How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking: The Keys to Keep Your Wedlock Out of Deadlock - Softcover

Behrendt, Greg; Ruotola, Amiira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635766567 ISBN 13: 9781635766561

Publisher: Diversion Books, 2019

Synopsis

A hilarious and hopeful primer to prevent, combat, and eliminate the suckage in modern marriage by doing it right in the early years, from one of the minds behind the series Sex and the City and the New York Times bestselling authors of He’s Just Not That Into You, It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken, and It’s Just a F***ing Date

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 “settle down” 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.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Behrendt is a comedian, author and musician. Co-author of the New York Times bestselling book He’s Just Not That Into You, which was adapted into a major motion picture, he was also a script consultant to the series Sex and the City. Greg currently spends time parenting, touring as a standup, recording his podcast Rock Out with Your Doc Out with Kay Hanley, and playing with his band The Reigning Monarchs. He someday hopes to lie down.

Review

"A book of comedy . . . [T]he married authors, Greg Behrendt (who wrote She’s Just Not That Into You) and Amiira Ruotola, are very funny people....The best reasons to read How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking . . . are the fabulous cautionary tales from the marriages of the authors’ friends." –The New York Times

“A playful and useful self-help guide to help readers through the newlywed stage of ‘wedded bliss.’ Candid, conversational, and occasionally profane, the book is packed with short, often hilarious nuggets culled from personal experience . . . [and] makes for an entertaining alternative to couples therapy.” ―Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1635766567
• ISBN 13: 9781635766561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224