Former NFL Wife Offers a Straight Talk, No Chaser Retort to the Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man Phenomenon

A resounding retort to Steve Harvey’srunaway bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Setting therecord straight on today’s playing field is a mother-daughter team whosecombined experience in marriage, divorce, and dating has involved menfrom the NBA, NFL and Hollywood, to everyday, normal guys in theirrelationship how-to book Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? How to ThinkLike a Lady and Still Get the Man.

“It’snot the man that makes the difference, it’s how you deal with the manthat makes the difference between heartbreak and a mutually beneficialsituation,” says Hall, who was married to Cory Hall of the CincinnatiBengals and Atlanta Falcons.

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Players, cheaters, narcissists and smooth-talkers. When it comes to menbehaving badly, ladies, it’s up to you to change their game. Settingthe record straight on today’s playing field is a mother-daughter teamwhose combined experience in marriage, divorce, and dating has involvedmen from the NBA, NFL and Hollywood, to everyday, normal guys.

A resounding retort to Steve Harvey’s runaway bestseller Act Like aLady, Think Like a Man (January 2009, Amistad) and his forthcomingfollow-up Straight Talk, No Chaser (November 2010, Amistad), former NFLwife turned radio and television personality, Shane Hall passes on herrelationship how-to in Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? How to ThinkLike a Lady and Still Get the Man (October 2010, Farrah GrayPublishing). There is a ‘Bonus Chapter’ response to Steve Harvey'sStraight Talk, No Chaser

With co-author (and mom) Rhonda Frost, Hall uses her signaturestraight talk to prove that today’s “player” mentality was fashioned,nurtured and created by the very women who chastise it. Amother-daughter look at relationships, Why Do I Have to Think Like aMan? gives readers what Harvey could not – an uncensored, woman’s viewon dating.

“It’s not the man that makes the difference, it’s how you deal withthe man that makes the difference between heartbreak and a mutuallybeneficial situation,” says Hall, who was married to Cory Hall of theCincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons.

Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? is based on more than 300interviews with men and women over 25, and the authors’ own datingdrama. The book reveals hold-nothing-back truths about deal breakers,commitment, baggage, intimacy, what men really want, and getting whatyou want in return. And to say the authors have “been there, done that”in love, sex and marriage is an understatement. They draw on their lifeexperiences with marriage, divorce, domestic violence, singlemotherhood, being cheated on – and being “the other woman.”

“We hope to empower all the women out there selling themselves short,hearing but not listening to the men they date, and seeing but notheeding the obvious warnings,” says Frost. “Getting the guy isn’t aboutknowing how they think; it’s about dating smart, knowing what you want,and raising your standards.”

In Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man?, readers will learn:

•     Why men cheat: A woman’s rebuttal to Steve Harvey’s philosophy on commitment
•     Date smarter: How to set your dating standards
•     Think Like a Lady: A female counterpart to Steve Harvey on finding, keeping and understanding a man
•     Dating with boundaries: How to rise above physical/emotional violence and cheating

Both survivors of emotional and physical abuse, Hall and Frost aredonating a portion of the book proceeds to battered women shelters andother agencies that help women.

Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? Endorsements:

"Shanae Hall is a candid and witty personality who has a unique wayof telling you the truth just how she sees it. Read this book and you'llknow what I'm say'n."

• Cedric The Entertainer - TV & Film Star, Legendary Stand-Up Comedian and one of the infamous Original Kings of Comedy

“Are you ready for a real self-help relationship book that is an eye-opener, and will leave you speechless?”

• Gena James Pitts – Founder, Professional Sports Wives Association

"Thank goodness for Shanae Hall being a voice I can relate to! Godforbid the moment when women believe we have to think like men in orderto be in relationships with them. What is this world coming to?”

• Best Selling author Attorney Rita Ewing, ex-wife of Patrick Ewing and Partner in Hue-Man Bookstore in Manhattan

SHANAE HALL is a former NFL wife, domestic violence survivor, andsuccessful businesswoman. She is a popular TV and radio personality,frequenting programs like Jamie Foxx’s Sirius radio show “The Foxxhole,”“Black Men Revealed” (TV One) and E! “True Hollywood Stories - SportsStars, Private Lives.” In 2005, she co-founded New Beginnings TRAP, anon-profit organization that empowers battered women to rebuild theirlives. She holds a B.A. in Film, Cinema and TV from California StateUniversity Northridge and is currently writing a screenplay adaptationof Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man?. A Sacramento native, shecurrently lives in Northern Los Angeles with her three children.

RHONDA FROST is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and became asingle mother at 15. Today she is the mother of three adult daughtersand one teen son, and a prominent realtor in the Atlanta area. She is ajournalism student at Georgia State University and writes on findinglove after 40 at More.com. Learn more at www.lovingme1st.com.