Dear Dr. Laura, 

I am 36 years old. I have never been married and have no children. I just read The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands....as I joked to a friend "Just in case hell ever freezes over." This is simply because I don't date and never really have. 

I wanted to know what the book was all about since I hear you talk about it a lot. Well, lo and behold, I have found it so useful in my daily, husband-less life! I knew that women were bitches and I am a bitch from time to time, but this book has really made me stop and think I need to be sweeter to EVERYONE in my life. I need to calm down and enjoy things and not be hard to get along with. And it has helped me understand men more. I work in a business with my father and other men.  It has already helped me be open to seeing them differently. To see them as men and not competition. It's only been a couple of days since I finished the book, but I already feel the difference...you say it'll be instantaneous and, well, you're right! 

I am on to The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage now. I didn't go into the first book expecting to get what I got out of it, so maybe with this one my mind and heart will be opened even more to the differences between men and women. 

Thanks a lot, I needed this, 

Joy