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Younger Women-Older Men

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Beliza Ann Furman's book Younger Women/Older Men is a primer for living. It highlights problems that can occur specific to marriages where the husband is older by at least 8 years. She has delved into the subject beautifully. It is so interesting to read because of the real life situations and real people cited. You get the feeling that she knows her subject. Her life is so interesting, too. This book is a must for most Americans because of the high divorce rate and second marriages. She simplifies and assists you in unwinding the complexities of these relationships. Her openness and honesty are a breath of fresh air. ENJOY !

Beliza Furman's book Younger Women/Older Men is a must! It is so interesting to read because of the real life situations. It made me realize, I wasn't the only women in this world experiencing the complexities of being married to an older man. Her openness with her own situations has help me tremendously in mine. She shows you that marriages like these do survive, even if we have many obstacles to climb. I'm now very comfortable and extremely happy in my marriage, Thanks to Beliza! I must say, "I can't wait for the next book"

This book fell way short of my expectations. It was interesting to me that the author is in a relationship with a large age difference, however she mostly focuses on all of the negative aspects throughout the book. Only at the end does she acknowledge her success with her relationship. It just didn't flow. One would wonder how she ever ended up in a relationship like this. If she is going to make herself an example (having her picture on the front, and her husband's on the back), she should add some of her own experiences so that at least the ending would make a little more sense.

This book *seemed* to have good intentions, but fell REALLY short. I think I was turned off right away by the full-page glamour shot of the author and her husband on the back cover.

This book seems to make the assumption that most younger women/older men relationships break up marriages, cause turmoil within families, etc. The author seems to use this book as some sort of pet project to tell the world about her sob story. I didn't learn a thing from reading this book, and was disappointed to see that it just re-enforces the stereotypes about younger women that date older men. We're not all homewreckers, for pete's sake! We're not all bimbos with no aspirations! I still am looking for a decent book on this subject.

Beliza Ann Furman's book Younger Women/Older Men is a primer for living. It highlights problems that can occur specific to marriages where the husband is older by at least 8 years. She has delved into the subject beautifully. It is so interesting to read because of the real life situations and real people cited. You get the feeling that she knows her subject. Her life is so interesting,too. This book is a must for most Americans because of the high divorce rate and second marriages. She simplies and assists you in unwinding the complexities of these relatonships. Her openness and honesty are a breath of fresh air. Enjoy.

This book was awesome!! i love how the author was raw with her feelings and how younger women deal with relationships with older men. in my case im seeing a older man 20 year age gap and didnt really mind it because i didnt know about being in a relationship with an older man was all about untill i read this book.

It helped me to see eye to eye with the age differences and made me understand how younger women and older men can still find love in a relationship even though the mind sets are different meaning in generation relation. this book had me thinking a lot about my relationship, had me crying yet die laughing at different chapters. wouldnt mind reading it over again just for fun.

If your in a relationship and dont know how to go about it or just want to be a bit more knowledgeable with your older man rewlationship than this book can help with maturity and understanding what you might be getting yourself into. I really enjoyed this book!! thanks for writing it!!!

As a 23-year-old future younger wife, my only complaint is that there isn't a more current version of this book available. I understand that in 1995, the Marla Mills phenomenon was new and that Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere were exciting, but with 15 years worth of retrospect I feel that something is missing. Perhaps she should update this with more pertinent illustrations from pop culture.

Otherwise, this book has proven invaluable in helping me pick up octogenarians at various functions and projecting the ideal mix of independence and crippling co-dependency that is necessary to make these relationships work. This book was very helpful in making me realize that the best course of action lies in pursuit of the bitter divorcée and not the grieving widower. Thank you Beliza!

I recently purchased "Younger Women Older Men" by Beliza Ann Furman. I've not nearly read all the way through the book yet -- am merely in the process of reading it -- but I'm willing to give a brief review of it based upon my impressions up to this point.

The book seems to me to offer a fairly well-balanced and fair treatment of the pros and cons of older men marrying younger women. Upon finishing the book, my views might be altered in some manner or other, but I'd certainly lean toward a positive evaluation of the book at this stage of my reading.

"Younger Women Older Men" would seem to me to be a good read for any younger woman either married to or contemplating marriage to a considerably older man, as well as any older man married to a younger woman. Of course, anyone interested in learning more about human relationships could enjoy and be rewarded by reading Furman's engaging discussions of many thorny and important issues that can arise relatiive to marriage between men who have great chronological seniority over the women in their lives.

Furman's book was both captivating and interesting to read. She provided many examples of the personalities of younger women and older men that make them a great pair. Throughout the book, I believed, she showed that these relationships can survive, and it's okay to go to marriage counseling before you are married. Overall, how issues of power and control are resolved are two of the big issues that can make or break this type of relationship. I rated this book with 3 stars because it provided enjoyment, however I cannot relate it to other books of this topic.

Lame, inane, she's trying to ride on the coat tails of How to Date Young Women for Men Over 35 and falls off in Act 1, scene one.