Johnson's 201 Course Before You Check the Man, Check Your Mirror Volume 2

Before you check his behavior, his attitude, his mistakes, and everything he did wrong, Johnson has one question:

Have you checked your mirror?

Before You Check the Man, Check Your Mirror is the second semester in Johnson’s Relationship Series, and this time Johnson is turning the lesson in a different direction. The man is not the only person being examined. The women are being asked to take an honest look at themselves, their choices, their patterns, their expectations, and the wounds they may have carried from one relationship into another.

Johnson isn’t interested in blaming women or excusing men. He is interested in accountability.

Inside his classroom, difficult conversations come to the surface. Why do we sometimes choose the same type of person in a different body? Why do we ignore warning signs and then wonder how we ended up in the same situation again? What happens when unresolved childhood wounds, abandonment, insecurity, unrealistic expectations, poor boundaries, or the need to be loved begin making relationship decisions for us?

Johnson also challenges the behaviors people don’t always want to admit: chasing someone who has already shown they don’t want the same thing, confusing a wedding with a marriage, competing with other women, stalking social media, overlooking emotional wounds, and expecting a partner to repair damage they did not create.

But this classroom is not about shame.

It is about seeing yourself clearly enough to change what needs to change.

With Johnson leading the lesson and Ms. Hattie bringing the kind of wisdom that can only come from living long enough to know better, readers are invited into conversations about love, boundaries, self-respect, counseling, motherhood, marriage, childhood trauma, abandonment, emotional healing, and the choices that can either strengthen a relationship or slowly destroy one.

Some lessons may make you laugh. Some may make you uncomfortable. And a few may cause you to close the book for a minute and think about something you have never admitted to yourself.

That is exactly the point.

Because sometimes the person standing between you and a healthier relationship isn’t the person you keep pointing at.

Sometimes you have to check the mirror.

Class is back in session.