Sunday 14 September 2008

This arrived earlier from yet another a guy in the US

This morning I received yet another email from someone in the US who managed to get a copy of this book.

This is what he wrote (names have been changed)

Just finished reading it. I will read it again. The book changed my life.One of the best I have ever read. THANK YOU!!!

You guide the reader throughout the book gently through a process of understanding and describe legal protections (that I had already taken and spent tons of money to learn about) and leave the reader with very constructive questions on how to avoid and/or sort out future relationships. So, I am left with a sense of a positive future.

My only regret was that I did not read it 15 years ago. I am very indebted to you. I should have also taken the advice of the first (of 3) therapists we saw who told me to leave her (privately, years later after we had stopped seeing her).

So, thank you. I am thinking about organizing some sort of men’s group and would buy a case or two so all men considering divorce can read this as a guiding light.

Sorry I can’t be more articulate now because I loaned my only copy to a close friend going through similar problems.

It took me 6 months to get a copy so it was very very difficult to part with. I know other men I would love to share it with too. Here in the USA, the lawyers and social workers, women’s health and legal care centers and many therapists have a pact to perpetuate marital problems that hurt men. It is a really big industry. An industry I did not want to learn about yet did and feel a need to share what I know (underground). Though your book is not banned in USA it might as well be, given the difficulty in its procurement.

I am even scared to have written what I just have. Eighty nine percent of the findings in family court are decided on behalf of women here!

Your book summarized Borderline Personality Disorder. I got to the line "oh my God" and I was thinking the same thing....omg... I had used the exact same words you used to describe my ex as I had used with my ex: I feel like I am "walking on eggshells" and I never know if I am speaking to "Jekyll or Hyde" many many many times I used those same words to describe my feelings towards Kim. You gave me a checklist on those two pages and I confidently knew each characteristic you described applied to her. I can’t understand how you chose the same ones. I was up all night after reading that.

Sincerely, Jerry