How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids Kindle Edition

Insightful, funny and VALIDATING! More than that, Dunn provides a kind of “how-to” with helpful tips and tools. All postpartum parents should read this.

Honestly, the title made me chuckle when it popped up on my recommended for you list. It threw me off but I was curious so I read the summary to see if it was something I could actually read. To my amusement, I clicked purchase and began to understand the click-bait title.PLEASE ready this book, it opened my eyes for ways to accomplish a happy and healthy marriage post children. The data collected during research and studies provided in this book helped me understand the facts and implement some things into my everyday life. I’ll for sure be recommending this to all of my friends.

I've recommended this book to every parent I know. I don't love the title because I don't hate or even dislike my husband, so that was a bit of a turn off, but whatever, it's trying to be funny. There's some great take-aways, and I like the research stuck into every point she makes. It's a liiiiiiiiitle man-bashing, which again, I don't care for, but she's honest about generalizing things. Overall, it gives great advice and brings up really great points to both ask your partner about, and check yourself on. It's also clear that if focuses on heterosexual couples, so know that going in.

This book is an excellent relationship book that is helpful for both partners. There is also a great casual sense of humor which makes the bigger harder topics easier.

After our baby was born, I really felt like the bulk of the new baby-related responsibilities fell on me. What happened? We were supposed to be in this together? Well, this book made me feel like I wasn't alone.The author uses her relationship and anecdotes from her own life to help explain why women often feel overwhelmed and sometimes resentful towards their spouse after the baby comes along. And she does it in a way that's entertaining. There were some sections that I actually took pictures of and texted my husband to read.To be clear - This is not a husband bashing book, it actually gives advice on how to work together to tackle all the extra work that comes with having a baby. After discussing tips that can help with your communication throughout the book, she summarizes them at the end. Here's an example that resonated with me: don't create a narrative about why your spouse did or didn't do something. If there were dishes left in the sink, I'd think "He is leaving these so that I'll do them because he hates dishes, that's not fair!" Realistically, he might have just dropped it in the sink on his way out the door assuming he'd do them later (or not even making a conscious thought of it). I shouldn't waste energy getting mad because of my own assumptions before talking to him about it.Anyway, I'd recommend this book to any new parent. Maybe you already have great communication skills, but once that baby comes it's easy to forget that you and your spouse are in this together!

After reading this book, I asked my husband to read it. About a quarter of the way through I asked him if he's learned anything and he smirked at me. That smirk said about 1,000 things, one of which was I could do more to help you with our child and life in general. That's all any wife and mom wants to hear right, "I'd like to help. Put me to work." I mean, in a perfect world they would just get on it and not need direction, but it's not a perfect world. However, this book is on to something. It's almost like Dunn cut open my brain and smeared it across these pages (and I'm sure MANY other moms could say the same thing). It was an easy, entertaining read with good advice. I'm going to keep buying it as a shower gift, because let's face it, after having kids us moms can use all the help we can get. And seriously, the cover art is spot. on. if your husband is anything like mine.

I like this style of book (self-help as narrated through someone's first-hand experiences) and thought the information in it was really good. That being said, I'm knocking off 2 stars because Jancee Dunn consistently references "research" but does not consistently cite her sources. If she quotes someone from an interview, she's good about giving their name, but there are lots and lots of references to studies and research and there's absolutely no way of knowing which study she's referring to. A lot of what she quotes sounds very interesting and I'd love to read the full study but I can't. In my opinion, it's unacceptable for someone to make money off of the hard work of hundreds of researchers and academics throughout the world and not give credit where credit is due.Overall, I thought this book contains very useful information and am glad I read it, but wish Dunn had credited the people she relied upon to build her case.

Me encanto el libro! Es fácil de leer, muy buen humor y da herramientas muy buenas

This book is great! It doesn't save a marriage but it give you the tools to survive the "normal" daily fights. Buy it!

Amazing book!So helpful to see I’m not alone but also the tips have helped me so much. Not just about taking the mental load off but how to talk to my partner and handle myself when I feel like a fight is brewing!Love to hear her story as well, would recommend to any couple in the early years of having children.

Love the anecdotes.Love the detailed studies and their outcomes.Love the practical guides to tackle the problems mentioned in the book.No cons

Really great read. It makes you think about a lot of things that you yourself can change in your marriage to make it easier to raise your kids right. And really funny written too!