Art of Understanding Your Mate, The

By Robert Dreyfus

If you've ever wondered exactly what is going on in your mate's mind, you can probably find it somewhere in the pages of The Art of Understanding Your Mate. Cecil Osborne casts a clinical eye on the underlying psychological forces that drive married relationships. His common-sense outlook on counseling troubled couples is based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Illuminating insights tumble from the pages of his book. In addition, Osborne has a keen ear for the spoken word. Through a liberal injection of actual dialogue, he captures the feelings of drama and tensions between husband and wife. Osborne advocates a realistic approach to marriage. He cautions couples to expect to encounter problems of incompatibility. Men and women are different. Their needs are different, as are the emotions that accompany those needs. The wonder is, Osborne points out, that there are so many successful marriages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310306019
• ISBN13: 9780310306016
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

19+ years of marriage-it helped TREMENDOUSLY!

I have found relief and a true understanding of marriage in The Art of Understanding Your Mate. I have to admit I read the MISunderstanding write up on this book. Yet, after 19 years of marriage it speaks so much more clearly than Men are From Mars and Women are From Venus-although it helped-some. The Mars book was wonderful in the "Letter Writing" segment-that helps one vent appropriately. Yet, you can see I had to keep...

Excellent Christian Wisdom

The wisdom of the writer is timeless based on Christian fundamentals. It helped our marriage many years ago and now I am buying it to give it as a tool to others who have shaky marriages. I highly recommend it.

The Art of Understanding Your Mate

This is a timeless guide to the principles which undergird a healthy marriage. The ability to see a problem or a situation from your spouse's perspective is what makes Dr. Osborne's book so helpful. He uses anecdotes and scriptural references to help the reader see beneath the surface of our mate. Men and women are different and knowing how those differences affect our interpersonal communication leads to understanding...

Timeless Wisdom.

Understanding Your Mate reflects only a small part of the wisdom shared in Osborne's earlier work - The Art of Understanding Yourself - If you can find a copy of this don't pass it up! Although "Art of Understanding Your Mate" may seem dated in some aspects, most conflicts and behaviours in a relationship have the same root now as they did a generation ago. Osborne helps us understand the source of inter/personal conflict...