The Emotionally Unavailable Man: A Blueprint for Healing
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The Emotionally Unavailable Man is two books in one — one side is for the emotionally unavailable man and the other is for his partner. It details why men become emotionally unavailable and specifies the actions that can be taken by both men and women to realize improvement. MEN, do you ever feel like a little boy in a grown-up body? Like you have no personal power? Flip to the men’s side of this book and let expert psychotherapist Patti Henry help you
• Get your "power"
• Stop avoiding difficult situations
• Calm your partner’s anger
• Learn how to say "No"
• Set and maintain appropriate boundaries
• Be more effective at work
• Increase and enhance the sex in your relationship
• Feel personal freedom and happiness
WOMEN, do you want your husband to be emotionally available to you? Flip to the women’s side of this book and let expert marriage counselor Patti Henry help you
• Determine if your partner is capable of being emotionally available
• Decide what you can — and cannot — do to help
• Discover how to lose your anger
• Exercise mutuality and safety
• Learn how to recognize and confront your own resistances
• Restore hope about long-term change
• Gain clarity about your future
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.2
EAN: 9781568250960
ISBN: 1568250967
Label: Rainbow Books, Inc.
Manufacturer: Rainbow Books, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: 2004-09
Publisher: Rainbow Books, Inc.
Studio: Rainbow Books, Inc.
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• Emotional Unavailability : Recognizing It, Understanding It, and Avoiding Its Trap
• Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man
• Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness
• Men Who Can't Love: How to Recognize a Commitmentphobic Man Before He Breaks Your Heart
• He's Scared, She's Scared: Understanding the Hidden Fears That Sabotage Your Relationships
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Shut down
Comment: This book probably won't help many, definitely not for the long term. In the world of psychology, many things are the opposite of what they seem. A guy may seem emotionally unavailable when in fact he is incredibly sensitive and has finally shut down due to an insensitive controlling spouse. Women, remember that when you treat your husband like a child, that makes you the parent. Very few guys want to make love to their mother. If you are an egocentric controlling woman that dreams of fixing her man, don't waste your money on this or any other self help book. THEY CAN'T help you. Giving a book to someone to read, in order to help themselves, is the height of arrogance. Any guy willing to read this book is probably not emotionally unavailable, but is likely in an oppressive relationship. Those who give this book need to recognize their own destructive behavior and accept their responsibility.
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Summary: Great Resource for Couples
Comment: This book provides easy to grasp concepts that outline the problems and potential solutions for couples who lack emotional closeness due to the man's unavailability. Instead of blaming the man however, the intent is to educate both partners from each other's point of view, so that each can work on his or her own self to improve relationship connections. One of the few books my husband feels really "gets" him, and inspired him.
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Summary: Great book!
Comment: My husband and I are eternally grateful to Patti Henry for writing this book. It profoundly changed our marriage and, I believe, potentially saved it from deterioration before it even had a chance to get off the ground. While I was dating my husband, it appeared his heart was open to me and that I was the woman of his dreams, but shortly after we got married, I experienced a clamming up with him. He just didn't seem to trust me. He wasn't open, and he became very defensive at every little thing. There was a distinct emotional disconnect. The more I tried I tried to bring him back, the more I felt I was pushing him away and losing him. I had no idea how to work with him or deal with him. The tension escalated, and very soon neither of us was having the marriage we had hoped for or dreamed of.
Now, I knew he was abused as a child by one of his parents, and I was all too aware of the emotional challenges that brought. I had my own past wounds too. But I was not expecting the heated arguments my husband and I had after we got married as they hadn't been there before. It was so disappointing and heartbreaking, to say the least.
Then I found this book on Amazon. I began reading it myself, and my husband immediately noticed a change in me, a hope, an enthusiasm, a light in the tunnel neither he nor I had seen before. I told him it was because of this book, and he became curious.
So now my husband and I are reading this book faithfully every day, and it has changed our lives, changed our marriage, changed me and changed my husband, a man I was concerned about being so set in his ways due to his age, but he wasn't. He was open to change because he was at the end of his rope too. He cared about our marriage and me and himself that much, and I am so proud of him. He knows that I feel he is the bravest man I've ever met. The transformation is beautiful. He loves me. He trusts me. His guard is down. He's open, and I credit this masterpiece of a book for that.
Reading this book and practicing the tools have brought new life to me and my husband, much simpler and cheaper than months and months of therapy! I see a sparkle and joy and, most of all, security within my husband that I had never seen previously. The hang-ups are falling away, all his fears of intimacy and the armor of protection which kept us both from truly experiencing love together in the deepest sense. As for myself, well, I am all too conscious now of my hurricane, and the last thing I want to do is impose that on the people I love or anybody else, for that matter. This book gave me the knowledge of my hurricane and the tools of how to recognize it, deal with it and to prevent it from happening as it is so unproductive and disrespectful of myself and everyone around me.
So my husband and I thank Patti Henry for this gem of a book which has accomplished something very special on a spiritual level to make this world a better place, beginning in our little universe, by unlocking the heart of a man who has so much love to give and receive. We are finally free of the fear and free to truly and deeply love. We can't recommend this book highly enough. It IS definitely a blueprint for healing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a Surprise
Comment: I decided to read this book after hearing several friends discussing it. It was not what I expected. It is easy to read and understand yet provides insights which make you think about yourself; how and why you react the way you do. I think this is a must read for anyone who wants to become more self-aware. I bought additional copies to give to others.
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Summary: Should be required reading
Comment: Given the pandemic of "emotional unavailability" and the subsequent ramifications in our society, Patti Henry more than delivers with this book. It is written beautifully, compassionately, concisely and in a non-judgmental manner so that it appeals to the layperson. Moreover, it gives sense of hope to people who have difficulty within this realm, and have likely been shamed for it their entire lives. For those who seek to explore the origins of their "emotional unavailability", and for those who want to know how they may inadvertantly exascerbate their spouse's unavailability, this book will be a godsend. Arguably, this is Everyman's book. Wait....Can you hear it? It's the collective sigh of relief. Bravo to you, Patti Henry. Precisely, exactly what we needed, exactly when we needed it.
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