Opening the book Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Dr. Susan
Forward and Joan Torres, I thought that it would be one more boring psychological book written in
difficult language with advanced terminology and impractical advice. Therefore, from the first
pages of the book I was very much surprised to discover a vivacious and colorful style of writing
with a practical and interesting subject. Susan Forward, the author of the book and a psychologist,
is a practicing doctor who wrote five books. Each of them was a bestseller. She also founded the
Susan Forward Therapy Center, and she was a host of a daily talk-radio show that lasted for six
years. Further, she took part in different TV talk shows. But what most important was that this
woman herself was in the same situation of those women, for whom this book was intended.
S. Forward admits that she herself suffered through a marriage with an angry, abusive man who
belittled her and her work. She married a very charming, charismatic man and in the beginning it
was OK, but when she advanced in her career, he started to yell and scream and slam the doors. As
she started to get successful, the abuse started to escalate. So it was her personal experience and the
numerous similar situations of her clients and friends that made her go deeper into the problem and
write this book. She studied a huge number of couple relationships, did research and came to the
idea that a man can be abusive without ever laying a hand on his wife. In her book, S. Forward
describes many examples of this male behavior and offers substantial information on this problem
that she defines as misogyny. This is not about somebody who has a bad mood once in a while.
But about someone who uses his anger in very demeaning, belittling, frightening ways, who grinds
down his partner, makes her to lose her confidence, her esteem, ...