What Husbands Wish Their Wives Knew about Men

by Patrick Morley

Book Overview

En este libro obtendr una clara imagen de su esposo dicha por alguien calificado. Patrick Morley, pionero en el movimiento de los hombres cristianos y autor de El hombre frente al espejo, uno de los... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031022909X
• ISBN13: 9780310229094
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

What Every Woman Should Know

Recently I listened to author and speaker Patrick Morley give a talk to a group of men about a man's search for significance. As part of his talk, Morley briefly discussed the life of the American billionaire Howard Hughes. As Morley recounted from his own visit to Hughes' apartment in the Bahamas, Hughes died a sad and lonely man- a self-made billionaire who had lost all sense of dignity and respect. Hughes had an intense desire to be significant. But in his search for significance, he had lost his direction. In his book What Husbands Wish Their Wives Knew About Men, Morley writes of the craving that every man has to be significant. Every man, be he a sales manager, a CFO, a public speaker or otherwise, needs to feel that his life has counted for something. But as Morley indicates, finding significance should be about establishing the right balance between responsibilities at work and at home. All too often men get caught in the pursuit of worldly significance- what Morley calls the `Rat Race'- in which they seek happiness in their own success and affluence. Tragically they later find that such a search is devoid of the very significance they are running after. Today men feel the pressures of maintaining time, managing debt and finding fulfilment in their work. Men live in a time of margin-less existence where there appear to be no limits to what men can squeeze into their lives. The end result is of course exhaustion. Men become overly preoccupied with their work obsessing over the impending deal they are about to strike or worrying how best to impress their colleagues at work, sometimes sacrificing time with their families. Work is of course a biblical ideal- in Genesis God commanded all of humanity to care and tend to the creation. And yet, when work becomes man's only focus, it becomes destructive. As Morley expounds, with the pressures of daily life married men become tempted to not only withdraw emotionally from their wives but to engage in sinful behaviour, lusting over women, whining about their woes and seeking out idols that distract them from a Christ-centred life. Marriage should of course be a `division of labour' and men should seek to incorporate their spouses in every important decision as well as identifying any of their own patterns of behaviour that negatively affect their marriage. When it comes to intimacy, men have to understand that women require more that just the physical aspects of sex. Wives need an emotional love in which sexual intimacy is just one component- "for wives sexual desire is a by-product of many small kindnesses done throughout the week.......deep wells of intimate conversation, and sharing with her beloved husband" (p. 135). Men need to learn to communicate better, talking to their wives intimately not just during courtship and the honeymoon that follows but also through the harder years of family building and retirement. Women in turn need to seek out a compromise, understanding both their husb

Just started reading it

As I said I just started reading it. I hope that it will help me out.

Should Be Require Reading for Wives

This wonderful little book gives women insight into the way men think and why they act. Their thought lives are definitely not like ours! Please read if you are in a relationship.

What Husbands Wish their wives knew about Men

This book was helpful to my marriage as we men and women see things from such different perspectives. Part 1 deals with many of the obstacles we face as men in today's society. Part 2 sheds light into the difficulty men have in relationships and how to overcome some of those barriers. Overall this book was tremendously insightful and refreshing.

Morley has done it again

Pat Morley has again written a concise, insightful book to help us live our everyday lives in exceptional ways. I plan to let my husband read this book in a couple of months-- he'll want to thank Pat Morley for putting a man's thoughts and needs into words.