How to Ruin Your Love Life

Ben Stein, Benjamin Stein. Hay House, $12.95 (112pp) ISBN 978-1-4019-0240-7

Ben Stein shows readers, in a droll, matter-of-fact manner, how to get where you want to go ""by simply not going where you do not want to go"" in How to Ruin Your Love Life, a reverse road map containing relationship rules like ""Act Moody and Sulky When Your Lover Gets Home-but Don't Tell Him Why You're Sulking.""

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