Relationship Realities: An Emergency Survival Guide for Men

By Gary Freitas

Finally, a unique book for the Relationship Challenged -- for haggard men who may be experiencing post-sex syndrome, who look older than their years, who dive to the ground when startled by friendly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885003714
• ISBN13: 9781885003713
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Forget all those politically correct, relationship books

Men! Forget all those politically correct, gender-biased relationship books - the ones your wife or girlfriend gives you to read (hint, hint: you have a problem communicating). The author, Gary Freitas, has written a witty, irreverent, and brutally funny book, Relationship Realities: An Emergency Survival Guide for Men. It not only tells you what women want, but dares to ask: What do men want? Regarding the latter, he says, "The answer is unpleasant and should probably be kept secret." (See page 196.) This small but memorable book, with many outrageous charts and tables, guides men through each stage of a relationship. On trying to pickup women Freitas suggests, "Never accept `entourage' status. In the great web of life you will be an E. coli in the small bowel of a woman, unless of course it's your destiny to be a tapeworm." Through the persona of the BAD Dudes, this book smartly and insightfully examines dozens of topics such as: men's fear that in future Nuremberg trials they will be accused of being "good husbands," as part of state sanctioned human rights violations known as "marriage." And "How does an older man convince a 19-year-old girl that he's a `previously owned luxury vehicle,' when all she sees is a `Rent-A-Wreck' who is six months away from being an abandoned vehicle?" Freitas says, "You will learn all of this and more. I promise." Topics are wide-ranging - from "Fifty Ways to Dump a Date," to the hazards of "Dating Beautiful Women," to the "Advantages of Being a Rich and Handsome American God seeking out mail-order catalog relationships." Freitas is not afraid to take on what he calls "The absurdity of relationships between the genders today." He provides men with a primer on the "Cycle of Collapse" by women, their attraction to bad men, and expounds on why "Relationships are a test about the structure of reality that men cannot pass." He says: "The BAD Dudes want the test dumbed down so even clueless Dudes can pretend they have a relationship." Freitas believes that both men and women will enjoy this unique book. It began as an "Attempt to join an already on-going humorous dialog between men and women, and became a plea for sanity."