Mama Gena's Owner's and Operator's Guide to Men

by Regena Thomashauer

Book Overview

If the woman of the house is miserable, everybody is miserable. Mama argues the opposite is true as well - if the woman is happy, everybody is happy--which leads her to a fundamental truth about relationships: they work best when the woman's desires are completely fulfilled. Mama also reveals a surprising corollary to this truth: men live to please women, whether they know it or not. MAMA GENA'S OWNERS AND OPERATORS GUIDE TO MEN teaches women how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743247981
• ISBN13: 9780743247986
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

So Many Truisms

I loved this book! Mama Gena had me laughing out loud on nearly every page. The book is so hilarious, entertaining and full of wisdom learned through her own and others misadventures in relationship building with men. This is a self help book that is a pleasure to read and offers great hope for building real, loving and fun lifetime relationships with men. I'm reccommending it to all my friends.

a real boost!

I recommend reading Mama's books in order - first the "Guide to Womanly Arts" and then the "Owners and Operators Manual." Gone are the days of waiting around for the white knight to come and kiss women awake; Mama Gena, with her slightly outrageous and super-frank prose, figuratively bops us on the head and tells us to wake ourselves up! She encourages us to be secure in our needs, our wants, and above all, our femininity... and the result is inner beauty that spills over onto the outside. This radical book is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for the closed-minded! As a matter of fact, the truly closed-minded will probably hate this book. However, if you are open to change and trying a new tack on life, then I encourage future Sister Goddesses to pick up this book and read it cover-to-cover!!

Mama Gena Tells it Like it is!

It's not what you think....This book dismisses all that negativity about how hard it is to find a man and keep him. It offers the radical viewpoint that women need to get out of their anger and confusion and into their own desires. That they need to accept the fact that men might want to please them, and that they are responsible for their own happiness. As a single thirty-one year old, I can say that I'm a bit of a late bloomer and Mama Gena helps women to embrace their own femininity, in the most powerful sense of the word. I am happy to be an independent woman, but if you want to have a man in your life, too, you should read this!

The book is SO amazing!

Who would have thought that one book could provide so many insights and so many keys into our relationships with men? But, here it is. The "Owner's and Operator's Guide" is not limited to only a few key concepts. Literally each and every page offers new and relevant information that every woman can put into action and have fantastic relationships with the men in our lives.I raced through this book in my first read, pausing only to laugh, because Mama truly does have a unique and hilarious way with words. And also to cry, when I was moved by a new realizations, such as when Mama talks about acknowledgement, as well as anger, and I could really see how that had been impacting my relationships.This is a "guide" in the true sense of the word. Mama Gena provides very practical and expert viewpoints on communication and man training, but it does not stop there. She includes exercises and checklists throughout the book which are enormously empowering. By putting these fundamentals into action, I believe that a great relationship, is now not only possible, but inevitable. Thank you, Mama Gena, for your inspiration!!