About The Book
In a subsequent chapter The Lying Truth he maintains that women are, in fact, more interested in lies - "because lies allow them opportunity to come up with their own version of the truth." His parent's relationship demonstrated that lying kept things calm, while the truth caused havoc. He recalls his mother questioning his father about a questionable absence, tempting the truth out of him with the age-old "just tell me where you've been and I won't be mad." Roderick laments, "He took the bait and was put out of the house that night. The episode set the precedence for the rest of my life."
Struggling for maturity throughout his marriage (with the help of a powerfully persuasive partner) the devout family manproclaims that he had to "grow to trust." Once playing his cards close to his chest, today, he tips off women as to how they too can win a man's trust and be allowed into his inner sanctum. "Men feel that it's too dangerous to give women access into our inner sanctuary for fear that you'll come and start redecorating the place," he quips.
In a chapter titled Whatever You Want Roderick adeptly dissects issues of control. "Tell men exactly what you like," he advises. Women always reply "whatever you want dear," he mimics, and then are angered when they find themselves at the Motor Cross instead of the opera.
Mid-point the book heats up - divulging classified chauvinistic secrets that could find Roderick blackballed from the He-Man Club, and clamoring to join the Witness Protection Program.
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