The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match: How Today's Strong Women Can Find Love and Happiness Without Settling

by Sonya Rhodes, Susan Schneider

Overview

In the twenty-first century, women are outpacing men in education and career advancement. Yet successful women are constantly being told that their professional achievements might doom their chances of marriage and family.

Data show that today's Alpha women—ambitious, self-assured, and hardworking—are hardly fated to be spinsters. By rethinking outmoded gender roles, women can have better relationships than ever before. A clinical psychologist with more than thirty years' experience, Dr. Rhodes shares her secrets to helping women triumph in love by finding men who will appreciate and complement their strengths.

Challenging gender stereotypes associated with the terms Alpha and Beta, she advises the Alpha woman to look past the overly competitive, domineering Alpha male for a man who is not threatened by her strengths. Just as Alpha women aren't demanding bitches, Beta men aren't passive wimps. Demonstrating that nearly everyone is a combination of both qualities, Dr. Rhodes includes a comprehensive test to help readers define where they (and their partners) are on the Alpha-Beta spectrum, giving women more options and helping them make better choices.

The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match can bring women greater empowerment in both their love lives and their careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062309846
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sonya Rhodes, PhD, has been a practicing psychotherapist in New York City for more than thirty years. She has served on the faculty of New York Medical College, Columbia University, and the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services and is the coauthor of three previous books, including Second Honeymoon: A Pioneering Guide for Reviving the Mid-Life Marriage (with Susan Schneider). She lives in New York City with her husband.

Susan Schneider is an award-winning former editor, columnist, and writer for numerous women's magazines, including Mademoiselle, Modern Bride, and Sesame Street Parents. She is the author of the novel The Wedding Writer and the coauthor of the nonfiction book Second Honeymoon (with Sonya Rhodes). She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

1 Loving Your Alpha 1

2 The Alpha/Beta Spectrum 13

3 Sex and the Alpha Woman 31

4 Bacherlors, Boyfriends, and Married Men 47

5 The Alpha and Beta of Dating 73

6 Becoming a Couple 93

7 Affairs: Perfect Storms 123

8 Divorcing, Dating, Surviving, Thriving 143

9 Frequently Asked Questions 175

Afterword 185

References 189

Bibliography 193

Acknowledgments 195

Editorial Reviews

03/03/2014
Rhodes and Schneider (Second Honeymoon) adapt lessons learned from Rhodes’s psychology practice in this treatise on type-A women and how they can maximize their chances for long-term relationships. The authors assert that every person is a mix of Alpha—hard-charging and dominating—and Beta—less ambitious, but with superior interpersonal skills. After presenting a 100-question quiz, which determines the Alpha/Beta breakdown and then breaks down results into a complicated continuum, the authors embark on a number of case studies from Rhodes’s client base, with topics including sex, relationships, recovering from affairs, and amicably divorcing. The book’s main problem is that for the material to work participants must honestly navigate the daunting questionnaire and, while presumably anyone who purchases the book will do so, getting a casual date or a new boyfriend to do the same is unlikely. Yet without it the advice offered doesn’t radically differ from other “how to find a man” books. Still, the authors’ commonsense, non–quiz-related advice—such as the importance of talking through differences in religion and finances before marriage—are spot-on. The advice is solid, but it’s perhaps best used as a tool for those already in committed relationships. (May)

Publishers Weekly