In today's world, there are guides to everything and among them, self help books on relationships and gender differences. These books are mainly written by leading doctors and therapists, but rarely has a book been written from an everyday man's point of view about the dark side of women and dating. Too often books are written about the romantic mating ritual to get a woman, but what about once you've captured her and she turns out not to be the reason poet's have put pen to paper. Does it matter what environment you've met a woman in? Is marriage and its requirements realistic in this day and age, and has it ever been? In this open, candid, at times crude, yet humorous book a merchant mariner shares his opinions, and experiences on the mostly dark side of women, sex, and Relationships. Why they tend not to last in this day and age. How by peoples attitudes, as well as perceptions changing they actually have a better chance for peace in their private lives.