I Love Her But....

Now the rebuttal. First the wives got together, started talking about their husbands, compared notes and war stories, and got a big kick out of sharing them with Merry Bloch Jones, who published her findings last season in "I Love Him, But...

Well, now it's the husbands' turn. And if any wife complained that her husband never paid attention, she was wrong.

The companion volume to "I Love Him, But..., with over 100,000 copies in print, "I Love Her, But... is a funny, revealing take on what it really means to be happily married--from the man's point of view: "She never tells me that she wants to make love.

She lowers her chin, stares at me and blinks. And keeps on blinking."--Len, Tampa, FL. "She does whatever the kids do. Rollerblade, skateboard, bodysurf. . . . I hope this stops when they start dating."--Nelson, San Francisco, CA. "My wife doesn't function well without a lot of accessories."--John, New York, NY. "All she has to do is look at me and I know what she's thinking.

She doesn't have to say a word, but I know she's nagging me, and I know what about.

Nobody's uttered a syllable, but we're off. Now I understand what my father meant when he used to tell my mother, 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice.'"--Frank, Malvern, PA. "She turns to me and, in all seriousness, asks, 'What was I just going to say?'"--Leon, Washington, DC 50,000 copies in print.