Relationships</br>Self-Help</br>Women</br>The Surrendered Wife</br>Laura Doyle</br></br>Product Description</br></br>A <I >New York Times</I> bestseller?? this controversial guide to improving your marriage has transformed thousands of relationships?? bringing women romance?? harmony?? and the intimacy they crave.<BR><BR>Like millions of women?? Laura Doyle wanted her marriage to be better. But when she tried to get her husband to be more romantic?? helpful?? and ambitious?? he withdrew?and she was lonely and exhausted from controlling everything. Desperate to be in love with her man again?? she decided to stop telling him what to do and how to do it. When Doyle surrendered control?? something magical happened. The union she had always dreamed of appeared. The man who had wooed her was back."he underlying principle of <I>The Surrendered Wife</I> is simple: The control women wield at work and with children must be left at the front door of any marriage. Laura Doyle??s model for matrimony shows women how they can both express their needs and have them met while also respecting their husband??s choices. When they do?? they revitalize intimacy. <BR> <BR>Compassionate and practical?? <I>The Surrendered Wife</I> is a step-by-step guide that teaches women how to:<BR> <BR>?? Give up unnecessary control and responsibility<BR>?? Resist the temptation to criticize?? belittle?? or dismiss their husbands<BR>?? Trust their husbands in every aspect of marriage?from sexual to financial<BR>?? And more. <BR> <BR><I>The Surrendered Wife</I> will show you how to transform a lonely marriage into a passionate union.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Self-proclaimed "nd former shrew" Laura Doyle sets forth a whopper of a game plan for establishing profound intimacy in one's marriage. Building on the gender stereotypes defined by bestselling author John Gray (<I>Men Are from Mars?? Women Are from Venus</I>)?? Doyle seeks to heal the overworked?? underappreciated wife who snarls at her mate's every thought or action. Her message to these smart?? self-sufficient types: check the nitpicking?? the unsolicited opinions?? and--egads!--the finances at the marital door (although she says it's still okay to wield control at work). Many women will find such advice archaic and offensive; some will simply laugh off this credential-free anachronism when they receive the book as a bridal-shower gag gift. Still others?? identifying with Doyle's profile of a controlling wife?? will