a women can have a fantastic job, spend a day each week helping out at a soup kitchen, have a sparkling clean apartment, have the right shoes for any occasion, and also attract the man of her dreams.

I'm happy to see that Lisa is teaching women to appreciate the "good guys" who do the traditional respectful things for those he loves and cherishes. We see eye-to-eye on most everything (although we say it in totally different voices and ways) and nowhere are we more aligned than the concept of intelligently separating the men from the boys.

For women in search of a great life as well as to attract a great guy as a husband for lifetime passion and intimacy, here's a truly enjoyable book that stands out in our relationship/self-help field. I give this book my highest rating with a big smile.

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy thoughts..., December 1, 2003

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C. Valor "hopeless romantic" (Winter Springs, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry "The One" in 3 Years or Less (Paperback)

I read this book months ago and at first I thought it was pretty good but then after reading about how the author and her friends got their men to propose marriage on top of the Eiffel Tower and other "fantasy" places it seemed too unrealistic. Things like that happen but not for everyone. Lisa Daily is in a dreamland. She was lucky to find the man she did who keeps "after her" and she sits back and enjoys it. The tactics in this book work for some people but not for all. This book is similiar to "The Rules" which is unrealistic expectations and if every woman out there thought all of these ideas and manipulations could possibly work she's dreaming as well as Ms. Daily. Some of these authors who experience something fantastic find it helps others if they print about their experiences. Not true for normal people who want normal relationships. I would just like to have my guy spend more time with me and if he asked me to marry him it could be at a beach or on a picnic - he wouldn't have to go through the hassles of flying me across the country to do it. Nice but not necessary. However, this book provided fairytale entertainment that should be considered reading for fantasy wants and dreams.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Haven't I seen this before?, June 2, 2003

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This review is from: Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry "The One" in 3 Years or Less (Paperback)

Like 'The Rules', half of this book is common sense, and half is sexist claptrap. It's the 21st century. The idea that women need lives of their own is no longer revolutionary. If you need to be told this, you don't have a man problem, you have a major self-esteem problem.

As for the rest, it's basic game playing. I'm sure it works, but what kind of prize do you win? I don't know a single decent guy who would repeatedly call a woman who didn't return his overtures. There's a difference between gallantry and stalking.

That being said, the book is cute, so it deserves a star for the message's presentation.