How to ruin your love life / Ben Stein.
Television personality and former White House speechwriterBen Stein presents brief "advice" essays on forty-four relationship killers such as pointing out a lover's imperfections in public, making fun of a lover's family, and letting jealousy rule one's life.
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Carlsbad, CA :
Hay House,
℗♭2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Know that your wishes are the only ones that matter in any situation
- Rest assured that you know better about every subject than your lover
- Live your life as if only your feelings count!
- Point out your lover's imperfections in public
- Never admit that you're wrong or apologize in any dispute
- Overdramatize everything
- Demand expensive gifts from your lover
- Never be grateful for the gifts you do get
- Carve it in stone: love relationships aren't partnerships ...
- Compare your lover with people you've dated in the past
- Talk about yourself exclusively
- Remember that your lover is your punching bag
- Act moody and sulky when your lover gets home but don't tell him why you're sulking
- Remember that your lover is also your assistant, lawyer, placement officer, apartment finder, and loan broker
- Don't for a moment let your lover believe that he's valued just for himself
- Play phone games that is, don't return her calls so she can see how cool and aloof you are
- Make fun of your lover's family
- Let it be known that you consider affection to be a chore
- If you're dating someone who has a lot of problems, is generally a mess, and all of your friends dislike him, get married anyway, marriage will cure all of your problems!
- Don't ever tell your lover, "I love you"
- Have a relationship with someone who's never happy and is always down in the dumps ... and believe you can and will make him happy
- Expect your lover to look like someone out of a penthouse centerfold
- Feel free to say any cruel thing you want to your lover, and when reproached about it, say, "hey, can't I even express my feelings?"
- Forbid your lover to see her friends
- Only pursue men or women who are already taken
- Always look your worst, or at any rate, don't bother to look your best
- Be consistently surly and unfriendly
- Act like a big baby on dates
- Take total possession of your lover's home
- Flirt with anyone and everyone in front of your lover.