I generally like relationship “self-help” books. Not usually out of any specific need to improve my own, although I’ve often felt that it would have made previous relationships and problems a lot clearer or easier to understand. I’ve read the classics: Relationship Rescue by Dr Phil, He’s Just Not That Into You, and a few others, leading up to Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. I guess that I should have read this one first, since I’m pretty certain it was the first published, and may have spawned this whole “relationship therapy” genre, but I never really had an interest until I listened to a radio interview with the author, Dr. John Gray. He was promoting a newer Mars/Venus tome entitled When Mars and Venus Collide (which I have not yet read), and I thought some of the things he mentioned in the interview were interesting. I figured it would be a lot easier to grab a copy of the original book and read that while I waited for this particular volume. I received a copy of the 90 minute audio book in the mail, and listened to it one afternoon while filing at work. (more…)