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Men are from MARS, Women are from VENUS
| Mon, 02-25-2008 - 4:07pm |
I apologize if this has been there done that, but I just recently (last week) started reading this book in hopes it would alleviate some of the new needy ick feelings I've been having and wanting to squash LOL I feel like if I don't get a hang on this I'll end up sabatoging my relationship with Mr.RCMP.
Ok, so I'm not that far into the book yet since I only get 5 or 10 minutes here & there to read it between housework and being a mom and dayhome stuff. And I wanted input from those who have read it.
-Did you find the book insightful? Useful? Accurate?
-What did you like most (if anything)

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He wanted me to read it so I could understand him better (I don't think there is a section on sleeping with another woman for 18 months!)
LOL....yeah right- read this book so you will see and understand why I can't keep my pants on. Geez- I am going to get that book off of the shelf and read it though. I think I do too much and focus too much on my SO.
yeah right- read this book so you will see and understand why I can't keep my pants on.
LOL, Pac!
I read it YEARS ago when I was still married- and it made MANY things clear to me. But my ex never read ANYTHING when it comes to learning more about your Self, or how to work on relationships- so while I could understand more what might be making HIM tick... he could care less what made ME tick. Ugh.
But I do recommend that book, too. I also agree that there are cross-overs in traits, as I tend to "cave" too, even though I'm female. I like to be left alone if I have things I want to think through. It was just odd though- that while I understood that and left my ex alone if he was grumpy... he never learned to leave ME alone when I wanted to be left alone!!! Oh wait- he never read the book. Oh yeah. Duh.
Anyway, right now I'm reading A New Earth and it is VERY deep... but it's been having me examine myself alot more and I'm learning even more about how to simply BE and stop living in this world as a chaser of things. Finding my own Peace that can exist no matter what else is going on... that's what I hope to gain.
~shrimpy
"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.
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Hey Mark- I'm not sure. Yes, Oprah is doing that whole event and online "class" thing with this book. But it goes on for 10 weeks and I'm not sure if I will be following along with them or not, for that whole time. But I am reading the book and though I am only just now finishing up Chapter 2, it's been very enlightening! The first chapter was kinda dry but once Tolle got into explain the Ego and how what we do can just feed the ego (mostly negative things- like complaining, holding resentments, grievances, having to be right, etc) and the goal is to learn to separate ourselves from operating under that Ego, and to just simply learning to BE. Learning to not take others' words personally (because they are only operating on their Ego- that wants to always "win" or be "right" or expand itself)... and to just be accepting and nonjudgmental and not be so REACTIVE to everything.
It really has given me a whole different way to look at things. But I tell ya- it's not light reading, as much of it requires deep thought, although it reads easily and is nothing like trying to read a medical or legal textbook.
It's definitely bloggable material... but I haven't gathered all my thoughts together yet, enough to blog much. Or had the free time to be sitting and typing out my thoughts yet.
~shrimpy
~shrimpy
"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.
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