Mama Gena's Marriage Manual: Stop Being a Good Wife, Start Being a Sister Goddess! - Softcover

Thomashauer, Regena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743261100 ISBN 13: 9780743261104

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Synopsis

Why be a saintly Good Wife, caring for his every need, when you can be a sexy Sister Goddess and make you both twice as happy?

"Diva of Desire" Regena Thomashauer (a.k.a. Mama Gena) delivers a saucy, surprising, absolutely essential guide to reviving passion and pleasure in your marriage.
Let Mama cure you of the "Good Wife Syndrome" -- that common malady characterized by an unnatural drive to sacrifice yourself, organize your married life around your husband's needs, and then blame your bewildered husband for your profound unhappiness. Mama Gena's Marriage Manual is here to remedy your condition by administering a simple yet tremendously effective antidote: fun. Fun because when a woman indulges her desires, she has an uplifting effect on everyone around her. Mama gives specific strategies and exercises for increasing the pleasure quotient in your life, improving communication with your mate, and gathering a powerful network of Sister Goddesses that will help speed you toward your goals.
Mama Gena's Marriage Manual will help you craft a partnership that enables you to do more, have more, and be more than you ever can on your own.

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About the Author

Regena (derived from the Latin for "queen") Thomashauer is the author of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts and Mama Gena's Owner's and Operator's Guide to Men. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

From Publishers Weekly

With her usual brash sass, Mama Gena (Mama Gena’s Owner’s and Operator’s Guide to Men) preaches to her fellow Sister Goddesses (women who have joined her School of Womanly Arts or read previous books) about how to achieve a happy marriage. The secret, she says, is learning to create constant "fun" in wedlock. By contrast, traditional preoccupations-with commitment, say, or with being a good wife-are the surest way to douse marital flames. "Commitment means absolutely nothing without fun," she reasons, and the "Good Wife Syndrome" is an "insidious poison that seeps into many relationships" when a woman shelves her desires and happiness to serve her husband. "The world exists to serve you, to celebrate you, to fulfill you," she declares. A partner, therefore, should be a trained pamperer and an accessory to pleasure-in short, a "best friend that you have sex with." Mama Gena hits on a golden truism when she prescribes that women (or anyone really) must cultivate happiness in the rest of their lives and let it radiate into love relationships. She takes this idea to a hedonistic extreme, though, when she encourages followers to discover their sensuality-even through extra-marital affairs if necessary. Based on her own "research" as wife and mother, and peppered with anecdotes from other Sister Goddesses, her gospel of self only occasionally breaks from its solipsistic celebration to remind readers to "take a moment...and notice how they the husbands are feeling." Otherwise, men take a back seat, for better or for worse, in Mama Gena’s irreverent guide to marital bliss.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743261100
• ISBN 13: 9780743261104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240