You're a faithful, Bible-believing Christian man. Years ago you felt a calling from God to marry and start a family, and you wed a bright, beautiful, loving, Godly woman to share your life with. What could go wrong? Plenty. Today your wife consistently treats you with derision and angrily contends with you over the smallest issues, then laments that you are emotionally distant and apathetic when you pull away. You've read all of the relationship books and done marriage counseling/pastoral counseling. You may have even engaged in a trial separation or two. Nothing has helped. You have not abandoned your wife, nor she you, and neither of you has committed adultery as of yet, so you don't consider divorce a viable option (although family and friends might be encouraging you to do it). You want to honor and obey God, however, by remaining in the marriage. But the temptations to end the struggle and emotional pain are strong. You are about ready to give up. Before you do, buy this book. For about the price of tall cup of an upscale premium cappuccino or café latté, you'll have a resource that might change your perceptions, expectations, and approaches with regard to your wife and the relationship you share. Your Snake Has STRIPES! A Practical Guide for Marital Bliss With An Angry & Contentious Woman is a concise, wry and irreverent self-help book for Christian husbands in emotionally difficult relationships with wives who are predisposed to anger, defensiveness, and conflict issues. Using the Appalachian expression "meaner than a striped snake" as the foundation of his central metaphor, author Edward X. Winston offers consolation to husbands of angry and contentious women and a healthy new way of reframing a man's interpretations of such behaviors.