DT: Finally, this book puts it all together in an easy way you can understand and start doing right now .
DT: This book gives you THE secrets that explain it all.
DT: Too Stubborn? Quit it. It's just you and me here, in private . No one needs to know how you got so smart.
Dedications
To Madison,
You are my light, my love, and my drive to break the chain. May you learn these lessons at an early age and be spared heartache, grief, and wasted time.
To John ,
May you learn these lessons late in life and be spared further heartache, grief, and wasted time. Its never too late to start your happiness today.
To Shawn Henson,
I can never express enough the value and importance you have brought to not only this project, but to me personally. You humbly, but firmly, gave yourself fully without expectation.
I realize our journey here hasnt been easy. I have been whiny, unfocused, and downright lazy at times. You never veered from course. You continued to support me and put me back on track to the destination.
As a master editor, not only did you complete the usual grammar clean-up, but you fully understood my writing style. I have a particular hidden finesse that I add to my chapters, one that I have told no one about, and when you were editing a particular chapter, without being told, you happened to notice that I didnt add my DT signature on that chapter. I was shocked and amazed that you knew me that well.
I appreciate your efforts. I appreciate your persistence. I appreciate your caring. Youre truly a super partner and confidant.
I know that you have a dream as well. It is my strong desire that I can lift your project off the ground to help repay my debt of gratitude.
With admiration, thank you for all youve done.
To The Men,
Deep Thanks to the 20,000 Men I interviewed to complete this book. You trusted me with your fears, failures, relationships, and personal thoughts. I appreciate your letting me into your lives to help make them better, not only for you, but for thousands of other men to come.
DT
Recognition from a few of my readers:
From Big Guy DT : Sometimes, I have to look back and realize where I came from before knowing you, and see how far you have brought me, and think aloud to myself, how much of a bitch I was, into what a man I am todaybecause of you.
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From DV : I know too many guys who think they have to be perfect at steps 1-10 before taking step one. That is a good way to end up sexually frustrated and lonely! Thanks to DT, it is much simpler than most guys realize. I truly believe and know that now.
DT delivers the "secrets" to any guy who is man enough to admit he does not know everything already. Per DT, apparently, only about 5% of men ever meet that criterion! I love DT. She gave me the missing puzzle pieces I needed to make sense of a LOT of things. She has my respect and gratitude for it, and for that, I am Very Grateful .
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From my reader, Michael DT Johnson : Words cannot describe how excited I will be to read and promote your book to my friends and family. I've learned some very wise things from your daily blogs that have helped me understand the differences between men and women. Your blogs have helped me be a better person and to be able to have healthy relationships...both romantically and platonically.
I think it will be a good read for women, too. It can provide insight to them on how we are wired differently. As men, we misfire badly at times, it's not that we aren't trying, just that sometimes we don't know better. I think it may help women also understand the needs they have but may not have consciously thought of and hopefully help them choose better partners who can meet their needs. It is hard to know why we feel unfulfilled in our relationships if we cannot pinpoint what's missing, if you know what I mean. My gosh, I could write a book of my thoughts from what I learned from you on the subject of relationships and how my outlook and mind has opened up in the last 18 months.
My comment back to my readers and
To each man who has picked up this book to not only read, but has enthusiastically endorsed this book to their friends and family, I owe you a gigantic debt of gratitude. I am so profoundly humbled by the thousands of letters I have received from you over the years. I am glad that I have touched your lives in such a positive way. May the wonder and joy continue.
To all the publishers who said Its a great book, its a great conceptbut men just dont buy books, thank you for giving me the opportunity to prove this precept wrong. Men are interested in a world beyond sports.
For the many men who told me how I have changed their lives, I must say, you have forever changed mine, too.
Love, DT
Johnnies Foreword:
A few years ago, I was going through all the social networking sites looking for guests for my internet radio talk show. I was just starting out and wanted to do a podcast. In the beginning when I did my show, it was all I could do just to get people to listen to me.
Well, one day I was on MySpace and I saw this woman's profile and blog. Her MySpace page was called Dating Tips For Men and she called herself DT. She was standing there wearing a short black shorts. It definitely caught my eye and I wanted to have her on my show. But, what really blew me away was that when I finally interviewed her on my show, it felt like a real show and ceased being just a podcast. Since that initial day, DT has been on my show numerous times as my co-host. Having DT made the show credible, elevated it (and me) to a more professional level, and added intellectual value that wasnt there previously.
When I asked her questions, she always responded with frank honesty and deep wisdom. That is when I realized this woman was going places. Since then, she has been with me more than a half- dozen times and I now have the honor of calling her my friend as well as one of my mentors. Time and again, I have quoted her dating rules to my friends and listeners, and time and again, they have literally stopped everything to write down what she said or asked me to remind them again later so they could properly soak it in. With DT, you cannot help but agree with her and smile big because of the incredible value of her advice.