Seven Deep Insecurities Men Don’t Want Women to Know
Stories of Men Who Share
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Dating, love, intimacy, romance, communicating, and trust are relationship topics that support multibillion-dollar professions and industries such as psychology, psychiatry, religion, food and entertainment, fashion, retail, and travel as well as social media. Even though couples have invested $50 billion a year on weddings (State of Our Unions 2012, 1), they have spent far less on premarital counseling to protect their marriage (Ottney 2013). Couples who have invested in marriage counseling have spent $75 to $150 per hour for an average of twelve counseling sessions or more; and, the success rate for couples with therapy is approximately 55 percent (Elichmann 2014, 1).
In spite of marriage counseling, nearly one million couples a year experience divorce (CDC 2011). If couples invest time and money in relationships, why do they continue to have the same difficulties? Common issues that many couples experience are poor communications (Elichmann 2014; Horan 2013; Shimberg 1999; Sorgen 2012); sex, money, trust, lack of appreciation, unforgiveness, expectations, and technology (McGuinness 2013) and more-complex issues that are multidimensional as well as linear. As a result, relationships are dynamic (Courtright, Millar, Rogers, and Bagarozzi 1990). For couples who did seek professional help, it was often too late to save the marriage because the damage had been done by year six of the marriage (Horan 2013). An average of 55 percent of couples who had received marriage counseling saw their issues resurface and deteriorate the relationship (Marriage Guardian 2014, 1).
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About the Book
The author provides Robert Harris's compelling story of his struggles with manhood throughout his youth and adult life in part one. His journey begins with a complex childhood of poverty, uncertainty, and the fight to survive in Memphis, Tennessee. As a teenager in the streets, he dominated, ruled, and controlled individuals and relationships as a means of survival and to gain respect. However, long-term behaviors led to an adulthood of aggression, negative thinking, and unsuccessful relationships. His personal challenges and insecurities caused him to seek God to become a better man and father. Robert shares his story of challenges and triumph to encourage other men. His memoir provides a foundation for part two, which reveals the seven deep insecurities that men like Robert experience but do not openly discuss with the women in their lives. In part three, the book concludes with reflections.
The objective of this book a) adds to the existing information on relationships; b) encourages more men to acknowledge their insecurities and do something about them; c) inspires men to have healthy discussions about their thoughts and feelings with their partner; and d) encourages men to be more open-minded about their relationship and find successful ways to collaborate with their partner to solve relationship issues in a humble, caring, respectful, and loving manner.
About the Author
Sheri E. Ragland is the founder and CEO of Buzz About Relationships, LLC, established in 2013. Over the past several years, she has been fascinated by the dynamic nature of relationships. Curiosity has led her on a fact-finding journey to gain more insight on relationships through research, interviews, focus groups, and informal discussions with friends, family, and colleagues. As a result, she has launched buzzaboutrelationships.com to engage couples with current information, facts, articles, blogs, and trivia on relationships.