Amy Sutherland’s hugely popular story featured in the New York Times, June 2006, is one of my all-time favorites on the subject of understanding men. I’ve put her advice to use – and it has worked, ladies (wink, wink). She writes: The central lesson I learned from exotic animal trainers is that I should reward behavior I like and ignore behavior I don’t. After all, you don’t get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging. The same goes for the American husband.
