- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Vermilion (7 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091856248
- ISBN-13: 978-0091856243
- Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,894,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Strategies to rescue and strengthen your relationship from one of Britain's leading female divorce lawyers
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Divorce figures are at an all time high. In this provocative book Vanessa Lloyd Platt ponders who is to blame for this. Is it women who fail to balance work and home, turning it into a battle-ground, or men, who fail to help at home or communicate effectively? With quotes and anecdotes from both men and women Secrets of Relationship Success suggests how to reverse the bad habits which can destroy relationships, and provides tips and strategies for coping with adultery, stress, men's childishness and violence. By spotlighting these repeated behaviour patterns, Vanessa Lloyd Platt believes that relationships can be saved and set on the right path to lasting happiness. (20000913)
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you’re looking for the secrets of relationship success, you’ll still be none the wiser after reading this poor excuse for an exploration of affairs of the heart. The clumsy application of armchair pyschology and the constant stating of the bleeding obvious - men don’t like criticism ... the secret of a relationship is to communicate (well, the scales have truly fallen from my eyes) - make for a torpid read. And the simplistic style of the case studies, not unlike the Janet and John books of childhood, are insult to the reader’s intelligence.
What I’d really like to know is the secret of getting this kind of dross published, as if its this easy I could be well on my way to making a fortune.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Buy the book! Go on! DO it. Don't miss the particularly helpful passage about pornography, where Mrs Lloyd-Platt compares a man's use of it akin to 'looking at a new sports car'. It saved my butt from a kicking I can tell you!
She also points out that oral sex can be part of a happy, loving relationship though. Any book coming up with THAT as advice can't be all bad. In fact, that's all a relationship book needs to say: 'oral sex can be part of a happy, loving relationship. The end.' Seeing as how Mrs Lloyd-Platt is 1) a woman, and 2) a divorce lawyer, it MUST be true.
I am writing this some weeks after buying this book, highlighting the appropriate paragraphs, and handing it to my wife. Do you know what? It works! There we were on our last legs relationship-wise, and thanks to Vanessa Lloyd-Platt - the magic is back! Thanks VLP!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had the misfortune to be given this book as a 'joke' present -it is without question the worst thing I have ever seen in print (and that includes the back of a washing-up liquid bottle.) If it had been even slightly less bad I might have tossed it aside after the first page, but it was so truly, toe-curlingly terrible I couldn't resist returning to it, just to check it was as bad as I thought it was. A paperback train wreck, if you will.
In the end, my bloke and I probably read it from cover to cover, howling with horrifed hysteria and gasping with incredulity. I fancy the fun we had is the only way this book could be credited with a positive effect on any union.
Ms Lloyd Platt is breathtakingly ignorant of even the fundamental elements of a functional relationship, and has so little writing talent or sense of humour the book simply fails to work on any level. Although perhaps she's not as stupid or lacking in irony as she seems - I gather Ms LP is a divorce lawyer; obviously publishing this book is an attempt to keep her in her day job. At least we can be thankful she's not a marriage counsellor.
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