Oshkosh Public Library

How to keep your marriage from sucking, (the keys to keep your wedlock out of deadlock), Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola

eng

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non fiction

How to keep your marriage from sucking

1010673695

Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola

(the keys to keep your wedlock out of deadlock)

Some marriages start out storybook. Perfect proposal, perfect engagement, perfect wedding, perfect honeymoon, and perfect newlywed years. Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola stumbled right out of the wedding gate. Their choices in the early years, they’ll tell you, nearly bought their marriage a one-way ticket to Suckville. The New York Times bestselling authors explore all the adventures of early wedlock, from the moment one of you gets on one knee to the day when sex starts to feel like work instead of play. In this guidebook, Behrendt and Ruotola explore their own marriage and, with gleeful candor, tremendous warmth, sharp humor, and piercing insight, look at what we who have decided to (3zsettle down(3y hope to get out of our most lasting relationship. We venture through volumes on the engagement, wedding planning, the Big Day, the wedding hangover, the (blissful?) first year, the hard work of marrying two lives, fights, and sex-pectations versus sex-pectreality. The perfect book for those who have just put a ring on it or are thinking of putting a ring on it, Behrendt and Ruotola’s work is a brilliant guide for the first stretch of that wild ride we call marriage

Marriage schmarriage -- I know I want to make you mine -- The bad proposal ; Proposal how-to guide -- The engagement -- Wedding truths -- The ultimate wedding planning guide from the couple who couldn't plan their own wedding -- It's about you but not only you -- The parties and the panic -- Wedding hangover -- Newlyweds! -- Marrying your lives -- Touchy subjects -- Fighting married -- Sex-pectations vs. Sex-pectreality -- Glory and struggle