How To Fail As A Husband (A Better Man)

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The next time you hear a man say, “I can’t wait to dig into this self-help book about marriage!” will also likely be the first time. Very few men truly enjoy those books, especially the ones filled with questionnaires, surveys, and tests at the end of every chapter. Thankfully, “How To Fail As a Husband” isn’t one of them. You’re probably considering this book because you DON'T want to fail. You may have already tried solutions that haven’t therapists, getting advice from that weirdly happy old married guy down the street, or maybe you even attended the dreaded weekend marriage encounter seminar. If those things helped you figure out how not to fail as a husband, good for you. Go watch a movie or clean out your garage.Like most men, I struggled to be a good husband when I was first married. I made mistakes - some of them huge, most of them small but still significant. The problem was, there was no good resource to learn how to get better at "husbanding." Most marriage books are written by women, and while they offer a lot of good advice about improving the relationship itself, they're not as helpful when it comes to improving the job we as men do being a husband. Over my 30+ years as a mental health counselor, plus my 20+ years of marriage, I've learned a lot. Some of that knowledge comes from making mistakes in my marriage; some of it comes from working with men who come to see me professionally with their partners.Not failing as a husband requires understanding why most relationships fail, and then doing the things in your relationship that successful husbands do that lead to them having long, fulfilled marriages. “How To Fail As a Husband” is filled with short, personal, often funny, and to-the-point chapters that each have one easily implemented act that is used by husbands who don’t end up failing. Congrats on starting down the road to not being a failure at this relationship thing.