Kathmandu:

You know your friend who sits at home on her birthday because her husband has to work late? You know your other friend whose wedding dress is gathering dust in her closet because her boyfriend isn’t willing to commit after 10 years of dating? You should buy this book for her. ‘He’s Just not That into You: the No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys’ was written by a happily married man (once a single jerk) and a happily single woman. This book endeavours to teach women what men mean when they do the strange things that they do. The culprit is not all men, but the small number who are jerks. The overriding theme is “Don’t waste the pretty” — you are a beautiful woman with a lot to give a partner, so don’t waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate it. It is also an effort to get women to understand and respect a male’s choices and limitations and responsibly decide to accept him as he is or reject him at the intimate or even the less intimate level. It is a book about individual and mutual responsibility inside and outside a relationship and valuing each gender as well as each other. In these quickly changing times, its nice to have guide to inform us what should be tolerated and what should not be. In the immortal words of Whitney Houston, “I’d rather be alone than unhappy.”