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"There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men." —George Burns

Blindly Off Track

The relationship revolution was supposed to overturn stifling conventions and free men and women to be ourselves and to love more fully. Instead, we find that our relationships are briefer and more contentious.

<> A recent survey finds that 33% of women "often or very often" resent men, while 14% of men often resent women. By our careful calculations, that is a truckload of resentment.

<> 40% of American children are born to single mothers, and the two-parent family is becoming an alternative lifestyle

<> Women report significantly more unhappiness today than women 35 years ago (compared to men).

Why are we so blindsided by all of this?

ii.   The Masquerades

We will see how human nature programs us to fool ourselves. We stage a proper masquerade in which chat casually or dance cheek to cheek but are not quite who we appear to be. Find here a careful look at the real men and women behind the myths and masks.

Social proprieties promote acceptable opinions but conceal whole realms of relationships. We try here to be candid and forthright, and invite you to consider the wild and woolly beasts that still beat in our primal hearts.

Dual standards continue everywhere, although idealists expect us to treat men and women the same. We want to protect women against bad men, while we expect men to take care of themselves.

Is it any wonder that most of us still don't understand?

iv.  Equal Effort

The authors provide here an equal number of suggestions for men and women, based on decades of clinical practice. Learn the wisdom of staying friends with your opposites.

v. Love

As much as anything, Men and Women 101 is about finding love and living within its boundaries. The material is relentlessly candid only because the pleasantly proper paths all pass through fantasyland.