I’m reading a book called Drama Kings, an unusual yet highly entertaining and enlightening hardcover about strong, independent women and the men that drive them bonkers. Instead of focusing on how men should change, the book speaks of how women already have, and what women can (and need to) get from a relationship with aDrama King so as to move on when the time is right.

I’m only a couple of chapters into the book, so I can’t really give it a fair review yet. But as to where I’m at right now? I’m dumbfounded. Not only has the author pegged some of my most frustrating prior relationships in a very short time, but she’s also described my personal frustrations with losing myself while in a certain (but not all) relationships. I found her explanations of why and how women became subservient to men in contemporary times (through need via the Industrial Revolution), as well as her own personal views of how things have changed gradually over the past ten years, refreshing and thought-provoking. I also appreciated her dismissal of feminism as the cause of why (many) men feel attracted to strong, independent women yet have no idea what do with them or how to not feel threatened/competitive when in an intimate interaction with one.