From how to spot bad boys and jerks before they break your heart to the secret to getting a man to call you to the five common mistakes women make that push men away, this practical, step-by-step guide to meeting and keeping "Mr. Right" tells it like it is, and gives advice that is easy to follow and amazingly effective.
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"...offering logical, witty advice that will have you feeling smarter, stronger, and in control of your own destiny." -- About, the Human Internet Dating Guide, Nov. 2001
"...this intelligent and very humorous book will clue you in before you make mistakes you might regret. " -- About, the Human Internet Dating Guide, Nov. 2001
"different...uplifting,...and offers a money-back guarantee if you don't marry the man of your choosing in three years..." -- New York Daily News, January 17, 2002
"logical, witty advice that will have you feeling smarter, stronger, and in control of your own destiny." -- Brenda Ross, About.com Dating Guide, November 2001--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
From the Publisher
Every day, we get letters from people who say "I love this book!"
Stop Getting Dumped! is hilarious! It's a practical, step-by-step guide to meeting and keeping the kind of man we all dream about. Lisa Daily tells it like it is, and gives advice that is easy to follow and amazingly effective. You'll be laughing all the way to the altar!
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
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.
She's the love and relationships expert on DAYTIME, a nationally-syndicated morning TV show, and a popular media guest who has appeared everywhere from MTV Live to Entertainment Tonight, and been quoted everywhere from the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Health, Christian Science Monitor and US Weekly Magazine. Lisa did a cameo as a real-life dating expert on the HITCH movie DVD starring Will Smith. She's is the author of 7 books, including Stop Getting Dumped!, Fifteen Minutes of Shame, How to Date Like a Grown-Up, Southern Fried Farce, Beauty, Is He Cheating? and Is She Cheating?
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For more on Lisa, please visit her website http://www.lisadaily.com or her dating advice blog http://www.stopgettingdumped.com
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.
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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.
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.
I read the book believing it would give some sound advice.Some
advice stands out,look as though you have a life and respect
yourself.Ok,common advice but most of the book is about playing
a 1950's game of hard to get.Men today want a friend,someone
who shares common interests,who can be a real friend.Men want to know you care about them,so how can they know you care if you are playing hard to get?A man can tell when a woman isn't being herself and holding back.Fear of spontaneous affection for the man is a death sentence for the relationship.Men need as much love and attention as women do,infact maybe more because much too often men aren't given the love and
consideration they deserve.
It's risky and frightening to be yourself,you're putting yourself out there,but in the long run it's better to be real
than fake and end up in a fake and plastic relationship with the man doing all the work and the woman only being on the
receiving end.Women who do what they want to do when they want to do it are more interesting to a man.
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.
Haha, it's just amazing how women have made an industry out of the weird tricks that are necessary when dating lying, cheating jerks who use them and dump them. I'll tell you the real deal for free:
1 - Men are not into monogamy until they've sowed the oats. I don't care how cute that 25 year old boy is in his new car, he will do you and dump you, that's what we do at that age. If you just want to get laid, fine, otherwise find a grown up man.
2 - These books are self-perpetuating; acting like this will make a kind, decent, intelligent man run for his life, because we don't want to make it a game full of lies and manipulation. Don't return calls? Pretend total disinterest? A polite, respectful man will respond by writing you off as disinterested and will not want to harass you. Then guess what you're left with? The kind of guy you need to manipulate and lie to. Enjoy.
3 - Playing games with sex. Losing battle, ladies. If a man's truly in love with you you're just lowering something sacred to the level of currency; if he's not, he can certainly find someone easier to get what he wants from.
