What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women (Dobson cassette library) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

James Dobson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dobson cassette library | Publication Date: April 1995

Dr. James Dobson tells husbands what their wives wish they knew about women.

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About the Author

James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit organization that produces his internationally syndicated radio programs, heard by more than 200 million people every day. He is seen on 80 television stations daily in the U.S. A licensed psychologist and licensed marriage, family, and child counselor, he is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare. Dr. Dobson is married to Shirley and is the father of two grown children, Danae and Ryan. He resides in Colorado. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Word Pub Audio Cassettes (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849962080
• ISBN-13: 978-0849962080
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,233,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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70 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My husband bought this book for his fellow workers!, January 19, 2000

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Rebecca Pfister - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women (Dobson cassette library) (Audio Cassette)

I bought this book for my husband shortly after it first was printed because I thought it would enrich our marriage of a few years. I took a "sneak peek" at the book and read it all in one night! I learned so much about myself as a woman and had some real laughs about how we really do think! My husband read it and commented that three books changed his life: The Bible, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", and this one. He bought a few paperbacks and took them to his young married friends at work. I have given this as bridal shower gifts because its value is lasting. Now I am ordering another one to replace my long lost book I loaned out. It is easy to read a book that it so true but amusing also.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Several informative bits if you're willing to look for them, January 24, 2006

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Zeph Greenwell (Decatur, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women (Paperback)

I found this book by chance and decided to read it and I don't regret that I did. This book touches on many causes of depression in women based on a survey Dr. Dobson conducted. I think he did manage to hit the mark but his survey was very leading. He ask women to rank ten items on how much each one bothered them. The list included issues such as self esteem, sexual problems, problem with in-laws, problems with children, time constraints and busyness, hormones, and others. I feel if his survey was a little more open ended he might have found different results, but the problems he choose to address are things all married couples face at one time or another and are worth looking at.

This book is primarily written about stay at home mothers more than women in general. It does promote that women should be at home with their children, especially while their young. Even, Dr. Dobson admits that this situation isn't always possible in our society. This book doesn't state that the only place for women is in the home, but it does encourage those that choose that position. It stresses the importance of full-time mothers and seeks to restore some of the respect that has been lost for them.

After reading this I did gain some insight on women's emotional need to "vent", as my wife puts it, and how that can sometimes be caused by hormones. I also gained new perspective on how a non-involved father's behavior is like forcing his wife to be a single parent. There were a few other things I gained from this book, but to gain them I had to sift through pages of useless information, including a whole chapter on the benefits of hormone replacement therapy.

While I originally started reading this to gain insight on my wife I felt like the book turned from that and seemed most times to be written to women. Like I said, I gained a little. The information in the book is insightful, but it isn't anything I would call profound. To any prospective readers out there I would suggest looking for something else. Its a good book, just not great.

31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gold nuggets can be found within, August 2, 2005

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Lynellen Perry "lynellenDOTcom" (Dumfries, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women (Paperback)

Yes, this book was written in 1977 and it shows. However, there are a few golden nuggets scattered throughout the book. The main purpose of the book is to address the sources of depression in women, as identified through questionnaires filled out by over 5,000 women attendees at Family Life Seminars. According to the survey, the sources of depression in women are (in order of most troublesome to least troublesome): low self-esteem; fatigue and time pressure; loneliness, isolation, and boredom; absence of romantic love in marriage; financial difficulties; sexual problems in marriage; menstrual and physiological problems; problems with the children; aging; and in-law problems.

You can see that the sources of depression in women weren't radically different in 1977 as compared to today. So while the book has some dated attitudes and ideas, it is possible to derive insight from the reading. Each chapter contains anecdotes and Dobson's observations, and ends with a question and answer section.

One of the sections that I found interesting was Dobson's suggestions on how wives can "teach" their husbands about women's emotional needs. Instead of nagging, Dobson says to plan the timing, setting, and manner to focus on your needs and desires rather than his inadequacies and shortcomings. Dobson also has an extended section that examines popular ideas about the meaning of 'love', and another section where he gives tips on how husbands can enhance sensuality in situations where the wife's sex drive is inhibited for whatever reason (and Dobson discusses a short list of reasons). Finally, there is a fascinating section on the emotional and physical symptoms of estrogen deprivation (I would love for this section to be verified or updated by current medical knowledge).

--Lynellen.com