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    Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
    Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
    Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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    Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

    By John Gray

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    Truly Mars and Venus celebrates the wisdom of the number one international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus.

    With passages drawn from John Gray's groundbreaking classic on relationships, this beautiful book is illustrated with humorous cartoons and charming artwork by Barbara State.

    The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, Truly Mars and Venus delivers John Gray's rich and inspiring advice for creating and sustaining healthy and loving relationships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 30, 2011
    ISBN9780062116246
    Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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    John Gray

    John Gray, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading relationship experts, and an authority on improving communication styles for couples, companies, and communities. His many books have sold more than fifty million copies in fifty different languages worldwide. John lives with his wife and children in northern California.

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      A light but useful reminder about some of the sometimes differences between men and women.
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      This short little book has one explanation of the difference between the sexes and gives some tips on improving communications. There is a sample letter, and tables of one sentence ideas about getting along. The message is that arguing really is bad.

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    Truly Mars and Venus - John Gray

    Introduction

    Times have certainly changed, but on the inside men and women still have some very significant differences. When a man gets married he still hopes his wife will stay the same, while she still hopes that after their marriage he will change. Men continue to wonder what will make a woman happy, while women tend to overanalyze a man’s behavior. When he is quiet and withdrawn, she wonders, Does he love me, did I say something wrong, are we drifting apart, did I do something to bother him?… In reality, he is probably just wondering what’s on TV.

    Never in history have men and women been so close. Not only are men wanting to spend more time on romance, women are working side by side with men in the office. Although we are definitely becoming more similar, it doesn’t mean we are the same or that we need to be the same. It is our differences that attract us to each other. Differences make our partners interesting and attractive. Yet it is also our differences that create problems. The biggest problem, however, is our tendency to expect our partners to think and feel the way we do. By reading Truly Mars and Venus, and remembering that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, this most important problem is easily solved.

    Our gender differences are most easily understood and resolved by approaching them with a sense of humor. Men and women in my seminars often thank me for presenting this information in a playful and humorous manner. With smiles on their faces they are able to open up and really hear the message. Throughout Truly Mars and Venus, in this humorous way, men gain the insight to answer their age-old question, What makes a woman happy? On the other hand, a woman begins to understand the reasons behind what she considers to be a man’s often bizarre behavior.

    For example, she will understand, Why does a man tend to ignore a woman after he has just spent quality time together? or in other words, why he doesn’t call. A man will understand certain basic ideas like, Why does a woman talk to a man about problems when she is not looking for a solution? or why sometimes she talks about problems that have no solution. So many mysteries, and so much fun to solve them.

    On Mars, if you can’t solve a problem, then the solution is to forget it and move on. On Venus, their philosophy is different: If we can’t solve it, then at least we talk about it. By understanding our different approaches to stress and problem solving, both men and women can learn to be more supportive than ever before.

    It is not the case that we don’t want to be supportive. No one wakes up in the morning thinking, How can I annoy my partner today. (At least in the beginning.) When we fall in love, we all want to give our best. The hidden problem is that our best is not always what our partner is wanting and needing most. We automatically tend to give the support we would want and not what our partner really wants.

    As a man, if I am not in a good mood, I will often want to be left alone and, in a friendly way, be ignored until my mood changes. The last thing I want is to be questioned about how I feel. A woman, however, will expect her partner to notice and ask her caring questions about her day. Without this information about our differences, if she was having a bad hair day,

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