Drama
Kings
The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
by Dalma Heyn
Although this is a book about self-help and study to make a person see things about herself
and her partner in different ways to get the most out of their future and past relationships,
this is also a great anecdotal study of men and why they behave the way that they do.
Ms. Heyn has written a good little how-to book about the male animal and all of his
mysterious ways to make us love him. There were times when I saw myself in the ways the
women reacted to, and often lived with, the men she presented. That always opens a person's
eyes to the realities. She has a rare ability to interject humor and cuteness into even
the worst of situations and problems, which makes a person want to really get in and change
the whole. We have all met these guys and even gone so far as to think that possibly we
could get them to change just enough so that we could take them home to Mom and Dad, and
that they would really love us for the strong, capable women that we have been forced to
become because of the ways our lives in the workplace have made us. We desperately want
them to love who we are and want the same things out of our lives together. But they
don't. They are archaic remainders of the past great he-men protectors, whom we were taught
to look up to and respect and give our hearts to.
Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy is a thought-provoking look
at some of the manifestations of what we women have created, because of what the men in
our lives have made us face up to and become, because of the economic necessity of our
having to go out into the workplace to survive and provide for ourselves and our offspring.
The man should be the hunter-and protector-provider, and the woman should be the nurturer
and child-bearer, homemaker. However, we -- this glorious human population -- have changed
the reality of our basic roles so much that many man have taken our feminine roles and
many women have taken the masculine roles and turned the whole thing around to suit the
needs of our daily grind. We then find ourselves wanting in the romantic needs of our bodies,
minds and hearts. Read the book; find yourself in the pages. I guarantee you are there, if
you have ever had more than two romantic endeavors in your life. If you think you have
found a bit of your relationships in the stories, think more, and then vow to change the
system back and start getting a better life for your heart. It will help you to understand
the nature of that species that we have created and become by ways of evolution in our toils
to keep up with the daily grind of living in a very complicated world. |
The Book |
Rodale |
2005 |
HardCover |
1-57954-888-1 |
Nonfiction/Self help |
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The Reviewer |
Claudia VanLydegraf |
Reviewed 2006 |
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