The Respect Dare Author: Visit Amazon's Nina Roesner Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1440132801 | Format: PDF
The Respect Dare Description
About the Author
Nina Roesner is the executive director of Greater Impact Ministries, Inc., a Christian training organization. Nina has more than 20 years in the communications and training industry and has coached numerous executives, managers, individuals, wives, church staffs, and pastors around the country. She has been married to her husband, Jim, since 1991, and together they are privileged to be raising and homeschooling three children.
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- Hardcover: 236 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse.com (April 23, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1440132801
- ISBN-13: 978-1440132803
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
I gave this book a try because I think that mutual respect is very important in marriage. Mutual. Mutual respect. So I thought that perhaps the book would give some tips on how to remember to live out that kind of thing on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the kind of relationship this book seems to be talking about is not one built on mutual respect, but on long suffering tolerance and low expectations (of the wife towards the husband--this isn't extrapolation, Roesner instructs the reader to lower her expectations) and complete obliviousness (of the husband towards his wife...and just about everything else.)
It manages to insult both men and women in many of the examples. Men are portrayed like a sitcom dad or bumbling detergent commercial dad, witless and goofy, hopelessly clueless and aw shucks, what can you do? You can't expect anything from them because that would be "unbiblical"-- and here I am offended as a Christian, because nothing in the Bible declares men to be uniformly insensitive fools, that is a construct of our present day. Women are portrayed as nagging, backstabbing shrews or, on the "doing it right" side, long-suffering martyrs who silently persevere even when it would be more sensible to speak up.
The first sign of trouble was when the author started relentlessly flogging her workshops, website, and add-on workbooks in the introduction. I hoped that the marketing efforts would be contained solely in that section, but alas, it never really lets up and there are endless reminders to sign up for a session, buy another book, or "tell all your friends!" about the author and her products.
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