Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts And You Don't Know Why

Susan Forward, Joan Torres

Random House Publishing Group, Jul 20, 2011 - Self-Help - 304 pages

Is this the way love is supposed to feel?

• Does the man you love assume the right to control how you live and behave?
• Have you given up important activities or people to keep him happy?
• Is he extremely jealous and possessive?
• Does he switch from charm to anger without warning?
• Does he belittle your opinions, your feelings, or your accomplishments?
• Does he withdraw love, money, approval, or sex to punish you?
• Does he blame you for everything that goes wrong in the relationship?
• Do you find yourself “walking on eggs” and apologizing all the time?

If the questions here reveal a familiar pattern, you may be in love with a misogynist — a man who loves you, yet causes you tremendous pain because he acts as if he hates you.

In this superb self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the voices of men and women trapped in these negative relationships to help you understand your man’s destructive pattern and the part you play in it.

She shows how to break the pattern, heal the hurt, regain your self-respect, and either rebuild your relationship or find the courage to love a truly loving man.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Susan Forward's Toxic Parents. 

Contents

• Where He Gains ControlArenas: 57
• What Keeps Women Hooked?: 85
• How Men Learn to Hate Women: 97
• How Women Learn to Love WomenHaters: 123
• Madness for Two: 144
• How Are You Feeling?: 158
• Healing the Past: 188
• Taking Charge of Your Anger: 201
• Getting Professional Help: 230
• Knowing When to Leave: 243
• Finding Yourself Again: 273

About the author

Susan Forward, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer, and author of the number one New York Times bestsellers Toxic Parents and Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, as well as Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and Its Devastation, Money Demons, Emotional Blackmail, When Your Lover Is a Liar, and Toxic In-Laws.

In addition to her private practice, for five years she hosted a daily ABC talk-radio program. She has also served widely as a group therapist, instructor, and consultant in many southern California medical and psychiatric facilities, and she formed the first private sexual abuse treatment center in California. She lives in Los Angeles and has two grown children.

Dr. Forward maintains offices in Sherman Oaks, California. For further information, call [phone].


Joan Torres is an award-winning freelance writer with extensive movie and television credits.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts And You Don't Know Why
• Authors: Susan Forward, Joan Torres
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 030779766X, 9780307797667
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / Abuse; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem