Self-help · LightJohn Gray uses a Mars and Venus metaphor to explain relationship problems between men and women
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
by John Gray
Mars and Venus as a way to read relationship problems
HarperCollins published John Gray's book in 1992. It argues that many common relationship problems between men and women stem from basic psychological differences between the sexes, and it uses the Mars and Venus metaphor to describe how each sex is accustomed to its own planet's customs. Topics include the give-and-take balance in relationships, differing ways of scoring acts of love, men's tendency to retreat into a cave under stress, women's tendency to seek conversation, and the wave, a cycle describing a woman's capacity to give and her need for support.
More about this book
Who
John Gray, the author, writing about men and women in relationships.
World
Romantic relationships, explained through the Mars and Venus metaphor.
What makes it different
Wikipedia cites The Guardian and HarperCollins (2017) for more than 15 million copies sold, and CNN reported on 31 December 1999 that it was the highest-ranked non-fiction work of the 1990s. It inspired audiotapes, seminars, a one-man Broadway show and a TV sitcom.
Feel
Light and conversational.
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