Reviews for The Type of Marriage That Endures

The average rating for The Type of Marriage That Endures based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-10 00:00:00 Paulette Dumont Author Craig Gleerup offers much helpful insight into how to create a marriage that lasts. Written from many years of experience as a student and teacher of the Briggs/Meyers program, he offers much helpful guidance. The only hesitation I have is that unless one is versed in the Briggs/Meyers program, he will labor to get the help he is looking for from this book. This book is a very useful resource for all who will take the time to unravel its gems.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-04 00:00:00 Kathleen Baker There's excellent research and historical data in tbis book. It is a bit harrowing but an excellent way to look at how Enslaved and Free Blacks were treated during the 90 years the book covers. I found the reading to be easy and accessible to lay amateur studiers of history like myself. My problem lies with the authors treatment of Enslaved Black Women. He seems to conflate sex with non violent rape. Rape is not about violence it's about consent. Enslaved Women were forced to have children, we know this from slave narratives and the journals/letters/records of owners. Even if an Enslaved Woman persued her white owner sexually it's not consent. White owners had the power to free her and any potential children. That's not consent. Slavery removes the mechanism by which the enslaved have the power to consent to sex with those who own or manage them. The author ignores this with Enslaved men who were assaulted by white women owners. They had no agency to decline sex. It's almost like the autjor thinks slavery is similar to being a servant and it is NOT!