Just to pretend having been useful despite all those problems, I reread Twisted by Jeffery Deaver. Published in 2003, it says in the introduction he wrote specially for this book, that short stories are wonderful because the author has some laxitude with the morals of the story. In a 300 pages book, making the villain win is totally immoral and badly seen by the censorship which is still very alive in North America. Some of his short stories made me shiver. The contempt he naturally feels for women is hopeless. It is engraved in the writer and in the human being. Like Eve pushing Adam to eat he fruit of knowledge, it is always a woman who shows the path to depravity, to hatred, to war. Don't you feel it a bit extreme? Do you really believe your wives or daughters are willing to destroy you at any costs? or have you manage a smart way to deal with them?
Do you have a happy love life according to those basics?