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"If you and your prospective partner adopt the principles and skills I describe here, your relationship will be successful - not just for starters, but for the long run."   

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Committing fully to a loving partnership - a "we" - can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling experiences you'll ever have. Yet as anyone in a long-term relationship will tell you, it can also be one of the most challenging. Almost half of all first marriages end in divorce, and chances go down from there. So how do you beat the odds?   

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  • It’s my birthday and I can cry if want to.

    Yes it is, and I've spent the morning/afternoon reading this book. I have one question, Mr. Author what if you put us couple therapists out of business over the next ten years or so? I certainly hope you will use the profits gained to set up an early retirement fund for us. What if couples used this book right from the beginning? What if they figured out how to do all the things they currently spend their hard-earned money and time in arduous (albeit, with some of us very rewarding) couples therapy? I have never seen a better guide to how trouble shoot, before trouble appears.

    And maybe after that too. This is not a book for just pre-commitment ceremony/weddings. This book could help you see where you went wrong, in your previous relationships or maybe the one you are still in. After you stop banging your head against the wall for not knowing what to prioritize when it might have prevented the divorce, you can still use it to have great conversations with your current partner/spouse.

    For those with relationships that work well enough, the book may provide a little tweak, possibly some language for what you already know is needed but couldn’t say as well; or it could help you through a particularly difficult crisis or transition, say to a first child, an empty nest, or the assisted living housing. How could it ever be too late to “we do” and do it well?

    This book does much of what good therapists, specialized in couples, would do with a couple, whether in distress or trying to ward it off in the future. It would be valuable for anyone you know who is getting together, moving apart, or facing new difficulties. And for someone alone, it could help them hold in mind what to look for in a future mate, and what to expect to have to be good at to keep them.
  • I have been a fan of Stan's work for a long time. My husband and I went to one of his workshops after reading Wired for Love and our marriage has been on an upward trajectory ever since. When I saw We Do, I thought I would get it for our nanny when she got engaged. Her relationship background isn't stellar so my hopes were to help her with some of the realities of marriage, without having to actually "give" her advice. The concepts of the wave, anchor and island were incredibly helpful for helping me as I learned to understand the natural differences my husband I share. Watching her with her partner it was easy to see 10 years down the road, they would face some of the same challenges.

    It was an early xmas gift, after I read it first, and she called tonight about the eye contact exercise and was happier than I have seen her. Understanding from the beginning the real depth of marriage is so important. I don't know how you accurately convey it or what it will be like when you hit the hard times, but this book works when those things erupt.

    Stan's support for couples stands the test of time, regardless of marital arrangement or configuration.

    When our nanny gets married in May, I know that the two of them will be on the right track. If you're looking for a gift for someone you care about to say the advice that feels almost impossible to put into simple words, this book is it. I will be gifting this to others as they announce their happy news for many years to come.
  • Dr. Tatkin provides important cutting-edge info and great strategies for couples wanting a more loving, lasting and satisfying relationship. Clear and practical - with minimal jargon!
  • We are reading this together and it has given us the opportunity to talk about things that might not come up in day to day conversation. Common sense advice. A must read for those entering into or even already in a long term relationship.
  • In general I find Tatkin’s work a very helpful way to work with couples. My disappointment with this particular book is that he doesn’t address a common problem for older women. While he does briefly address erectile dysfunction as men age, I can’t find a discussion of what menopause means for women and their partners. This is major turn in many many women’s lives and involves a lot more than reduced libido. So many anxieties, worries and for many women a big loss in terms of their experience when they orgasm. Tatkin’s broadened definition of sex is helpful though. Perhaps I ask too much for the book to address this segment of the population.
  • An invaluable guide for those doing marital counseling. Goes way beyond the basics to some real issues facing those about to "Tie the knot".
  • I love Stan Tatkin’s books both for my relationship, and for my patient’s relationships. I highly recommend all of his books
  • I chose this book as a clinician and found it to be as compelling to me personally. Although I have been married for 45 years, I am still learning how to love effectively. This book helped me in both areas of !y life.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he’ll need to make his way in the world.

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience fatherhood.

As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the “firsts” that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn’t shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life crises to practical jokes and poop.

In between the sleep-deprived lows and wonderful highs, Backman takes a step back to share the true story of falling in love with a woman who is his complete opposite, and learning to live a life that revolves around the people you care about unconditionally. Alternating between humorous side notes and longer essays offering his son advice as he grows up and ventures out into the world, Backman relays the big and small lessons in life, including

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"One. of my all time favorite books was Backman's A Man Called Ove so I expected to love this too but was very bored by it. Think it may have appeal to new parents - I am a grandparent and I had to force myself to finish it. It was very repetitive, for example at least twice in the Chapter "What You Need to Know About Being a Man" Backman says They say that sooner or later the majority of men turn into their fathers. But I hope that isn't true." An example of the humor in this book is, referring to his wife: "I can easily think of a hundred people who would follow her blindly into a war. I can barely get people to follow me on Twitter."

It hardly every made me laugh out loud whereas A Man Called Ove made me both laugh and cry. I think it's a book for new parents as I've said before who think that their every action is going to have a lifelong influence on their amazing new babies.

Backman says at one point referring to a practical joke he has planned "Then it's quite possible that this whole idea was a
LITTLE bit funnier in theory than it was in practice. Let's suppose that." That could be said of this book as well."

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  • One. of my all time favorite books was Backman's A Man Called Ove so I expected to love this too but was very bored by it. Think it may have appeal to new parents - I am a grandparent and I had to force myself to finish it. It was very repetitive, for example at least twice in the Chapter "What You Need to Know About Being a Man" Backman says They say that sooner or later the majority of men turn into their fathers. But I hope that isn't true." An example of the humor in this book is, referring to his wife "I can easily think of a hundred people who would follow her blindly into a war. I can barely get people to follow me on Twitter."

    It hardly every made me laugh out loud whereas A Man Called Ove made me both laugh and cry. I think it's a book for new parents as I've said before who think that their every action is going to have a lifelong influence on their amazing new babies.

    Backman says at one point referring to a practical joke he has planned "Then it's quite possible that this whole idea was a
    LITTLE bit funnier in theory than it was in practice. Let's suppose that." That could be said of this book as well.
  • Things My Son Needs to Know about the World is more a personal journal by Fredrik Backman to his son than intended for a general audience. His son will no doubt forgive him for his boring and pedestrian style. After the first few segments I found the book tedious. I would have expected a book like this to be a grand gesture from a dying man to his progeny but I don’t think this is the case (I certainly hope not).

    Backman offers advice and anecdotes in short segments. The book can be picked up and put down or even read out of sequence. Some counsel made me laugh. Like “you spit on the napkin. Then you wipe the child’s face with the napkin. You don’t spit straight on the child. My bad”. And there’s a recipe for fried Snicker’s ice cream.

    The whole book is a loose collection of jots, notes and short accounts that I suspect Backman had in his writer’s journal but didn’t know what to do with them. If you’re looking for reading material that lives up to the quality of A Man Called Ove you’re going to be disappointed This is not a bad book just, in my estimation, a halfhearted attempt to meet a publishing commitment.
  • What do we know about Fredrik Backman? For most of us, only that he's a perceptive, intuitive author of highly readable novels, reliable in that each of those novels finds a path to the human heart that rings true. Last year, during a visit to a local bookstore, he revealed that the reason his younger and older characters are so vivid is that those are the ages he finds most honest. But bios have been, as is usually the case, quite stingy in revealing the man behind the artist.

    Taking the form of short essays, this book outlines his life sometimes hilariously, in which anyone who's been a parent will smile and nod in recognition, and by addressing the pieces to his toddler son, he presents life lessons, spirituality, the importance of friends, and beautifully crafted shout outs to his wife. The results are revelatory, charming, and, like his novels, unexpected.
  • I am a slow reader and I read this book in a week. I found myself consistently entertained in each chapter. The chapters were short which is great for a slow reader but I couldn't put it down so I often read to chapters in an evening. He does a great job of turning every fatherly parenting experience in a humorous situation that helps us all realize as fathers we are not alone in these struggles. He expresses his desires for his son but then retracts, as we all do, to saying basically that they can choose what they want and we will still love them. This book is light hearted and funny. He even takes a situation where he got shot and turned it into an entertaining yet sentimental story. This is an excellent book but I think it would even be better as a stand up routine. My only complaint about this book is with the flow. While it is one of those books that you can pick up and start wherever you would like, he has these little humorous segments in between chapters that are funny but were probably put there because they really didn't fit in a particular chapter. Overall this is a stand up comedy routine in a book. I highly recommend you by this, read it, and share it with other fathers!
  • *Sigh.*

    I am one of Mr. Backman's biggest fans. Even those books of his that aren't my all-time favourites, still hold a special place on my bookshelf and in my soul. So it's very difficult for me to say that I did not like this book very much.

    I really adore the concept of this book a collection of essays and other tidbits that Backman has written to his young son. Some of the anecdotes included within are certainly amusing. I really enjoyed the quick notes between the longer essays.

    But I struggled with several of the essays. Some meandered on a bit long, and some got a bit too emphatic. At times I felt like I was stuck in an uncomfortable conversation with a friend of a friend of a friend where anything either of you says just gets taken the wrong way.

    I'm fairly certain my lack of enjoyment in places had a lot more to do with the translation of this book than the original essays themselves. Some phrases were just very "off" or didn't really even make sense. I'm not sure if those were decisions made by the translator, or if this shorter material didn't lend itself as well to holistic translation as Backman's novels.

    Regardless, I'm left trying to rate something that was, at best, hit and miss for me. And that's bitterly disappointing for me to say about one of my favourite authors. (

    I would probably give this 2 stars, but the brief bits between essays were very charming and redeemed a lot, so my final verdict is 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

    Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for providing me with a DRC of this book.
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