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From the man who closed the lid forever on the "toilet seat debate" in the
New York Times bestseller
Essential Manners for Men comes the follow-up book that paves the way for couples everywhere to fix relationship problems before they start.
Peter Post offers the secrets to a long and happy marriage or partnership—without psychoanalysis or prescription medication. The good news: often just a few simple words or actions can mend a rift. Essential Manners for Couples reveals how easy it can be to keep the spark in your relationship.
With self-deprecating humor, clarity, and wit, Peter recounts couples' most mischievous manners foibles (his own included). Essential Manners for Couples is based on Emily Post Institute surveys, Peter's years of fielding thousands of etiquette questions, popular demand from couples attending his national lectures and workshops, and his experience as a husband and father.
Peter looks at couples' private lives and public lives, revealing the common "flashpoints"—the places, situations, and times when inconsiderate behavior is most likely to invade your blissful coupledom. He offers "etiquette imperatives"—simple truths and concise nuggets of advice not to be ignored, including:
- Permissive flirting: How to define parameters and enjoy verbal combat with the opposite sex.
- The "Chore I.Q." test—are you really divvying up the workload fairly?
- When you hate her friends: socializing with the enemy.
- Enter children: Good parents still spend time together as a couple.
- Bedroom etiquette—getting beyond the headache excuse.
- Interactions with in-laws—smooth merge or crash and burn?
- Where to go for the holidays: surviving family visits and how to say "no."
- Balancing life with your other significant other—your work ... and much more.
Essential Manners for Couples is a must-have resource for the couple who wants to celebrate their union and strengthen it. As Peter Post says, "By using the principles of etiquette, couples can avoid many of the potholes on the road of their shared life, and the ones they do hit are smaller and more manageable." With this book in hand, you'll enhance your relationship, head off hostilities, and have fun doing it.
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From the man who closed the lid forever on the ""toilet seat debate"" in the
New York Times bestseller
Essential Manners for Men comes the follow-up book that paves the way for couples everywhere to fix relationship problems before they start.
Peter Post offers the secrets to a long and happy marriage or partnership -- without psychoanalysis or prescription medication. The good news: often just a few simple words or actions can mend a rift.
Essential Manners for Couples reveals how easy it can be to keep the spark in your relationship.
With self-deprecating humor, clarity, and wit, Peter recounts couples' most mischievous manners foibles (his own included).
Essential Manners for Couples is based on Emily Post Institute surveys, Peter's years of fielding thousands of etiquette questions, popular demand from couples attending his national lectures and workshops, and his experience as a husband and father.
Peter looks at couples' private lives and public lives, revealing the common ""flashpoints"" -- the places, situations, and times when inconsiderate behavior is most likely to invade your blissful coupledom. He offers ""etiquette imperatives"" -- simple truths and concise nuggets of advice not to be ignored, including:
- Permissive flirting: How to define parameters and enjoy verbal combat with the opposite sex.
- The ""Chore I.Q."" test -- are you really divvying up the workload fairly?
- When you hate her friends: socializing with the enemy.
- Enter children: Good parents still spend time together as a couple.
- Bedroom etiquette -- getting beyond the headache excuse.
- Interactions with in-laws -- smooth merge or crash and burn?
- Where to go for the holidays: surviving family visits and how to say ""no.""
- Balancing life with your other significant other -- your work ... and much more.
Essential Manners for Couples is a must-have resource for the couple who wants to celebrate their union and strengthen it. As Peter Post says, ""By using the principles of etiquette, couples can avoid many of the potholes on the road of their shared life, and the ones they do hit are smaller and more manageable."" With this book in hand, you'll enhance your relationship, head off hostilities, and have fun doing it.
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Customer Reviews:
A good reminder when tensions flare.......2006-07-06
This book does a good job of addressing common marital (or co-habitation) problems in an objective way. It's a good reminder of how to fight fair and to think of things from your partner's perspective, something that often gets lost in the heat of battle. It doesn't really tell you anything you don't already know (or should know), but if you can remember some of the points and try to implement them regularly so that they become second-nature, it can make those annoying habits of others -- and yourself! -- more bearable. If you've tried to convince your partner that manners are important even (or especially) when it's just the two of you, reading excerpts of this book to him or her may help. It's very balanced, as far as the male vs. female perspective goes, and doesn't approach conflict as if one sex is always right. That objectivity improves its credibility.
It's About Time Someone Wrote a Book Like This.......2006-01-09
What's the etiquette for sex, dividing the chores, snoring, where to go for the holidays, sleeping on the couch, getting along with the spouse's friends?
The author reminds us that actions, appearance and words greatly affect our relationships. The recommendations he makes may seem at times to be obvious, but too often couples forget to base their own actions on "consideration, respect and honesty." He lists "Etiquette Imperatives" that cover the not-to-be-ignored basics for couples.
Peter Post is the great-grandson of Emily Post and he wrote Essential Manners for Men plus monthly etiquette columns.
The reviews have been quite favorable:
*"Thorough...straightforward....Resolving those hot-button issues...may well prevent a public flame-out." (New York Times)
*"stresses handholding and communication." (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
*"Most of us could stand to be reminded once in a while to be nice to each other." (Chicago Sun-Times)
A revelation for some men.......2005-12-24
I enjoyed this book. I agree with C Clark that it is indeed a book that men should read. A lot of what is in the book is just common sense courtesy and manners in a relationship. However, many people(mostly former single men) will want to be reminded of how to act in a relationship in order to be beloved by your girlfriend or wife and her friends and family. Peter Post is quite funny and he continues the Post tradition in providing etiquette lessons for us all.
Buy it for your brother. Now........2005-11-17
To a woman, much of the content of this book seems fundamental. But you know those stories you tell your friends about something insensitive your boyfriend did? Something that seems so obviously clueless to you and your gal pals? This book can help. I think that for men relationship etiquette doesn't always come naturally, and words of guidance from America's premiere etiquette authority can really help. Good luck!
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What’s Fair is a landmark collection that focuses exclusively on the crucial topic of ethics in negotiation. Edited by Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow and Michael Wheeler, What’s Fair contains contributions from some of the best-known practitioners and scholars in the field including Roger Fisher, Howard Raiffa, and Deborah Kolb. The editors and distinguished contributors offer an examination of why ethics matter individually and socially, and explain the essential duties and values of negotiation beyond formal legal requirements. Throughout the book, these experts tackle difficult questions such as:
· What do we owe our counterparts (if anything) in the way of candor or disclosure?
· To what extent should we use financial or legal pressure to force settlement?
· Should we worry about whether an agreement is fair to all the parties, or the effects our negotiated agreements might have on others?
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What’s Fair is a landmark collection that focuses exclusively on the crucial topic of ethics in negotiation. Edited by Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow and Michael Wheeler, What’s Fair contains contributions from some of the best-known practitioners and scholars in the field including Roger Fisher, Howard Raiffa, and Deborah Kolb. The editors and distinguished contributors offer an examination of why ethics matter individually and socially, and explain the essential duties and values of negotiation beyond formal legal requirements. Throughout the book, these experts tackle difficult questions such as:
· What do we owe our counterparts (if anything) in the way of candor or disclosure?
· To what extent should we use financial or legal pressure to force settlement?
· Should we worry about whether an agreement is fair to all the parties, or the effects our negotiated agreements might have on others?
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With a truly unique perspective and tactics you can use, I'm Right...You're Wrong. Now What? shows how one person can address and resolve a dispute whether the other person cooperates or not. The book also shows how individuals can seek the cooperation of their partners to resolve the conflicts couples face: interfering in-laws, financial pressures, religious differences, selfish behaviors, lack of intimacy, jealousy, addictions, inconsistent parenting styles, infidelity and more. Even if your partner is unwilling to budge, using the approach laid out in this book will: -- Allow you to get crystal clear about what you want -- Prepare you to make a specific and blame-free request of your partner -- Give you a solid back-up plan to use in the event that your partner is unwilling to grant your request
Combining clear-cut instructions with wonderful stories from people who have used this approach, I'm Right...You're Wrong. Now What? gives readers an up-close and personal look at what they can do to get unstuck even when they are feeling attacked, blamed, angry, fearful or convinced that nothing they do can work. This book shows how to do something that many of us-especially in the heat of the moment-forget or don't even know we can do: settle our disputes without fighting, folding or fleeing!
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If you have decided to stay..........2006-02-22
"If you are looking for an argument you better pick another subject." ~Ingrid Bergman
I think there comes a time in a relationship when the insurmountable problems of daily life compels us forward into a stale mate of souls. Two people living together moving in different directions emotionally, spiritually or even philosophically can confront the unavoidable day of "I'm Right. You're Wrong. Now What?"
If you are at the point where you have started to fight for what you truly feel is your right, your destiny, your sanity - then this book might shed some light on the solutions to this overwhelming problem.
JackLynn Morris asks six questions to assist the reader in selecting their particular conflict. Are you upset about finances, not getting enough sex, having trouble even discussing problems, dealing with difficult in-laws or thinking about a divorce? She also deals with religious differences, serious health problems and interactions with an ex-spouse. During each discussion, six questions guide you to the answers you need to solve the problems. Case studies and solutions are very helpful and give ideas for your own situation.
In this way, you can quickly access the information you need right now. You may only need one or two chapters, or you might want to read the entire book. I think there are few problems as terrible as feeling that your partner doesn't want to stay in the relationship, or at least acts that way to gain control. If you can't trust your partner or even talk to them, then I think in that case a separation may be in order, but for problems that are more of an annoyance or eternally cause conflict, this book has many solutions. There is a section on infidelity and that takes staying to a whole new level.
If you still love your partner, I believe anything is possible. If you read this book soon enough, it could prevent the destruction of your relationship and prevent a divorce or dissolution of a relationship that you value highly. Quite a few of the solutions are very effective, I've tried them. I know that to stay married over 10 years is to fight against statistics and I think staying married and being happily married are two different worlds. This book might help you escape from the dark side.
~The Rebecca Review
Trying to stay sane AND married :)
Use six questions to improve relationship communication.......2004-08-01
This book is about how to ask six questions, and use the answers to better communicate with our partner and improve a variety of relationship issues. The six questions are:
1. What are my negative feelings?
2. What's the fairest way to describe the problem?
3. Why do I want to work things out?
4. How would I like things between us to be?
5. How can I actually get that?
6. And if that doesn't work, what else can I do?
The authors use this approach with dozens of individuals who are in relationships and are having issues with each other related to everything from raising the kids, to ex-spouses, to sex, to money. In fact there are 16 chapters essentially showing how this approach works in a variety of situations.
I have no doubt that this does work. Rather than solving the issue however, these questions and this approach are really about how to compromise with the other person in the relationship, take ownership for "my" side of the problem, and improve communication clarity and understanding. My only concern with this book is that it is like reading a screenplay versus watching the film, or reading the sheet music versus hearing the symphony. Both are accurate depictions of the same reality, yet one fails to really capture the deeper passion and emotions as clearly as the other. The authors work hard at never making any moral decisions, and assume all situations can be simply resolved through this approach. The book is a logic first, logic last and only logic approach. Life is much richer than that though, and improved communication and compromise gets one only so far when there are deeper issues.
If this book is viewed as simply a useful tool for helping open doors to those tough issues we often procrastinate on or are reluctant to address for fear of conflict, then I highly recommend it. The process of getting our thoughts out in a rational way is always helpful in better understanding what lies at the heart of these issues.
One step closer to inner peace and happiness in my marriage.......2004-06-15
I was having a world of problems in my marriage and I did not know where to look. After being inspired by some of the things these authors said on a radio show, I decided to read this book. Boy am I glad I did! I'M RIGHT. YOU'RE WRONG. NOW WHAT? punched right through my walls of denial and forced me to make a real objective re-evaluation of myself and my relationship. It did wonders for me. After that it was easy to see that I did not have to stay hung up on trying to prove that I was right every time my husband and I disagreed. The touching personal stories in this book showed me how I could get past the stuck point in an argument even if my husband refused to see things from my perspective. This is a really fine book that has taken me one step closer to inner peace and happiness in my marriage.
Be Part of the Solution, End the Problem!.......2004-06-06
If you need to solve a problem with someone, you need to become the first step towards a solution -- afterall, you have to want to solve it for yourself to be happy.
"I'm Right. You're Wrong. Now What?" enables you to create that very catalyst for change in your life.
This book provides a personal safety zone from which to address what's keeping you up nights, focus on the next steps to bring about change, and most importantly come to a personal decision about what you are going to do about it!
The best part is that the authors, two professionals in the world of relationships and counseling have translated years of experience into a 6 question strategy for the rest of us.
Everyone from kids who need to "handle it myself" to adults who "don't need any help" should start with I'm Right. You're Wrong.
Put it under someone's pillow! They'll thank you.
a younger reader.......2004-06-02
I was unsure how this book was going to be helpful for my new relationship but I quickly discovered that the steps are simple and easy to follow. That this is not a book written only for older couples but for me and my generation as well. There were helpful hints and guidelines for me to use in almost any situation I came across with my spouse. And, I was delighted to find out that this was a great gift for my parents too.
Customer Reviews:
Don't let the title mislead you.......2002-12-20
The title of this book suggests that it is directed towards the crafter just starting out, but the wholesale trade shows it focuses on are out of reach for me. I recommend it for anyone interested in mass production for wholesale buyers, but if beginning crafteres are anything like me, shows like this are completely out of reach at this point. I was hoping for a book that would help with the issues I'm dealing with on a day to day baisis - like trying to start my business from scratch with no capital except from pieces I sell here and there; most of which must go into supplies for the next piece I'll sell, business cards, a good camera . . . etc. It's a bit outdated as well, and someone should inform the author that some of us do in fact remember macrame. (like the millions of hemp artists out there)
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From the supplier: Minerals exhibitions held in the Spanish cities of Bilbao and Barcelona in 1998 featured a world-class find of pyromorphite from the San Andres mine. Another highlight of the shows was the native silver specimens from the Balcoll mine. Crystallized Goethite, cassiterite specimens, yellow transparent barite specimens, blue barites and acicular gypsum crystals were also on display. Noteworthy among the minerals from non-Spanish mines were the large amethyst druses from Mina Ayoreita in Bolivia.
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Title: Budget 2004--what's in it for NZNO members? Nurses, midwives and caregivers have keenly awaited this year's Budget. Money is needed for a fair pay settlement and for caregiver training. Has the Government delivered?(news focus)
Author: Cee Payne-Harker
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Title: Change orders: what is fair pricing?
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